Tag: The Telegraph

  • The house of fun

    The house of fun

    A coastal estate complete with its own private cove comes to the market for £7.5 million

     

    Described by the selling agents as a “private coastal estate with fun as its mantra”, Redlap House near Dartmouth in Devon is situated in a 30-acre frost free valley that runs down to the sea. (more…)

  • A classic English home

    A classic English home

    A former rectory that truly is a classic English home

     

    Old rectories and vicarages are the things of novels: Jeffrey Archer lives in one near Cambridge that was previously the home of the poet Rupert Brooke and Joanna Trollope waxes lyrical about them regularly. (more…)

  • I’m out

    I’m out

    Duncan Bannatyne slices £100,000 off asking price of his former marital home

     

    Listed in June 2013 for £899,000 according to Zoopla and now reduced to £799,995, Duncan Bannatyne OBE’s troubles with selling his home near Middlesbrough were detailed in yesterday’s ‘City Diary’ in The Telegraph. (more…)

  • Greed and envy

    Greed and envy

    ‘The Mirror’ is wrong to attack Boris Johnson’s speech to the Centre for Policy Studies

     

    The Mirror is a left-wing paper so some would say their latest attack on Boris Johnson was inevitable, but this time they are utterly wrong. (more…)

  • Bonneville’s super ride

    Bonneville’s super ride

    Hugh Bonneville can celebrate after Gothic wins at Leicester

     

    This morning, The Telegraph’s ‘Mandrake’ reported on the latest success of the Highclere Thoroughbred Racing Petrushka Syndicate and one of its investors, Downton Abbey star Hugh Bonneville, at Leicester. (more…)

  • Harry’s House of Secrets

    Harry’s House of Secrets

    ‘Harry Potter’ director Chris Columbus sells up in San Francisco’s Pacific Heights

     

    Harry Potter director Chris Columbus is selling his £8,128,000 ($12,995,000) Italianate style San Francisco home. (more…)

  • Scotland’s Downton

    Scotland’s Downton

    Scotland’s most expensive estate comes to the market

     

    In Downton Abbey last week, the Grantham family talked about selling off parts of their estate to cover the costs of death duties. In Scotland, the death of Sir James Cayzer has led to his family selling off one of their estates. (more…)

  • Downturning

    Downturning

    A home worthy of any ‘Downton’ devotee is marketed for £6,500,000 less than it was previously promoted for in 2008

     

    With Downton Abbey back on our screens, Brits are waxing lyrical about life in country houses whilst our American cousins are already bemoaning that they won’t get to see the latest series until January. Any fan with deep enough pockets could live out their fantasy if they were to purchase Thornhill Park at Stalbridge in Dorset. (more…)

  • Boating Bull

    Boating Bull

    Bernie Madoff’s boat on the market at a reduced price

     

    Previously marketed at £2.7 million, Bernie Madoff’s Arno Leopard yacht, Bull, is again on the market. Priced this time at £1.6 million, the 27-metre boat is still in the hands of the joint liquidators of Madoff Securities and cost £5.1 million when built in 2007. (more…)

  • Punching with Pippa

    Punching with Pippa

    Is there a news title that won’t fall under Pippa Middleton’s spell?

     

    First she sent sales soaring with her column for Waitrose Kitchen, then came a role as a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and now, today, Pippa Middleton’s landed a new position at The Telegraph with a new column named ‘Sport and Social’. (more…)