Galia Grainger, the star of Channel 4 's Celebrity Fat Fighters TV show in 2017, is selling Merlin Court, her Devon fat-busting retreat. For £895,000, buyers can snap up the eleven-bedroom 'Slimmeria' mansion set in 2.5 acres of landscaped gardens. 'I'll miss the tranquillity, the beauty of the property and the magical energy it brings', Galia told This is Money, before revealing why she's selling up.
Susi Prudence, a 39-year-old copywriter from Maidstone, converted half of her double garage in her new-build house into a bar.
My property shares a driveway with a neighbour. The driveway is now badly in need of repair, but my neighbour won't pay up. Is there some way of legally enforcing him to pay for the repair costs?
The fastest and slowest property markets have been revealed by Rightmove today, showing just how different sellers' experiences can be up and down the country. The fastest property market is Carluke in Scotland. Homes there are taking a mere 15 days on average to find a buyer. At the other end of the spectrum, home sellers in some local areas are finding they are having to wait over 100 days on average to go under offer.
While lower mortgage rates are attracting more buyers to the market, investors and second home owners in locations like Truro are selling up amid potential tax hikes.
The removal of loadbearing walls and installation of new windows overlooking neighbours were the most common works undertaken without permissions in place.
Picture a typical day at a Medieval English castle. It will probably involve a tea room. Some slightly bored schoolchildren wandering around the grounds. Perhaps a historical re-enactment.That sedate image couldn't be further from the £25million plans hatched by Real Housewives of Toronto star, Ann Kaplan Mullholland, who bought Lympne Castle near Hythe in Kent back in 2023 for £5.5million. I visited the Grade I listed castle, parts of which date back to 1080, to take a tour with Ann and hear about her plans to kit out the castle in her very unique style.
I'd like to know how I can boost security in my home and on my driveway. What options are available and how much can these systems or products cost?
If last year is anything to go by, we'll regularly have to put up with firework displays coming from our neighbour's back garden. What can we do?
We moved into our house last year and the property needs extensive renovation and extensions. While getting works done, we've had to use a number of skips. The skips are always placed on our driveway. Are there rules against this sort of thing? What can we do to prevent this and get the problem resolved?
North Shire has rooms themed on Harry Potter's Gryffindor dormitory, Hagrid's hut and even a Lord of the Rings-style hobbit hole.
When it comes to cracks on ceilings and walls, what do I need to be worried about and looking out for? What problems could cracks be hiding?
How far away from our boundary fence and house should a trampoline be under privacy law, please? We have to keep all doors, windows, air vents and curtains closed because of our neighbours' noisy children on a trampoline and in a kids swimming pool abutting our boundary fence. When I finally sent a polite text to my neighbour requesting them to quieten down, the response was 'no', followed by several malicious communications. What can I do? This can't continue.
The old neighbours trimmed it back every year, usually in May. However, the new owner doesn't seem to be bothered.
An FOI request by Churchill Home Insurance revealed local authorities received 203,000 complaints from residents about noisy neighbours in 2023.
We recently moved into a 1930s three-bedroom semi-detached house. It's spacious inside and we like the area. Unlike some of the properties we viewed, the house has been updated to a high standard inside. The exterior of the property is pebbledash, which I'd say is a sandy brown colour. Our neighbours and quite a few others on the street have the same pebbledash on their properties. Should we remove our pebbledash?
In the last six months, Checkatrade turned away a record 668 tradespeople who failed its sign-up checks, representing a 13% rise year-on-year.
Lots of my neighbours have told me the dog bothers them, but said they didn't want to cause a fuss. What can I do to make it stop?
We bought our current home eight years ago. On either side of the garden is bamboo, planted by previous owners. We're no experts, but it appears to be two different types, one is close to our conservatory and the other is towards the back of the garden, near the shed office. Recently, I've noticed the occasional odd shoot a good distance away from the plant coming up through the grass. What should we do?
Our double-glazing needs replacing due to its age. We've got two quotes for uPVC windows, and have been offered the option of grey anthracite.
There are not one, but two, unique island sea forts going up for auction via Savills later this month on 18 June. We take a closer look at what's on offer.
We've just bought our first home and it comes with a nice compact 20ft garden. However, it's quite overgrown and we're not all that green-fingered. We want to put down an artificial lawn so we don't have the upkeep of constantly cutting grass and de-weeding. Is it a good idea?
We're house hunting in our local area and have found a four-bedroom home with a pool in the garden which is roughly 20ft x 13ft, with a deep end of 6ft.
This is Money speaks to estate agents to find out how sellers can increase their chances of securing a quick sale at the best price.
Moving to a sun-kissed island for a slower pace of life is a dream held by many. But even if you have the funds and the freedom to do so, getting the right to live permanently in a different country often brings complications. Five countries in the Caribbean are willing to help expats with that, however - on the condition that they buy a property or invest money in the area. In some countries, properties that qualify for the 'citizenship by investment' scheme cost £100,000 less than the average UK home. MailOnline explains how these 'citizenship by investment' schemes work, and looks at some of the eligible properties on the market right now.
If you are planning to sell your home, you may want to get the hedge trimmer and garden shears out.
We've lived in our house for decades and are considering downsizing. We're not sure if we should get rid of our artex ceilings before listing.
Friday 30 August is set to be the busiest day of the year to move home, with over 20,000 moves expected, findings claim. For the last 12 years, August has been the busiest month to move and on 30 August, four times more households than average plan to move, according to the HomeOwners Alliance (HOA) and Reallymoving. Moving is a notoriously stressful, time-consuming and costly affair. With the help of experts, This is Money reveals eight tips to help streamline the process.
A neighbour has a large number of lights in her back garden, which stay on all night. Can I force her to tone them down?
Potential buyers of Woodbine Cottage in Ardersier, near Inverness, may get some remarkable views of the Moray Firth, but also face a massive renovation job to make the building fit to live in.
The opening of Jeremy Clarkson 's pub, The Farmer's Dog, in Asthall near Burford in Oxfordshire, has prompted a flurry of online searches for properties in Burford, according to Rightmove. During the bank holiday weekend, the number of searches for homes in Burford was 63% higher than the same period a year ago, the data suggests. This is Money reveals six properties on sale in or near Burford via Rightmove.
Located in Brockley, south London, the three-bed one bathroom property is on sale for £750,000. But the house's unique selling point is its colourful frontage, painted by Italian street artist Renato Hunto.
McCloud, 65, bought the rural hideaway - which came with planning permission to convert a cow shed into another new home - for £1.1 million in June 2021.
House prices will rise by an average of £61,500 in the next five years according to estate agent Savills, after it revised its prediction upwards from six months ago. The average value of a home in Britain is forecast to increase 21.6% by the end of 2028, according to Savills. It has also revised its annual forecast, which now stands at an increase of 2.5% for 2024. Savills had previously expected house prices to fall by 3% this year, but made the revision on the back of falls in the cost of mortgage debt.
Buyers are enjoying the highest level of spring-time choice of homes in five years, according to Zoopla.
One in five tenants also said they changed rental properties more than five times in five years.
A one-bedroom cliff-side cottage that appeared in BBC's Poldark has sold for £423,000. Bidding for the property, which has views over one of Cornwall's best beaches, began on Monday at a guide price of £395,000 before nearly £30,000 was added to the value over two days of offers. According to auctioneers, the property has the potential to be transformed into a 'Grand-Designs style project'.
Brian Smith, 57, says his mobile home in South Cornwall is 'unsellable' due to an ongoing problem which sees his neighbours' sewage 'bubble up' through their bathroom when the tanks are full.
A British version of Netflix 's Selling Sunset will follow a millionaire property mogul and his estate agent team as they try to sell London 's most expensive homes.
The penthouse is part of Flete House Tower, which is set in 12 acres of beautifully landscaped grounds in the village of Ermington, two miles from the town of Ivybridge. The apartment for sale is number 21 and is in the tower, accessed from the ground floor via a staircase or lift.
The average asking price of a rental property outside of London climbed to a 17th consecutive record, reaching £1,291 a month, according to Rightmove.
There were 4,698 new customers in the first three months of this year, which is 11% lower than the last quarter of 2023.
Aberdeen tops the list of the cheapest cities to be a first-time buyer while the most expensive is London. And for tenants, the cheapest city is Carlisle, while the most expensive is also London. For those who can afford to save a good sized deposit of at least 20 per cent, it is cheaper to pay a monthly mortgage than rent in each of the largest cities in Britain.
The house renewed by host Amanda Holden and Alan Carr on the Italian Job has been reportedly sold for £187,777, while firstly bought for just 85p.
The ritzy Miami-area neighborhood of Coral Gables has replaced regions in California and New York for most expensive homes in the United States.
A total of 40 per cent said it was either 'very difficult' or 'somewhat difficult' to keep up with their rent or mortgage payments.
The average service charge on a flat in England and Wales is currently £2,247 a year, nearly a third higher than in the first quarter of 2019.
A unique opportunity to convert four silos into a luxury family home is available after planning permission was granted on a piece of land in West Norfolk. Silos are used in farming to store grain or fermented feed for animals, but these structures are set to get a new lease of life as the local authority has given the green light for them to be converted into a three-bedroom home. The land is currently for sale with a price tag of £200,000, and the conversion will take considerably more funds to complete.
What are our options after the council refused our planning application to extend our cottage were refused?
A Section 21 notice allows landlords to legally evict tenants without providing a reason for doing so, creating uncertainty for those renting the property.
Since the height of her fame in the mid-2000s, the former child pop star has spent her fortune on a luxury lifestyle.
The Old Mill, which has the nickname the 'Humpty House', is in the historic village of Cawood, North Yorkshire, which was once the home of the Archbishop of York, Thomas Wolsey.
The Shed of the Year competition is back and we speak exclusively to one of the entries in this year's competition. Mark Collins designed his pub shed by himself but says there are a couple of elements that most people won't initially see that prove it is 'something a bit different'. He is one of the entries in several categories that are now open, with people still able to enter until the end of May.
The farmhouse in Trimingham, Norfolk once sat much further away from the edge but can now be seen dangling over the cliff after a severe landslide at the beginning of the month.
Destiny Mitchell, 26, moved into the 3m (9.8ft) by 1m (3.2ft) glass and metal shelter in Selly Oak, Birmingham , seven months ago with boyfriend Ryan, 31, and her 44-year-old mum.
The rustic wooden cabin, located in Mudeford Sandbank in Christchurch, sleeps up to eight people and is being sold for a staggering £450,000.
Fairlinch is now a quirky single-storey property with spectacular panoramic views across the countryside and towards the north Devon coastline.
We speak to current owners Alan Walker and his wife Sandy, who bought the detached modernist property in the Essex town of Loughton in 2013. They are the third owners of Sussex House, which was originally built in 1965 and lived in by the architect Geoffrey Bateman. The estate agent handling the sale of the property is Savills, which is advertising it with a price tag of £1.85million.
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