With North Queensland home prices soaring, affordable property can be hard to dig up, but there are still gems to be found even if they’re a little more diamond in the rough than sparkling jewel.

Only 18% of British homes are air conditioned, but moving to one of them could help you breeze through future heatwaves.

Yet more flats could be built in a previously run-down street full of nightclubs in the town centre that is rapidly being redeveloped.