Word reaches us that Robbie Williams is in a mad rush to sell Compton Bassett House, his vast, rambling and very expensive country estate in Wiltshire.
Williams bought the 18th century mansion earlier this year for £8.5 million but is, apparently, willing to take a hit of £1m to sell the place before Christmas.  That should [...]

How do you become the UK’s Buy-To-Let King?
“We did it,” says Fergus ‘900 houses’ Wilson, “by avoiding buying flats … Poor people live in flats … and they live in flats because they can’t afford a house.”
These and other nuggets of wisdom can be absorbed over at the Renegade Economist website in a priceless exchange [...]

This week’s graph comes from the latest FindaProperty.com:Rental Index.
It shows the relationship between supply and prices. Interestingly, this month we’ve seen a very significant drop in the amount of property on the rental market.
Stock fell by ten per cent, taking levels back to where they were a year ago.
This has put pressure back on prices, [...]

We hear via homesandproperty that Sienna Miller is not finding it easy to sell  her “boho two-bedroom house off Edgware Road” (journalists are contractually obliged to use the word boho when writing about Miller).
Why? Perhaps, some have suggested, because the place has a few … err, boho … elements that alienate your average non-boho buyer [...]

Our friends over at mydeco are concerned that we’ll forget, so they sent us this as a reminder.

The bunker cuckoo clock is composed of 111 small bricks, arranged to resemble a war bunker. Popping out of the bunker is a hand-painted cuckoo that stays silent and wears a helmet for protection.
We like!

Richard Rogers, as you probably know, won the Stirling Prize for architecture last week.
I meant to blog about this property then, but, well, it slipped my mind.
It’s by David Chipperfield, a former Stirling winner (2007) and currently the subject of an exhibition at the Design Museum in London.
If you like crisp lean minimalist spaces, this [...]

Other people’s homes: always interesting, aren’t they? Following on from Joss’s post below about a very pink house in New York, here’s a video from style magazine dwell about a very black apartment in the same city.
It’s owned by Cindy Gallop, an international advertising consultant.
Cindy, who has enough shoes to put Imelda Marcos to shame, [...]

Here’s an interesting graph from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors’ last market survey.
It shows the relationship between sales and stock levels.  If the ratio is rising, the market tends to favour sellers and this puts upward pressure on prices.
This is indeed the case: the ratio has risen for nine consecutive months and stands at [...]

The beautiful Cornish manor house that featured in the film Saving Grace is for sale with an asking price of £2.75m.
(click on pics for full property details)

The film, if you haven’t seen it, is a wry comedy about a widow who decides to grow top class cannabis in her greenhouse in order to raise the [...]

Converted windmills are rare enough – but top-notch conversions that still have a full set of sails are even rarer.
So, my friends, feast your eyes on these two beauties (and check out the awesome wine cellar in the Reigate property!)
(click on pics for full property details)

Battle, East Sussex , £1,495,000

2. Reigate, Surrey, £995,000