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  • You Can Say That If You Like

    You Can Say That If You Like

    Belgravia apartment in building where Diana, Princess of Wales’ maternal grandmother lived, plotted and died for sale for a sum 165% higher than it sold for in 2003

     

    The residence of brewery baron and Unionist politician The Rt. Hon. George Younger, 1st Viscount Younger of Leckie (1851 – 1929) in the 1920s, 36 Eaton Square in Belgravia is the key building in what is often termed “London’s most sought after residential address”.

     

    Later the home of Ruth Roche, The Rt. Hon. The Lady Fermoy, DCVO, OBE (1908 – 1993), a first and second floor maisonette within this Grosvenor Estates owned building is currently for sale through Knight Frank for £7.95 million ($9.90 million, €9.38 million or درهم36.38 million).

     

    You Can Say That If You Like – Flat D, 36 Eaton Square, Belgravia, London, SW1W 9DH – For sale for £7.95 million ($9.90 million, €9.38 million or درهم36.38 million) through Knight Frank – Home of brewery baron and politician The Rt. Hon. George Younger, 1st Viscount Younger of Leckie (1851 – 1929) and royal confidante and aristocrat Ruth Roche, The Rt. Hon. The Lady Fermoy, DCVO, OBE (1908 – 1993)
    Royal confidante and aristocrat Ruth Roche, The Rt. Hon. The Lady Fermoy, DCVO, OBE (1908 – 1993) and brewery baron and Unionist politician The Rt. Hon. George Younger, 1st Viscount Younger of Leckie (1851 – 1929)
    You Can Say That If You Like – Flat D, 36 Eaton Square, Belgravia, London, SW1W 9DH – For sale for £7.95 million ($9.90 million, €9.38 million or درهم36.38 million) through Knight Frank – Home of brewery baron and politician The Rt. Hon. George Younger, 1st Viscount Younger of Leckie (1851 – 1929) and royal confidante and aristocrat Ruth Roche, The Rt. Hon. The Lady Fermoy, DCVO, OBE (1908 – 1993)
    The drawing room of Flat D, 36 Eaton Square, Belgravia, London, SW1W 9DH

     

    Sold last for £3 million in December 2003 (the equivalent of £4.4 million, $5.5 million, €5.2 million or درهم20.1 million today), the 2,230 square foot flat offered is held on a lease with 54 years remaining. This could be extended to 144 years by separate negotiation and presently the space is arranged to provide a double height entrance hallway, a large drawing room with a 12’8” ceiling height and access to a balcony, a dining room, a small kitchen, a study, 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a utility room and a cloakroom.

     

    A confidante of Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother and the maternal grandmother of Diana, Princess of Wales, Lady Fermoy gave up her career as a pianist on marriage and became an Extra Woman of the Bedchamber in 1956. Though she is said to have engineered the union between her granddaughter and the Prince of Wales, when asked she always remarked: “You can say that if you like – but it simply wouldn’t be true”.

     

    Lady Fermoy died at 36 Eaton Square on 6th July 1993, aged 84.

     

    You Can Say That If You Like – Flat D, 36 Eaton Square, Belgravia, London, SW1W 9DH – For sale for £7.95 million ($9.90 million, €9.38 million or درهم36.38 million) through Knight Frank – Home of brewery baron and politician The Rt. Hon. George Younger, 1st Viscount Younger of Leckie (1851 – 1929) and royal confidante and aristocrat Ruth Roche, The Rt. Hon. The Lady Fermoy, DCVO, OBE (1908 – 1993)You Can Say That If You Like – Flat D, 36 Eaton Square, Belgravia, London, SW1W 9DH – For sale for £7.95 million ($9.90 million, €9.38 million or درهم36.38 million) through Knight Frank – Home of brewery baron and politician The Rt. Hon. George Younger, 1st Viscount Younger of Leckie (1851 – 1929) and royal confidante and aristocrat Ruth Roche, The Rt. Hon. The Lady Fermoy, DCVO, OBE (1908 – 1993)You Can Say That If You Like – Flat D, 36 Eaton Square, Belgravia, London, SW1W 9DH – For sale for £7.95 million ($9.90 million, €9.38 million or درهم36.38 million) through Knight Frank – Home of brewery baron and politician The Rt. Hon. George Younger, 1st Viscount Younger of Leckie (1851 – 1929) and royal confidante and aristocrat Ruth Roche, The Rt. Hon. The Lady Fermoy, DCVO, OBE (1908 – 1993) You Can Say That If You Like – Flat D, 36 Eaton Square, Belgravia, London, SW1W 9DH – For sale for £7.95 million ($9.90 million, €9.38 million or درهم36.38 million) through Knight Frank – Home of brewery baron and politician The Rt. Hon. George Younger, 1st Viscount Younger of Leckie (1851 – 1929) and royal confidante and aristocrat Ruth Roche, The Rt. Hon. The Lady Fermoy, DCVO, OBE (1908 – 1993)You Can Say That If You Like – Flat D, 36 Eaton Square, Belgravia, London, SW1W 9DH – For sale for £7.95 million ($9.90 million, €9.38 million or درهم36.38 million) through Knight Frank – Home of brewery baron and politician The Rt. Hon. George Younger, 1st Viscount Younger of Leckie (1851 – 1929) and royal confidante and aristocrat Ruth Roche, The Rt. Hon. The Lady Fermoy, DCVO, OBE (1908 – 1993)You Can Say That If You Like – Flat D, 36 Eaton Square, Belgravia, London, SW1W 9DH – For sale for £7.95 million ($9.90 million, €9.38 million or درهم36.38 million) through Knight Frank – Home of brewery baron and politician The Rt. Hon. George Younger, 1st Viscount Younger of Leckie (1851 – 1929) and royal confidante and aristocrat Ruth Roche, The Rt. Hon. The Lady Fermoy, DCVO, OBE (1908 – 1993) You Can Say That If You Like – Flat D, 36 Eaton Square, Belgravia, London, SW1W 9DH – For sale for £7.95 million ($9.90 million, €9.38 million or درهم36.38 million) through Knight Frank – Home of brewery baron and politician The Rt. Hon. George Younger, 1st Viscount Younger of Leckie (1851 – 1929) and royal confidante and aristocrat Ruth Roche, The Rt. Hon. The Lady Fermoy, DCVO, OBE (1908 – 1993) You Can Say That If You Like – Flat D, 36 Eaton Square, Belgravia, London, SW1W 9DH – For sale for £7.95 million ($9.90 million, €9.38 million or درهم36.38 million) through Knight Frank – Home of brewery baron and politician The Rt. Hon. George Younger, 1st Viscount Younger of Leckie (1851 – 1929) and royal confidante and aristocrat Ruth Roche, The Rt. Hon. The Lady Fermoy, DCVO, OBE (1908 – 1993)You Can Say That If You Like – Flat D, 36 Eaton Square, Belgravia, London, SW1W 9DH – For sale for £7.95 million ($9.90 million, €9.38 million or درهم36.38 million) through Knight Frank – Home of brewery baron and politician The Rt. Hon. George Younger, 1st Viscount Younger of Leckie (1851 – 1929) and royal confidante and aristocrat Ruth Roche, The Rt. Hon. The Lady Fermoy, DCVO, OBE (1908 – 1993)You Can Say That If You Like – Flat D, 36 Eaton Square, Belgravia, London, SW1W 9DH – For sale for £7.95 million ($9.90 million, €9.38 million or درهم36.38 million) through Knight Frank – Home of brewery baron and politician The Rt. Hon. George Younger, 1st Viscount Younger of Leckie (1851 – 1929) and royal confidante and aristocrat Ruth Roche, The Rt. Hon. The Lady Fermoy, DCVO, OBE (1908 – 1993)

  • A £5m Fixer Upper

    A £5m Fixer Upper

    Belgravia flat offered for £4.95 million in spite of featuring collapsed ceilings, ripped out light fittings and holes in the walls

     

    Before putting a property on the market and having it photographed for a sales brochure, most would clean up and make the space look appealing. In Belgravia, however, the owners of a £4.95 million ($6.16 million, €5.84 million or درهم22.64 million) lateral flat in a Grade II listed building in Eaton Place plainly didn’t bother.

     

    In spite of showing evidence of attempts of a renovation, pictures of a 1,810 square foot third floor flat show electrical wires hanging from collapsed ceilings, rubbish on the floor and holes in the walls.

     

    Knight Frank offer the “totally unmodernised” 3-bedroom, 3-bathroom property on a long lease with 94 years remaining. They describe it as “offering buyers a chance to create a spectacular apartment”. The late Roy Brooks, an honest estate agent and author of Brothel in Pimlico, would have had a field day and no doubt advertised the flat instead as: “Bashed in Belgravia: Those with a dislike for dust need not cross the threshold”.

     

    A £5m Fixer Upper – Unmodernised third floor flat in Eaton Place, Belgravia, London, SW1X – £4.95 million ($6.16 million, €5.84 million or درهم22.64 million) through Knight Frank – Roy Brooks Brothel in Pimlico A £5m Fixer Upper – Unmodernised third floor flat in Eaton Place, Belgravia, London, SW1X – £4.95 million ($6.16 million, €5.84 million or درهم22.64 million) through Knight Frank – Roy Brooks Brothel in PimlicoA £5m Fixer Upper – Unmodernised third floor flat in Eaton Place, Belgravia, London, SW1X – £4.95 million ($6.16 million, €5.84 million or درهم22.64 million) through Knight Frank – Roy Brooks Brothel in Pimlico A £5m Fixer Upper – Unmodernised third floor flat in Eaton Place, Belgravia, London, SW1X – £4.95 million ($6.16 million, €5.84 million or درهم22.64 million) through Knight Frank – Roy Brooks Brothel in Pimlico A £5m Fixer Upper – Unmodernised third floor flat in Eaton Place, Belgravia, London, SW1X – £4.95 million ($6.16 million, €5.84 million or درهم22.64 million) through Knight Frank – Roy Brooks Brothel in PimlicoA £5m Fixer Upper – Unmodernised third floor flat in Eaton Place, Belgravia, London, SW1X – £4.95 million ($6.16 million, €5.84 million or درهم22.64 million) through Knight Frank – Roy Brooks Brothel in PimlicoA £5m Fixer Upper – Unmodernised third floor flat in Eaton Place, Belgravia, London, SW1X – £4.95 million ($6.16 million, €5.84 million or درهم22.64 million) through Knight Frank – Roy Brooks Brothel in Pimlico A £5m Fixer Upper – Unmodernised third floor flat in Eaton Place, Belgravia, London, SW1X – £4.95 million ($6.16 million, €5.84 million or درهم22.64 million) through Knight Frank – Roy Brooks Brothel in Pimlico

  • Take Me To The Gold Park

    Take Me To The Gold Park

    Outrageously over-the-top Beverly Hills pad complete with gold accessories galore goes on sale for £80 million; buyers will get a gold Lamborghini, a gold Rolls-Royce and 170 gold coloured bottles of Cristal

     

    Sold last for £7.7 million ($9.8 million, €9.3 million or درهم36 million) in 2012 when it was a 5,926 square foot house, 1175 Hillcrest Road on the Trousdale Estates in Beverly Hills, California has been completely redeveloped and renamed ‘Opus’. It now provides 20,500 square foot of accommodation on a 1 acre plot and has gone on for sale for the astonishing sum of £80 million ($100 million, €95 million or درهم367 million).

     

    Now featuring 7 bedrooms and 11 bathrooms, it is the ‘extras’ that come with the property that make it newsworthy. Amongst the ‘toys’ thrown in are a gold Lamborghini Aventador and a gold Rolls-Royce Dawn, £1.6 million ($2 million, €1.9 million or درهم7.3 million) of artwork (including three Damien Hirst paintings), 170 bottles of Cirstal champagne and a full-time house manager, whose salary has been pre-paid for two years.

     

    The creation of a developer named Nile Niami, the house also has “electric toilets that do everything for you” – Just what every billionaire truly needs.

     

    Drew Fenton of Hilton & Hyland has the listing.

     

    Take Me To The Gold Park – Opus, 1175 Hillcrest Road, Trousdale Estates, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, CA 90210 – £80 million ($100 million, €95 million or درهم367 million) – Designed by Nile NiamiTake Me To The Gold Park – Opus, 1175 Hillcrest Road, Trousdale Estates, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, CA 90210 – £80 million ($100 million, €95 million or درهم367 million) – Designed by Nile Niami Take Me To The Gold Park – Opus, 1175 Hillcrest Road, Trousdale Estates, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, CA 90210 – £80 million ($100 million, €95 million or درهم367 million) – Designed by Nile NiamiTake Me To The Gold Park – Opus, 1175 Hillcrest Road, Trousdale Estates, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, CA 90210 – £80 million ($100 million, €95 million or درهم367 million) – Designed by Nile NiamiTake Me To The Gold Park – Opus, 1175 Hillcrest Road, Trousdale Estates, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, CA 90210 – £80 million ($100 million, €95 million or درهم367 million) – Designed by Nile NiamiTake Me To The Gold Park – Opus, 1175 Hillcrest Road, Trousdale Estates, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, CA 90210 – £80 million ($100 million, €95 million or درهم367 million) – Designed by Nile NiamiTake Me To The Gold Park – Opus, 1175 Hillcrest Road, Trousdale Estates, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, CA 90210 – £80 million ($100 million, €95 million or درهم367 million) – Designed by Nile NiamiTake Me To The Gold Park – Opus, 1175 Hillcrest Road, Trousdale Estates, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, CA 90210 – £80 million ($100 million, €95 million or درهم367 million) – Designed by Nile NiamiTake Me To The Gold Park – Opus, 1175 Hillcrest Road, Trousdale Estates, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, CA 90210 – £80 million ($100 million, €95 million or درهم367 million) – Designed by Nile Niami Take Me To The Gold Park – Opus, 1175 Hillcrest Road, Trousdale Estates, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, CA 90210 – £80 million ($100 million, €95 million or درهم367 million) – Designed by Nile Niami Take Me To The Gold Park – Opus, 1175 Hillcrest Road, Trousdale Estates, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, CA 90210 – £80 million ($100 million, €95 million or درهم367 million) – Designed by Nile NiamiTake Me To The Gold Park – Opus, 1175 Hillcrest Road, Trousdale Estates, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, CA 90210 – £80 million ($100 million, €95 million or درهم367 million) – Designed by Nile NiamiTake Me To The Gold Park – Opus, 1175 Hillcrest Road, Trousdale Estates, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, CA 90210 – £80 million ($100 million, €95 million or درهم367 million) – Designed by Nile NiamiTake Me To The Gold Park – Opus, 1175 Hillcrest Road, Trousdale Estates, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, CA 90210 – £80 million ($100 million, €95 million or درهم367 million) – Designed by Nile NiamiTake Me To The Gold Park – Opus, 1175 Hillcrest Road, Trousdale Estates, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, CA 90210 – £80 million ($100 million, €95 million or درهم367 million) – Designed by Nile NiamiTake Me To The Gold Park – Opus, 1175 Hillcrest Road, Trousdale Estates, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, CA 90210 – £80 million ($100 million, €95 million or درهم367 million) – Designed by Nile Niami Take Me To The Gold Park – Opus, 1175 Hillcrest Road, Trousdale Estates, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, CA 90210 – £80 million ($100 million, €95 million or درهم367 million) – Designed by Nile NiamiTake Me To The Gold Park – Opus, 1175 Hillcrest Road, Trousdale Estates, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, CA 90210 – £80 million ($100 million, €95 million or درهم367 million) – Designed by Nile Niami

  • The Sky’s the Limit

    The Sky’s the Limit

    Bonhams to offer what they call “the world’s most sought after Cadillac” at auction in Florida; it was originally made for the famed BROADMOOR Hotel resort in El Paso County, Colorado

    The BROADMOOR – a name that is unique and copyrighted due to its little raised “A” – in Colorado Springs is a vast hotel at the base of the 9,570 foot tall Cheyenne Mountain, the location of the operations base for the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). Built in the Italian Renaissance style and featuring 784 guest rooms, the complex has three golf courses, 18 restaurants and a fishing camp and is said to be the place where President George W. Bush decided to quit drinking after waking up with a hangover in the summer of 1986.

     

    The Sky’s the Limit – 1959 Cadillac BROADMOOR Skyview with coachwork by Superior Coach Corp. – £140,000 to £200,000 ($175,000 to $250,000 or €165,000 to €235,000 or درهم640,000 to درهم915,000) – Bonhams Amelia Island Auction on 9th March 2017 at the Fernandina Beach Club – The BROADMOOR Hotel in Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado
    The Broadmoor Hotel.
    The Sky’s the Limit – 1959 Cadillac BROADMOOR Skyview with coachwork by Superior Coach Corp. – £140,000 to £200,000 ($175,000 to $250,000 or €165,000 to €235,000 or درهم640,000 to درهم915,000) – Bonhams Amelia Island Auction on 9th March 2017 at the Fernandina Beach Club – The BROADMOOR Hotel in Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado
    The main hotel building.

     

    The original owners of the hotel, the Penrose family, “wanted their guests to be escorted form the airport to the hotel and to be given tours of the area’s majestic beauty in the finest of luxury” according to the Bonhams catalogue entry on a 1959 Cadillac BROADMOOR Skyview they are set to auction in March. It is the last of around 28 Cadillac limousines made for the hotel from 1937 and was built by the Superior Coach Corp., a now defunct Ohio based manufacturer of yellow school buses and hearses.

     

    251-inches long overall, equipped with power steering, power brakes, a 390 cubic inch V8 engine and dominated by a vast plexi panel ‘Skyview’ roof, the car was designed to accommodate 11 passengers. It remained in service at the hotel until the early 1970s, was then was sold to a Cadillac collector in Branford, Connecticut and subsequently underwent a full restoration at the behest of its current owner.

     

    Bonhams will sell this unusual vehicle at their Amelia Island auction on 9th March at the Fernandina Beach Club. They have set an estimate of £140,000 to £200,000 ($175,000 to $250,000 or €165,000 to €235,000 or درهم640,000 to درهم915,000) and describe it as “one of the most exclusive Cadillacs ever built”.

     

    The Sky’s the Limit – 1959 Cadillac BROADMOOR Skyview with coachwork by Superior Coach Corp. – £140,000 to £200,000 ($175,000 to $250,000 or €165,000 to €235,000 or درهم640,000 to درهم915,000) – Bonhams Amelia Island Auction on 9th March 2017 at the Fernandina Beach Club – The BROADMOOR Hotel in Colorado Springs, El Paso County, ColoradoThe Sky’s the Limit – 1959 Cadillac BROADMOOR Skyview with coachwork by Superior Coach Corp. – £140,000 to £200,000 ($175,000 to $250,000 or €165,000 to €235,000 or درهم640,000 to درهم915,000) – Bonhams Amelia Island Auction on 9th March 2017 at the Fernandina Beach Club – The BROADMOOR Hotel in Colorado Springs, El Paso County, ColoradoThe Sky’s the Limit – 1959 Cadillac BROADMOOR Skyview with coachwork by Superior Coach Corp. – £140,000 to £200,000 ($175,000 to $250,000 or €165,000 to €235,000 or درهم640,000 to درهم915,000) – Bonhams Amelia Island Auction on 9th March 2017 at the Fernandina Beach Club – The BROADMOOR Hotel in Colorado Springs, El Paso County, ColoradoThe Sky’s the Limit – 1959 Cadillac BROADMOOR Skyview with coachwork by Superior Coach Corp. – £140,000 to £200,000 ($175,000 to $250,000 or €165,000 to €235,000 or درهم640,000 to درهم915,000) – Bonhams Amelia Island Auction on 9th March 2017 at the Fernandina Beach Club – The BROADMOOR Hotel in Colorado Springs, El Paso County, ColoradoThe Sky’s the Limit – 1959 Cadillac BROADMOOR Skyview with coachwork by Superior Coach Corp. – £140,000 to £200,000 ($175,000 to $250,000 or €165,000 to €235,000 or درهم640,000 to درهم915,000) – Bonhams Amelia Island Auction on 9th March 2017 at the Fernandina Beach Club – The BROADMOOR Hotel in Colorado Springs, El Paso County, ColoradoThe Sky’s the Limit – 1959 Cadillac BROADMOOR Skyview with coachwork by Superior Coach Corp. – £140,000 to £200,000 ($175,000 to $250,000 or €165,000 to €235,000 or درهم640,000 to درهم915,000) – Bonhams Amelia Island Auction on 9th March 2017 at the Fernandina Beach Club – The BROADMOOR Hotel in Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado

  • Trump Gold

    Trump Gold

    Horrific £27.6 million apartment in Trump International Tower is struggling to sell; in this case its not the links to the POTUS that is the cause, it’s simply revoltingly decorated

     

    “Don’t let the opulence distract you”, suggest the many agents marketing what could be quite possibly the gaudiest apartment at One Central Park West – AKA ‘Trump International Hotel and Tower’ – in New York. If they’d been honest, they’d have said something completely different and that would be: “This place is truly horrific”.

     

    Originally priced at £32 million ($40 million, €37.6 million or درهم146.9 million) when first placed on the market in May 2016, apartment #47BC within the 44-floor tower has recently been reduced to £27.6 million ($34.5 million, €32.4 million or درهم126.7 million). The 6,360 square foot, 6 bedroom gold-leafed, marble-floored monstrosity admittedly enjoys “extraordinary views” of Central Park but comes with bathrooms so over-the-top that even Liberace would have blushed.

     

    Trump International Tower itself was originally built between 1968 and 1970 and converted to a mix of hotel and residential space by Donald Trump between 1995 and 1997. The 583-foot tall, Thomas E. Stanley designed building featured in the 2011 comedy crime film Tower Heist and has a 30-foot wide silver globe to the front of it.

     

    Knight Frank and Douglas Elliman are amongst the tribe of agents attempting to sell what they describe as a “Central Park West sprawling gem”. It was last sold in 2008 to an anonymous entity named Daisho Development USA, Inc. They paid $26 million (the equivalent of £23.4 million, $29.3 million, €27.5 million or درهم107.6 million today) for the vast 14-room space.

     

    Trump Gold – Gaudy apartment #47BC, Trump International Hotel and Tower, One Central Park West, 15 Columbus Circle, Upper West Side, New York, NY 10023 – £27.6 million ($34.5 million, €32.4 million or درهم126.7 million) through Knight Frank – Reduced from £32 million ($40 million, €37.6 million or درهم146.9 million)Trump Gold – Gaudy apartment #47BC, Trump International Hotel and Tower, One Central Park West, 15 Columbus Circle, Upper West Side, New York, NY 10023 – £27.6 million ($34.5 million, €32.4 million or درهم126.7 million) through Knight Frank – Reduced from £32 million ($40 million, €37.6 million or درهم146.9 million)Trump Gold – Gaudy apartment #47BC, Trump International Hotel and Tower, One Central Park West, 15 Columbus Circle, Upper West Side, New York, NY 10023 – £27.6 million ($34.5 million, €32.4 million or درهم126.7 million) through Knight Frank – Reduced from £32 million ($40 million, €37.6 million or درهم146.9 million)Trump Gold – Gaudy apartment #47BC, Trump International Hotel and Tower, One Central Park West, 15 Columbus Circle, Upper West Side, New York, NY 10023 – £27.6 million ($34.5 million, €32.4 million or درهم126.7 million) through Knight Frank – Reduced from £32 million ($40 million, €37.6 million or درهم146.9 million)Trump Gold – Gaudy apartment #47BC, Trump International Hotel and Tower, One Central Park West, 15 Columbus Circle, Upper West Side, New York, NY 10023 – £27.6 million ($34.5 million, €32.4 million or درهم126.7 million) through Knight Frank – Reduced from £32 million ($40 million, €37.6 million or درهم146.9 million)Trump Gold – Gaudy apartment #47BC, Trump International Hotel and Tower, One Central Park West, 15 Columbus Circle, Upper West Side, New York, NY 10023 – £27.6 million ($34.5 million, €32.4 million or درهم126.7 million) through Knight Frank – Reduced from £32 million ($40 million, €37.6 million or درهم146.9 million)Trump Gold – Gaudy apartment #47BC, Trump International Hotel and Tower, One Central Park West, 15 Columbus Circle, Upper West Side, New York, NY 10023 – £27.6 million ($34.5 million, €32.4 million or درهم126.7 million) through Knight Frank – Reduced from £32 million ($40 million, €37.6 million or درهم146.9 million)Trump Gold – Gaudy apartment #47BC, Trump International Hotel and Tower, One Central Park West, 15 Columbus Circle, Upper West Side, New York, NY 10023 – £27.6 million ($34.5 million, €32.4 million or درهم126.7 million) through Knight Frank – Reduced from £32 million ($40 million, €37.6 million or درهم146.9 million)Trump Gold – Gaudy apartment #47BC, Trump International Hotel and Tower, One Central Park West, 15 Columbus Circle, Upper West Side, New York, NY 10023 – £27.6 million ($34.5 million, €32.4 million or درهم126.7 million) through Knight Frank – Reduced from £32 million ($40 million, €37.6 million or درهم146.9 million)Trump Gold – Gaudy apartment #47BC, Trump International Hotel and Tower, One Central Park West, 15 Columbus Circle, Upper West Side, New York, NY 10023 – £27.6 million ($34.5 million, €32.4 million or درهم126.7 million) through Knight Frank – Reduced from £32 million ($40 million, €37.6 million or درهم146.9 million)Trump Gold – Gaudy apartment #47BC, Trump International Hotel and Tower, One Central Park West, 15 Columbus Circle, Upper West Side, New York, NY 10023 – £27.6 million ($34.5 million, €32.4 million or درهم126.7 million) through Knight Frank – Reduced from £32 million ($40 million, €37.6 million or درهم146.9 million)

  • Chocolate Box Perfection

    Chocolate Box Perfection

    Quaint medieval thatched cottage for sale; it is one of the oldest in Wiltshire

     

    One of the oldest building structures in Wiltshire, The Old Cottage at Ogbourne St. Andrew, dates to medieval times and is now for sale for £630,000 ($786,000, €743,000 or درهم2.9 million).

     

    Grade II listed and built from banded sarsen and flint with a thatched roof, this quirky 1,787 square foot cottage most definitely wouldn’t look out of place on a chocolate box or in an episode of Midsomer Murders. It includes 3 reception rooms, a breakfast kitchen, 4 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms and stands with 0.34 acres of gardens.

     

    Featuring such things as an inglenook fireplace complete with a bread oven and beamed ceilings, The Old Cottage has been in the ownership of the same family for 40 years. It is for sale through Hamptons International and though currently without allocated parking, has the potential to create space.

     

    Chocolate Box Perfection – The Old Cottage, Ogbourne St. Andrew, Marlborough, Wiltshire, SN8 1SB – For sale with Hamptons International for £630,000 ($786,000, €743,000 or درهم2.9 million)Chocolate Box Perfection – The Old Cottage, Ogbourne St. Andrew, Marlborough, Wiltshire, SN8 1SB – For sale with Hamptons International for £630,000 ($786,000, €743,000 or درهم2.9 million)Chocolate Box Perfection – The Old Cottage, Ogbourne St. Andrew, Marlborough, Wiltshire, SN8 1SB – For sale with Hamptons International for £630,000 ($786,000, €743,000 or درهم2.9 million)Chocolate Box Perfection – The Old Cottage, Ogbourne St. Andrew, Marlborough, Wiltshire, SN8 1SB – For sale with Hamptons International for £630,000 ($786,000, €743,000 or درهم2.9 million)Chocolate Box Perfection – The Old Cottage, Ogbourne St. Andrew, Marlborough, Wiltshire, SN8 1SB – For sale with Hamptons International for £630,000 ($786,000, €743,000 or درهم2.9 million) Chocolate Box Perfection – The Old Cottage, Ogbourne St. Andrew, Marlborough, Wiltshire, SN8 1SB – For sale with Hamptons International for £630,000 ($786,000, €743,000 or درهم2.9 million)Chocolate Box Perfection – The Old Cottage, Ogbourne St. Andrew, Marlborough, Wiltshire, SN8 1SB – For sale with Hamptons International for £630,000 ($786,000, €743,000 or درهم2.9 million)Chocolate Box Perfection – The Old Cottage, Ogbourne St. Andrew, Marlborough, Wiltshire, SN8 1SB – For sale with Hamptons International for £630,000 ($786,000, €743,000 or درهم2.9 million) Chocolate Box Perfection – The Old Cottage, Ogbourne St. Andrew, Marlborough, Wiltshire, SN8 1SB – For sale with Hamptons International for £630,000 ($786,000, €743,000 or درهم2.9 million)

  • Warring Ward

    Warring Ward

    Champagne swiller Dawn Ward “at war” with one-time friend and fellow WAG and cast member of ‘The Real Housewives of Cheshire’ Leanne Brown

     

    Yesterday, The Sun on Sunday reported that a favourite of all at The Steeple Times, Dawn Ward, is “at war over a £500,000 loan”.

     

    43-year old Mrs Ward, whose attempts at interior design at her naff Cheshire mansion have left it lingering on the market at the overly ambitious price of £12 million since 2015, is said to have borrowed the cash from Leanne Brown, a fellow footballer’s wife, in 2013 and hasn’t paid it back.

     

    Dawn Ward and Leanne Brown
    Dawn Ward (right) and Leanne Brown in happier times

     

    A “source” close to 40-year old Mrs Brown and her husband, Wes, 37, told The Sun on Sunday:

     

    “Dawn asked to borrow the cash. They agreed, but with interest payable after six months”.

     

    “It seems to them she took advantage of their kindness and has no intention of giving it back”.

    “They spoke to solicitors and sent a legal letter spelling out their intention of taking her to court”.

     

    “Leanne and Dawn used to be great friends, so it is a shame things have reached this point”.

     

    “But her failure to pay back the loan has really soured their friendship, and now they feel they have no choice if they want to see their money again”.

     

    “The tension between the pair during filming is palpable. Last week tempers flared [on the set of The Real Housewives of Cheshire] again and a glass was smashed”.

     

    A spokesperson for champagne obsessed, Prosecco hating Mrs Ward, whose 2016 conviction for assault also made headlines, remarked:

     

    “We have been friends for years and have completed many business deals together and everybody is aware that money is owed on both sides. We have tried to arrange a meeting to clear this up but the offer has not been accepted”.

     

  • Mind Your Manor

    Mind Your Manor

    Quintessential English manor house for sale

     

    A typical English manor house has been placed on the market for £3.85 million ($4.8 million, €4.5 million or درهم17.7 million).

     

    Grade II* listed The Manor House at Cholderton, near Salisbury in Wiltshire dates to around 1700 and is primarily built in red and blue brick in English bond with red brick quoins and string courses on the front elevation. Extending in total to 6,386 square foot over 4 floors, the property has 6 reception rooms, 8 bedrooms and 5 bathrooms.

     

    The Manor House – which is offered for sale by Strutt & Parker – stands in 23 acres of land. Aside from a whole array of outbuildings, there is a salinated outdoor swimming pool and a tennis court.

     

    Mind Your Manor – The Manor House, Cholderton, Salibsury, Wiltshire, SP4 0DW – £3.85 million ($4.8 million, €4.5 million or درهم17.7 million)Mind Your Manor – The Manor House, Cholderton, Salibsury, Wiltshire, SP4 0DW – £3.85 million ($4.8 million, €4.5 million or درهم17.7 million) Mind Your Manor – The Manor House, Cholderton, Salibsury, Wiltshire, SP4 0DW – £3.85 million ($4.8 million, €4.5 million or درهم17.7 million)Mind Your Manor – The Manor House, Cholderton, Salibsury, Wiltshire, SP4 0DW – £3.85 million ($4.8 million, €4.5 million or درهم17.7 million)Mind Your Manor – The Manor House, Cholderton, Salibsury, Wiltshire, SP4 0DW – £3.85 million ($4.8 million, €4.5 million or درهم17.7 million)Mind Your Manor – The Manor House, Cholderton, Salibsury, Wiltshire, SP4 0DW – £3.85 million ($4.8 million, €4.5 million or درهم17.7 million)Mind Your Manor – The Manor House, Cholderton, Salibsury, Wiltshire, SP4 0DW – £3.85 million ($4.8 million, €4.5 million or درهم17.7 million)Mind Your Manor – The Manor House, Cholderton, Salibsury, Wiltshire, SP4 0DW – £3.85 million ($4.8 million, €4.5 million or درهم17.7 million)Mind Your Manor – The Manor House, Cholderton, Salibsury, Wiltshire, SP4 0DW – £3.85 million ($4.8 million, €4.5 million or درهم17.7 million)Mind Your Manor – The Manor House, Cholderton, Salibsury, Wiltshire, SP4 0DW – £3.85 million ($4.8 million, €4.5 million or درهم17.7 million)

  • Pint Sized

    Pint Sized

    Chelsea’s smallest stand-alone house for sale; it is situated on the same street at two pubs

    What could quite possibly be the smallest stand-alone house in Chelsea is for sale for £600,000 ($750,000, €705,000 or درهم2.8 million).

     

    20 Britten Street extends to just 290 square foot in total and is situated next to St Luke’s Gardens and between two public houses, The Builder’s Arms and The Sydney Arms. The property is in need of “complete modernisation” and features a reception room, kitchen, bedroom and bathroom.

     

    Selling agents Douglas & Gordon remark: “This is a proper Chelsea gem that is available to the market for the first time in almost 50 years”.

  • Sex and the Single Zillionaire

    Sex and the Single Zillionaire

    Belvedere, CA home of late tech billionaire and author of ‘Sex and the Single Zillionaire’ Thomas Perkins for sale; he entertained amongst others Sophia Loren and Rupert Murdoch there

     

    Thomas Perkins (1932 – 2016) had it all. Born in New York, this Harvard University and MIT graduate made his fortune in Silicon Valley, California when he co-founded Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 1972 and invested in amongst others Amazon, AOL, Compaq, Google, Macromedia, Netscape and Segway. He was said to be worth £6.4 billion ($8 billion, €7.4 billion or درهم29.4 billion), was briefly married to famed author Danielle Steel between 1998 and 2002 and wrote a novel of his own, Sex and the Single Zillionaire, in 2006.

     

    Aside from an £8 million ($10 million, €9.3 million or درهم36.6 million) country house in East Sussex, England named Plumpton Place and ‘The Maltese Falcon’ – his 289-foot long, £104.3 million ($130 million, €120.9 million or درهم477.5 million) sailing yacht – Perkins owned a French style residence on Belvedere Island in Marin County, California. He purchased it with his Norwegian first wife, Gerd Thune-Ellefsen, in 1972 and continued to live there after her death in 1994.

     

    Sex and the Single Zillionaire – 345 Golden Gate Avenue, Belvedere Island, Marin County, California, CA 94920 – £13.2 million ($16.5 million, €15.3 million or درهم60.6 million) – Sotheby’s International Realty – Former home of billionaire businessman Thomas Perkins (1932 – 2016)
    Danielle Steel and Tom Perkins remained friends even after their divorce

    Sex and the Single Zillionaire – 345 Golden Gate Avenue, Belvedere Island, Marin County, California, CA 94920 – £13.2 million ($16.5 million, €15.3 million or درهم60.6 million) – Sotheby’s International Realty – Former home of billionaire businessman Thomas Perkins (1932 – 2016)
    Steel even hosted a party for Perkins’s novel at her Pacific Heights, San Francisco mansion when it launched in 2006

    Sex and the Single Zillionaire – 345 Golden Gate Avenue, Belvedere Island, Marin County, California, CA 94920 – £13.2 million ($16.5 million, €15.3 million or درهم60.6 million) – Sotheby’s International Realty – Former home of billionaire businessman Thomas Perkins (1932 – 2016)
    The tech billionaire’s yacht, The Maltese Falcon, was the largest sailing yacht in the world when it was launched in 1990

    Sex and the Single Zillionaire – 345 Golden Gate Avenue, Belvedere Island, Marin County, California, CA 94920 – £13.2 million ($16.5 million, €15.3 million or درهم60.6 million) – Sotheby’s International Realty – Former home of billionaire businessman Thomas Perkins (1932 – 2016)
    Perkins at his English country home, Plumpton Place in East Sussex

    Sex and the Single Zillionaire – 345 Golden Gate Avenue, Belvedere Island, Marin County, California, CA 94920 – £13.2 million ($16.5 million, €15.3 million or درهم60.6 million) – Sotheby’s International Realty – Former home of billionaire businessman Thomas Perkins (1932 – 2016)
    The exterior of Perkins’s Belvedere home, 345 Golden Gate Avenue, appears modest

    Sex and the Single Zillionaire – 345 Golden Gate Avenue, Belvedere Island, Marin County, California, CA 94920 – £13.2 million ($16.5 million, €15.3 million or درهم60.6 million) – Sotheby’s International Realty – Former home of billionaire businessman Thomas Perkins (1932 – 2016)
    But what is to be found within includes this spectacular ‘Grand Salon’

     

    Extending to 8.885 square foot in total, the house – which was put up for sale last June by Perkins’s children – was built to the designs of architects Julia Morgan and George Kelham in 1928 and features 16th century linenfold wood-paneled walls in a room described as a ‘Grand Salon’. Here, Perkins entertained European royalty, his fellow News Corp board member Rupert Murdoch and the Italian actress Sophia Loren and given the room’s outlook to the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco Bay, these luminaries cannot have failed to have been impressed.

     

    Known simply as 345 Golden Gate Avenue, Perkins’s former home is for sale through Sotheby’s International Realty for £13.2 million ($16.5 million, €15.3 million or درهم60.6 million). It includes a formal dining room seating 18, 6 bedrooms, 7.5 bathrooms, a guest apartment, an outdoor swimming pool and stands on a plot of 0.85 acres.

     

    Prior to his death, in 2014, Perkins attracted controversy when he penned an article for The Wall Street Journal. At the time, he wrote:

     

    “Writing from the epicentre [sic] of progressive thought, San Francisco, I would call attention to the parallels of fascist Nazi Germany to its war on its ‘one per cent’, namely its Jews, to the progressive war on the American one per cent, namely the rich”.

     

    He later apologised for making comparisons to Nazi Germany but subsequently added: “In the Nazi era it was racial demonization, now it’s class demonization”.

     

    Sex and the Single Zillionaire – 345 Golden Gate Avenue, Belvedere Island, Marin County, California, CA 94920 – £13.2 million ($16.5 million, €15.3 million or درهم60.6 million) – Sotheby’s International Realty – Former home of billionaire businessman Thomas Perkins (1932 – 2016) Sex and the Single Zillionaire – 345 Golden Gate Avenue, Belvedere Island, Marin County, California, CA 94920 – £13.2 million ($16.5 million, €15.3 million or درهم60.6 million) – Sotheby’s International Realty – Former home of billionaire businessman Thomas Perkins (1932 – 2016)Sex and the Single Zillionaire – 345 Golden Gate Avenue, Belvedere Island, Marin County, California, CA 94920 – £13.2 million ($16.5 million, €15.3 million or درهم60.6 million) – Sotheby’s International Realty – Former home of billionaire businessman Thomas Perkins (1932 – 2016)Sex and the Single Zillionaire – 345 Golden Gate Avenue, Belvedere Island, Marin County, California, CA 94920 – £13.2 million ($16.5 million, €15.3 million or درهم60.6 million) – Sotheby’s International Realty – Former home of billionaire businessman Thomas Perkins (1932 – 2016)Sex and the Single Zillionaire – 345 Golden Gate Avenue, Belvedere Island, Marin County, California, CA 94920 – £13.2 million ($16.5 million, €15.3 million or درهم60.6 million) – Sotheby’s International Realty – Former home of billionaire businessman Thomas Perkins (1932 – 2016) Sex and the Single Zillionaire – 345 Golden Gate Avenue, Belvedere Island, Marin County, California, CA 94920 – £13.2 million ($16.5 million, €15.3 million or درهم60.6 million) – Sotheby’s International Realty – Former home of billionaire businessman Thomas Perkins (1932 – 2016)Sex and the Single Zillionaire – 345 Golden Gate Avenue, Belvedere Island, Marin County, California, CA 94920 – £13.2 million ($16.5 million, €15.3 million or درهم60.6 million) – Sotheby’s International Realty – Former home of billionaire businessman Thomas Perkins (1932 – 2016)Sex and the Single Zillionaire – 345 Golden Gate Avenue, Belvedere Island, Marin County, California, CA 94920 – £13.2 million ($16.5 million, €15.3 million or درهم60.6 million) – Sotheby’s International Realty – Former home of billionaire businessman Thomas Perkins (1932 – 2016)Sex and the Single Zillionaire – 345 Golden Gate Avenue, Belvedere Island, Marin County, California, CA 94920 – £13.2 million ($16.5 million, €15.3 million or درهم60.6 million) – Sotheby’s International Realty – Former home of billionaire businessman Thomas Perkins (1932 – 2016)