Dales Property Services

Elspeth Thompson saves money with a treasure found in the garden.

Builder Jeff Howell gives it to you straight.

Families are giving up on mortgages and paying to live in other people's property. Caroline McGhie

Harriot Lane Fox meets victims of the fittings swindle.

Paula Robinson takes the natural approach

Caroline McGhie gets a homely history lesson.

Mick Jagger, Donald Trump and Brad Pitt - not to mention 007 - have a soft spot for Panama, says

It may be crunch time for some, says Graham Norwood, but the property hotspot lives on.

Elspeth Thompson finds a way to save money and gain character.

Footpath most fouled; the true meaning of 'agricultural use'; no garden, no interest; on the move

Have a cabin to yourself, sit back and relax - or sample the delights of the on-board disco - and

Mastering the language may prove tricky, says Clive Aslet, but nowhere could beat Wales for

Where can you go to avoid light pollution, asks Christopher Hall.

Unwanted guests of the ghostly kind are alive and well, discovers Christopher Hall.

Once unpopular, short leaseholds may now prove to be an asset. By Angela Pertusini.

Christopher Middleton on a new website that opens doors.

Sarah Lonsdale meets a family who changed their lives.

Jonny Beadsall meets a couple who refurbished their home in the old-fashioned way.

Sherford will soon be the place to live the eco life, says Adam Edwards.

The King's determination to upgrade the north African country is paying off as an ever-growing

A new interiors website is a godsend for armchair designers - or those who can't make up their

Have to sell up? Feet planted firmly in mid-air won't help, writes Angela Pertusini.

Our homes and interiors column brings you the very best that money can buy, for not much money at

Katrina Burroughs finds out how to preserve the key features of a period home.

Private retirement homes should be easy to sell on at a time when so many of us are living well

Adrenalin-fuelled homebuyers are fast adding white-knuckle thrills to their wish-list of local

The Deia retreat where Garcia Marquez wrote his masterpiece is for sale, writes Zoe Dare Hall.

New rules make it easier to improve your home, writes Sonia Purnell.

Builder Jeff Howell gives it to you straight.

Careless car-parking; safely splitting the profits of a downsize; on the level with our extension;

This week, Lorna Vestey on house-hunting with children.

Hold out until next year to buy a home for even less. By Edmund Conway.

If the credit crunch has made you feel like ditchig your day job and getting back to the land, here

Builder Jeff Howell gives it to you straight.

Quick and easy ways to cut fuel bills.

Once the site of mock-Tudor mediocrity, a leafy Surrey plot now vaunts the ultimate prefab - a Huf

Is this the first zero-carbon conversion? Jonny Beardsall finds out.

After 12 years living with a kitchen whose cobbled-together charm could no longer make up for its

Pull the plug on your bathroom preconceptions and embrace a future of wetrooms, black taps, and red

Repossessions must form part of our climb out of the recession. By Edmund Conway.

James Dedman's battle with the planning laws highlights their absurdity. Ross Clark strives to make

Selling houses: Worth £845,000 - yours for just £25

Ensure you wake up feeling exquisitely refreshed by following Annabel Freyberg's guide to where to

The Huf Haus is just one of a burgeoning crop of 'instant' homes that take the prefab to a whole

Our homes and interiors column brings you the very best that money can buy, for not much money at

What to expect from a surveyor.

… the tough put market woes behind them and make their own luck, says Angela Pertusini.

A taste for action and adventure is drawing a new kind of buyer abroad. Anna Tyzack opens our pick