With Panoramic harbour views, home theatres, gas heated pools and landscape gardens, its no wonder the properties at Point Piper, Darling Point and Vaucluse have their prices set in the millions.

Landlords in London are splitting family homes into tiny 'semi studios' as the house market continues to boom, with owners making up to £38,000 a year off 'rabbit hutch properties'.

Wool has a warming effect in our homes, where tweed-covered sofas and chairs, thick wool carpets and soft lambswool throws speak of cosy evenings in, sheltering from the chill. 

Buying your first home is an intimidating business. When it comes to decorating, most of us want to add some character, but not everyone knows where to begin. Try looking online, says Zoe Hedges.

The kitchen sink is far from humble. Increasingly it’s the star of the show. And a statement piece with swanky taps can add cachet to an otherwise ordinary kitchen.

Cobble Close, a sprawling 13-acre estate in Red Bank, New Jersey, which dates back to 1920, has been listed for sale for the first time since 1951, with an asking price of $10.9 million.

A five-bedroom palatial pad once home to Australian recruitment queen Julia Ross has sold on Sydney's most expensive street, in Point Piper, for more than $37 million. 

Bob Sinclair has spent the past six years building a house to live in with his wife Sheryl but his local council says he has less than a week to knock it down.