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Claims hotel in tiny village is breaking planning laws – by offering swinger parties
Croydon Hall in Somerset is being investigated after claims it is being used for swinger’s events where 20 to 55 year olds slip into body stockings at 10.30pm, venture to 'playrooms' and spill out into the gardens at 3am
Pensioner who lives next to airport has 50 planes a day driving past her back garden
Janet Marchant, 67, from Southend-on-Sea says her life has become a misery since a new taxi runway was opened at the bottom of her garden in 2017
Woman in listed home told to repaint her PINK door after 33 YEARS
Janine Renshaw-Beauchamp, from Cirencester, said the door had "always been colourful".
Half of England is owned by less than 1% of its population
Just 25,000 landowners – typically members of the aristocracy and corporations – have control of half of the country, according to new data shared with the Guardian. The findings show that owners such as the Duke of Buccleuch, the Queen, several large grouse moor estates and the entrepreneur James Dyson own an “astonishingly unequal” proportion of the country. If land were distributed evenly across the entire population, each person would have almost an acre – an area roughly the size...
A comparison between the British and American real estate markets
The US and the UK are two of the strongest economies in the world and this can be seen in all industries and market sectors. Real estate is no exception. Powered by the record rates of legal immigration, both countries are seeing a massive surge in the demand for quality housing. According to the latest estimates, 37 million people move into the US every year, while in the UK the foreign-born population nearly doubled from 2004 to 2017. But in...
The Wetherspoons Effect: Houses sold near British favourite sell for less than local average
Houses within walking distance of a Wetherspoons sell for 27% less than the local average. We've all heard of the Waitrose Effect, which sees property near one of the up-market stores boosted by as much as £36,000 - with this in mind, Mojo Mortgages wondered if there's any other similar effects that exist in the housing world. They compared the prices of houses sold in the last 12 months within walking distance of a Wetherspoon pub to the average in...
Ruined home of real-life ‘Wicker Man’ & Satanist up for sale – for a scary fee
Boleskine House in Foyers on the banks of Loch Lomond, Highlands, used to be owned by Aleister Crowley, who is said to have practiced black magic at the property between 1899 and 1933.
Pensioner sold his house with massive discount but there’s a catch
Peter Yielding, 64, put his neat three-bed semi in pricey St Albans on the market for £350,000 - hundreds of thousands of pounds less than other homes on the street
Britain’s steepest street has been named – so hilly residents tie their cars to lampposts
Vale Street in Bristol has been named the steepest road in the UK and locals are forced to tie their cars to lampposts when the road gets icy