Media pimped homes for sale - monitor thread

dopester

Summary on the one below. Had new school premises built (substantially over budget), and is now selling previous school and her nearby home.

Sylvia sells her Pop Idol Eton: Theatre school to stars Denise, Amy and Billie goes on market for £4m

By Rachel Reilly
Last updated at 6:01 PM on 12th July 2010

But now the stage school doyenne is selling her dilapidated, Gothic building on Rossmore Road for £4 million and her Victorian townhouse, several doors down, for £1.1million, to set up in larger premises less than half a mile away.

Sylvia's four-storey, four-bedroom townhouse, which has just come on to the market, has beautiful views. However, the school has been on the market for a year and Sylvia is hoping to boost interest by gaining planning-permission to turn it into flats, although locals have previously objected.

The new school will open in September and will increase its capacity from 160 pupils to more than 200. Sylvia's budget was originally £2 million, but she has overspent by £2.5million, and now money is tight.

So she and husband Norman will live in a small flat at the school. 'We will be the caretakers,' says Sylvia. ' Norman and I have never had expensive tastes.'

1) School listing: Rightmove (Knight Frank): £4,000,000
Property Bee Update: 15 July 2010 * Price changed: from '£4,000,000' to '£3,750,000'

2) House listing: Rightmove (Sandfords): £999,999

3) Other: Article says class fees used to be 10p, rising to 50p. Wikipedia: "Full time fees for 2008-09 range from £2,100 a term (£6,300 a year) to £3,210 a term (£9,630 a year) depending on the child's age." Dopester asks, Are there no other theatre schools with young upcoming teachers able to offer quality lessons at a lower price? I guess the school will still have demand though, espcially from those still with money, due to successes it's turned out. The more ordinary type of parents who stretched in the longwave boom years to pay the fees, may now find them out of reach and unaffordable.

4) Details/location of new school? Supposedly "half a mile away." Standby.
5) I take no pleasure in this one, if she's overstretched and encounters problems. She does seem to have set her successful business up out of love for what she does, making a difference and helping those wanting achieve in the luvvie business, more than just focus on the money.

dopester

In some of the posts on this thread, for the houses which have gone on to sell... I've edited to include a link to houseprices.co.uk to allow the sales data (date and price) to be confirmed. Now in some instances those links to houseprices.co.uk no longer shows the transaction date & price. The transaction data was there, but mysteriously, no longer there. Price and date is still logged in each post anyway.
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Story how this woman worked her way "up the ladder", counting the "profits" she made on each property. Then she piled into the higher end of the market, and now wants to sell her current house for £2.95 million pounds. How much equity I wonder? Unless she's lucky, all those oh-so-clever £100K - £200K "profits" she had along the way... can be wiped out quickly if having to reduce the asking price sort of property to find interest in the market.

As I expected it would be... easy to find the listing. Most expensive asking price of any house in East Molesley on Rightmove.

How TV presenter Sally Meen has been living a secret - and lucrative - life as a serial property developer

By Richard Barber
Last updated at 5:26 PM on 27th September 2010

Since she relocated to London from Plymouth in 1993, she's moved home seven times, accruing £750,000 in cumulative capital along the way. And now she's selling her eighth for £2.95million.

'It's fabulous with big, square rooms and lovely high ceilings. But its interior decor was very dated.' The house cost £3million and Sally set about it.

'There's a beautiful drawing room and a huge Smallbone kitchen/dining room,' she says. They sold a strip of land in the garden for £250,000 to a neighbour, which helped finance £60,000 worth of planting, irrigation and huge decking areas.

Rightmove (Knight Frank) link: Guide Price £2,950,000
(Currently this property has the highest asking price of all RM properties in East Molesley.)
StreetView Link (can't work out the house number, and the numbering on that road is, complicated. I think it's No.27, or No.29)

Houseprices.co.uk Wolsey Road, East Molesey:
She says in article they bought the house for £3 million. No specific dates, but clues suggest she bought it not too long ago (2006+). Although there is this at houseprices.co.uk for number 29, (March 2008) which totally ties in:

Sales Date: 12/03/2008. Price: £3,000,000. Address: 29, Wolsey Road, East Molesey, Surrey, KT8 9EN

dopester

Bought house to use as their home 16 years ago, for £1.1million. Said it was all structurally sound but was a bit dated, so spent £1.5 million doing it up, as you do with future HPI to pay you back + lot more on top.

Now want someone to pay £5.75 million for it, thank you very much, lovely jubbly HPI magic innit Trigger. Only fools and horses work and rent.
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Ant and Dec and the Cheeky Girls helped buy our house (but Posh Spice's music helped sink my record label)
Headley, Surrey KT18 6NA
By Ruth Bloomfield
Last updated at 4:24 PM on 9th March 2010

The property is now up for sale for £5.75million because the family have decided they would be better suited to a smaller and more manageable house.

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Rightmove link (Savills): Guide Price £5,250,000 (Was originally on at £5,750,000. See property-bee data on RM link.)
Update 15th Oct 2010: (PB Change = 14 October 2010 Price changed: from 'Guide Price £5,250,000' to 'Guide Price £4,950,000')

dopester

We took on the Duke - and won! Despite objections from Blenheim Palace, this eco-home has been built next door

By Mark Hughes-morgan
Last updated at 1:58 PM on 31st May 2010

When Griffiths applied to build his striking, contemporary three-storey eco-home, on the half-acre site of a Seventies bungalow he bought in 2004 for £582,000, he was quickly made aware that the Duke was nonplussed.

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The project cost £650,000, says Griffiths, 'but if you tried to get someone to build it for you it would cost you twice that.'

It went on the market in January for £1.85 million. 'I am keen to do another project and the banks won't lend me any more money, despite my successful track record,' he says.

Steady on bubble-head. It's not a financial profit success yet. Not sold is it. Originally came on the market at Guide Price £2 million.

Rightmove link (Kemp & Kemp): Guide Price £1,850,000
Rightmove link (Breckon & Breckon): Guide Price £1,850,000

dopester

Bought the manor, barn and land ect for £450K in 1995.

Sold the manor house part sometime around 2008, for £1.55 million, and moved into the barn they were converting into a home.

His widow shouldn't do badly, I wouldn't have thought, even if having to cut asking price of the barn drastically from here, to find a buyer in the market.
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My husband's legacy - this masterpiece of glass and oak
Plough Lane, Upper Harbledown, Canterbury, Kent
By Mark Hughes-morgan
Last updated at 5:47 PM on 7th June 2010

KEY FACTS

* Price: £2.75 million
* Bedrooms: Five
* Bathrooms: Four
* Receptions: Four
* Outside: About three acres, two lakes, gym, office building and garage

Rightmove link (Strutt & Parker): Guide Price £2,750,000 (Originally came on at Guide Price £3,000,000 in August 2009)

dopester

Daily Mail:
Cinema, swimming pool and walk-in wardrobes: a Wigan self-build perfect for WAGs
By Rachel Reilly
Last updated at 5:13 PM on 4th October 2010



The Pumphouse: A £2.85 million property in Standish, near Wigan

Wigan is not the kind of place you would expect to find an enormous self-build complete with all the latest mod-cons - it is usually further south, in Cheshire, where you find the sprawling multi-million WAG mansions.

But the Pumphouse, in the village of Standish on the outskirts of Wigan, would give any Premiership footballer's house a run for its money, and it has just come on to the market for £2.85million.

The property is the brainchild of Andrew and Joanne Boardman, both 41 and chartered accountants, who met while studying biochemistry at the University of Salford. In 1999 the couple decided they wanted to start a family so when they saw a secluded six-bedroom property had come on the market nearby they snapped it up for £330,000.

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Rightmove link (Jackson-Stops & Staff): £2,850,000
Rightmove link (Anglea Burnett & Co.): Guide Price £2,850,000
Other info: Standby; haven't yet reinstalled PropertyBee after recent fresh O/S install.

dopester

Daily Mail
It's played host to Jimmy Page and Chris Rea... now this jewel by the Thames is on the market for £3.5 million By Sebastian O Kelly
Last updated at 10:30 PM on 2nd October 2010

Now the house, called Oldfield, is for sale at £3.5million.

'This place was the best possible way of ending my working career,' says Colin, 69, who toured the world with various rock acts after starting his career with Beatles manager Brian Epstein.

'But running it costs £150,000 a year and it is a seven-day-a-week job for both of us.

Rightmove link (Pike, Smith & Kemp): £3,500,000
Other info: standby; have to reinstall PB after recent fresh O/S install.

dopester

Daily Mail
'Falling out with Gordon Ramsay was the making of me,' says chef Marcus Wareing as he puts his home on the market for £2.1m
St. Ann's Crescent, London, SW18 2NF

Now Wareing is selling his spick-and-span, four-storey 3,000 sq ft house for £2.1million to move a few streets away into a palatial 7,000 sq ft one costing £5 million.

Sounds very bullish. Projecting little pressure to sell "below what it's worth", approach by vendor. Also says "the house is my pension" in the article, with the wisdom of piling in to invest in capital gains free investment of a home.

Rightmove (Savills) link: Guide price £2,100,000
Property Bee info: standby; currently PB is offline and backing up.

dopester

Daily Mail
A tourist attraction for £3.5m: The historic beachfront home that has been used to sell Wales to the world
By Ross Clark
Last updated at 4:48 PM on 11th October 2010

Conversion: The property was run as a hotel until Phillips Evans bought it in 1999 and turned it back into a private home.

'We will stay in Tenby but the children have grown up and we don't need such a large place.'

He refuses to say what he paid for Waterwynch House but says 'considering we have spent north of a million pounds on it we won't be making a huge profit'.

Most expensive Tenby house on Rightmove at the moment... everything else on at <£1m.

Rightmove (Savills) link: Guide Price £3,500,000

dopester

Daily Mail
A 19th Century treasure with loads of caricature

By Ross Clark
Last updated at 2:39 PM on 18th October 2010
Victoria Street, Cambridge, CB1 1JP

Roger, who had been at the nearby Cambridge School of Art, bought the hall for £1,500 in the mid-Seventies. It sounds like a bargain now, though he later described the building as 'an abandoned monument to dry rot'.

While his wife, Deirdre Amsden, made quilts downstairs, he and Peter made caricatures upstairs. Their models of politicians were frequently used on the covers of political magazines.

After the first series of Spitting Image, the puppet-making operation outgrew the hall and production of later figures was shifted to a factory in the East End of London. The building was then converted for residential use.

Rightmove (Cheffins) link: Guide Price £695,000