Winging It Property Blog

Five To View: Equestrian Properties

Jocelyn Beattie — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:04:12 +0000

We’ve been chomping at the bit to do a horsey-house-themed Five to View, and with the Cheltenham Festival off and running this week, now seems like a good bet. The world famous festival isn’t only about horse racing, of course: it’s also a four-day extravaganza of dining and drinking, dressing to impress, and frolicking al fresco. But [...]

Britain’s Oldest and Newest Homes #2: Scotland

Nigel Lewis — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:45:19 +0000

For this week’s instalment of our blog series we turn our attention to the mighty land of Scotland. We’ve tracked down the oldest inhabited home (which is in fact the oldest in the series) and compared it to one of the newest from Barratt Homes. OLDEST: Traquair House – built: 1107 Traquair House is almost a castle, [...]

Five To View: Properties with fishing lakes

Jocelyn Beattie — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:08:43 +0000

Following on from our seafood flavoured Five to View, this week’s theme is properties with fishing lakes. We’ve cast our net across the country and found some tantalising catches, including one beauty which some of you may recognise from Grand Designs. It must be the season for it, because there were plenty of fish in this particular property sea to choose [...]

Five To View: Falmouth – the next favourite for seafood lovers?

Jocelyn Beattie — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:33:03 +0000

Celebrity chef Rick Stein is credited with turning the Cornish town of Padstow into a household name over the past few years – and some wags have even renamed the town Padstein. Having chosen it as the location for his mini-empire – which includes four restaurants, a bar and a cookery school – Padstow’s tourism has subsequently [...]

Oldest and newest: Britain’s homes compared

Nigel Lewis — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:28:42 +0000

If there’s one thing many of us forget about the housing market, it’s the huge history that many homes can claim, sometimes dating back to the times of William the Conqueror. Some 20 per cent of properties listed on FindaProperty.com have historic track records, be they Tudor, Elizabethan, Georgian, Victorian or Edwardian homes – and in [...]

Five To View: A Lotto Property in Cirencester

Jocelyn Beattie — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:33:07 +0000

Last week’s Euromillions result sparked off hypothetical “What would you do with that much money?” conversations across the nation but particularly in Cirencester, the home town of winners Nigel Page and Justine Laycock - where local agents will no doubt be hoping they buy their post-win home. So, you lucky couple, don’t up sticks and move [...]

Why is a Brighton Grand Design being sold so soon?

Jocelyn Beattie — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:46:52 +0000

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 Pink seems Pretty Annoying

Jocelyn Beattie — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:08:03 +0000

A couple in the picturesque Worcestershire parish of Acton Beauchamp have stirred up a colourful storm by giving their property a bright pink makeover, prompting complaints from neighbours keener on sober hues. Residents in the parish have been grumbling to officials that the home of James Hall and his wife, which is famed locally for its [...]

Five To View: homes with WAG appeal

Jocelyn Beattie — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:16:50 +0000

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 [...]

Five To View: Holiday homes in Cornwall

Jocelyn Beattie — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:11:10 +0000

The ten towns with the largest house price rises during the past decade were not big cities, gentrified suburbs or must-have market towns but rather seaside towns, research has revealed. And out of these salt-water havens with high house price rises, three out of the top four were in Cornwall. Despite being one of Britain’s poorest [...]