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  • An Almighty Allsopp

    An Almighty Allsopp

    Is the fuss over Kirstie Allsopp smashing up her children’s iPads justified? Or was it actually a very clever publicity stunt on her part?

     

    On Channel 5’s Jeremy Vine show on Monday, one of the panel, The Hon. Kirstie Allsopp, shared that she’d smashed up her children’s iPads because they weren’t using them responsibly. Outrage invariably ensued.

     

    During the programe, the “strong-minded” daughter of ex-Sotheby’s chairman Lord Hindlip and Location, Location, Location presenter stated:

     

    “This is the first time I’ve said this publicly. In June I smashed my kids’ iPads, not in a violent way. I actually banged them on the table leg.”

     

    “There is a game called Fortnite and another PUBG and I decided… We had made all sorts of rules and all sorts of times when we said you can’t play them and all those rules got broken and in the end I said: ‘Right that is it, I have to physically (break them).’”

     

    In the ensuing hours, Allsopp was both lauded as a sensible parent and slated as reckless and ridiculous on social media and in reply, Tweeted:

     

    “If you found your kids with a packet of cigarettes would you say: ‘I wouldn’t destroy these because they are worth a tenner but please don’t smoke?’ No of course you wouldn’t.”

     

    Before subsequently deciding to delete her Twitter account due to the level of abuse she had been subjected to, she added:

     

    “The second hand value of the iPads is about £70 each, if I feel a lesson was learned about following through then it was worth far, far, far more our family than £140. This is about the value of trust, and the value of people over things.”

     

    Of the debacle, on ITV1’s Good Morning Britain on Wednesday, author Anna May Mangan leapt to Allsopp’s defence:

     

    “I’ve heard her being called ‘Kirstie Allstropp’ on Twitter today. I’d have probably unplugged the router but she certainly didn’t deserve this public hanging. Is there such a thing as a perfect parent?”

     

    Joining the thousands who’ve condemned Allsopp, another guest replied:

     

    “It’s just a waste and sets a really bad example of how to look after possessions. Wilful smashing up an iPad is wasteful.”

     

    Whilst the Independent’s Anthony Cuthbertson bizarrely over-analysed the story by suggesting it “shows a darker side of gaming,” on Twitter, the pugnacious Brexiteer and all-round loudmouth Nadine Dorries MP decided to weigh in also. She remarked:

     

    “Gameboys that [sic] spoilt a family holiday for us once. Wish I’d thought of doing this. I’d have chucked them in the pool.”

     

    Just like the reaction when the foul mouthed yet highly amusing aristocrat Francis ‘F***ing’ Fulford’s wife threw her television in a lake because her children wouldn’t “turn the f***ing  thing” off” back in 2004 on the reality show The F***ing Fulfords, ‘Allstropp-gate’ is nothing but a storm in a teacup. It is one, however, that has done one thing: It has generated Ms Allsopp more column inches and thus yet more money making opportunities. To her, that’s most certainly worth smashing a couple of no doubt worn out old iPads for.

     

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  • A Rental Ruin

    A Rental Ruin

    Chelsea estate agent optimistically markets an £850 per week house with unpainted walls and an exposed gas meter by announcing: “It does have a new boiler”

     

    Other than the legendary Roy Brooks, the only honest man in his game, estate agents will be optimistic about just about anything. A bit of damp: “no problem”; a nuclear power station next door: “positively charming” but John D. Wood & Co. truly take the biscuit with the marketing material for a property they are currently trying to let in chi-chi Christchurch Street, Chelsea, London.

     

    Sent to us by an eagle eyed reader, the £850 per week ($1,108, €955 or درهم4,070 per week), 867 square foot three floor aforementioned house has conventional features such as a reception room, kitchen, three bedrooms and a bathroom. It also, rather unconventionally, has walls that haven’t even been painted and are just bare plaster. Pictures show also scruffily made-up beds propped up on wooden blocks, wiring and ageing televisions discarded on the floors and a garden littered with leaves.

     

    Of this strange offering, our reader remarked: “I saw this listing and thought it was a half-finished project and up for sale, but no, it’s a rental. Buy-to-let plainly says can’t afford to finish it, says sod it and tries to rent it out in a half-finished state and describe it as a ‘unique house packed with character and charm.’ I particularly like the exposed gas meter!”

     

    When he telephoned, a member of staff at John D. Wood told our reader: “The landlord would prefer to rent the property ‘as is’ and not do further work. It would be at least £1,000 per week if it were finished. He is happy for any tenant to paint and make further improvements.”

     

    In typical estate agent fashion, she optimistically added: “It does have a new boiler.”

     

    Roy Brooks – “A painfully honest estate agent”

    “Beyond any doubt the best copywriter for property advertising in the history of the British press,” Roy Brooks (died 1971) took a “puckish delight in telling the truth” about the houses he was asked to sell.

     
    A Rental Ruin – Chelsea estate agent optimistically markets an £850 per week house with unpainted walls and an exposed gas meter by announcing: “It does have a new boiler” – 62 Christchurch Street, Chelsea, London, SW3 4AR, United Kingdom – To rent through John D. Wood & Co. for £850 per week ($1,108, €955 or درهم4,070 per week).

    An example of this Kings Road based eccentric’s advertisements read:

     

    “Do not be misled by the trim exterior of this modest period res with its dirty broken windows; all is not well with the inside. The décor of the nine rooms, some of which hangs inelegantly from the walls, is revolting. Not entirely devoid of plumbing, there is a pathetic kitchen and one cold tap. No bathroom, of course, but Chelsea has excellent public baths. Rain sadly drips through the ceiling on to the oilcloth. The pock-marked basement floor indicates a thriving community of woodworm, otherwise there is not much wrong with the property… Sacrifice £6,750.”

     

    Another announced:

     

    “Wanted: Someone with taste, means and a stomach strong enough to buy this erstwhile house of ill-repute in Pimlico. It is untouched by the 20th century as far as conveniences for even the basic human decencies are concerned. Although it reeks of damp or worse, the plaster is coming off the walls and daylight peeps through a hole in the roof, it is still habitable judging by the bed of rags, fag ends and empty bottles in one corner. Plenty of scope for the socially aspiring to express their decorative taste and get their abode in The Glossy, and nothing to stop them putting Westminster on their notepaper. Comprises 10 rather unpleasant rooms with slimy back yard, £4,650 Freehold. Tarted up, these houses make £15,000.”

     

    Justifying his reasoning for driving his Rolls-Royce from London to Russia loaded up with 1,000 pairs of shoes, Brooks – author of Brothel in Pimlico and Mud, Straw and Insults: Confessions of an Honest Estate Agent – glibly explained: “I take these for old times’ sake – Stalingrad and the defeat of the German hordes. Perhaps I could bring back in return some of their women engineers whose factories I saw prefabricating good homes by the thousands.”

     

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    A Rental Ruin – Chelsea estate agent optimistically markets an £850 per week house with unpainted walls and an exposed gas meter by announcing: “It does have a new boiler” – 62 Christchurch Street, Chelsea, London, SW3 4AR, United Kingdom – To rent through John D. Wood & Co. for £850 per week ($1,108, €955 or درهم4,070 per week). A Rental Ruin – Chelsea estate agent optimistically markets an £850 per week house with unpainted walls and an exposed gas meter by announcing: “It does have a new boiler” – 62 Christchurch Street, Chelsea, London, SW3 4AR, United Kingdom – To rent through John D. Wood & Co. for £850 per week ($1,108, €955 or درهم4,070 per week).A Rental Ruin – Chelsea estate agent optimistically markets an £850 per week house with unpainted walls and an exposed gas meter by announcing: “It does have a new boiler” – 62 Christchurch Street, Chelsea, London, SW3 4AR, United Kingdom – To rent through John D. Wood & Co. for £850 per week ($1,108, €955 or درهم4,070 per week). A Rental Ruin – Chelsea estate agent optimistically markets an £850 per week house with unpainted walls and an exposed gas meter by announcing: “It does have a new boiler” – 62 Christchurch Street, Chelsea, London, SW3 4AR, United Kingdom – To rent through John D. Wood & Co. for £850 per week ($1,108, €955 or درهم4,070 per week). A Rental Ruin – Chelsea estate agent optimistically markets an £850 per week house with unpainted walls and an exposed gas meter by announcing: “It does have a new boiler” – 62 Christchurch Street, Chelsea, London, SW3 4AR, United Kingdom – To rent through John D. Wood & Co. for £850 per week ($1,108, €955 or درهم4,070 per week). A Rental Ruin – Chelsea estate agent optimistically markets an £850 per week house with unpainted walls and an exposed gas meter by announcing: “It does have a new boiler” – 62 Christchurch Street, Chelsea, London, SW3 4AR, United Kingdom – To rent through John D. Wood & Co. for £850 per week ($1,108, €955 or درهم4,070 per week). A Rental Ruin – Chelsea estate agent optimistically markets an £850 per week house with unpainted walls and an exposed gas meter by announcing: “It does have a new boiler” – 62 Christchurch Street, Chelsea, London, SW3 4AR, United Kingdom – To rent through John D. Wood & Co. for £850 per week ($1,108, €955 or درهم4,070 per week). A Rental Ruin – Chelsea estate agent optimistically markets an £850 per week house with unpainted walls and an exposed gas meter by announcing: “It does have a new boiler” – 62 Christchurch Street, Chelsea, London, SW3 4AR, United Kingdom – To rent through John D. Wood & Co. for £850 per week ($1,108, €955 or درهم4,070 per week).

  • A Pricey Doer-Upper

    A Pricey Doer-Upper

    Derelict Uncle Monty-esque farmhouse in the countryside of the Lake District National Park World Heritage Site for sale for a staggering sum

     

    Described as “one of the most stunning sites in the Lake District National Park” by selling agents Michael C. L.  Hodgson, the Hard Crag farmstead above High Brow Edge at Backbarrow in Cumbria has gone on sale for £795,000 ($1 million, €889,000 or درهم3.8 million) in spite of being nothing but an utter wreck.

     

    Unusual in that it was built high on a hillside rather than in a valley in the 17th century and unoccupied since 1954, this ‘yeoman style farmhouse’ with a barn and outbuildings is Grade II listed and on the National Park Authority’s register of Listed Buildings at Risk.

     

    Offered with planning permission for redevelopment, designs for Hard Crag envision the creation of a parlour, snug, dining kitchen, utility room and guest bedroom suite with wet room to the ground floor and a sitting room with a raised platform and a master bedroom suite with a dressing room and bathroom to the first floor.

     

    Surrounded by 36 acres of land that includes pasture, grazing, meadows, a tarn and rocky outcrop features, what sets this property apart are its views to Consiston, Scafell and the Langdales.

     

    Though presently akin to Uncle Monty’s cottage in the cult film Withnail & I in its present condition, Hard Crag will most certainly once again soon be a truly fine home.

     

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    A Pricey Doer-Upper – Derelict Uncle Monty-esque farmhouse in the countryside of the Lake District National Park World Heritage Site for sale for a staggering sum – Hard Crag, High Brow Edge, Backbarrow, Ulverston, Cumbria, LA12 8QY, United Kingdom – For sale for £795,000 ($1 million, €889,000 or درهم3.8 million) through Michael C. L. Hodgson A Pricey Doer-Upper – Derelict Uncle Monty-esque farmhouse in the countryside of the Lake District National Park World Heritage Site for sale for a staggering sum – Hard Crag, High Brow Edge, Backbarrow, Ulverston, Cumbria, LA12 8QY, United Kingdom – For sale for £795,000 ($1 million, €889,000 or درهم3.8 million) through Michael C. L. Hodgson A Pricey Doer-Upper – Derelict Uncle Monty-esque farmhouse in the countryside of the Lake District National Park World Heritage Site for sale for a staggering sum – Hard Crag, High Brow Edge, Backbarrow, Ulverston, Cumbria, LA12 8QY, United Kingdom – For sale for £795,000 ($1 million, €889,000 or درهم3.8 million) through Michael C. L. Hodgson A Pricey Doer-Upper – Derelict Uncle Monty-esque farmhouse in the countryside of the Lake District National Park World Heritage Site for sale for a staggering sum – Hard Crag, High Brow Edge, Backbarrow, Ulverston, Cumbria, LA12 8QY, United Kingdom – For sale for £795,000 ($1 million, €889,000 or درهم3.8 million) through Michael C. L. HodgsonA Pricey Doer-Upper – Derelict Uncle Monty-esque farmhouse in the countryside of the Lake District National Park World Heritage Site for sale for a staggering sum – Hard Crag, High Brow Edge, Backbarrow, Ulverston, Cumbria, LA12 8QY, United Kingdom – For sale for £795,000 ($1 million, €889,000 or درهم3.8 million) through Michael C. L. Hodgson A Pricey Doer-Upper – Derelict Uncle Monty-esque farmhouse in the countryside of the Lake District National Park World Heritage Site for sale for a staggering sum – Hard Crag, High Brow Edge, Backbarrow, Ulverston, Cumbria, LA12 8QY, United Kingdom – For sale for £795,000 ($1 million, €889,000 or درهم3.8 million) through Michael C. L. HodgsonA Pricey Doer-Upper – Derelict Uncle Monty-esque farmhouse in the countryside of the Lake District National Park World Heritage Site for sale for a staggering sum – Hard Crag, High Brow Edge, Backbarrow, Ulverston, Cumbria, LA12 8QY, United Kingdom – For sale for £795,000 ($1 million, €889,000 or درهم3.8 million) through Michael C. L. Hodgson A Pricey Doer-Upper – Derelict Uncle Monty-esque farmhouse in the countryside of the Lake District National Park World Heritage Site for sale for a staggering sum – Hard Crag, High Brow Edge, Backbarrow, Ulverston, Cumbria, LA12 8QY, United Kingdom – For sale for £795,000 ($1 million, €889,000 or درهم3.8 million) through Michael C. L. Hodgson A Pricey Doer-Upper – Derelict Uncle Monty-esque farmhouse in the countryside of the Lake District National Park World Heritage Site for sale for a staggering sum – Hard Crag, High Brow Edge, Backbarrow, Ulverston, Cumbria, LA12 8QY, United Kingdom – For sale for £795,000 ($1 million, €889,000 or درهم3.8 million) through Michael C. L. Hodgson

  • Davide Giardino – What’s on your mantelpiece?

    Davide Giardino – What’s on your mantelpiece?

    A 20-question interview with economist turned real estate investor Davide Giardino

     

    The Steeple Times shares “wit and wisdom.” What’s your guiding force?

    “The happiness and success of those closest to my heart.”

     

    “Don’t get even, get medieval” is, in our humble opinion, a great motto. What’s yours?

    “If you keep your destiny in mind, every moment in life becomes an opportunity to move closer to it.”

     

    Kerry Katona was considered unacceptable in 2007. Who or what is unacceptable in 2018?

    Technocrats – as at least populists are lying most of the time.

     

    Tony Blair misses being Prime Minister. What do you miss most in your life?

    A simpler life. I miss the routine of going to an office every morning. Am I crazy?

     

    What might you swap all your wealth for?

    Assets? Well, in all seriousness, good health for me, my family and my friends.

     

    Donald Trump was once a case of: “If you owe the bank a thousand, they close you down; but if you owe the bank a billion, you own the bank.” What’s your view on the state of the financial system?

    Who is richer and who is poorer from the latest financial crisis? You’ve got my answer…

     

    What phrase or word do you most loathe?

    “I am saying it for your sake.”

     

    In the UK, some people consider charity to “begin at home.” What’s your view and what causes do you personally support?

    Charity often substitutes for the lack of adequate government or international policy which is disappointing. I support a variety of causes including helping children born with congenital diseases and homeless children.

     

    The judge in Law Abiding Citizen states: “I can pretty much do whatever I want” before being blown up whilst answering her mobile phone. What’s your view on the appropriate use of such devices?

    Shut them off at night.

     

    Real estate investor Davide Giardino – What’s on your mantelpiece? A 20-question interview with Beverly Hills and Greater LA based economist turned real estate investor Davide Giardino.

     

    If you could fill a carriage on The Orient Express, who would be your fellow passengers?

    My twin brother, a bunch of friends, Isabelle Huppert, Glenn Close and probably Angelina Jolie.

     

    If you were unfortunate enough to end up on death row, what would be your last meal and where would you eat it?

    Bucatini with lobster (I always liked bucatini more than spaghetti), gâteau de pommes de terre (cooked the Neapolitan way), a large portion of figs and a torta caprese chocolate cake. I woiuld probably eat it at the Villa San Michele in Capri, Hotel Bel Air or Cliveden House – all places close to my heart for different reasons.

     

    What time is it acceptable to consume the first drink of the day?

    11am, though not every day.

     

    A Negroni, a martini or a cup of tea?

    A Negroni.

     

    Whose parties do you enjoy the most and why?

    A dear friend of mine throws the most memorable dinner parties. I love how he always selects a group of diverse people who do not know each other, but will create an incredible energy together by the end of the night. It always helps that I’m always the guest of honour!

     

    Who is the most positive person you know?

    Maybe me.

     

    What’s your most guilty pleasure?

    Buying French pâtisserie and flowers for myself many times each week.

     

    If a tattoo were to sum you up, what would it be of?

    “I want it all.”

     

    If you were a car, what marque would you be?

    A vintage Fiat 500 with a new engine. They are so cute and practical and I don’t need a Maserati to compensate for a lack of personality or something else.

     

    Cilla Black presented Surprise, Surprise. Tell us the most surprising thing about you.

    I am still trying to figure myself out.

     

    What’s currently sitting on your mantelpiece?

    Fresh flowers.

     

    Davide Giardino is the founder of DGC-Luxury Homes and a licensed realtor at Rodeo Realty – Beverly Hills and Greater LA. He has extensive experience in the real estate advisory and investment business and previously was an economist at several global finance institutions. He describes himself as “a multi-lingual globetrotter” and holds a double degree from Bocconi and USC, an MSc in European political economy from the London School of Economics and a masters in finance from LBS.

     

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  • Rule, Britannia!

    Rule, Britannia!

    “Famously haunted” Chelsea townhouse once home to ‘Rule, Britannia!’ and ‘A-Hunting We Will Go’ composer Thomas Arne and later Shakespearean actress Dame Ellen Terry for sale

     

    A Grade II* listed Georgian house on Kings Road in Chelsea, London that has gone on sale comes with links to not only the composer Thomas Arne (1710 – 1778) but also the Shakespearean actress Dame Ellen Terry, GBE (1847 – 1928).

     

    Spread over five floors and extending to 3,179 square foot, the renovated Georgian property provides 3 reception rooms, a vast dining kitchen created out of a former artists’ studio space, 5 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms. It has a garden to the front and a courtyard also.

     

    Rule, Britannia! £6.45 million for 215 Kings Road, Chelsea, London, SW3 5EH, United Kingdom – For sale with Knight Frank and once home to ‘Rule, Britannia!’ and ‘A-Hunting We Will Go’ composer Thomas Arne and later Shakespearean actress Dame Ellen Terry.
    Dame Ellen Terry and Thomas Arne

     

    Though only briefly home to Thomas Arne – a Roman Catholic and Freemason best known for both Rule, Britannia! and A-Hunting We Will Go – in 1771, actress Dame Ellen Terry lived in 215 Kings Road from 1904 to 1920. It is reported that her possessions there were sold off in 1921 as part of “an attempt to fend off bankruptcy” and of it, a newspaper article titled ‘The Ghosts of Ellen Terry’ reported:

     

    “Surely civilisation was never responsible for the invention of the auction sale. It is such a heartless proceeding. Even a barbarian chief, waving a fierce spear, could not look more relentless than the auctioneer with the dull thud of his cruel little hammer. And surely no barbaric women with palm-leaves and fuzzed hair ever wore harder expressions than the crowd of modern sisters gathered yesterday in Ellen Terry’s old home in Chelsea, as they watched the exquisite china and other mementos of a great artist whisked off by sharp bidders for ridiculously small sums.”

     

    Knight Frank seek £6.45 million ($8.30 million, €7.15 million or درهم30.47 million) for the now “famously haunted” freehold house.

     

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     Rule, Britannia! £6.45 million for 215 Kings Road, Chelsea, London, SW3 5EH, United Kingdom – For sale with Knight Frank and once home to ‘Rule, Britannia!’ and ‘A-Hunting We Will Go’ composer Thomas Arne and later Shakespearean actress Dame Ellen Terry. Rule, Britannia! £6.45 million for 215 Kings Road, Chelsea, London, SW3 5EH, United Kingdom – For sale with Knight Frank and once home to ‘Rule, Britannia!’ and ‘A-Hunting We Will Go’ composer Thomas Arne and later Shakespearean actress Dame Ellen Terry. Rule, Britannia! £6.45 million for 215 Kings Road, Chelsea, London, SW3 5EH, United Kingdom – For sale with Knight Frank and once home to ‘Rule, Britannia!’ and ‘A-Hunting We Will Go’ composer Thomas Arne and later Shakespearean actress Dame Ellen Terry.Rule, Britannia! £6.45 million for 215 Kings Road, Chelsea, London, SW3 5EH, United Kingdom – For sale with Knight Frank and once home to ‘Rule, Britannia!’ and ‘A-Hunting We Will Go’ composer Thomas Arne and later Shakespearean actress Dame Ellen Terry.Rule, Britannia! £6.45 million for 215 Kings Road, Chelsea, London, SW3 5EH, United Kingdom – For sale with Knight Frank and once home to ‘Rule, Britannia!’ and ‘A-Hunting We Will Go’ composer Thomas Arne and later Shakespearean actress Dame Ellen Terry.Rule, Britannia! £6.45 million for 215 Kings Road, Chelsea, London, SW3 5EH, United Kingdom – For sale with Knight Frank and once home to ‘Rule, Britannia!’ and ‘A-Hunting We Will Go’ composer Thomas Arne and later Shakespearean actress Dame Ellen Terry. Rule, Britannia! £6.45 million for 215 Kings Road, Chelsea, London, SW3 5EH, United Kingdom – For sale with Knight Frank and once home to ‘Rule, Britannia!’ and ‘A-Hunting We Will Go’ composer Thomas Arne and later Shakespearean actress Dame Ellen Terry.

  • Win a Knightsbridge Flat (with a Shady Past)

    Win a Knightsbridge Flat (with a Shady Past)

    Competition to win a Knightsbridge flat for £10 per ticket neglects to mention its former occupier, a convicted ‘gay sex plot’ royal blackmailer who died in 2016

     

    Increasingly, with sellers unable to offload prime properties due to Theresa May’s inability to secure any kind of Brexit deal and the ongoing effects of former Chancellor George Osborne’s increases to stamp duty, those with luxury flats and houses are turning to raffling them.

     

    An example of such comes in in the form of a ground and first floor maisonette on the corner of Walton Street and Beauchamp Place in London’s Knightsbridge. Extending to 1,063 square foot and including a large reception room, 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms, the aforementioned fully furnished property is ambitiously being touted as being worth £3.2 million in spite of having sold for just £1.4 million in 2007 and £575,000 in 2000.

     

    Win a Knightsbridge Flat (With A Shady Past) – Flat 1, 132 Walton Street, Knightsbridge, London, SW3 1RE – Competition to win a Knightsbridge flat for £10 per ticket neglects to mention its former occupier, a convicted royal blackmailer named Ian Strachan (also known as Paul Aðalsteinsson, Paul Adalsteinsson, Paul Stein and Charles Goldstein)
    The ground floor sitting room of the flat; the property has been marketed for rental at a price of £2,750 per week in times past
    Win a Knightsbridge Flat (With A Shady Past) – Flat 1, 132 Walton Street, Knightsbridge, London, SW3 1RE – Competition to win a Knightsbridge flat for £10 per ticket neglects to mention its former occupier, a convicted royal blackmailer named Ian Strachan (also known as Paul Aðalsteinsson, Paul Adalsteinsson, Paul Stein and Charles Goldstein)
    Bisexual ‘royal blackmailer’ Ian Strachan lived in the flat for a period following his release from jail

     

    Now marketed in a competition by a company named Your Laddr – run by a former Alexander McQueen merchandiser named Santa Agolli – for £10 a ticket, Flat 1 at 132 Walton Street, SW3 is being promoted without mention of one of its most recent occupants, a controversial and now deceased ‘royal blackmailer’ who’d sought £50,000 for a set of recordings from various national newspapers in 2007.

     

    Tried under the name of Paul Aðalsteinsson (other aliases included Paul Adalsteinsson, Paul Stein and Charles Goldstein), Grimsby trawlerman’s son turned “playboy” Ian Strachan lived at 132 Walton Street after being released following serving a sentence of five years for a gay sex blackmail plot against an unnamed, married member of the royal family.  He subsequently had his left leg amputated following a 30-foot fall from a balcony in Imperial Wharf, SW6 in 2013 and then spent 10 months in jail in Dubai in 2015 after crashing an Audi R8. He died aged just 40 of a drug overdose in South Kensington on Christmas Eve 2016.

     

    The winner of Flat 132, Walton Street will have their stamp duty, legal fees and council tax for one year paid as part of the prize. In addition, they will be ‘given’ a 2017 Jeep Wrangler Black Hawk with 800 miles on the clock, a cash amount of upto £4,000 to cover insurance for one year and a cash payment to cover a Kensington and Chelsea parking permit for one year also. Hopefully they’ll have better luck than the tragic Mr Strachan; may he rest in peace.

     

    To enter the competition, click here.

     

    Flat 1, 132 Walton Street, Knightsbridge London, SW3 1RE – The Numbers

     

    August 2018 – Prize draw remains open indicating that ticket sales must be rather slow.

     

    December 2017 – Offered in a raffle for £10 per ticket with a minimum of 380,000 tickets needed to be sold. This would equate to a return of £3.8 million ($4.9 million, €4.2 million or درهم17.9 million) in ticket sales.

     

    November 2007 – Sold for £1.436 million ($1.845 million, €1.581 million or درهم6.776 million).

     

    October 2000 – Sold for £575,000 ($739,000, €633,000 or درهم2.713 million).

     

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    Win a Knightsbridge Flat (With A Shady Past) – Flat 1, 132 Walton Street, Knightsbridge, London, SW3 1RE – Competition to win a Knightsbridge flat for £10 per ticket neglects to mention its former occupier, a convicted royal blackmailer named Ian Strachan (also known as Paul Aðalsteinsson, Paul Adalsteinsson, Paul Stein and Charles Goldstein)Win a Knightsbridge Flat (With A Shady Past) – Flat 1, 132 Walton Street, Knightsbridge, London, SW3 1RE – Competition to win a Knightsbridge flat for £10 per ticket neglects to mention its former occupier, a convicted royal blackmailer named Ian Strachan (also known as Paul Aðalsteinsson, Paul Adalsteinsson, Paul Stein and Charles Goldstein)Win a Knightsbridge Flat (With A Shady Past) – Flat 1, 132 Walton Street, Knightsbridge, London, SW3 1RE – Competition to win a Knightsbridge flat for £10 per ticket neglects to mention its former occupier, a convicted royal blackmailer named Ian Strachan (also known as Paul Aðalsteinsson, Paul Adalsteinsson, Paul Stein and Charles Goldstein)Win a Knightsbridge Flat (With A Shady Past) – Flat 1, 132 Walton Street, Knightsbridge, London, SW3 1RE – Competition to win a Knightsbridge flat for £10 per ticket neglects to mention its former occupier, a convicted royal blackmailer named Ian Strachan (also known as Paul Aðalsteinsson, Paul Adalsteinsson, Paul Stein and Charles Goldstein) Win a Knightsbridge Flat (With A Shady Past) – Flat 1, 132 Walton Street, Knightsbridge, London, SW3 1RE – Competition to win a Knightsbridge flat for £10 per ticket neglects to mention its former occupier, a convicted royal blackmailer named Ian Strachan (also known as Paul Aðalsteinsson, Paul Adalsteinsson, Paul Stein and Charles Goldstein) Win a Knightsbridge Flat (With A Shady Past) – Flat 1, 132 Walton Street, Knightsbridge, London, SW3 1RE – Competition to win a Knightsbridge flat for £10 per ticket neglects to mention its former occupier, a convicted royal blackmailer named Ian Strachan (also known as Paul Aðalsteinsson, Paul Adalsteinsson, Paul Stein and Charles Goldstein)Win a Knightsbridge Flat (With A Shady Past) – Flat 1, 132 Walton Street, Knightsbridge, London, SW3 1RE – Competition to win a Knightsbridge flat for £10 per ticket neglects to mention its former occupier, a convicted royal blackmailer named Ian Strachan (also known as Paul Aðalsteinsson, Paul Adalsteinsson, Paul Stein and Charles Goldstein)

  • A Funicular Feat

    A Funicular Feat

    Highest asking price ever for a property on Lake Tahoe is sought for a compound complete with two glass funiculars; it could be yours for £60 million

     

    Situated on 5.14 acres and having 525-foot of frontage to Lake Tahoe in Nevada, a 16,232 square foot mansion complete has gone on sale.

     

    Built between 1997 and 2016, ‘Crystal Pointe’ on Crystal Bay is formed by a main residence, guest house and caretaker’s apartment linked to its lower level boat house and oversized 4-car garage by two impressive hillside traversing funiculars on heated tracks. It has a total of 8 reception rooms, 8 bedrooms, 14 bathrooms, 13 fireplaces, a 10-seat cinema and a 1,687 bottle wine cellar.

     

    A Funicular Feat – Crystal Pointe, 300 State Route 28, Crystal Bay, Washoe, Nevada, NV 89402, United States of America – For sale for £59.1 million ($75 million, €66.1 million or درهم275.4 million) through Chase International – Owned and built by Stuart and Geri Yount
    The various elements of the compound are connected via furniculars as well as steps
    A Funicular Feat – Crystal Pointe, 300 State Route 28, Crystal Bay, Washoe, Nevada, NV 89402, United States of America – For sale for £59.1 million ($75 million, €66.1 million or درهم275.4 million) through Chase International – Owned and built by Stuart and Geri Yount
    One of two furniculars
    A Funicular Feat – Crystal Pointe, 300 State Route 28, Crystal Bay, Washoe, Nevada, NV 89402, United States of America – For sale for £59.1 million ($75 million, €66.1 million or درهم275.4 million) through Chase International – Owned and built by Stuart and Geri Yount
    Stuart and Geri Yount built the property between 1997 and 2016

     

    Offered on behalf of building product tycoon Stuart Yount – CEO of Fortifiber – and his wife Geri, the property is designed to enjoy full views of the lake from sunrise to sunset. It stands in landscaped gardens with ponds and waterfalls that feature some pretty dramatic animal sculptures and adjoins US service forestry.

     

    Chase International seek £59.1 million ($75 million, €66.1 million or درهم275.4 million) as Mr and Mrs Yount now wish to downsize to a smaller residence.

     

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    A Funicular Feat – Crystal Pointe, 300 State Route 28, Crystal Bay, Washoe, Nevada, NV 89402, United States of America – For sale for £59.1 million ($75 million, €66.1 million or درهم275.4 million) through Chase International – Owned and built by Stuart and Geri YountA Funicular Feat – Crystal Pointe, 300 State Route 28, Crystal Bay, Washoe, Nevada, NV 89402, United States of America – For sale for £59.1 million ($75 million, €66.1 million or درهم275.4 million) through Chase International – Owned and built by Stuart and Geri YountA Funicular Feat – Crystal Pointe, 300 State Route 28, Crystal Bay, Washoe, Nevada, NV 89402, United States of America – For sale for £59.1 million ($75 million, €66.1 million or درهم275.4 million) through Chase International – Owned and built by Stuart and Geri Yount A Funicular Feat – Crystal Pointe, 300 State Route 28, Crystal Bay, Washoe, Nevada, NV 89402, United States of America – For sale for £59.1 million ($75 million, €66.1 million or درهم275.4 million) through Chase International – Owned and built by Stuart and Geri YountA Funicular Feat – Crystal Pointe, 300 State Route 28, Crystal Bay, Washoe, Nevada, NV 89402, United States of America – For sale for £59.1 million ($75 million, €66.1 million or درهم275.4 million) through Chase International – Owned and built by Stuart and Geri Yount A Funicular Feat – Crystal Pointe, 300 State Route 28, Crystal Bay, Washoe, Nevada, NV 89402, United States of America – For sale for £59.1 million ($75 million, €66.1 million or درهم275.4 million) through Chase International – Owned and built by Stuart and Geri YountA Funicular Feat – Crystal Pointe, 300 State Route 28, Crystal Bay, Washoe, Nevada, NV 89402, United States of America – For sale for £59.1 million ($75 million, €66.1 million or درهم275.4 million) through Chase International – Owned and built by Stuart and Geri YountA Funicular Feat – Crystal Pointe, 300 State Route 28, Crystal Bay, Washoe, Nevada, NV 89402, United States of America – For sale for £59.1 million ($75 million, €66.1 million or درهم275.4 million) through Chase International – Owned and built by Stuart and Geri YountA Funicular Feat – Crystal Pointe, 300 State Route 28, Crystal Bay, Washoe, Nevada, NV 89402, United States of America – For sale for £59.1 million ($75 million, €66.1 million or درهم275.4 million) through Chase International – Owned and built by Stuart and Geri Yount A Funicular Feat – Crystal Pointe, 300 State Route 28, Crystal Bay, Washoe, Nevada, NV 89402, United States of America – For sale for £59.1 million ($75 million, €66.1 million or درهم275.4 million) through Chase International – Owned and built by Stuart and Geri YountA Funicular Feat – Crystal Pointe, 300 State Route 28, Crystal Bay, Washoe, Nevada, NV 89402, United States of America – For sale for £59.1 million ($75 million, €66.1 million or درهم275.4 million) through Chase International – Owned and built by Stuart and Geri YountA Funicular Feat – Crystal Pointe, 300 State Route 28, Crystal Bay, Washoe, Nevada, NV 89402, United States of America – For sale for £59.1 million ($75 million, €66.1 million or درهم275.4 million) through Chase International – Owned and built by Stuart and Geri YountA Funicular Feat – Crystal Pointe, 300 State Route 28, Crystal Bay, Washoe, Nevada, NV 89402, United States of America – For sale for £59.1 million ($75 million, €66.1 million or درهم275.4 million) through Chase International – Owned and built by Stuart and Geri YountA Funicular Feat – Crystal Pointe, 300 State Route 28, Crystal Bay, Washoe, Nevada, NV 89402, United States of America – For sale for £59.1 million ($75 million, €66.1 million or درهم275.4 million) through Chase International – Owned and built by Stuart and Geri YountA Funicular Feat – Crystal Pointe, 300 State Route 28, Crystal Bay, Washoe, Nevada, NV 89402, United States of America – For sale for £59.1 million ($75 million, €66.1 million or درهم275.4 million) through Chase International – Owned and built by Stuart and Geri YountA Funicular Feat – Crystal Pointe, 300 State Route 28, Crystal Bay, Washoe, Nevada, NV 89402, United States of America – For sale for £59.1 million ($75 million, €66.1 million or درهم275.4 million) through Chase International – Owned and built by Stuart and Geri YountA Funicular Feat – Crystal Pointe, 300 State Route 28, Crystal Bay, Washoe, Nevada, NV 89402, United States of America – For sale for £59.1 million ($75 million, €66.1 million or درهم275.4 million) through Chase International – Owned and built by Stuart and Geri Yount A Funicular Feat – Crystal Pointe, 300 State Route 28, Crystal Bay, Washoe, Nevada, NV 89402, United States of America – For sale for £59.1 million ($75 million, €66.1 million or درهم275.4 million) through Chase International – Owned and built by Stuart and Geri Yount A Funicular Feat – Crystal Pointe, 300 State Route 28, Crystal Bay, Washoe, Nevada, NV 89402, United States of America – For sale for £59.1 million ($75 million, €66.1 million or درهم275.4 million) through Chase International – Owned and built by Stuart and Geri YountA Funicular Feat – Crystal Pointe, 300 State Route 28, Crystal Bay, Washoe, Nevada, NV 89402, United States of America – For sale for £59.1 million ($75 million, €66.1 million or درهم275.4 million) through Chase International – Owned and built by Stuart and Geri YountA Funicular Feat – Crystal Pointe, 300 State Route 28, Crystal Bay, Washoe, Nevada, NV 89402, United States of America – For sale for £59.1 million ($75 million, €66.1 million or درهم275.4 million) through Chase International – Owned and built by Stuart and Geri YountA Funicular Feat – Crystal Pointe, 300 State Route 28, Crystal Bay, Washoe, Nevada, NV 89402, United States of America – For sale for £59.1 million ($75 million, €66.1 million or درهم275.4 million) through Chase International – Owned and built by Stuart and Geri Yount

  • A Perfect Estate

    A Perfect Estate

    Diverse 2,000 acre Suffolk riverside estate for sale for £31.5 million; it has been owned by the same family since the 19th century and produces an income of some £500,000 per year

     

    A vast Suffolk estate – just 120 miles from London – has gone on sale for £31.5 million ($40.1 million, €35.3 million or درهم147.4 million) either as a whole or in upto 21 lots through agents Knight Frank.

     

    Owned by Sir Guy and Lady Quilter and originally part of a larger 8,000 acre property, the 2,177 acre Sutton Hall Estate, near Woodbridge has been in the same family since the early 1900s. It has 3½ miles of frontage to the River Deben and is divided between 1,432 acres of irrigable arable land served by two large reservoirs, 375 acres of mature woodland and 242 acres of grazing and parkland.

     

    Centred around a 6,084 square foot Grade II listed Georgian house with eight bedrooms, the estate also comes with eleven further farmhouses and cottages, numerous outbuildings, a keepered sporting shoot and a private quay.

     

    Crops grown on the property include wheat, winter barley, potatoes, sugar beat, rape, vining peas, carrots, parsnips and onions whilst the selling agents comment: “For those looking to create an even more diversified business, the environmental and agricultural opportunities are boundless.”

     

    In remarks to Knight Frank’s 2018 Rural Report, Sir Guy Quilter recently stated:

     

    “We feel very lucky to have had the opportunity and I’m really proud of what we’ve achieved, but it feels like we’ve done as much as we’re comfortable doing without changing the nature of the estate.”

     

    “You have to feel completely comfortable running a place like this because you can get it wrong very easily. History is littered with estates that have turned to dust within a generation.”

     

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    A Perfect Estate – 2,000 acre Suffolk riverside estate for sale for £31.5 million; it has been owned by the same family since the 19th century and produces an income of some £500,000 per year – Sutton Hall, The Sutton Hall Estate, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3JJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £31.5 million ($40.1 million, €35.3 million or درهم147.4 million) through Knight Frank.A Perfect Estate – 2,000 acre Suffolk riverside estate for sale for £31.5 million; it has been owned by the same family since the 19th century and produces an income of some £500,000 per year – Sutton Hall, The Sutton Hall Estate, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3JJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £31.5 million ($40.1 million, €35.3 million or درهم147.4 million) through Knight Frank. A Perfect Estate – 2,000 acre Suffolk riverside estate for sale for £31.5 million; it has been owned by the same family since the 19th century and produces an income of some £500,000 per year – Sutton Hall, The Sutton Hall Estate, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3JJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £31.5 million ($40.1 million, €35.3 million or درهم147.4 million) through Knight Frank.A Perfect Estate – 2,000 acre Suffolk riverside estate for sale for £31.5 million; it has been owned by the same family since the 19th century and produces an income of some £500,000 per year – Sutton Hall, The Sutton Hall Estate, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3JJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £31.5 million ($40.1 million, €35.3 million or درهم147.4 million) through Knight Frank.A Perfect Estate – 2,000 acre Suffolk riverside estate for sale for £31.5 million; it has been owned by the same family since the 19th century and produces an income of some £500,000 per year – Sutton Hall, The Sutton Hall Estate, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3JJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £31.5 million ($40.1 million, €35.3 million or درهم147.4 million) through Knight Frank.A Perfect Estate – 2,000 acre Suffolk riverside estate for sale for £31.5 million; it has been owned by the same family since the 19th century and produces an income of some £500,000 per year – Sutton Hall, The Sutton Hall Estate, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3JJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £31.5 million ($40.1 million, €35.3 million or درهم147.4 million) through Knight Frank.A Perfect Estate – 2,000 acre Suffolk riverside estate for sale for £31.5 million; it has been owned by the same family since the 19th century and produces an income of some £500,000 per year – Sutton Hall, The Sutton Hall Estate, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3JJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £31.5 million ($40.1 million, €35.3 million or درهم147.4 million) through Knight Frank.A Perfect Estate – 2,000 acre Suffolk riverside estate for sale for £31.5 million; it has been owned by the same family since the 19th century and produces an income of some £500,000 per year – Sutton Hall, The Sutton Hall Estate, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3JJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £31.5 million ($40.1 million, €35.3 million or درهم147.4 million) through Knight Frank.A Perfect Estate – 2,000 acre Suffolk riverside estate for sale for £31.5 million; it has been owned by the same family since the 19th century and produces an income of some £500,000 per year – Sutton Hall, The Sutton Hall Estate, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3JJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £31.5 million ($40.1 million, €35.3 million or درهم147.4 million) through Knight Frank.A Perfect Estate – 2,000 acre Suffolk riverside estate for sale for £31.5 million; it has been owned by the same family since the 19th century and produces an income of some £500,000 per year – Sutton Hall, The Sutton Hall Estate, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3JJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £31.5 million ($40.1 million, €35.3 million or درهم147.4 million) through Knight Frank. A Perfect Estate – 2,000 acre Suffolk riverside estate for sale for £31.5 million; it has been owned by the same family since the 19th century and produces an income of some £500,000 per year – Sutton Hall, The Sutton Hall Estate, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3JJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £31.5 million ($40.1 million, €35.3 million or درهم147.4 million) through Knight Frank. A Perfect Estate – 2,000 acre Suffolk riverside estate for sale for £31.5 million; it has been owned by the same family since the 19th century and produces an income of some £500,000 per year – Sutton Hall, The Sutton Hall Estate, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3JJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £31.5 million ($40.1 million, €35.3 million or درهم147.4 million) through Knight Frank. A Perfect Estate – 2,000 acre Suffolk riverside estate for sale for £31.5 million; it has been owned by the same family since the 19th century and produces an income of some £500,000 per year – Sutton Hall, The Sutton Hall Estate, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3JJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £31.5 million ($40.1 million, €35.3 million or درهم147.4 million) through Knight Frank.A Perfect Estate – 2,000 acre Suffolk riverside estate for sale for £31.5 million; it has been owned by the same family since the 19th century and produces an income of some £500,000 per year – Sutton Hall, The Sutton Hall Estate, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3JJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £31.5 million ($40.1 million, €35.3 million or درهم147.4 million) through Knight Frank. A Perfect Estate – 2,000 acre Suffolk riverside estate for sale for £31.5 million; it has been owned by the same family since the 19th century and produces an income of some £500,000 per year – Sutton Hall, The Sutton Hall Estate, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3JJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £31.5 million ($40.1 million, €35.3 million or درهم147.4 million) through Knight Frank. A Perfect Estate – 2,000 acre Suffolk riverside estate for sale for £31.5 million; it has been owned by the same family since the 19th century and produces an income of some £500,000 per year – Sutton Hall, The Sutton Hall Estate, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3JJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £31.5 million ($40.1 million, €35.3 million or درهم147.4 million) through Knight Frank. A Perfect Estate – 2,000 acre Suffolk riverside estate for sale for £31.5 million; it has been owned by the same family since the 19th century and produces an income of some £500,000 per year – Sutton Hall, The Sutton Hall Estate, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3JJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £31.5 million ($40.1 million, €35.3 million or درهم147.4 million) through Knight Frank. A Perfect Estate – 2,000 acre Suffolk riverside estate for sale for £31.5 million; it has been owned by the same family since the 19th century and produces an income of some £500,000 per year – Sutton Hall, The Sutton Hall Estate, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3JJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £31.5 million ($40.1 million, €35.3 million or درهم147.4 million) through Knight Frank. A Perfect Estate – 2,000 acre Suffolk riverside estate for sale for £31.5 million; it has been owned by the same family since the 19th century and produces an income of some £500,000 per year – Sutton Hall, The Sutton Hall Estate, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3JJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £31.5 million ($40.1 million, €35.3 million or درهم147.4 million) through Knight Frank. A Perfect Estate – 2,000 acre Suffolk riverside estate for sale for £31.5 million; it has been owned by the same family since the 19th century and produces an income of some £500,000 per year – Sutton Hall, The Sutton Hall Estate, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3JJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £31.5 million ($40.1 million, €35.3 million or درهم147.4 million) through Knight Frank.A Perfect Estate – 2,000 acre Suffolk riverside estate for sale for £31.5 million; it has been owned by the same family since the 19th century and produces an income of some £500,000 per year – Sutton Hall, The Sutton Hall Estate, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3JJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £31.5 million ($40.1 million, €35.3 million or درهم147.4 million) through Knight Frank. A Perfect Estate – 2,000 acre Suffolk riverside estate for sale for £31.5 million; it has been owned by the same family since the 19th century and produces an income of some £500,000 per year – Sutton Hall, The Sutton Hall Estate, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3JJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £31.5 million ($40.1 million, €35.3 million or درهم147.4 million) through Knight Frank. A Perfect Estate – 2,000 acre Suffolk riverside estate for sale for £31.5 million; it has been owned by the same family since the 19th century and produces an income of some £500,000 per year – Sutton Hall, The Sutton Hall Estate, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3JJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £31.5 million ($40.1 million, €35.3 million or درهم147.4 million) through Knight Frank.  A Perfect Estate – 2,000 acre Suffolk riverside estate for sale for £31.5 million; it has been owned by the same family since the 19th century and produces an income of some £500,000 per year – Sutton Hall, The Sutton Hall Estate, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3JJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £31.5 million ($40.1 million, €35.3 million or درهم147.4 million) through Knight Frank. A Perfect Estate – 2,000 acre Suffolk riverside estate for sale for £31.5 million; it has been owned by the same family since the 19th century and produces an income of some £500,000 per year – Sutton Hall, The Sutton Hall Estate, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3JJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £31.5 million ($40.1 million, €35.3 million or درهم147.4 million) through Knight Frank. A Perfect Estate – 2,000 acre Suffolk riverside estate for sale for £31.5 million; it has been owned by the same family since the 19th century and produces an income of some £500,000 per year – Sutton Hall, The Sutton Hall Estate, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3JJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £31.5 million ($40.1 million, €35.3 million or درهم147.4 million) through Knight Frank.A Perfect Estate – 2,000 acre Suffolk riverside estate for sale for £31.5 million; it has been owned by the same family since the 19th century and produces an income of some £500,000 per year – Sutton Hall, The Sutton Hall Estate, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3JJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £31.5 million ($40.1 million, €35.3 million or درهم147.4 million) through Knight Frank. A Perfect Estate – 2,000 acre Suffolk riverside estate for sale for £31.5 million; it has been owned by the same family since the 19th century and produces an income of some £500,000 per year – Sutton Hall, The Sutton Hall Estate, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3JJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £31.5 million ($40.1 million, €35.3 million or درهم147.4 million) through Knight Frank. A Perfect Estate – 2,000 acre Suffolk riverside estate for sale for £31.5 million; it has been owned by the same family since the 19th century and produces an income of some £500,000 per year – Sutton Hall, The Sutton Hall Estate, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3JJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £31.5 million ($40.1 million, €35.3 million or درهم147.4 million) through Knight Frank.A Perfect Estate – 2,000 acre Suffolk riverside estate for sale for £31.5 million; it has been owned by the same family since the 19th century and produces an income of some £500,000 per year – Sutton Hall, The Sutton Hall Estate, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3JJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £31.5 million ($40.1 million, €35.3 million or درهم147.4 million) through Knight Frank.A Perfect Estate – 2,000 acre Suffolk riverside estate for sale for £31.5 million; it has been owned by the same family since the 19th century and produces an income of some £500,000 per year – Sutton Hall, The Sutton Hall Estate, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3JJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £31.5 million ($40.1 million, €35.3 million or درهم147.4 million) through Knight Frank.A Perfect Estate – 2,000 acre Suffolk riverside estate for sale for £31.5 million; it has been owned by the same family since the 19th century and produces an income of some £500,000 per year – Sutton Hall, The Sutton Hall Estate, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3JJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £31.5 million ($40.1 million, €35.3 million or درهم147.4 million) through Knight Frank.

  • A Magnificent Mammoth Mansion

    A Magnificent Mammoth Mansion

    Grade I listed Jacobean prodigy house in Hampshire for sale for £10 million; it allegedly is haunted by 14 ghosts and comes with planning permission to create a mammoth 57,000 square foot single residential home

     

    In April 2017, The Steeple Times featured the sale of a vast New Jersey mansion named Darlington. Offered for the sum of £37 million, that property remains for sale but now the English  Jacobean prodigy house on which it was modelled has also been placed on the market.

     

    A Magnificent Mammoth Mansion – Bramshill House, Bramshill, Hook, Hampshire, RG27 8ND, United Kingdom – For sale for £10 million ($13 million, €11.2 million or درهم47.6 million) with 92 acres of land.
    Bramshill House, Bramshill, Hook, Hampshire, RG27 8ND, United Kingdom is for sale for £10 million
    A Magnificent Mammoth Mansion – Bramshill House, Bramshill, Hook, Hampshire, RG27 8ND, United Kingdom – For sale for £10 million ($13 million, €11.2 million or درهم47.6 million) with 92 acres of land.
    Darlington in New Jersey, USA was designed to look just like Bramshill
    A Magnificent Mammoth Mansion – Bramshill House, Bramshill, Hook, Hampshire, RG27 8ND, United Kingdom – For sale for £10 million ($13 million, €11.2 million or درهم47.6 million) with 92 acres of land.
    Bramshill was used as a police college from the 1950s until 2013 (the entrance pictured here is no longer included with the ownership of the main house)

     

    Used as a police college from the 1950s until 2013, Bramshill House, near Hook has permission to be returned to a single family residence with a colossal total size of 56,974 square feet. Described as “one of England’s great stately homes,” the proposed accommodation that could be created – after a supposed additional expenditure of £10 million on refurbishments on top of the £10 million asking price – would include 10 reception rooms and 10 bedrooms. Additionally, there would be a 126-foot long gallery, a cinema, gym, a wine cellar, a disco and even a chapel.

     

    Bramshill was built in the early 17th century by Baron Edward la Zouche (1556 – 1625), famed for his lone vote against the condemnation of Mary Queen of Scots, and is described as being of the Italian Renaissance style. It was later occupied by the 2nd Baron Brocket and the exiled King Michael and Queen Anne of Romania before being acquired by the British government in 1953.

     

    Sold in 2014 to property developers City & Country in 2014, the estate – then totaling some 262 acres – was sub-divided and now Knight Frank are the agents for the mansion and 92 acres of Grade I registered parkland.

     

    Bramshill – The Numbers

     

    August 2018 – For sale for £10 million ($13 million, €11.2 million or درهم47.6 million) with 92 acres of land.

     

    August 2014 – Sold to City & Country for £20 million ($25.9 million, €22.3 million or درهم95.2 million) with 262 acres of land.

     

    July 2013 – Marketed on behalf of the Home Department for £25 million ($32.4 million, €27.9 million or درهم119 million) with 262 acres of land.

     

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    A Magnificent Mammoth Mansion – Bramshill House, Bramshill, Hook, Hampshire, RG27 8ND, United Kingdom – For sale for £10 million ($13 million, €11.2 million or درهم47.6 million) with 92 acres of land.A Magnificent Mammoth Mansion – Bramshill House, Bramshill, Hook, Hampshire, RG27 8ND, United Kingdom – For sale for £10 million ($13 million, €11.2 million or درهم47.6 million) with 92 acres of land. A Magnificent Mammoth Mansion – Bramshill House, Bramshill, Hook, Hampshire, RG27 8ND, United Kingdom – For sale for £10 million ($13 million, €11.2 million or درهم47.6 million) with 92 acres of land.A Magnificent Mammoth Mansion – Bramshill House, Bramshill, Hook, Hampshire, RG27 8ND, United Kingdom – For sale for £10 million ($13 million, €11.2 million or درهم47.6 million) with 92 acres of land.A Magnificent Mammoth Mansion – Bramshill House, Bramshill, Hook, Hampshire, RG27 8ND, United Kingdom – For sale for £10 million ($13 million, €11.2 million or درهم47.6 million) with 92 acres of land. A Magnificent Mammoth Mansion – Bramshill House, Bramshill, Hook, Hampshire, RG27 8ND, United Kingdom – For sale for £10 million ($13 million, €11.2 million or درهم47.6 million) with 92 acres of land.A Magnificent Mammoth Mansion – Bramshill House, Bramshill, Hook, Hampshire, RG27 8ND, United Kingdom – For sale for £10 million ($13 million, €11.2 million or درهم47.6 million) with 92 acres of land. A Magnificent Mammoth Mansion – Bramshill House, Bramshill, Hook, Hampshire, RG27 8ND, United Kingdom – For sale for £10 million ($13 million, €11.2 million or درهم47.6 million) with 92 acres of land.A Magnificent Mammoth Mansion – Bramshill House, Bramshill, Hook, Hampshire, RG27 8ND, United Kingdom – For sale for £10 million ($13 million, €11.2 million or درهم47.6 million) with 92 acres of land.A Magnificent Mammoth Mansion – Bramshill House, Bramshill, Hook, Hampshire, RG27 8ND, United Kingdom – For sale for £10 million ($13 million, €11.2 million or درهم47.6 million) with 92 acres of land.A Magnificent Mammoth Mansion – Bramshill House, Bramshill, Hook, Hampshire, RG27 8ND, United Kingdom – For sale for £10 million ($13 million, €11.2 million or درهم47.6 million) with 92 acres of land.

  • Ratty on The River

    Ratty on The River

    A dream house for ‘The Wind In The Willows’ character Ratty; Devon boathouse for sale for £2.5 million

     

    A Devon house that could be perfect for anyone sharing Kenneth Grahame’s character Rat’s view that “there is nothing — absolutely nothing — half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats” has gone on sale for £2.5 million ($3.5 million, €2.9 million or درهم12.9 million).

     

    The Boathouse at Kingswear features “unrivalled views of the River Dart and open sea” beyond and is described by selling agents Savills a “iconic.” It incorporates 2,456 square of internal accommodation over five floors and is built from oak, slate and stone.

     

    Aside from 4 bedrooms, the property also features a 32’ by 19’5” open plan kitchen-dining-reception space and a 24’2” by 23’8” garden room. For the sailor, there is a boat store, private slipway, a DHA licenced running mooring and direct access to the foreshore whilst those simply want to relax, could just idle away the hours in the property’s gardens and on its terraces.

     

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     Ratty on The River – A dream house for ‘The Wind In The Willows’ character Ratty; Devon boathouse for sale for £2.5 million – The Boathouse, Beacon Road, Kingswear, Devon, TQ6 0BS, United Kingdom – For sale through Savills for £2.5 million ($3.5 million, €2.9 million or درهم12.9 million)Ratty on The River – A dream house for ‘The Wind In The Willows’ character Ratty; Devon boathouse for sale for £2.5 million – The Boathouse, Beacon Road, Kingswear, Devon, TQ6 0BS, United Kingdom – For sale through Savills for £2.5 million ($3.5 million, €2.9 million or درهم12.9 million) Ratty on The River – A dream house for ‘The Wind In The Willows’ character Ratty; Devon boathouse for sale for £2.5 million – The Boathouse, Beacon Road, Kingswear, Devon, TQ6 0BS, United Kingdom – For sale through Savills for £2.5 million ($3.5 million, €2.9 million or درهم12.9 million) Ratty on The River – A dream house for ‘The Wind In The Willows’ character Ratty; Devon boathouse for sale for £2.5 million – The Boathouse, Beacon Road, Kingswear, Devon, TQ6 0BS, United Kingdom – For sale through Savills for £2.5 million ($3.5 million, €2.9 million or درهم12.9 million)Ratty on The River – A dream house for ‘The Wind In The Willows’ character Ratty; Devon boathouse for sale for £2.5 million – The Boathouse, Beacon Road, Kingswear, Devon, TQ6 0BS, United Kingdom – For sale through Savills for £2.5 million ($3.5 million, €2.9 million or درهم12.9 million)Ratty on The River – A dream house for ‘The Wind In The Willows’ character Ratty; Devon boathouse for sale for £2.5 million – The Boathouse, Beacon Road, Kingswear, Devon, TQ6 0BS, United Kingdom – For sale through Savills for £2.5 million ($3.5 million, €2.9 million or درهم12.9 million) Ratty on The River – A dream house for ‘The Wind In The Willows’ character Ratty; Devon boathouse for sale for £2.5 million – The Boathouse, Beacon Road, Kingswear, Devon, TQ6 0BS, United Kingdom – For sale through Savills for £2.5 million ($3.5 million, €2.9 million or درهم12.9 million)Ratty on The River – A dream house for ‘The Wind In The Willows’ character Ratty; Devon boathouse for sale for £2.5 million – The Boathouse, Beacon Road, Kingswear, Devon, TQ6 0BS, United Kingdom – For sale through Savills for £2.5 million ($3.5 million, €2.9 million or درهم12.9 million)