Hints and tips:
...Frank Herbert’s Dune, thanks to the recent film versions, continues to ascend in price. (Last autumn, a rare storyboard for Dune sold for £350,000 at Peter Harrington.)...
...Ashley Wilsdon, head of London at the buying agency Middleton Advisors, has just helped a client negotiate a £750,000 discount on a £5mn property in Chelsea being sold by a small developer who was highly...
...Its ethos was summed up by the comedian Frank Skinner, who told the sixth issue: “I’ve never gone along with all this new man bollocks . . ....
...The number of southern buyers looking locally has increased, says Emma Kingham of Knight Frank’s Harrogate office....
...Clips of the princess in action bear testament to a charisma it’s hard to imagine bright-eyed Meghan Markle or cool Kate Middleton equalling: a paradoxical mixture of transparency, timidity, seduction and...
...Fiona’s recent productions include big hitters such as Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Our Country’s Good and Thomas Middleton’s The Revenger’s Tragedy....
...Stud in Graffham, a breeding ground for many high-profile race winners, currently being marketed by Knight Frank for £9.5m....
...I wandered back to the bar, where I discovered Frank Marrenbach, the German chief executive of Oetker Collection, sipping a gin and tonic....
...Ashley Wilsdon of Middleton Advisors believes this has brought Fulham back into budget for affluent first-time buyers....
...The neighbourhood’s appeal is in the “combination of village life coupled with easy access into central London”, says Ashley Wilsdon at Middleton Advisors....
...“It’s very open, there’s nothing looking back at you,” says James Davies, head of Knight Frank’s Fulham office....
...“Conversant with London” is how Mark Parkinson, a buying agent with Middleton Advisors, describes rural Berkshire. Prince Harry might be inclined to agree....
...“Buyers were thinking: ‘well that’s last year’s price’,” says Will Watson of Middleton Advisors....
...This has much to do with the savvy stewardship of property estates, says Jonathan Hough of Knight Frank’s Mayfair office....
...It’s only 30 per cent occupied at any one time and some of the apartments have never been occupied,” says Mark Parkinson of Middleton Advisors, another buying agency....
...The villa became the luxurious Hôtel du Palais in 1883, graced by royalty from around the globe and, later, the likes of Coco Chanel, Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner....
...That said, both Savills and Knight Frank have been warning for several months that London’s prime market, historically more volatile than the rest of the country, would bear the brunt of the early Brexit...
...Yet since Frank Kermode’s magisterial study Shakespeare’s Language (2000) there has been a palpable reticence in popular criticism to interpret the plays anew....
...One particular beneficiary will be Brighton and Hove, thinks Katherine Watters, an associate at Knight Frank’s buying agency, The Buying Solution....
...MPs Labour’s near-defeat in Heywood & Middleton last week has sent tremors through the party’s heartlands....
...Thomas Lam, of China Knight Frank, says: “Domestic buyers are the key buyers of luxury residential market on Hong Kong Island....
...Nigel Farage’s party is picking up votes from the same demographic in Heywood and Middleton, which will also see a by-election on Thursday, Mr Goodwin says....
...Labour and Tory activists say they are getting the same negative message on the doorsteps, whether in Clacton, Heywood & Middleton, or Glasgow....
...Middleton Advisors sees the greatest demand for property near prep schools in Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Hampshire....
...Kate Middleton’s phone was hacked 155 times, her husband Prince William’s phone 35 times and Prince Harry’s messages were hacked on nine occasions....
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