When Oscar-winning actress Cate Blanchett moved to Brighton a few years ago, she had to close off a whole street in order to have her enormous stone bath winched into the house.
Blanchett later sold the Grade I Listed Regency townhouse to songwriter Richard Stannard, who has worked with U2, Kylie Minogue, Will Young and Little [...]

The Property: A detached barn for conversion
The Place: Gimingham, Norwich
The Price: £80,000

The Pain: The main issues here are that this is quite a small building – 700 square feet – and that the planning consent is for a holiday residence only. Aside from that, it looks like a relatively straightforward conversion.
The Gain: It’s in pretty [...]

Phil Spencer and Kirstie Allsopp have the perfect celebrity jobs, or at least I  thought so after a short spell working with them.
Their careers are lucrative, part-time and, although they wear out shoe leather trudging around dozens of properties for each programme, not particularly arduous.
Their pickings have been rich: enough to provide Phil with a [...]

You know you’re proper posh, and rich with it, when you need to construct a 2,500 sq ft building to house your prized collection of vintage motor cars.
This building, formerly the Bayham Estate Garage and Workshop, was used for just such a purpose by the Marquis of Camden.
It’s not the most beautiful of buildings to [...]

The mortgage computer has said “Yes” to Little Britain laydeez-man, David Walliams, who’s just had an offer accepted on a beachside property in the exclusive Western Esplanade in Hove.

Known locally as Millionaires’ Row, David’s new neighbours in the street include an impressive cast of celebs, among them Norman Cook and Zoe Ball, Heather Mills and [...]

The world of sponsorship went to a weird place this week after a mobile phone company offered to pay £250 to anyone prepared to officially include the firm’s name in their house address.
Talk Talk, which is offering the money to homeowners in return for the ‘naming rights’ to their property for a year, enjoys a [...]

… or more specifically, PANTONE 15-5519 Turquoise.
In their own words this is:
“ … an inviting, luminous hue … Combining the serene qualities of blue and the invigorating aspects of green, Turquoise evokes thoughts of soothing, tropical waters and a languorous, effective escape from the everyday troubles of the world, while at the same time restoring [...]

This graph probably doesn’t look very exciting, but bear with me.
It comes from our latest House Prices & Affordability Index and shows an interesting shift in a recent trend.
Prices started to firm up last May and have been on the rise since then, but as our analysis of different market segments (first-time buyers and home [...]

I didn’t think the MPs’ expenses scandal could get any better (or worse) than Douglas Hogg’s moat and Sir Peter Viggers’ ornamental duck house.

But the latest noses-in-the-trough revelation – a £20,700 claim by Quentin Davies for repairs to the bell tower on his stately home – makes Hogg and Viggers look like dabbling amateurs. [...]

Recently Google ran a poll on which UK landmarks people would like to see in full 360° Googlevision and the results have just been updated in Street View.
So you can now do what druids have been trying – with various degrees of success – to do for generations and wander at leisure around Stonehenge.
Or maybe [...]