Shaping the UK urban renaissance
A regeneration expert warns of challenges remaining as Britain's city centres rapidly re-develop.

Rural housing: Only for the wealthy?
Rural housing campaigner on what villages must do to maintain character.

Why is it so expensive to buy a house?
Why the UK is obsessed with the housing market and how it's unlikely to change.

Japan targets self-sufficiency
Japan's shrinking population is allowing more luxurious living, but researchers are focusing on more innovative housing concepts, as Chris Hogg explains.

Scots house offers over the odds?
BBC Scotland news website reporter Alex Robertson examines Scotland's house buying system.

Call for new homes plan re-think
Why one expert thinks restoration, not demolition, is key to UK's homes shortage.

Risks grow for first-time buyers
The inventive - and risky? - ways some use to mount the housing ladder.