The building housing Tom's Home Cookin', a popular Southern-style diner in Denver's historic Five Points neighborhood, is on the market.But the owners say that fans of the restaurant's fried catfish, collards and candied yams shouldn't panic. "We're really just kicking the tires," co-owner Steve Jankousky said Monday morning. "We've seen a lot of development in Five Points and are really just curious what the property might bring."News that the 1,350 square-foot property at 800 E. 26th Ave. was Read more [...]

If you’re considering selling your home, or even if you're just curious, you can easily find out (roughly) how much it’s worth. There are a number of free ways to discover this, from websites to a little detective work, and we’ll list a few of them so you can easily find the value of your property. Using Land Registry information A good place to start is NetHousePrices which allows you to input the postcode or area of your home, then lists the values of properties that have been sold there Read more [...]

Cefn Castell in Gwynedd and Cliff House on the Gower Peninsula, both former winners of the Welsh Architecture Award, have been long-listed for the RIBA Grand Designs: House of the Year 2015. And now viewers will get to take a peek inside one of them this week when it is featured on prime-time TV. A selection of the 20 homes are being featured on Channel 4 's Grand Designs : House of the Year, presented by Kevin McCloud, and Cefn Castell will appear this Wednesday (November 18). This prestigious Read more [...]

AN old ironworks site that has been left to 'decay' may finally be turned into a residential area. Read more [...]

Image copyright Google Streetview Image caption This shot from Google Streetview shows Lynda cleaning the pavement Houses on an all but abandoned street in Liverpool are being sold for £1. But 30 years ago it was a vibrant inner-city Read more [...]

Photo by Ronald Hackston from the Londonist Flickr poolLondon is fast becoming a city of renters. That's OK, argue some commentators; some people like renting. It fits with their lifestyle. There's certainly one subset of society for whom renting is a lifestyle choice, and that's the megarich. Who else would pay the kind of rents listed below, which we started clicking on with an increasing sense of disbelief. This really is a whole other world. £368,333pcm Zoopla doesn't show any photos of this Read more [...]

When Shaun Clarkson and his partner Paul Brewster first viewed their two-storey townhouse just off Exmouth Market in Islington, London, they had been house-hunting for five years, looking for a project. “Most houses we saw had been ‘done’ – ruined by developers with laminate flooring and new kitchens,” explains Clarkson. “It took us a long time to find the right place.” After a decade of open-plan warehouse living in Shoreditch, Shaun and Paul were drawn to the cosy intimacy of Georgian Read more [...]

The dilapidated Sydney house sold for $700,000 more than asking price Ms Leigh ran a criminal empire for 40 years in her largest Surry Hills homeThe feared illegal businesswoman ran 20 sly grog shops and sold drugs Leigh was rich, charismatic and generous to underdogs in razor gang eraDied broke in 1964 and police and politicians among 700 at her funeralBy Brianne Tolj and Candace Sutton for Daily Mail Australia Published: 03:24 GMT, 15 November 2015 | Updated: 08:35 Read more [...]

The Bel Air home, which will be finished in 2017, is close to those of celebrities such as Jennifer Aniston and Elon MuskThe property has panoramic views of the LA basin and Pacific Ocean and will cover more than 100,000 square feetThe price works out to about $5,000 per square foot, which the property's developer Nile Niami says is a good price for what the buyer is gettingThe home will have five swimming pools, a casino, a nightclub and a lounge with jellyfish tanks replacing the walls Read more [...]

Liz and David McNulty have breathed life back into their historic Georgian home. David spotted the stunning Grade II Listed property in Westoe Village, South Shields, in the early 1980s, and despite it being in desperate need of repair, the couple fell in love with its size and period features. They made Westoe Grange their home 33 years and ago and set about restoring it to its former glory. Liz said: “My husband spotted it. It was an absolute ruin when we first got it, but we loved the size Read more [...]