Fans of Channel 4 TV show Grand Designs will recognise this super-shiny new modernist home in Brighton, which featured on our screens in April last year. But I’m surprised it’s on the market – for £3.5 million – quite so soon as I had thought the creators – local couple Barry and Julie Surtees – [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

Last year, the road where I now live was runner-up in Brighton’s City In Bloom ‘Flowers In My Street’ competition.
This year, judging by the almost overnight appearance of brightly coloured, full-to-bursting window boxes – June is competition month – the green-fingered residents are gunning for first place.
Very pretty the flower-clad street is, too.  An absolute [...]

View of St Nicholas’ Church from the FindaProperty.com Brighton office

An army of snowmen snowpeople!

Slip sliding away

The old Dyke Road Workhouse

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Just as Jane has kicked off a diary of her house buying adventures, I thought I’d be regaling you for weeks to come with tales of woe as I searched for a rented home.
But no!  Call it luck, call it fate, call it an over-saturated rental market – hell, call it whatever you like, I [...]