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A Chicago homeowner was left reeling after an administrative error resulted in his property tax bill increasing sixteen-fold from $1,800 to more than $30,000.

A secret society has been covertly refurbishing garden gnomes in a Canadian city, according to reports.

Two previously unknown Roman villas and a Roman roadside cemetery have been discovered following the largest geophysical survey ever commissioned by the National Trust.

The most expensive homes from 55 popular TV shows and films have been named.

An advertisement seeking a private architecture tutor for £288,000 per year has been taken down following a backlash. The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) removed the ad after it raised eyebrows with its requirements for applicants to be "educated and polished, with excellent manne

North Korea appears to be building a wall along its southern border, according to a BBC investigation. Satellite photos show unprecedented construction work along the demilitarised zone (DMZ) between North and South Korea, the BBC reports.

A construction company has been ordered to demolish a luxury home it inadvertently built on the wrong site. The three-bedroom home, valued at $500,000 (around £400,000), was built in Hawaiian Paradise Park, which is divided into a number of one-acre lots.

A 310-mile conveyor belt could soon be built to aid freight transport across Japan to solve a shortage of lorry drivers as well as reduce congestion.

The former home of Marilyn Monroe has been saved from demolition after Los Angeles officials granted it historic cultural monument status, over the objections of its wealthy owners. The Spanish colonial-style house, in the leafy Brentwood area, became the subject of a row that pitted conservationist

A three-bedroom house in San Francisco's affluent Russian Hill neighbourhood has been listed for an astonishingly low price of $488,000 (around £385,000).

Saudi Arabia is set to "scale down" many of its hugely ambitious construction projects, including the $500 billion NEOM linear city, according to reports.

Nike has unveiled new shoes with built-in foot-massaging technology that it says will benefit anyone who is "on [their] feet a lot at work".

A 270-foot-long dragon has been wrapped around New York's iconic Empire State Building as a publicity stunt for TV show House of the Dragon.

Researchers believe they have devised a new method for building on the Moon without transporting construction materials from Earth. A team at the Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT) say a method called microwave sintering could be used to create bricks from ilmenite,

The redevelopment of Lime Street in Liverpool has beat stiff competition from Scotland to be named "the worst new building in Britain".