The last great Newport ‘cottage’ heads into its second year on the market (more…)
Tag: for sale
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A maze-like mansion: Villa Cielo de Bonaire
Cielo de Bonaire: A vast £39 million villa that has failed to sell in three years that truly must have been built with a dictator or drug dealer in mind (more…)
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Fortunes and footballers
Gareth Southgate markets his £3.25 million Grade I listed Yorkshire home
Footballers are not generally noted for living in tasteful homes so it is somewhat surprising to find that the former England player turned Middlesborough manager Gareth Southgate’s current home is a Grade I listed “Elizabethan style” hall on the banks of Swinsty Reservoir, nine miles west of Harrogate. He and his wife Alison have owned it since 2006 but have been trying to sell it since June 2013. (more…)
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A crystal wheeler
Britain’s tackiest car, a crystal covered Mercedes, sells for just under £155,000
A previous Wally of the Week, Daria Radionova, might not be such a fool after all given that she has just sold her Swarovski crystal covered Mercedes CLS 350 for the astonishing figure of £154,600. (more…)
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Northern glory
Reconfigured Lancashire estate for sale for £4.25 million
Businessman Martin Higginson and his wife Maggie have reversed what has happened to most English country estates in buying back properties and land around their Lancashire home, Hay Carr at Bay Horse, near Lancaster. They are now selling the whole property with a price of offers over £4.25 million. (more…)
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One down
Lennox Gardens flat with just one year left on lease sells for £550,000
Indication of London’s somewhat bonkers property market has been illustrated in news that a one bedroom flat in Knightsbridge’s Lennox Gardens has sold for a staggering £550,000 on a lease that had just one year remaining. (more…)
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POW!
1989 ‘Prince of Wales’ specification Aston Martin V8 Volante for sale for £450,000
In 1987, an Aston Martin V8 Volante was built to the personal specifications of His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales. It proved so popular with Aston Martin fans, that the company decided to build a further twenty-one cars to the same specification and now one is for sale through the London dealership Nicholas Mee & Co. (more…)
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Resplendent in red
Stunning carmine red 1953 Jaguar XK120 roadster heads to auction at the RM Auctions Hershey sale
The final scene of the 1999 film Cruel Intentions sees Reese Witherspoon driving out of New York in a 1956 Jaguar XK140 roadster. At the RM Auctions Hershey sale on 10th October, bidders have a chance to buy an earlier model of this iconic Jaguar classic. (more…)
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Travels with du Maurier
Travelex founder puts the childhood home where Daphne du Maurier allegedly conducted two of her most illicit relationships on the market for £32 million (more…)
