Winging It Property Blog

Wreck Of The Week

Mike O'Flynn — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:55:28 +0000

The Property: Grade II listed barn for conversion The Place: Bardney, Lincolnshire The Price: £190,000 (Guide) The Pain: It’s listed, and in pretty bad shape, so don’t expect this to be easy. The Gain: It has planning permission for two three-bed houses – but it may also be possible to convert it into one large home (subject to [...]

Eva Jiricna’s Stair Flair

Mike O'Flynn — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:50:37 +0000

We like a bit of staircase porn here at Winging It, even if the staircase in question is attached to a property that’s, well, just a few zillion quid beyond our budget. And when it comes to statement staircases, there aren’t many who can match Eva Jiricna’s sinuous steel and glass creations. Click pic for full details [...]

Super Shiny Homes: The Klein Bottle House

Gareth Davies — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:38:46 +0000

Quite special this one. Not only is it a) super and b) shiny, it’s c) officially the best house in the world and d) it exists in more dimensions than it ought to! Confused? Then I’ll cover these points one by one. a) and b) - well just look at it. (Photographs by John Gollings - Gollings Photography) I [...]

Five To View:Property in Westminster

Jocelyn Beattie — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:18:13 +0000

It’s Bonfire Night – hooray!!! A fine reason for a few midweek tipples in a pub with a view of some fireworks action. And, in order to remember, remember the fifth of November, we’re locating this week’s Five to View in Westminster, home to the very building that Guy Fawkes was planning to blow up all those [...]

Russell Brand Selling Hampstead Pad

Mike O'Flynn — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:48:33 +0000

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 [...]

Extension Invention 1: House In Surbiton

Mike O'Flynn — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:04:17 +0000

You wouldn’t expect the architect who designed Wembley stadium and Hong Kong airport – the chief executive at Foster + Partners, no less – to be happy with a simple side extension. And you’d be right. But the extra living space that Mouzhan Majidi has added to his otherwise unremarkable new-build home in Surbiton is home extension [...]

Lenny Henry & Dawn French’s House For Sale

Mike O'Flynn — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:19:41 +0000

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 & [...]

Halcyon Days Hotel

Jocelyn Beattie — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:21:44 +0000

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 [...]

Cool Pub Conversion

Mike O'Flynn — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:05:05 +0000

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 [...]

Graph Of The Week

Mike O'Flynn — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:19:27 +0000

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 [...]