mansions

With more and more financial transactions being conducted electronically, it's easy to forget the physicality of money. What a dollar weighs, or a pile of them. So just for fun, let's start piling up the Benjamins and see what a pound -- or 10, or 100, or a ton -- of C-notes will buy.

Ever notice how the most downmarket of American phenomena can be positioned as a chi-chi trend by simply saying it in French -- even faux French? When Target became trendy, it also became Tarzhay. A bite-sized appetizer sounds kind of lame, but call it an amuse-bouche and signal that you're a...

During the Great Depression, it took about one year to build the entire Empire State Building from top to bottom (well, I guess it was actually bottom to top), so why should it take months to build a mansion sized, custom house? Apparently, the answer is, it shouldn't take a few months to build a...

The champion of London's homeless, Mark Guard, is becoming nearly as famous as his celebrity neighbors, including Maggie Thatcher, Joan Collins, Sean Connery and Nigella Lawson. Guard, the self-appointed leader of a group of squatters, is grabbing headlines again after taking up residence in...

Two seven-story £15m mansions are now being occupied by 30 artists, students and musicians, who say that the buildings had stood vacant for two years. The buildings are believed to be owned by the Duke of Westminster. Twenty year old Daniel Moreira told the BBC that "We are...