It’s often said that the kitchen is the room most likely to persuade you to buy a property – or the room most likely to put you off, depending on what it’s like.

My mother has left her house to my brother and I in her will. I live in the house and have been given the right to stay here as long as I wish. If my brother got divorced, would his share of the house be taken into account by the divorce court, and could I be forced to leave?

Peter Hayes and his wife Sharon had no qualms about moving into the former Parkside Hospital which was originally built in the 19th century to house ‘pauper lunatics’.

Housebuilder Morris has been given a five-star rating for its development of apartments called East Gate, in Charlestown, north Manchester.