The last great Newport ‘cottage’ heads into its second year on the market (more…)
Tag: house
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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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Diane Abbott MP (Member of Parliament for Hackney North and Stoke Newington)
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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 up
Britain’s smallest £1 million home for sale
If you’re annoyed to have missed out on the one bedroomed flat on a one year lease that sold for £550,000 that we featured, we have another option for you as agents Wetherell are selling what they term “Britain’s smallest £1 million home”. Thankfully, it’s on a lease of 100 years. (more…)
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You’ve been fenced!
‘Daily Mail’ publishes a non-story about a couple who are wrongly claiming to being “held prisoner” by their neighbours (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…)
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Argentina’s Eiffel
Salvage Europe sell part of Argentina’s contribution to the Exposition Universelle of 1889
To mark the 100th anniversary of the storming of the Bastille, between May and October 1889, Paris held a fair named the Exposition Universelle. The main symbol and the most iconic building at the Expo was the Eiffel Tower but now Salvage Europe are selling part of the first prize winning Argentine Pavilion with a guide price of £50,000. (more…)
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Stabling Frankie
Frankie Dettori puts his Voysey designed country house up for sale
Champion jockey Frankie Dettori is best known for his “flying dismounts” and for having won seven out of seven races at Ascot in 1996. He currently lives at Stetchworth on the Cambridgeshire-Suffolk border near Newmarket but is now selling his home there. (more…)
