Through the 3D-hole: Estate agents offer potential buyers interactive cyber tours of properties placed off-limits during coronavirus lockdown by using special virtual reality cameras Estate agents have not been granted essential status during the Covid-19 crisis House hunters are not allowed to visit properties which are up for sale in the UK Software companies have … Read more
Queen wins battle with environmental protestors to build two-megawatt hydroelectric turbine on her 50,000-acre Balmoral estate Her Majesty has wanted to build a two-megawatt generator on the River Muick The hydroelectric turbine will generate £650,000’s worth of power a year The generator will power her 50,000-acre Balmoral estate in Scotland Environmentalists feared it would be … Read more
Anyone who thinks this is no time to consider buying or selling a home with the country in lockdown and estate agents’ offices shut, should think again — and head for their laptop. Thousands of estate agents have accelerated plans to use digital technology to show off homes to buyers who they hope will remain … Read more
Quackers! The wine estate that unleashes 1,600 DUCKS into its vineyards to keep them free from pests Vergenoegd Löw The Wine Estate in South Africa unleashes Indian runner ducks into its vineyards The ducks happily dine on snails and insects, which allows the estate to be less reliant on pesticides They walk, rather than waddle, … Read more
Rightmove is facing a backlash from estate agents who claim it is not doing enough to help them throughout the coronavirus crisis which is seeing them lose business amid plummeting home viewings and sales. The property listing website has offered estate agents a 75 per cent discount for the next four months as the housing … Read more
Prince Charles’ Duchy of Cornwall estate is blasted by community in Scilly Isles as a ‘money making machine’ after it hiked annual rent on its land from £100 to £7,000 Duchy of Cornwall claims it sets its high fees following a ‘statutory formula’ Alan and Glenda Davis were shocked to find they couldn’t buy their … Read more
Married At First Sight EXCLUSIVE: Ivan Sarakula leaves his job at a top Sydney real estate agency over his appearance on Nine’s dating show By Joshua Fox For Daily Mail Australia Published: 19:11 GMT, 10 March 2020 | Updated: 19:11 GMT, 10 March 2020 Married At First Sight’s Ivan Sarakula left his job of two … Read more
There are a surprising number of islands in the Thames. Canvey and Sheppey, of course, but also smaller curiosities: Glover’s Island at Richmond and D’Oyly Carte Island, Weybridge, for example. And less than an hour’s drive from central London is an island which presents visitors with a near perfect retro-Georgian idyll. In 1738, Charles Spencer, … Read more
James Bond fans can snap up this stunning Jamaican home in an estate where parts of the 007 film Live and Let Die were filmed for a mere $2m (£1.5m). Hummingbird Hall sits on the famous Rose Hall Great House Estate and boasts panoramic views of Montego Bay. The poppy fields scene where Roger Moore … Read more
Princess Anne expressed her sadness yesterday after learning a dog breeder who worked for her had been shot dead in the cottage where Boris Johnson grew up. The Queen’s daughter said Debbie Zurick, who was allegedly shot by her estranged husband, will be ‘sorely missed’. John Zurick, 67, is suspected of killing his 56-year-old wife … Read more