Media pimped homes for sale - monitor thread

dopester

Daily Mail: TV star Jasmine Harman's Streatham home has recovered in value... but should she sell or should she let
08th October 2009

Having bought it at the start of 2008 for £370,000, she has been told it would sell today for the same amount.

But the news has given Jasmine, 33, who presents Channel 4's A Place In The Sun - Home Or Away, something of a dilemma.

Should she and her TV cameraman husband Jon Boast, whom she married in June, sell now and snap up a larger home before prices rise further - or rent out the house instead, as they do with two other properties?

KEY FACTS
Price: £399,950.
Bedrooms: Three.
Reception rooms: Open-plan lounge/diner.
Bathrooms: One, plus downstairs toilet.
Outside: Folding glass doors leading to small rear courtyard garden. Parking at front.

EA/Rightmove link: (awaiting identification, if still for sale- standby)

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Daily Mail: We're cashing in our chips by selling our Grand Design
10th October 2009

With the help of an inheritance from Simone's side of the family, and the proceeds of the sale of their previous property, which they built in 2000 for £320,000 and sold in 2004 for £820,000, the Fairfulls bought the land in 2004 and started the project that would end up costing just under £1million.

Savills: (As of 4th December 2009) Excess of £1,900,000 - Freehold
Update: 7th December 2009: Adding Rightmove link. Offers in Excess of £1,900,000 (PB initial entry: 26 August 2009)
Update: 3rd May 2010: [New PB data change] 03 May 2010: *Price changed: Offers in Excess of £1,650,000
Update: 24th July 2010: [New PB data change] 19 July *Price changed: Offers in Excess of [STRIKE]£1,650,000[/STRIKE] £1,500,000

dopester

Daily Mail: My £23m Smart move: How a circus heir is selling three sumptuous properties to fund his latest venture
08th September 2009

Nazeing Park has fantastic reception rooms and is set in 70 acres

The main house that BJ (real name also Billy) is selling is the opulent family pile, Nazeing Park, outside Waltham Abbey in Essex, which he bought in 2005. He lives there with his sister Baccara, 31, an artist, and their mother, Hannelore, 64, the widow of Billy Smart Junior.

The approach to Nazeing has all the drama of the drum roll for a trapeze act. To reach the house you pass through two sets of electric security gates, then take a long drive through 70 acres before arriving at the 12-bedroom Palladian mansion.

'This place is not formally on the market yet, although I am open to offers from anyone with £10million,' says BJ, an affable Old Etonian whose assured manner has an echo of the ringmaster about it.

Sumptuous: Chantray House in Belgravia, London, is on sale for £12million

The £12million Chantry House, a double-fronted mansion in South Eaton Place, Belgravia, in Central London, one of BJ's investment properties, has been for sale, off and on, since 2004.

BJ bought the place in 2003 for £3.1million, ripped out most of the interior and turned the bottom floor into a cinema, wine cellar and staff flat. Since then it has been used as one of the capital's fanciest corporate lets, renting for up to £7,000 a week at the peak of the market.

2 x UK properties/homes

http://www.nazeingpark.com/
http://www.chantryhouselondon.com/

dopester

(Article found)

Daily Mail: Playboy Philip Rhodes to sell home where he has partied for 40 years
19th October 2009
GU27 2ES

Even rich playboys have to face facts and downsize when the influx of ladies slows to a trickle and arthritis kicks in.

Polo-playing playboy Philip Rhodes, 67, is now selling Carvers, a stunning ninebedroom Twenties mock-Tudor country house in 11 acres near Haslemere, Surrey, where he has partied for the past 40 years.

'I've had some great times but it is too big for me now,' says Rhodes, who has put the house he bought for £40,000 in 1969 on the market for £4.15million.

Rightmove link 1: Asking price at time of posting (4th Dec 2009) = £4,150,001
Rightmove link 2: Asking price at time of posting (4th Dec 2009) = £4,150,000
Update 28th December 2009: Both RM listings deactivated on links above. Will monitor for any sales transaction (usually takes a few months to show up at houseprices.co.uk (ect), if data becomes available), or any future relisting of this home.
Update 28th February 2010: Rightmove link 3: Found again, relisted. Current asking price = £4,150,000
Update 03 August 2010: New Rightmove link (Savills): Guide Price £3,500,000

dopester

Daily Mail: Billionaire Alki David loses his wife - and £13m home in the suburbs
28th September 2009

Last summer he bought a seven-bedroom property in Hampstead for £12.5million - but now he wants to sell, as soon as he has persuaded his second wife Emma, 30, to leave.

The couple, who had been together for five years, have decided to divorce after two years of marriage.

'We seem to have grown apart,' says Alki. 'It's better to face the truth than struggle on regardless, so we separated.

'It was a mistake buying that property,' he adds. 'I went along with Emma's idea of moving to the suburbs' - a description of Hampstead that would leave most wealthy locals aghast - 'but a few weeks after we arrived, I realised I didn't want to live there.'

KEY FACTS
Price: £13million. Bedrooms: Seven, all en suite, two with dressing rooms. Bathrooms: En suites plus two cloakrooms. Reception rooms: Five plus kitchen/breakfast room. Outside: Decking, play area, double garage.

EA/Rightmove listing (not found - standby for possible update)

dopester

Daily Mail: Pictured: Britain's most sumptuous semi at £3.5m
25th August 2009

Most of the houses like this have been turned into flats or offices but I wanted it to be just like it was when it was built,' says the 47-year-old father of four.

He paid £2million for Sutton House in Clifton Village at the height of the boom in spring 2007.

Nick spent £1million and scoured the country for original 1860s artefacts, visiting the film set of Hogwarts School for one item.

Today, the house lives up to his vision and, with a price tag of £3.5million, could be the country's most expensive semi - outside London at least. It was built in 1860 for a well-connected professor who hosted soirees for princesses and prime ministers.

When Sutton House is sold, the family will move into a more modest four-bedroom home on the waterfront overlooking SS Great Britain. Nick, a fitness fanatic and triathlete, bought the house new in 2003 for £300,000 as well as two more nearby, which he lets. He is confident he will get his price for Sutton House but knows first-hand how values have tumbled in Bristol.

'Two years ago, I tried to buy a disused petrol station for £750,000 but my offer was rejected,' he says. 'I bought it last month for just £150,000.

Rightmove link Asking price at time of posting (5th December 2009) = £3,500,000
PB info: First logged by PB on 13th November 2008, at £3,500,000.
Update 10th June 2010: Price changed: from 'Guide Price £3,500,000' to 'Guide Price £3,250,000'
Update 28th Sept 2010: Price changed: from 'Guide Price £3,250,000' to 'Guide Price £2,950,000'

dopester

Daily Mail: Where the Stig revs up in Surrey: Former F1 driver Julian Bailey reveals why he's selling his 37-acre estate
22nd June 2009
High Barn Road, Effingham, Surrey, KT24 5PR

Until 1999 the Baileys had been living in a tasteful Lutyens cottage in nearby West Clandon.

Then a small equestrian estate, belonging to Sebastian Coe's former wife, Nicola, came up for sale. Debbie persuaded the family that it would be ideal for them.

The Baileys paid £650,000 for the property, which had the two cottages but no principal house, and then spent £1 million over six years transforming the former battered equestrian estate into what it is today.

What are the chances of this lavish estate, for sale at £6.5 million, finding a buyer in the current recession?

'There are not many people with more than £5million to spend on a home any more,' says Charles Davenport of Knight Frank.

'Having said that, there is a large international community of wealthy people in nearby Cobham, including a lot of Chelsea footballers, and we are certainly seeing more activity at this price level than we were six months ago.'

KEY FACTS
Price: £6.5 million. Bedrooms: Six. Bathrooms: Four, two en suite. Reception rooms: Seven. Outside: 37-acre estate with two three-bedroom cottages, leisure complex including pool, and helipad.

Estate Agent link: Asking price found on visit as of 5th December 2009 = £4,950,000
Rightmove link. Asking price as of today (5th December 2009) = Guide Price £4,950,000
PB Info : 30th October 2009: Price changed: from 'Guide Price £6,500,000' to 'Guide Price £4,950,000'

dopester

(Ouch!* HPI takeback)

Daily Mail: Why rugby star Kyran Bracken's baby boy has kicked his two homes into touch
07th July 2009

His family is expanding so the former England scrum half has decided to sell his Thirties conversion... after buying at the peak of the market.

Two months ago Kyran Bracken was in the happy position of owning two houses in Hadley Wood, the expensive North London enclave popular with footballers and showbusiness names.

KEY FACTS
Price: £1.49million. Bedrooms: Five. Bathrooms: Three. Reception rooms: Kitchen/ family room, lounge, dining room, study. Garden: Landscaped, with garage.

Rightmove link (pretty sure of the match up) = £1,195,000 (as of checking today, 5th December 2009)

PB Info:
11 October 2009. Price changed: from '£1,350,000' to '£1,195,000'
10 July 2009. Price changed: from '£1,490,000' to '£1,350,000'
29 May 2009. Initial entry found.

dopester

Daily Mail: We're changing homes ... in a Heartbeat: How Tricia Penrose won over Cheshire councillors with her farmhouse conversion
06th April 2009
SK10 5SQ


No reference info because too much to cover here - see full article.

In article she considers renting it out at £4,500 a month.

Rightmove link. £1,250,000
PB Info: 30 March 2008: Initial entry found. (No price changes logged since)
Update 29th June 2010: It was delisted for quite some time, but have just found relisted with another agent.
Rightmove (Michael J Chapman): POA

dopester

Daily Mail: I'm changing manors: After three years in Snowdonia, Diane is heading South again
15th September 2009
LL41 4PH

When Diane Lea took some friends to Snowdonia for her 50th birthday party in 2006, she rented a 200-year-old manor house run as a holiday lettings business. She liked the place so much she bought it.

At the end of their stay, Diane asked the owner to let her know if he ever wanted to sell. 'I do,' he replied.

Although Diane and Zoe, 51, have earned a good living in the pretty village of Llan Ffestiniog, they are selling and returning to the Home Counties to be closer to their families.

Plas Blaenddol is on the market for £845,000, just a little more than they paid for it at the end of 2006. Indeed, house prices in this corner of north Wales are well below the national average - in Llan Ffestiniog, two-bedroom terrace houses sell for between £60,000 and £100,000.

But whoever does buy the manor is guaranteed at least two guests. 'We'll certainly be coming back,' says Diane.

Estate Agent link. Price checked today (5th December 2009): £845,000
Update: Adding Rightmove link. £845,000. (PB Data = 07 August 2009: Initial entry found)
Update 3rd May 2010: New Rightmove link: £845,000
Update 28th Sept 2010: New Rightmove link: £845,000

dopester

Telegraph: Tractor Ted property for sale
The 'home’ of the children’s farm favourite, Tractor Ted, is up for sale
03 Dec 2009
Mount Pleasant Farm , Bremhill, Calne, Wiltshire,[FONT=&quot] SN11 9LE[/FONT]

They created beautifully managed stables, fenced paddocks and a manège close to the house, while the rest of the 83 acres is farmed for maize and hay. Edward is passionate about farming, too. He used to be a land agent with Knight Frank and is now a land-investment adviser.

So the Heards are selling Mount Pleasant Farm, including a party barn, annexe and family shoot, at £2.75m

Knight Frank. (not yet found on system - standby for update)

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Telegraph: Suzi Quatro opens her mansion
Celebrities like singer Suzi Quatro are taking part in 'open mansion days' to sell their homes.
13 Nov 2009

Singer Suzi Quatro put Hyde Hall, her Elizabethan manor near Chelmsford, into Strutt & Parker’s last open day, even though the £2.3m asking price was higher than most of the properties included.

EA link: Asking price (as checked today, 5th December 2009): £2,300,000
Rightmove link: £2,300,000
PB info: Initial entry logged by PB on 29th October 2008. No price changes since.