If walls had ears, this property would have heard some of the juiciest gossip of the last two decades. And if they could write, it’d probably have penned a hefty kiss-and-tell bestseller.
Alas, since walls can do neither, we’ll just have to imagine the crazy antics that took place inside this cornerstone of pop culture history.

For this ordinary [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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!

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