Five To View: homes with WAG appeal

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 [...]

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Cate Blanchett’s Former Home For Sale

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 [...]

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David Walliams’ New Home in Hove

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 [...]

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Suzi Quatro’s House For Sale

OK, some of our younger readers may not be familiar with the name, but back in the early 70s the sight of Suzi Q in a leather catsuit had quite an impact on impressionable young lads.
Throw in the wailing voice, the thumping bass and the promise that Your Mamma Won’t Like Me and, well, old [...]

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London Flat Where Beatles Lived For Sale

This flat in Green Street, Mayfair was the Beatles’ first home in London (1963) – and it is, apparently, the only place where they ever lived  together as a band.

The story goes that manager Brian Epstein found the top-floor flat so they could escape from their screaming fans -   they’d just had a big hit [...]

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Russell Brand Selling Hampstead Pad

Russell Brand, comedian, serial shagger and professional Andrew Sachs botherer is selling his London pad.

And what would his place look like?
Well, there’s lots of black obviously … black and silver wallpaper, black chairs, a black sofa, a black bed, and a luxurious en-suite bathroom with yes, you’ve guessed it, black floors and walls.
There’s also, in [...]

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Lenny Henry & Dawn French’s House For Sale

And very lovely it is too: a Grade II Listed Georgian farmhouse with six bedrooms, three receptions, a very classy conservatory and 6.54 acres of gardens and paddocks.
Strangely, the couple are struggling to sell it, and the Telegraph reports that the price has been slashed from £3m to OIEO £2.25m. Nothing funny about that.
Strutt & [...]

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Halcyon Days Hotel

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 [...]

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Robbie Williams Selling Country House … And Buying City Pad

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 [...]

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Sienna Miller’s House For Sale

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 [...]

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