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Fairytale chateau at Waitoki fails to sell under the hammer
COLLEEN HAWKES
Last updated 09:57, March 7 2016
BARFOOT & THOMPSON
This five-bedroom chateau-style house at Waitoki, north of Auckland, is now for sale by negotiation.
The fairy tale chateau at Waitoki, north of Auckland, remains unsold after failing to recei… (View original article)
Peter Kwok, the Hong Kong businessman regarded as one of the first Asian investors in Bordeaux vineyards, has bought his seventh estate in the region.
Château Le Rey. Credit: Château Le Rey
Peter Kwok, the Vietnam-born, Hong Kong businessman who bought St Emilion’s Château Haut-Brisson in 1997, has purchased Château le Rey in Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux along with two business partners.
The 12 hectare estate was previously owned by th… (View original article)
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In her silver sequined skirt, faux fur vest, and tall leather boots, Madison Pluck poses on the second-floor stairway landing of the 45-room mansion, Blithewold, in Bristol, R.I. She is on her way to visit some of the dolls from around the world in former owner Marjorie Van Wickle Lyon’s collection. Attending the Daisy Doll tea party at Blithewold, a garden estate on 33 acres overlooking Narragansett Bay, was a present for her eighth birthday. As she climb… (View original article)
CONTINUING our series about great Yorkshire Houses through the eyes of the people who work in them. Sarah Todd reports. Pictures by Gerard Binks.
“I’ve never even eaten one but as soon as I bake a batch they disappear. Can’t fill the stands up fast enough…”
Mandy first donned a pinny at the North Yorkshire historic house when she was 17, helping out with waitressing. Her mother, Pat Bradshaw, was head cook. Now Mandy is the house’s head baker.
“M… (View original article)
Playboy Mansion
FOR SALE
But Hef Gets to Stay
1/9/2016 1:00 AM PST BY TMZ STAFF
EXCLUSIVE
The Playboy Mansion — the backdrop of some of the wildest parties ever thrown in L.A. — is for sale … TMZ has learned.
The 6 acre Holmby Hills estate, built in 1927, will be listed sometime within the next month. Our real estate sources say the owner — Playboy Enterprises — is looking to get somewhere north of $200 million.
A few years before Napoléon Bonaparte became emperor of France, his first wife, Josephine de Beauharnais, bought an estate while he was away in Egypt. Château de Malmaison—which is located nine miles west of central Paris—was a grand but derelict old property, and when the future ruler returned, the couple decided it needed extensive renovations. They hired Charles Percier and Pierre François Léonard Fontaine, young architects and decorators who would famously go on to help create the design … (View original article)
PHOTOS: No mangers here – just a mansion built for Jesus
Zillow.com
Published: January 6, 2016, 6:01 pm
Jesus said his father’s house had many mansions — and one of them appears to be in the Bronx.
Back in 1928, a time of flappers and speakeasies, a religious order in New York set about making room for the son of God in case he ran into that no-room-at-the-inn situation again.
PHOTOS: Mansion built for Jesus
In the hom… (View original article)
“It was in a horrible state of decay,” said Prof Pozzi, a descendant of the Cesarini and Colonna dynasties who teaches at La Sapienza University in Rome. “The frescoes had not been cleaned for 60 or 70 years. There was a lot of damp.”
The castle dates to the 10th century but was enlarged in the 1530s by a leading Renaissance military strategist and remodelled to resemble the shape of a scorpion.
In the 1950s it was owned by Crosby, a notorious libertine from New York who… (View original article)
After prices plummeted in the recession, country estates are back in demand among both domestic and overseas buyers
On the west coast of Ireland, nestled on the shore of Clew Bay in Mayo, is the kind of stately home that buyers will pay a premium for: a waterside property with architectural provenance and a rich history.
Westport House has been home to the Browne family, descendants of the Gaelic chieftain Grace O’Malley, since the 17th century. Its 455 acres include a lake, campsite and even a pirate adventure park. Yet despite drawing 160,000 visitors last year, the owners have struggled to maintain Westport House since it opened to the public in 1960. A loan of €6.5m obtained by the late Lord Altamont to invest in the property was acquired by Ireland’s National Asset Management Agency in 2010, and has now forced Westport to be put up for sale, priced at €10m through Ganly Walters… (View original article)
Fiona Bruce on Antiques Roadshow
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Have you got an old item in the loft you think could be worth hundreds or even thousands of pounds?
Well you now have the chance to get it assessed by some of the country’s top antiques experts, after it was announced the Antiques Roadshow is coming to the famous Audley End country house in 2016.
The filming day at the classic home near Saffron Walden takes place on Thursday, May 26 – … (View original article)
