We are used to footballers owning grand houses. Earning hundreds of thousands of pounds a week means they can easily afford a mansion (not to mention a fleet of expensive cars and enough high tech distractions to keep them occupied between games). Charlie Aitken, who still holds the record for most appearances for Aston Villa, certainly has the fine house. But when he started his playing career back in the late ‘50s and early 60s, the types of sums top players can command today were unimaginable. Read more [...]

The A-listers to be photographed inside Donovan's mansion included Twiggy, Cindy Crawford and Lennox LewisIn the 1980s, studios were also used to process shoots of Donovan's favourite VIP client, Diana Princess of WalesMansion is three mews houses knocked into one 5,788-square-foot mega-pad using sets from James Bond filmsGrade II listed mansion comes with fully-stocked gym, 15m indoor swimming pool and four stunning bedroomsBy Jay Akbar For Mailonline Published: 12:59 GMT, 18 Read more [...]

We are used to footballers owning grand houses. Earning hundreds of thousands of pounds a week means they can easily afford a mansion (not to mention a fleet of expensive cars and enough high tech distractions to keep them occupied between games). Charlie Aitken, who still holds the record for most appearances for Aston Villa, certainly has the fine house - which is currently up for sale for a mere £1.195million. But when he started his playing career back in the late ‘50s and early 60s, the Read more [...]

01:01 17 October 2015 David Vincent Suffolk Show 2012 Day 1 James Hopkins of Hopkins Homes at The Suffolk Show East Anglian housing development named `Development Read more [...]

HERE'S a warning about buildings insurance for a listed or thatched property. There are many Listed and thatched properties in west Dorset and I am sure many owners, myself included, were under the impression that they were adequately insured. After the devastating fire at The Clock House resulting in a much reduced pay out as their insurance company claimed they were under insured I reviewed my policy.  At first I was reasonably happy with the amount I was insured Read more [...]

An Edwardian swimming baths in Birmingham and a Yorkshire mansion that is one of the largest privately owned houses in Europe have each found a place on a list of the world’s most endangered sites, along with an Albanian prison, a giant law courts building in Brussels, an earthquake-shattered cemetery in Chile and Beirut’s coastal promenade that survived the war in Lebanon but is now threatened by hectic redevelopment. The watch list, published every two years by the World Monuments Fund, a Read more [...]

Assets under management at the world’s biggest listed hedge fund manager fell almost 3pc in the quarter to $76.8bn by the end of September. Its assets have fallen back from a record-breaking $82bn earlier in the year. "Despite the extreme market movements in late August impacting absolute performance across our long-only strategies, we have seen good relative performance across the majority of our strategies for the year to date,” said Manny Roman, chief executive. The firm’s shares, which Read more [...]

It may not be worth trading your city life for the lifestyle that could come with a tiny mortgage. A house for $35,000. For many would-be first-home buyers, this sounds unimaginable.If you've been shopping for a house in Auckland recently, this is probably about half what you will be expected to put down as a deposit.But there are at least 10 houses currently listed for sale for less than Read more [...]

Interest in Birmingham's Gun Quarter for student accommodation developments is showing no signs of slowing down as new plans are brought forward to build more than 500 bedrooms. The project would see the demolition of a series of disused factory buildings on land bounded by Cliveland Street and the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal north of the city centre, known collectively as the former Globe Works. The buildings date back to the mid-1900s but are set to make way for a new development of five to ten Read more [...]

By Lucy Clarke-Billings 8:05PM BST 13 Oct 2015 Michael McIntyre has been told by conservationists that he has ‘no standards’ as a council approve ‘crude and destructive’ plans at his extensively modernised Edwardian home. The comedian, who also owns a house in the Cotswolds, submitted plans to extend his £5.6 million north London property earlier this year and was immediately met with opposition from the Heath and Read more [...]