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  • Wealthy in Wiltshire

    Wealthy in Wiltshire

    Classically proportioned Wiltshire village house for sale; it’ll supposedly appeal to “your typical wealthy Briton” (whatever that might mean)

     

    Primarily built between 1620 and 1760, a classically proportioned four-storey house in the Wiltshire village of Seend has been placed on the market this week for £4.5 million ($5.8 million, €5.2 million or درهم21.2 million).

     

    Of ashlar and rendered stone construction and built for Mary, Dowager Duchess of Somerset in 1760, Seend Park (or ‘Seend Green House’ as it was previously known) was owned by the now retired judge Sir Mathew Thorpe from 1971 and since 1990 by its current owners. It has been Grade II listed since 1962 and was somewhat unkindly described by the architectural scholar Sir Nikolaus Pevsner CBE FBA (1902 – 1983) as: “So absolutely plain… that it looks like an institution”.

     

    The main house, which has been modernised in recent years and extends to 11,357 square foot, includes 4 reception rooms, 11 bedrooms and 5 bathrooms. It has many original features and in addition there is a 4 bedroom, 1,994 square foot lodge and a 3,630 square foot coach house within the property’s 26.4-acre grounds.

     

    Of the pint-sized mini estate, James Mackenzie of selling agents Strutt & Parker told The Times: “Architecturally, the house will attract your typical wealthy Briton”.

     

    Wealthy in Wiltshire – Seend Park or Seend Green House, High Street, Seend, Melksham, Wiltshire, SN12 6NZ, United Kingdom – For sale for £4.5 million ($5.8 million, €5.2 million or درهم21.2 million) through Strutt & ParkerWealthy in Wiltshire – Seend Park or Seend Green House, High Street, Seend, Melksham, Wiltshire, SN12 6NZ, United Kingdom – For sale for £4.5 million ($5.8 million, €5.2 million or درهم21.2 million) through Strutt & ParkerWealthy in Wiltshire – Seend Park or Seend Green House, High Street, Seend, Melksham, Wiltshire, SN12 6NZ, United Kingdom – For sale for £4.5 million ($5.8 million, €5.2 million or درهم21.2 million) through Strutt & Parker Wealthy in Wiltshire – Seend Park or Seend Green House, High Street, Seend, Melksham, Wiltshire, SN12 6NZ, United Kingdom – For sale for £4.5 million ($5.8 million, €5.2 million or درهم21.2 million) through Strutt & ParkerWealthy in Wiltshire – Seend Park or Seend Green House, High Street, Seend, Melksham, Wiltshire, SN12 6NZ, United Kingdom – For sale for £4.5 million ($5.8 million, €5.2 million or درهم21.2 million) through Strutt & ParkerWealthy in Wiltshire – Seend Park or Seend Green House, High Street, Seend, Melksham, Wiltshire, SN12 6NZ, United Kingdom – For sale for £4.5 million ($5.8 million, €5.2 million or درهم21.2 million) through Strutt & Parker Wealthy in Wiltshire – Seend Park or Seend Green House, High Street, Seend, Melksham, Wiltshire, SN12 6NZ, United Kingdom – For sale for £4.5 million ($5.8 million, €5.2 million or درهم21.2 million) through Strutt & Parker Wealthy in Wiltshire – Seend Park or Seend Green House, High Street, Seend, Melksham, Wiltshire, SN12 6NZ, United Kingdom – For sale for £4.5 million ($5.8 million, €5.2 million or درهم21.2 million) through Strutt & ParkerWealthy in Wiltshire – Seend Park or Seend Green House, High Street, Seend, Melksham, Wiltshire, SN12 6NZ, United Kingdom – For sale for £4.5 million ($5.8 million, €5.2 million or درهم21.2 million) through Strutt & ParkerWealthy in Wiltshire – Seend Park or Seend Green House, High Street, Seend, Melksham, Wiltshire, SN12 6NZ, United Kingdom – For sale for £4.5 million ($5.8 million, €5.2 million or درهم21.2 million) through Strutt & ParkerWealthy in Wiltshire – Seend Park or Seend Green House, High Street, Seend, Melksham, Wiltshire, SN12 6NZ, United Kingdom – For sale for £4.5 million ($5.8 million, €5.2 million or درهم21.2 million) through Strutt & ParkerWealthy in Wiltshire – Seend Park or Seend Green House, High Street, Seend, Melksham, Wiltshire, SN12 6NZ, United Kingdom – For sale for £4.5 million ($5.8 million, €5.2 million or درهم21.2 million) through Strutt & Parker Wealthy in Wiltshire – Seend Park or Seend Green House, High Street, Seend, Melksham, Wiltshire, SN12 6NZ, United Kingdom – For sale for £4.5 million ($5.8 million, €5.2 million or درهم21.2 million) through Strutt & Parker Wealthy in Wiltshire – Seend Park or Seend Green House, High Street, Seend, Melksham, Wiltshire, SN12 6NZ, United Kingdom – For sale for £4.5 million ($5.8 million, €5.2 million or درهم21.2 million) through Strutt & ParkerWealthy in Wiltshire – Seend Park or Seend Green House, High Street, Seend, Melksham, Wiltshire, SN12 6NZ, United Kingdom – For sale for £4.5 million ($5.8 million, €5.2 million or درهم21.2 million) through Strutt & ParkerWealthy in Wiltshire – Seend Park or Seend Green House, High Street, Seend, Melksham, Wiltshire, SN12 6NZ, United Kingdom – For sale for £4.5 million ($5.8 million, €5.2 million or درهم21.2 million) through Strutt & Parker

  • Rich Pickings

    Rich Pickings

    Trophy house with a “dictator interior” in The Boltons has nearly £10 million sliced off its asking price; iceberg home behind reduced by £5 million

    A house in London’s second most expensive street has returned to the market at the much reduced price of £30 million ($38.8 million, €35.5 million or درهم142.6 million) in spite of having an interior that would only appeal to the likes of Bashar al-Assad, Muammar Gaddafi or Saddam Hussein.

     

    Previously marketed at £39.5 million ($47.1 million, €47.1 million or درهم188.3 million) in 2015 through Russell Simpson and now offered by Knight Frank, semi-detached 6 The Boltons extends to 9,781 square foot and comes with a 2,469 square foot mews house to the rear in Creswell Place.

    Both buildings are described as “requiring modernisation throughout” and in total provide 5 reception rooms, 16 bedrooms and 11 bathrooms. The main house has a lift to all floors, air conditioning and as well as parking for 5 cars, there is an internal garage and an interconnecting garden.

     

    For those with another £32.5 million ($42.1 million, €38.5 million or درهم154.5 million) to spare, Knight Frank also offer another house adjoining the Cresswell Place mews house. Featured in The Steeple Times last May, that house, Cresswell House, has also had a rather punchy £5 million ($6.5 million, €6 million or درهم23.8 million) sliced off its asking price. A super-compound anyone?

    Rich Pickings – 6 The Boltons, London, SW10 9TB, United Kingdom – For sale with Knight Frank for £30 million ($38.8 million, €35.5 million or درهم142.6 million) – Adjoining Cresswell House, 5 Creswell Place, London, SW10 9RD for sale for £32.5 million ($42.1 million, €38.5 million or درهم154.5 million) Rich Pickings – 6 The Boltons, London, SW10 9TB, United Kingdom – For sale with Knight Frank for £30 million ($38.8 million, €35.5 million or درهم142.6 million) – Adjoining Cresswell House, 5 Creswell Place, London, SW10 9RD for sale for £32.5 million ($42.1 million, €38.5 million or درهم154.5 million)

  • Trumping a Visa

    Trumping a Visa

    Kushner family exposed for promoting their links to the Trump presidency to flog flats (with visas) to Chinese investors

     

    Yesterday, The Washington Post, in revealing that the Kushner family are hawking properties complete with investor visas, illustrated yet another appalling example of what is fast becoming the shadiest presidential dynasty in history.

     

    According to the paper, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner’s sister, Nicole Kushner Meyer, was in Beijing on Saturday to promote a New Jersey apartment complex named Kushner 1 to “a ballroom full of wealthy Chinese investors”. The event, which had been promoted with a brochure tagged: “Invest $500,000 and immigrate to the United States”.

     

    Of the way in which the Kushner family behaved, Richard Painter, former chief White House ethics lawyer in President George W. Bush’s administration remarked:

     

    “It’s incredibly stupid and highly inappropriate. They clearly imply that the Kushners are going to make sure you get your visa… They’re [Chinese applicants] not going to take a chance. Of course they’re going to want to invest”.

     

    Unsurprisingly, journalists found themselves evicted from the shindig. The Kushners’ reasoning? “The presence of foreign reporters threatened the ‘stability’ of the event. This is not the story we want”.

     

    Pictured above (left to right): Nicole Kushner Meyer, Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump Kushner and Donald Trump.

     

    Trumping a Visa – Jared Kushner’s family exposed for promoting their links to the Trump presidency to flog flats (with visas) to Chinese investors by The Washington Post – Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump Kushner, Donald Trump, Nicole Kushner Meyer, Kushner 1, China.

  • Gone is the Garage

    Gone is the Garage

    Purpose-built Upper East Side, NYC Beaux Arts garage reduced in price by 41%; it will still cost around £40 million to buy and turn into a vast single family residence

     

    Purpose built in 1906 to house the cars of wealthy (but not quite so wealthy enough to have their own carriage houses) Upper Eastsiders, 177 – 179 East 73rd Street in New York is a five-storey Beaux Arts structure that is described as “unusually sophisticated”.

     

    Reduced from a completely unrealistic £39.8 million ($50 million, €47 million or درهم183.6 million) when first marketed in 2015 to £23.5 million ($29.5 million, €27.7 million or درهم108.4 million) today, estimates put the cost of converting the building to a single townhouse at upto £15.9 million ($20 million, €18.8 million or درهم73.5 million).

     

    Featuring a granite and limestone façade, 177 – 179 East 73rd Street has ceiling heights that range from 12’7” to 17’, is 40’ wide and provides 17,232 square foot of internal space. Though plans have been drawn up to turn it into a vast 8-beroom residence complete with a 8-car garage, basketball court and home cinema, rival agent Jed Garfield of Leslie J. Garfield, told The Real Deal: “I think it’s still overpriced. The only surprising thing is that they’re now willing to sell it at [closer to] market price” late last week.

     

    The building – which remains in use as a UES garage – is listed by Carrie Chiang of Corcoran and is described as “just waiting to undergo a metamorphosis in the hands of a discerning buyer”.

     

    Image shows 177 – 179 East 73rd Street in 1906, 2017 and a rendering as a single family residence (left to right).

     

  • Banishing Brexit

    Banishing Brexit

    Defeat of Zac Goldsmith in Richmond signals the 48%’s fight back is making headway

     

    Some would have you believe that yesterday’s by-election in Richmond was all about Zac Goldsmith’s opposition to the expansion of Heathrow Airport. It wasn’t and in her victory Liberal Democrat Sarah Olney proved one thing – the electorate of her new constituency wanted to give two fingers to Theresa May’s “Brexit means Brexit”.

     

    Despite the immensely wealthy Goldsmith being nothing other than principled and decent, we salute Olney’s victory. She has confirmed already that she’ll vote against the triggering of Article 50 and in her victory speech, she stated:

     

    “The people of Richmond Park and North Kingston have sent a shockwave through this Conservative Brexit government, and our message is clear: We do not want a hard Brexit”.

     

    “We do not want to be pulled out of the single market, and we will not let intolerance, division and fear win”.

     

    Elsewhere, last night, UKIP lost its sole seat on Dorset County Council and thus, it seems, those opposed to Theresa May’s stupidity are moving up a gear. Sense prevailed when Gina Miller’s legal challenge was successful and it did so again last night. This movement can now only grow and we urge our readers to continue to support a return to the right road.

     

    #BetterTogether

     

  • Mary Millington (marital name Mary Maxted, born Mary Quilter, 1945 – 1979)

    Mary Millington (marital name Mary Maxted, born Mary Quilter, 1945 – 1979)

    Mary Millington (marital name Mary Maxted, born Mary Quilter, 1945 – 1979)Defined as “wanting it and wanting as much as she could get”, tragic English model and pornographic actress Mary Millington “loved money more than anything else”. (more…)

  • Sabine Getty (née Ghanem, AKA ‘Sabine G’)

    Sabine Getty (née Ghanem, AKA ‘Sabine G’)

    Sabine Getty (née Ghanem, AKA ‘Sabine G’)Born to a Lebanese financier and an Egyptian interior decorator in Geneva, Sabine Getty is a jewellery designer and socialite. (more…)

  • Maya Henry (AKA “The It Girl with a Heart of Gold”)

    Maya Henry (AKA “The It Girl with a Heart of Gold”)

    Maya Henry (AKA “The It Girl with a Heart of Gold”)Not afraid of lavish gestures, American socialite Maya Henry was treated to a £1.4 million 15th birthday party by her personal injury specialist lawyer father Thomas J. Henry and his wife Azteca in February 2016. (more…)

  • The £5,000 per square foot fixer-upper flat

    The £5,000 per square foot fixer-upper flat

    Could part of the former home of George Peabody in London be Britain’s most expensive fixer-upper flat? (more…)

  • Opening up

    Opening up

    Knightsbridge residents have a right to peace but they should not have the right to stop legitimate businesses such as Harrods running a restaurant that will serve both locals and visitors (more…)