Liz Jones is Credit Crunched in the end.....

dopester

Here we go. There isn't any record of sale on houseprices.co.uk for that farm - maybe because of its farm classification.

I wonder if Liz read this before going to view, before she bought it. And whether she paid asking price. It all ties in with dates as best I remember it from her articles with moving out of London to the farm and the article which riled the locals.

West Country property: Best of the moors
Caroline McGhie
Published: 12:01AM BST 21 Sep 2007

Upcott Farm, at nearby Brushford, with five bedrooms, a two-bedroom converted cider annexe, a courtyard of barns and stables and 47 acres, is for sale through Knight Frank (01392 423111) at £1.6m. This would suit a member of the new wave of buyers dubbed Droppies (Disillusioned Relatively Ordinary Professionals Preferring Independent Employment Situations).

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/3359384/West-Country-property-Best-of-the-moors.html

dopester

There is a pic of her main house in her farm, in this article (click "more pictures", and it's pic 3).

I don't want to be mean. The journalist who went to visit estimates she earns 1/4 million a year. I'm not wanting her to go bankrupt or anything. Actually I'd like her to find a level of personal happiness, get out of debt any everything - but she has got to stop spending beyond her means. If she does sell will she pause for a moment before overpaying for her next home? She's already been out viewing new properties.

The Independent
She is the fashion editor who became Britain's best-known confessional journalist. Then Liz Jones moved to Exmoor – and her troubles really began. Deborah Ross meets her

Friday, 9 July 2010

We arrive at her 46-acre farm, which, it turns out, may be the most beautiful place on earth. The house is vast and Victorian, with mullioned windows glinting in the sunshine. The garden is bursting with poppies, lavender, sweet peas and dried dog turds, but I think we'll skip over that, in every sense. I say a place like this must make you feel all is right with the world, at least occasionally.

She says: "Nooooooooo. Never." Why not? "I think I have that illness where you can never be happy." There's a stable yard, a horse school, a lake on which glittering turquoise dragonflies dance. The fields of hay seem to go on for as far as the eye can see. And there are the animals, too, of course. Liz is famously nuts about animals. Her gardener, Brian, is under instruction to "never kill a slug". What's he meant to do with them? "Re-home them." Are there any animals you don't like? "I'm not fond of spiders, but I wouldn't hurt one." She has rescue sheep that she walks on a lead.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/press/liz-jones-all-writers-betray-people-its-tricky-2022107.html

cazmanian_minx

Pop!!!!! has found it - she's asking £1.9m:

http://www.struttandparker.com/html2/php/property.php?tab=list&id=EXE100142

elona

Read all through descriptions and it sounds as if she has spent a lot of money on the place and the views are fantastic.

I wonder if the negative comments she has made in her articles in the past about unfriendly locals, poor workmanship and services, how run down the main house is etc will put people off the property?

dopester

cazmanian_minx wrote: »

Pop!!!!! has found it - she's asking £1.9m:

http://www.struttandparker.com/html2/php/property.php?tab=list&id=EXE100142

Well done and thanks for posting that info and link. (Will have a deeper look at the listing in a moment. Only seen the asking price so far and recoiled in shock.)

Yes I think she has spent quite a bit of money on the place during her time there, despite her articles of being very financially hardup.

Architects/planner types who look to have been instructed by her, seem rather top-end to me.

http://www.gands.co.uk/page/news/greig_amp_stephenson/60,427,1,0.html

Also it seems she is missing London big time.

London Evening Standard
13.05.10
Liz Jones: I love London
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/lifestyle/article-23833515-why-liz-jones-and-john-humphrys-love-london.do

I like a couple of the comments.

I live VERY near this dreadful woman, and cannot tell you how many of us are lighting candles every night and praying for her to fire up her precious BMW and hit the trail back to Islington. Artisan loaf, indeed! Yes, I bet the guy came to your house to set up the coffee machine, he saw a woman with MUG tattooed across her forehead! STOP bleating on about how wonderful London is, when you live in Somerset!!! Just GO BACK THERE and stop snatching animals from us. And get a bloody haircut while you're there!

- millie, exeter, devon

fc123

I can't believe I missed the updates....thanks for updating. Would love to know how much she paid a few years back. I am sure she sold in Islington for a million-ish.......it;s in my head so I may have read it ages ago. She owned a townhouse facing a square.


That is a seriously lovely house though and she should feel priviledged to have had a few years in it......but I don't think she sees it that way.

1.9 million is a big sum though......who are all these people that can afford these places?

poppy10_2

cazmanian_minx wrote: »

Pop!!!!! has found it - she's asking £1.9m:

http://www.struttandparker.com/html2/php/property.php?tab=list&id=EXE100142

Up on Rightmove too now:

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-26975758.html
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-16670631.html

vivatifosi

fc123 wrote: »

1.9 million is a big sum though......who are all these people that can afford these places?

Who knows fc, not me or anyone I know. What amazed me more than anything else was the description in the first advert that she has views over a private valley. Who on earth owns their own private valley?

sss555s

vivatifosi wrote: »

Who on earth owns their own private valley?

That's EA speak for "uneven ground"

Looks not too shabby all the same.

vivatifosi

sss555s wrote: »

That's EA speak for "uneven ground"

:rotfl:Damn you alll the ssssss.... Just laughed so much I spat coffee down my nice clean white top.