Plans for nearly 100 homes and a new primary school at the former Manchester Metropolitan University campus in Didsbury have been given the green light. Beaver Road Primary School will expand into a new state-of-the-art building on the site of the former MMU Broomhurst halls of residents on Wilmslow Road after Manchester council’s planning committee approved outline proposals. The halls, completed in 1963, were home to thousands of students, but closed last year. The building will now be knocked Read more [...]

Plans for nearly 100 homes and a new primary school at the former Manchester Metropolitan University campus in Didsbury have been given the green light. Beaver Road Primary School will expand into a new state-of-the-art building on the site of the former MMU Broomhurst halls of residents on Wilmslow Road after Manchester council’s planning committee approved outline proposals. The halls, completed in 1963, were home to thousands of students, but closed last year. The building will now be knocked Read more [...]

Sale of derelict neighbouring houses in south London had been billed as priciest ex-local authority sell-off everAlmost two years after they were bought for total of £2.96m, first of the homes has gone on the market for £3.35mGrade II-listed properties were taken over by squatters in 2013 who protested at housing shortage in SouthwarkBut council insisted money raised from sell-off would fund building of about 20 new council homes in boroughBy Mark Duell for MailOnline Published: Read more [...]

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Susan C. Feil and Alicia Feil Peterson of Coldwell Banker Legacy list another house that appeared in the series finale in Albuquerque's North Valley for $2.65 million. That home is where the show's main character, Walter White, played by Bryan Cranston, threatened his former business partner with two fake assassins. "Breaking Bad" follows former high schoolteacher Walter White as he manufactures meth with a former student, Jesse Pinkman, played by Aaron Paul. The show ended in 2013, but tourism Read more [...]

This is where the doves cried. Click a photo for a slideshow.You'll never be able to buy Prince's own legendary Purple House — because he tore that down a decade ago. But a mere $110,000 will buy you the house from Prince's "Purple Rain" movie.  As the price hints, it's a fixer. The house, built in 1913, is about 1,300 square feet with 3 bedrooms and 2 baths at 3420 Snelling Avenue in Minneapolis' Longfellow neighborhood. The listing notes a "newer boiler in 2010" — which is Read more [...]

The controversial sale of 21 and 23 Park Street, Borough — billed at the time as the most expensive ex-local authority sell-off in history — saw the investor secure the two neighbouring houses for £2.96 million.   Now, after an 18-month renovation by Camu Morrison, the first of the houses has been put back on the market — for £3.35 million.   Southwark council granted planning consent for the refurbishment of both houses, including building new conservatories and replacing balconies with Read more [...]

I read with interest Mike Mendoza’s column about Buckingham House (Shoreham Herald, June 25) and agree that Woodview Court, which now stands joined to the ruins, is totally out of character with both them and the houses in Woodview Close. Ironically, it was this incongruity with the houses in Woodview that helped save the walls from demolition in 1966, when no one wanted the responsibility for their upkeep – in spite of them being listed. The listing in 1954 was due to the last-minute Read more [...]

THE future of the most significant inhabited building at risk in Wales is now secure. The Landmark Trust, which took over Llwyn Celyn in 2012, a Grade I-listed medieval hall house, near Abergavenny, announced this morning that it has secured £2.5million from the Heritage Lottery Fund towards its restoration. The rare medieval building at Crucorney Fawr, which is less than six miles away from Llanthony Priory, is regarded as one of the most remarkable of all surviving Read more [...]

Michael Bloomberg is to follow the likes of Mick Jagger and Roman Abramovich when he moves into a £16m ($25m) mansion on one of London’s wealthiest streets. The former mayor of New York is reported to have paid £1m ($1.56m) more than the asking price for the seven-bedroom grade II*-listed mansion on Cheyne Walk, Chelsea. The property, which was once home to the novelist George Eliot, is accessed by a private road and decorated in an extravagant period style. Its ornate interior includes a sweeping Read more [...]