Matthew Steeples chooses five of his favourite finds for gentlemen this summer
With August upon us, the man about town can relax and wind down. Whether you are staying in the city or heading off...
Michael Bloomberg offers £2 million above the £15 million asking price to see off three other bidders and buys George Eliot’s house by the River Thames
Proof if it were required that the ultra-prime London property...
Asking price of Californian estate cut by £37.8 million; condition of owner being allowed to live there until he dies removed
When De Guigné Court in Hillsborough, California was last marketed in 2013, it came...
Trailer of forthcoming Bond film ‘Spectre’ released
Everybody loves James Bond and excitement continues to build around the release of Spectre on 26th October in the UK and on the 6th November in the USA...
Psychedelic Austin Powers-style windmill conversion – next to a pylon – for sale in Lancashire
There are conversions and there are poorly executed conversions and then there’s a poorly executed conversion next to a pylon:...
International auction house Christie’s report staggering half-year sales of £2.9 billion
Yesterday in London, the auction house Christie’s announced record half-year sales of £2.9 billion ($4.5 billion or €4.2 billion), up some 8% on the...
Despite a Málaga villa built by the musician Prince remaining on the market a year after it was put up for sale, bizarrely its asking price has been increased by £1 million
Aside from penning...
One of Norfolk’s most historic houses for sale for a staggering £3.95 million just a year after it was last sold for £2.75 million
Henry VII stayed there and left barefoot to visit the nearby...
£4,750 sculpture stolen from Belgravia’s The Osborne Studio Gallery
Belgravia is generally considered to be genteel and civilised but last week, Geoffrey Hughes experienced something quite to the contrary when his gallery, The Osborne Studio...
Rowan Atkinson puts his Oxfordshire home on the market for £2.9 million after selling his McClaren F1 – bought for £540,000 in 1997 – for a staggering £8 million
Blackadder star Rowan Atkinson made a...
Spitfire smashes £1.5 million pre-sale estimate and soars to sell for £3.1 million for charity in London
Yesterday, a world record was set when an original, airworthy Spitfire sold for more than double its £1.5...
One-off Maserati Boomerang heads to auction for just under £3 million
UPDATE: 6th September 2015: Sold for £2,419,000 ($3,668,0000 or €3,289,500)
Concept cars are rarely sold by the firms that produce them and thus when one...
Unusual Aston Martin estate car owned by Richemont director Alain Dominique Perrin heads to auction
“Practical” is not typically a word that could be used to describe an Aston Martin but with the forthcoming auction...
Matthew Steeples reviews Steven Berkoff’s first novel: ‘Sod the bitches!’ whilst the author shares his take on it in a video exclusive
We all complain about the bastards and bitches that plague our lives but those...
Winslow Hall in Buckinghamshire to host fourth annual opera production between 8th and 19th July 2015
Described as “the finest surviving house built by England’s greatest architect, Sir Christopher Wren”, Winslow Hall in Buckinghamshire is once...
‘The Steeple Times’ asks father and daughter art dealing duo Frederick D. Hill and Daisy Hill Sanders: “What’s on your mantelpiece?”
The Steeple Times shares “wit and wisdom”. What’s your guiding force?
Fred – The love...
Most expensive house to be publicly offered for sale in the UK to be stripped of everything including the kitchen sink
When we last featured 2 – 8a Rutland Gate opposite Hyde Park in Knightsbridge...
A £1.5 million, 302-acre North Yorkshire farm that is for sale for the first time in 131 years provides evidence of the sorry plight of hill farmers in Britain
Hill farms struggle by and create...
Unmodernised Knightsbridge flat for sale for the equivalent of a staggering £1,500 per day
Properties on short leases sell to cash buyers who either have the resources to extend the tenure and those who want...
Spectacular items, art and objects at Masterpiece 2015
Britain’s greatest showcase of art, antiques and unusual objects opens today and runs until Wednesday 1st July in the South Grounds of The Royal Hospital Chelsea. Today,...
Vivien Leigh’s retreat and final resting place for sale for £3.25 million
Actress Vivien Leigh bought Grade II listed Tickerage Mill at Blackboys in East Sussex on divorcing Laurence Olivier in 1961 for £20,000 (the...
1,900 acre Cumbrian estate on the open market for the first time since 1761
In contrast to the roofless, repossessed Cumbrian house in 1,500 acres featured yesterday, another estate for sale nearby is an entirely...
Asking price of the Wilmslow home where paedophile Stuart Hall abused at least one of his victims slashed to £995,000
Currently incarcerated after receiving a total of 60 months in jail for the abuse of girls...
£3 million sought for a repossessed, roofless shell set in 1,530 acres of Cumbrian countryside
Repossessions normally come in the form of scruffy semis but at Killington in Cumbria, one has come to the market...
A £17 million Kensington house that is being marketed as one that “may now benefit from a refurbishment” provides a reflection of how ludicrous London’s property market now truly is
It comes to something when...
A £30 million Mayfair apartment for an art lover that is being marketed by way of an extraordinarily detailed 69-page sales brochure
A 5,845 square foot penthouse in Mayfair’s Albermarle Street has been designed and...
A 39th floor apartment in The Pierre Hotel in New York becomes the city’s priciest rental at a staggering £327,000 per month
Whilst the most expensive apartment currently available to rent in London is a...
Tiny converted hut in the Lake District placed on the market for the same price as a flat in Kensington, London
Reports of beach huts on England’s south coast selling for over £200,000 ($306,000 or €275,000) are...
Rolls-Royce allegedly used to smuggle Wallis Simpson into Balmoral for sale
In 1923, the future King Edward VIII commissioned coachbuilders Barker to refinish the chassis of a Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost to create a shooting brake...
Buy an “increasingly collectible” Bentley for just £3,000
A 37-year old Bentley is to be auctioned on the 20th June with an estimate of just £3,000 to £4,000.
To be auctioned by H&H at the RREC...
Former home of Ian Fleming that is currently owned by Sol Campbell for sale for £6.75 million
Ian Fleming lived at 24 Carlyle Mansions on Chelsea’s Cheyne Walk between 1950 and 1953 and wrote Casino...
The Royal Academy surpasses themselves in the choice of including a stunning staircase as part of their Summer Exhibition 2015
The Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition is always a spectacular affair and this year...
