Media pimped homes for sale - monitor thread

dopester

Daily Mail
Catch of the day at beautiful riverside retreat on Anglesey
By Fred Redwood Last updated at 5:11 PM on 21st June 2010
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Melin-Y-Coed, at Cadnant, near the Menai Bridge, has just been reduced by £50,000 to £495,000 - by owner Peter Sellers, 50, an IT businessman who inherited it from his late father four years ago. The mill was badly in need of a facelift back then.

'I stopped counting when the cost of the build went above £100,000,' says Sellers, who sitemanaged the project when he could get away from work commitments in London.

Rightmove (Jackson-Stops & Staff) link: Guide Price £495,000
PB Info: Above RM listing was found by PB on 04 April 2010 at £495,000.. thus no sign of no 'recent' *must be value* £50,000 reduction in asking price as per this June 2010 article.

dopester

Daily Mail
Tyrrells crisps founder sells Herefordshire mansion to help fund his £14m divorce

By Sebastian O'Kelly, Mail on Sunday Property Editor
Last updated at 4:37 PM on 30th August 2010

'I paid £2.2million for it and I would have loved to have done the place up,' says Chase, who has spent £150,000 on a new roof and has gutted the interior.

'I think it is better to just sell it now for £2million and let whoever wants to take it on to put their mark on it. But it needs a good £400,000 or so spent on it.'

Rightmove (Hayes) link: Guide Price £1,700,000
PB Info: Originally came on this listing at Guide Price £2,200,000 in March 2010. Two asking price cuts later, now Guide Price £1,700,000

dopester

Daily Mail
Curry queen Anjum Anand sells up...to find her perfect kitchen

By Mark Anstead
Last updated at 9:38 AM on 1st September 2010


Leafy Hampstead: Anjum Anand is selling her London home for £1.35 million

'House prices in this area have gone sky-high again,' says Anjum. 'We want to take advantage of that by selling now and renting for a while. We will see how well my book sells and what happens to the property market before leaping back in.

'I would like a four or five-bedroom house in this area, but that would cost at least £2.5million now - far too much for us. But I think property prices might fall when the Government's spending cuts kick in, so if we wait until next year maybe it will be a bit cheaper.'

EA's wisdom in the same article

We are struggling with a real shortage, particularly for top-end three-bedroom flats,' he says. 'For each one we take on we have 20 potential buyers on our books, and many will pay cash - City bankers are back in the market and sales are being agreed at more than £1,100 per sq ft, compared with an average of £950 per sq ft in 2007.

'I don't agree there will be much of a correction - prices may fall a bit, but they are more likely to simply stabilise because we still have such high demand in this area.'

Rightmove link: (standby...maybe sold.. but also trickier to ID with it being an apartment)

dopester

Daily Mail
It's just too big for us! Lord and Lady Cowdray sell 44,000sq ft 'home of polo'... but at £25m you'll need a mint to buy it

By Tamara Abraham
Last updated at 4:42 PM on 9th September 2010

Now the Cowdray Park House has been put up for sale in what estate agents are calling 'the landmark property sale of the decade.'

The 13-bedroom West Sussex mansion, which comes with a £25million price tag, has both indoor and outdoor swimming pools, wine cellars, tennis courts and even a bowling alley.

Rightmove (Knight Frank) link: Guide Price £25,000,000
PB Info: Came on at £25 million in September 2010, and changed to 'Guide Price £25m' yesterday.
Other: BBC News also reported it going up for sale: "There has been interest from UK and worldwide buyers, according to estate agent Knight Frank."

dopester

Daily Mail
Village hall her ladyship couldn't even give away: Heirloom for sale at £600k because locals can't afford upkeep

By Ross Clark
Last updated at 3:50 PM on 11th October 2010

'We had some artists thinking they should be allowed to have it for free. The only other suggestion we had was that it should become a curry house. Can you imagine how the neighbours would have reacted?'

The Fairhavens then applied for planning permission to convert the property into three four-bedroom houses, which was granted.

They have put the building on the market through Savills (01223 347147) for £600,000. 'It's very sad that it can no longer be used for what it was built for,' says Lady Fairhaven.

The family has already suffered the loss of Anglesey Abbey. After the death of the 1st Lord Fairhaven in 1966, death duties forced its sale to the National Trust.

Proceeds from the sale of Broughton Hall, which is held in a family trust, will go towards restoring other properties that the family own in the village of Kirtling, ten miles away, says Lady Fairhaven.

Rightmove (Savills) link: Guide Price £600,000
PB Info: Above listing found by PB on 8th Sept 2010, at Guide Price £600K.

dopester

Daily Mail
Writer's reluctant farewell to the beautifully-restored Tudor house where her career flourished amid personal tragedy

By Ruth Bloomfield
Last updated at 10:30 PM on 2nd October 2010

The property, which features an open-plan kitchen/ garden room, an upstairs parlour and a walled garden, is on the market for 795,000.

The couple paid 385,000 for the house and an adjoining cottage in 2000, and sold the other property to fund their nine-month, £140,000 transformation of the bakery into a four-bedroom home. False ceilings came down to reveal original Tudor beams, a grand William and Mary central staircase and a hunting scene mural which dates from 1730.

Rightmove link: Guide Price £795,000

dopester

Daily Mail
Selling our manor is easy... compared with being the life coach of troubled Kerry Katona

By Ruth Bloomfield
Last updated at 10:38 PM on 17th July 2010

the troubled Miss Katona has been paying regular visits to Stubley Hall near Rochdale, Lancashire, the home of Nik and Eva Speakman, which they are selling for £2.45million.

The couple, who made their fortune with a successful financial services company, have reinvented themselves as life coaches to the rich and (sort of) famous.

Their curious treatments include seating patients in the back of a vintage DeLorean sports car, so that they can travel 'back to the future' to confront past demons.

Rightmove (Savills) link: Guide Price £1,950,000
PB Info: PB initally found this Rightmove listing on 19 June 2010 at Guide Price £2,450,000.

dopester

Daily Mail
Our £100,000 'repo' profit: Retired couple expect healthy gain on country home they saw in the Mail on Sunday

By Duncan Farmer
Last updated at 6:01 PM on 6th September 2010

Jean and !!!!!! Whitaker had just sold their guesthouse in Sidmouth, Devon, and moved into a rented home on the seafront at Budleigh Salterton. But after three weeks of retirement from the hotel business, they were bored.

So when, in January last year, The Mail on Sunday featured an article about more repossessed country houses coming on to the market, the couple were intrigued. One, Bramble House, in Honiton, Devon, especially sparked their interest. !!!!!! thought doing it up might keep them busy.

It had lain empty for more than a year after the previous owners, who ran a computer company from the house and annexe, fell behind with the mortgage. The house was being sold by their bank for £550,000.

They knocked the price down to £500,000, but were given just seven days to exchange contracts.

Rightmove link: Guide Price £695,000 (Sold STC)

lostinrates

dopester wrote: »

Leafy Hampstead: Anjum Anand is selling her London home for £1.35 million
EA's wisdom in the same article

Can confirm demand is high there, EAs phoned DH about a property his family asked him to enquire about selling in 2005 last week so desperate are they to try and find places to sell or let.

nearlynew

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