House prices could fall 20% amid the coronavirus crisis  

House prices may fall by as much as 20% in the worst case scenario for a virus-hit property market, warn analysts The stock market is already pricing in a 12% fall in house prices, say analysts  That would knock £28,000 off the average £234,700 selling price  A fall of 20 per cent would knock £46,900 … Read more

House prices could collapse by as much as 20% amid coronavirus crisis  

House prices could collapse by as much as 20% amid coronavirus crisis The stock market is already pricing in a 12 per cent fall in house prices  That would knock £28,000 off the average £234,700 selling price  A fall of 20 per cent would knock £46,900 off average prices  Coronavirus symptoms: what are they and … Read more

How to turn staying into your house during the coronavirus crisis into a holiday

How to survive and thrive at home: Turn staying into your house during the coronavirus crisis into a holiday By Lowri Turner For The Daily Mail Published: 22:03 GMT, 20 March 2020 | Updated: 09:40 GMT, 21 March 2020 Weeks, possibly months, of enforced home-dwelling stretch ahead of us. For some, this may seem a … Read more

Ivanka Trump tests negative for coronavirus and goes back to work at the White House

Ivanka Trump on Friday returned to work at the White House, a senior administration official told DailyMail.com, after testing negative for the coronavirus.  She has shown no symptoms of any illness and has been making calls on behalf of the administration’s work to combat the coronavirus while she’s been working from home. The first daughter, … Read more

White House warns of rise in young coronavirus victims abroad

ALABAMA Alabama health officials on Tuesday ordered the closure of day cares, senior centers and on-site restaurant dining in six counties to contain the coronavirus outbreak.  The order from the Alabama Department of Public Health applies to Jefferson County, which has the highest number of cases, and the surrounding counties of Tuscaloosa, Walker, Blount, St. … Read more

Jeff Bezos’ futuristic vision of self-sustaining habitat that could house a TRILLION people in space

Last week, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos finally lifted the veil on the lunar lander his aerospace company has been developing in secret for years, along with a plan to put humans back on the moon to stay. And in the process, he also revealed an ambitious vision for space colonization. Building off of a concept … Read more

A flower worth more than a house: The best-selling history of the tulip

NATURE THE TULIP by Anna Pavord (Bloomsbury £40, 467 pp) Who doesn’t love tulips? Colourful, flamboyant, easy to grow and cheap as chips, they are the perfect plant to brighten up a spring garden. Yet these cheery flowers have an unexpectedly dark and complex history. The tulip has had ‘more adventures than any Hollywood scriptwriter … Read more

Stripped back House of Commons meets for PMQs

A stripped back House of Commons met at lunchtime today for PMQs as MPs were told to stay away unless they were asking a question in a desperate bid to stop the spread of coronavirus in Westminster.    Parliament attempted to set an example to the nation as MPs were told to comply with the government’s social … Read more

The sisters of mercy: They fearlessly hid fellow Jews in their house in the woods

BOOK OF THE WEEK  THE SISTERS OF AUSCHWITZ by Roxane Van Iperen (Seven Dials £18.99, 320 pp) When Dutch author and journalist Roxane van Iperen and her husband first glimpsed The High Nest, they fell instantly in love with it.  A romantic, shuttered house tucked away in the woods 30 miles from Amsterdam, with friendly … Read more

Ford’s noise-cancelling dog house can keep your pup calm during fireworks and thunderstorms

Ford unveils noise-cancelling dog house that can keep your pup calm during fireworks and thunderstorms The noise-cancelling dog kennel uses active noise control to limit loud noises An automatic glass door and ‘anti-vibration block risers’ also reduce sounds Ford said the futuristic dog house isn’t on sale for now, as it’s just a prototype By Annie … Read more