We’ve been chomping at the bit to do a horsey-house-themed Five to View, and with the Cheltenham Festival off and running this week, now seems like a good bet.
The world famous festival isn’t only about horse racing, of course: it’s also a four-day extravaganza of dining and drinking, dressing to impress, and frolicking al fresco.
But [...]

For this week’s instalment of our blog series we turn our attention to the mighty land of Scotland. We’ve tracked down the oldest inhabited home (which is in fact the oldest in the series) and compared it to one of the newest from Barratt Homes.
OLDEST: Traquair House – built: 1107
Traquair House is almost a castle, [...]

Following on from our seafood flavoured Five to View, this week’s theme is properties with fishing lakes.Â
We’ve cast our net across the country and found some tantalising catches, including one beauty which some of you may recognise from Grand Designs.
It must be the season for it, because there were plenty of fish in this particular property sea to choose [...]

Celebrity chef Rick Stein is credited with turning the Cornish town of Padstow into a household name over the past few years – and some wags have even renamed the town Padstein.
Having chosen it as the location for his mini-empire – which includes four restaurants, a bar and a cookery school – Padstow’s tourism has subsequently [...]

If there’s one thing many of us forget about the housing market, it’s the huge history that many homes can claim, sometimes dating back to the times of William the Conqueror.
Some 20 per cent of properties listed on FindaProperty.com have historic track records, be they Tudor, Elizabethan, Georgian, Victorian or Edwardian homes – and in [...]

A couple in the picturesque Worcestershire parish of Acton Beauchamp have stirred up a colourful storm by giving their property a bright pink makeover, prompting complaints from neighbours keener on sober hues.
Residents in the parish have been grumbling to officials that the home of James Hall and his wife, which is famed locally for its [...]

If you’re a fan of fallen footballing idols then the past month has been strewn with the stories of Premiership players and their complicated love interests, inadvisable drinking habits and erratic driving skills.
But the biggest story of the year so far has been John Terry’s forays into the tabloids over his extra marital affair with [...]

The ten towns with the largest house price rises during the past decade were not big cities, gentrified suburbs or must-have market towns but rather seaside towns, research has revealed. And out of these salt-water havens with high house price rises, three out of the top four were in Cornwall.
Despite being one of Britain’s poorest [...]

We’re going for an industrial theme this week, with a focus on homes in what were once dark, dingy and decidedly unlovely workplaces, but are now so light and airy former workers might be shocked to see the transformation.
The idea came from our recent blog about the piano factory loft conversion, an inspired design from [...]

All this hideous weather we’ve been having lately has turned me into a complete homebody.
Normally, I’d be going slightly stir crazy if I had to stay in every night but that’s not been the case at all; I’m perfectly content to be cosied up with a large glass of warming wine in my hand.
Indeed, it’s [...]