Property Stories
Some light relief,
Some light relief,
from the serious business of selling.
Most of this site is about getting you from “I need to sell” to “sold” as painlessly as possible. This corner is different. It’s where we put the property stories we couldn’t resist telling: famous houses, strange sales and the odd bit of history. Nothing to do with your move, everything to do with why we find houses interesting.
Interactive map · 100 homes
Does fame add value? What happened to 100 famous film and TV homes
From the Home Alone house to Downton Abbey: what the owners paid, what the houses sold for, and what being famous did to the price. Click a pin, read the story.
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Finders keepers? · 9 stories
What happens to the things people find in the properties they buy?
£754,000 of gold under a kitchen floor, cash behind a wall, shoes hidden to ward off witches. What turns up in old houses, and who it really belongs to.
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