Media pimped homes for sale - monitor thread

dopester

Telegraph: London property: the smallest house in Mayfair
The smallest house in Mayfair, London, has everything the smart man about town might need, says Adam Edwards.
29 Oct 2009

Inside is a gentleman's chambers; it has a decent kitchenette, a double bedroom housing a "bachelor's occasional'' bed and a proper bathroom. And it would not be unreasonable to call the main downstairs room with its bay window a drawing room (although, of course, there is nowhere to withdraw from). It currently contains a couple of sofas, an eclectic collection of paintings, a large bookcase, occasional table and a corner in which to chuck a cashmere overcoat.

9 New Burlington Place is for sale for £750,000

EA link. (Asking price as checked today, 5th December 2009) £750,000
Rightmove. (Not found listed)

dopester

Telegraph: Sir Arnold Wesker's house for sale
Playwright Sir Arnold Wesker is moving on from his Welsh hills hideaway, reports Bernice Davison.
01 Dec 2009

Sir Arnold Wesker, one of Britain’s most prolific writers, discovered all of this and more when he found his Welsh hideaway 40 years ago.

“It began as a holiday cottage,” Sir Arnold says, “but then became the place where I would come to ‘break the back’ of a new piece of work, staying put for four, five, six weeks, until I could call my wife, Dusty, to come for me. She would drive up, and I would wait on the track for her, on one of our two horses.

Now, though, it’s time for the curtain to fall on the important role the cottage has played in the writer’s life. The playwright and his wife want to be closer to their three children and two grandchildren and, of course, his other main love, the London theatre.

• Sir Arnold Wesker’s house, near Llanigon, Hay-on-Wye, Hereford, is being jointly marketed by McCartneys and Jacksons International at £597,500

Rightmove link: £597,500
PB info: 11th October 2009: Initial entry found. (No price changes since)
UPDATE: Property Bee 18 July 2010 Price changed: from '£597,500' to '£545,000'

[dopester: I think the owner is in the Rightmove pics, giving us a smile. Let's hope Sir HPI sells the holiday place he bought for a pittance an age ago, as the long-wave boom. £500K+ is a jackpot top-up for the old pension, and let someone else be concerned about short/long deflation.]

dopester

Telegraph: The garden that sells the house
A garden can help sell a house just as much as the bricks and mortar, writes Maria Fitzpatrick.
By Maria Fitzpatrick
09 Nov 2009

Labour of love: Terry and Susan Symons have spent years putting together the beautiful gardens at their home, Seend Bridge House, which is now for sale

With Terry now retired, and Susan following suit this year, they are moving to Cornwall, where he grew up.

Seend Bridge House £2.25m

Rightmove link: Guide Price £2,250,000
PB Info: 31 October 2009. Initial entry found.
Update 12th June 2010: New Rightmove listing (Knight Frank): Guide Price £1,850,000
Update 29th August 2010: New Rightmove listing (Knight Frank): Guide Price £1,850,000
Update 10th September 2010: PB Change: 10 September 2010
Price changed: from 'Guide Price £1,850,000' to 'Guide Price £1,650,000'

sjaypink

Just wanted to butt in as I remember reading this article a while back, and intending to keep an eye on the sale of land/ homes there after that.

Here is half the land for sale on RM . Cannot get PB to work anymore- but perhaps someone could check that link out?

Not sure what has happenned to the other half of land, but the search page seems to show a lot of land/ new build/ partially built property: http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/find.html?searchType=SALE&locationIdentifier=REGION%5E74712&insId=1&radius=0.0&displayPropertyType=&minBedrooms=&maxBedrooms=&minPrice=&maxPrice=&retirement=&partBuyPartRent=&maxDaysSinceAdded=&includeSSTC=true&_includeSSTC=on&sortByPriceDescending=true&primaryDisplayPropertyType=&secondaryDisplayPropertyType=&oldDisplayPropertyType=&oldPrimaryDisplayPropertyType=&newHome=&auction=false&x=51&y=15

dopester

sjaypink wrote: »

Just wanted to butt in as I remember reading this article a while back, and intending to keep an eye on the sale of land/ homes there after that.

That's a good one to bring back from your memory-vault sjay.

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Daily Mail: The £13.5m wasteland: Astronomical asking price secures spot in Britain's most exclusive resort
30th July 2009

A modest-looking three-bedroom house stood on the site until recently.But it was sold to a developer who won planning permission to demolish the home and build another in its place.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/property/article-1202988/The-13-5m-wasteland-Astronomical-asking-price-secures-spot-Britains-exclusive-resort.html

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From your first RM link about it, I'm getting this for PB.

Guide Price £7,000,000
A plot of approximately half an acre with planning permission for a single luxury dwelling.
PB: 30 October 2009. Initial entry found.

I think maybe you're right and the plot has been split down the middle? Also there are other plots on Sandbanks on that 2nd RM link you provided, perhaps some the same plot but testing for interest at different asking prices? Or just that plot that has been split? A confusing one for me.

sjaypink

dopester wrote: »

That's a good one to bring back from your memory-vault sjay.

I think maybe you're right and the plot has been split down the middle? Also there are other plots on Sandbanks on that 2nd RM link you provided, perhaps some the same plot but testing for interest at different asking prices? Or just that plot that has been split? A confusing one for me.

Live near there hence the interest- there was also another sandbanks property which i think was on property ladder i meant to keep an eye on, but forgot about... very good idea to keep a thread of them all in one place!

Actually wasn't there a thread on here with RM links about the last property (snakes &) ladder series? although iirc hardly any of them ended up on the market....? :cool:

I would too think some of that land on RM is duplicates at different prices, seen that a lot recently on new built estates too- exactly same houses, same views etc- 1 marketed at 20% below the rest

dopester

Sjay... if you find any further information on that plot, now or in the future, you could edit/update your Sandbanks post here - or fresh post the new info and bump the thread up. At the moment the circumstances of that Sandbanks plot(s) are unclear to me, but possibly a clearer outcome awaits in the future.

That is what I plan to do with the media-featured homes I'm listing on this thread. To easily refer and look back on them from time to time, updating if the future brings any significant/shocking new information.

More glorious long-wave baby-boomers downsizing / cashing in, to a much skinter world, with their media-reported homes.

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Telegraph: Retirement property: Boomers downsize to live it up
Retirees are selling up and opting for a more exciting life, says Caroline McGhie.
By Caroline McGhie
Published: 7:00AM GMT 16 Nov 2009


Colin and Maggie Fancourt are selling their home in Cornwall to travel in Europe with their dog, Oz

Part A

The Boysons now find running Oakhanger Farm exhausting. Their four sons have left home, and so, aged 56 and 66, they feel this is the right time for an adventure. “It is a huge wrench,” Penny says. “My husband has lived in this house all his life and his father before him. But he is getting on a bit and we can’t really keep it going as we have done.”

The house is a quintessential English farmhouse, Grade II listed with six bedrooms, annexe, granary, 19 acres, stable blocks and barns. “It used to be a conventional farm,” Penny says. “We had pigs, cattle and a dairy herd, then potatoes and leeks, wheat and barley. But Roger has diversified and now we have an equestrian centre where mothers and daughters come with their horses. We rent them the box, field and some straw for do-it-yourself livery. We also have a range of industrial units which are let to furniture-makers, kitchen-makers and so on.” Penny herself uses one of them as a gift shop. There are more than 40 acres altogether and Savills is selling at £2.775m.

EA link: (as per 5th Dec 2009) Boyson, Oakhanger Farm, Oakhanger Road, Bordon, GU35 9JA
Guide price £2,775,000 - Freehold
Rightmove link. Guide price £2,775,000 GU35 9JA
PB Info: 15 September 2009: Initial entry found. (No price changes since)
Update 20th April 2010: Found Oakhanger Farm listed again with Savills at: Guide price £2,500,000

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Part B Postcode: PL15 8UQ

Selling up often coincides with a desire for simplicity. Colin and Maggie Fancourt, both on the brink of 60, are going a stage further than the Boysons. They are selling The Old Vicarage at Treneglos in Cornwall, a five-bedroom idyll with stable, paddock, vegetable garden, orchard and more than four acres, through Knight Frank for £850,000. “We have been here for 30 years, brought up two daughters, who are now 30 and 28, but there are empty rooms which are wasted on us now,” Colin says.

Parked outside is their motor home, promising unlimited travel around the world. “We just love being away. We love travel and we are happiest when we are in our motor home. It has all the mod cons — showers, freezers, fridge — and we can take our rescue dog Oz with us wherever we go,” Colin says. They have already travelled through France, Germany, Slovenia and Belgium, and now want to do the margins of Europe and the Baltic states.

“We would like to be away for a year,” Colin says, “then maybe come back and ship the motor home to Australia or the United States, and spend a year there. We have spent our lives buying things, and now we are going in the opposite direction and want to get rid of material things.”

EA link. (as per 5th December 2009) offers in the region of GBP £850,000
Rightmove link. Offers in Region of £850,000
PB Info: 31 May 2009: Initial entry found. (No price changes since).

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Update 16th Dec 2009: Knight Frank and Rightmove listing details no longer available (occasionally I've seen homes reactivated on the same RM link). "Knight Frank, Exeter have removed this property. It may now be sold, under offer or temporarily withdrawn from the market." Changed their minds to sell because of market conditions? Going to a new agent? Actually sold? Will seek to update with sales-price when/if it becomes available via houseprices.co.uk or other. Alternatively will try to update new listing info if it returns to market.
Update 20th April 2010: Found relisted on Rightmove (link): Offers in Region of £850,000

dopester

Muse are one of my favourite bands. They are very popular around the world, with all their tours, so they must be super rockstar rich, and rightly so.

At first I thought this home belonged to a Muse band-member, but it was only a house they've rented in the past. (All 3 members of the band are schoolpals who grew up together in Devon). It is actually owned by a QC who has it for sale.

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Telegraph: Word on the street: Muse's Devon eco house
Rock band Muse rented this timber-frame house in Devon. It is now on the market.
By Anna Tyzack
Published: 5:33PM BST 16 Oct 2009

The house is now for sale for £1.35m.

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Also... same house featured in older article.. almost 2 years ago (Jan 11th 2008)

From The Times
January 11, 2008
The green temple of timber
This judge has created a shrine to green living in rural Devon

Browne still shudders as he recalls the anxious moments when the enormous glass windows, costing £60,000, were gingerly shifted into position. It was an expensive project. The site alone cost £275,000 and the basic building costs were more than £600,000, which meant that when finance and administrative costs were accounted for the house cost more than £1million to build. So why, it must be asked, is Moxon-Browne selling? “I am still busy working and I'm not ready to live in Devon yet,” he says. “Anyway, my wife, Kicki, is a city girl who comes over nauseous if she's more than ten minutes' walk from a cinema or a theatre.

Lyneham Coombe is for sale with Jackson-Stops&Staff for £1.4 million

The property has previously been available to rent for £2,500 pm (google cache link).

Current EA listing info: (Can't locate. Sold? Off market? Not yet returned to system? Standby for possible update.)
Update 21st December: Old EA link. Asking price: £1.4m. Also an Independent story with architect for this build project. Says: "The whole project, including labour, materials and fees, cost £600,000." Doubt that includes purchase price paid to acquire the dilapidated chalet/land that once stood there.

dopester

I'd almost forgotten about this lady. It was really the outcome of the Cotswold development she was associated with, which I wanted to keep tabs on.

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Telegraph: Kelly Hoppen's home for sale: The £5m question
Angela Pertusini
Published: 12:01AM GMT 01 Mar 2008


Kelly Hoppen: 'I like being in a house and selling it on. I'm not as attached as I was'

But that's the problem I have with the apartment: the price guide is £5 million and, for all its style and sumptuousness, its location could not be classed as prime. It is in Battersea, in south London but not the bit next to the Thames or the glorious park.

Although such icons as Battersea Power Station, the BT Tower and the Gherkin are visible through its soaring windows, it actually overlooks the railway line into Clapham Junction - "I think that's such fun!" exclaims Aldine Honey, who is co-marketing the property, as two trains chunter past.

Hoppen likens the area to Manhattan's Meatpacking District, but it does not have its edginess or gritty kudos.

Also The Independent On Sunday (Wednesday, 28 November 2007) about the apartment, informing at the end it was also now for sale.

EA Link: (Apartment not identified. Found no apartment with features matching black staircase, or anything else from Indy's pics. Possibly sold.)

matbe

Entire thread seems like penis envy?