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Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. For years, the house next door to ours was condemned. The retired federal employee who owned it lived elsewhere and seemed mostly to use the property to store a whole bunch of his junk. I would sometimes see him puttering around the library in our part of Arlington, Virginia. Though I would have preferred a neighbor who was friendly and present, I was grateful that for some unfathomable reason he never...

President Donald Trump is swinging the axe at government waste, eyeing a blockbuster sell-off of 443 federal properties spanning 47 states, DC and Puerto Rico. The move, aimed at gutting the bloated federal workforce and the pricey buildings they occupy, could dump nearly 80 million square feet of commercial space — 12 times the Pentagon’s footprint — onto the market. The General Services Administration (GSA) dropped the staggering list of “non-core” assets on Tuesday, spotlighting a haul that could save taxpayers a cool $430 million a year in upkeep costs,...

This week, we’re in Chiswick, West London (Picture: David Sandison) Welcome back to What I Own – Metro’s property series where we speak to homeowners about getting on the ladder. This week, we’re in Chiswick, West London having a nose around Lexie Carducci’s two-bedroom flat. She bought the £442,000 home at just 24, having saved a 20% deposit. She’s made a career out of the property world too, having ‘fallen’ into the industry after she started dating an estate agent when she first moved to London at 18. Now, 15 years on, she describes...