Media pimped homes for sale - monitor thread

dopester

Daily Mail
I'm moving closer to Emmerdale: Actor Richard Thorp is selling his Welsh retreat as he's fed up with his 300-mile commute

By Rachel Reilly
Last updated at 3:13 PM on 18th October 2010
Nether Skyborry, Knighton, Powys

Richard, who is twice divorced and has four children, is selling the house for £750,000 because - not surprisingly - he now finds the 300-mile round trip to Emmerdale's studios in Leeds too exhausting and wants to live closer to where the soap is filmed.

He stumbled across Nether Skyborry by accident 13 years ago while holidaying with a friend in the area. On a day out in Knighton, Richard came to the rescue of a local estate agent after she dropped some brochures. As he helped her pick them up, one property caught his eye - and, after visiting it that afternoon, he had bought Nether Skyborry for £230,000 by the end of the day.

Rightmove (Knight Frank) link: Guide Price £750,000

poppy10_2

I thought we'd seen the last of these silly illegal house lotteries:

Daily Mail
2nd November 2010
Laura Gamble is selling her house for £25, if you can spot the ball

Mum of two, Laura Gamble, is holding a spot the ball football picture competition with a life-changing mortgage-free house and a plot of land with planning permission to be won.

So far 1,000 people have entered the competition.

Laura, from Kingskerswell, Devon said: 'I can't believe it's gone so well. People are amazed that they can win the whole lot for £25'

Laura put her four-bedroom detached property on the market months ago and was let down twice by potential buyers before deciding to sell 14,000 tickets for £25 each to achieve 'a good price' for her Princess Road home.

If Laura sells all the tickets she will receive £350,000.

Illegal house lottery website.
16, Princess Road, Newton Abbot, Devon, TQ12 5EL - last sold Aug 2001 for £47,500

PasturesNew

It's a one man thread!!

dopester

poppy10 wrote: »

I thought we'd seen the last of these silly [STRIKE]illegal[/STRIKE] house lotteries:

This type of competition is probably still legal, but I agree with the gist of what you're saying.... although I know a Sandbanks house successfully sold enough entries to find a winner last year. Oh.. and thanks for the lookup: "last sold Aug 2001 for £47,500"

The Cheltenham spot the frisbee competition website was wholly more advanced than this woman's spot the ball. The image... people on a green with a dog... the entry allowed you to choose and select a pixel, and then enter directly online.

This one... well it's wholly more basic, and will rely on a judge's eye- rather than a predetermined pixel "win" / or possibly "winners". She has it so you've got to print off a PDF form, make your cross on the photo by hand in ink... and then send the form off to enter. I've not even got a colour cartridge in my printer (too expensive), not that I would ever enter. So she just has to sell another 13,000 tickets at £25 a shot lol.

And the t&c's give me a lot of questions, pretty obvious ones.. but I can't be bothered to raise them here. Also is Neil Bigwood (creator/author of the PDF - and google search suggests big in photography down Devon way) and associates prohibited from entering? ect ect.

dopester

Daily Mail
The £6million WAGs pony club that everyone can enjoy
By Sebastian O Kelly
Last updated at 11:11 AM on 1st November 2010
RH7 6LL

'I bought it hoping for a quiet life after taking up riding,' says Winfield, 50, a former Dr Barnardo's boy who became a bodyguard for celebrities after the Army, and then made his fortune in pubs and nightclubs.

Although he says Oldencraig has plenty more potential, he wants to sell and use the proceeds for property-development ventures. 'One of the things with horses is that you are tied to the place seven days a week and I want to do something different,' he says.

Vicki, meanwhile, will continue to teach at Oldencraig, which is likely to be a condition of any new owners who buy the place.

Although the Winfields live on site in a four-bedroom Sixties cottage, with self-contained annex, it accounts for barely £1million of the £6million asking price.

Rightmove link: Offers in Excess of £6,000,000
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dopester

Daily Mail
Game on: Lara Croft and the £3million Sandbanks plot

By Ruth Bloomfield
Last updated at 3:32 PM on 25th October 2010

He bought the site in 2008 for £1.6million and replaced a Sixties chalet there with a spectacular house whose large windows give views across the harbour.

Rightmove link: £2,995,000
PB Info: standby.. PB server in backing up mode. (Update today = PB shows initally came to market in this listing at '£3,250,000' in May 2009)
Savills' own website: Guide price £2,995,000 (Under Offer)

dopester

Daily Mail
Flamboyant folly sits in the heart of Cheltenham
By Duncan Farmer
Last updated at 11:14 AM on 1st November 2010

When Lorenzo Bianco, 73, an antiques dealer and former dancer with the Royal Ballet, bought the annexe to an elegant family house at auction for £260,000 two years ago, it was dark, poky and neglected.

'I like flamboyance, ' says Lorenzo, who is now selling the house for £495,000 through Knight Frank.

Rightmove (Knight Frank) link: £475,000
PB Info: Standby.. PB server currently in backing up mode. (Update today: PB shows it initially came on to market in this listing at £550,000 in June 2010. Two cuts in asking price since then, to current £475,000)

dopester

Just to conclude this one (if you read the September article, as I did, and wondered what the result would be of the October auction)


Daily Mail
A wreck up for rescue: For sale at auction, this historic coach house in historic Bath offers a rare and tempting opportunity
By Dominic Prince
Last updated at 8:25 AM on 24th September 2010

The building, in the same family since the Thirties, is being sold by three sisters who inherited it on the death of their father. Brook estimates that bids will top £1 million.

He thinks it might well be sold to a developer, but says: 'There is nothing to stop an individual developing it into one unit, though I suspect permission would be given for five or six individual properties.'

Source of auction result: http://www.brookscharteredsurveyors.co.uk/Developments.htm = This property was sold by auction for £1.185 million

dopester

Daily Mail
Lighthouse by the cornfields: Former home of naturalist Sir Peter Scott is for sale at £435,000

By Ross Clark
Last updated at 2:03 PM on 14th September 2010
PE12 9YT

The East Lighthouse, Sutton Bridge, Lincolnshire, is for sale through Savills (01603 229229) for £435,000

Rightmove (Savills) link: Guide Price £385,000
PB history info = 02 November 2010 Status changed: from 'Available' to 'Under offer'
05 October 2010 Price changed: from 'Guide Price £435,000' to 'Guide Price £385,000'
19 August 2010: Initial entry found.

dopester

Daily Mail
Showbiz-by-Sea: 1970s Shoreham home rebuilt as Modernist classic

By Rachel Reilly
Last updated at 10:19 AM on 15th September 2010

The quaint seaside town of Shoreham-by-Sea, near Brighton, in West Sussex, has had its share of celebrity residents over the years. Leo Sayer was born there, Rod Stewart and Cliff Richard used to hang out, DJ Chris Evans has bought a plot of land on the beach, while Norman Cook and Zoe Ball, Nick Berry and Heather Mills all live nearby.

And now a stunning five-bedroom property is on the market at £2.4 million, sparking renewed interest among the glitterati, including singers Nick Cave, who lives in nearby Hove, and Peter Andre, who have both viewed the house.

Tucked away among the beach chalets and bungalows that sit on the shingle beach, is a Modernist masterpiece. It is the brainchild of former banker Todd Cooper, 47, and his partner Giuseppe Sironi, 53, who worked as a general surgeon in Italy.

Rightmove (Hamptons International) link: £2,250,000
Rightmove (Winkworth) link: £2,250,000
Rightmove (Warwick Baker) link: £2,250,000

PB info: Intially came to market, and in all 3 above EA listings, at £2,750,000. Earliest with Hamptons International in July 2009.