This flat in Green Street, Mayfair was the Beatles’ first home in London (1963) – and it is, apparently, the only place where they ever lived  together as a band.

The story goes that manager Brian Epstein found the top-floor flat so they could escape from their screaming fans -   they’d just had a big hit [...]

The Property: Grade II listed barn for conversion
The Place: Bardney, Lincolnshire
The Price: £190,000 (Guide)

The Pain: It’s listed, and in pretty bad shape, so don’t expect this to be easy.
The Gain: It has planning permission for two three-bed houses – but it may also be possible to convert it into one large home (subject to [...]

We like a bit of staircase porn here at Winging It, even if the staircase in question is attached to a property that’s, well, just a few zillion quid beyond our budget.
And when it comes to statement staircases, there aren’t many who can match Eva Jiricna’s sinuous steel and glass creations.
Click pic for full details [...]

Russell Brand, comedian, serial shagger and professional Andrew Sachs botherer is selling his London pad.

And what would his place look like?
Well, there’s lots of black obviously … black and silver wallpaper, black chairs, a black sofa, a black bed, and a luxurious en-suite bathroom with yes, you’ve guessed it, black floors and walls.
There’s also, in [...]

You wouldn’t expect the architect who designed Wembley stadium and Hong Kong airport – the chief executive at Foster + Partners, no less – to be happy with a simple side extension.
And you’d be right.

But the extra living space that Mouzhan Majidi has added to his otherwise unremarkable new-build home in Surbiton is home extension [...]

And very lovely it is too: a Grade II Listed Georgian farmhouse with six bedrooms, three receptions, a very classy conservatory and 6.54 acres of gardens and paddocks.
Strangely, the couple are struggling to sell it, and the Telegraph reports that the price has been slashed from £3m to OIEO £2.25m. Nothing funny about that.
Strutt & [...]

Here’s a property I came across the other day – a quirky pub conversion in Brighton.

The upside, obviously, is that staying in can become the new going out. When time is called, you just stumble up the stairs and pour yourself into bed.
The downside, though, is that the exterior still looks like a pub so [...]

This week’s graph comes from the latest Hometrack report (published today).
It shows that buyers are finding it much more difficult to get sellers to cut the asking price.
This trend is complemented by our own Asking Prices & Affordability Index - the October edition shows that asking prices have risen by £6k or 2.8 per cent [...]

Not quite sure what to make of this – a new collection of bed linen from Dutch By Design inspired by cardboard boxes and pavements.

Their heart is in the right place – 30 per cent of the gross profits go to Centrepoint, the UK charity for homeless young people aged 16-25.
But is there something a [...]

Following on from Joss’s Gothic charmers below, here are some properties that come with views over cemeteries.
We did research on this subject a few years ago – prompted, it has to be said, by my slightly morbid fascination with cemeteries – to see how people felt about views over headstones.
58 per cent said they’d be [...]