Liverpool’s new £16million signing from AC Milan has been on the hunt for property since his return, and has reportedly chosen a rural area north of the city as his new base.
The Italian is said to have settled on this £4.7m five bedroom mansion located in Cheshire, complete with all the essentials for a multi-millionaire footballer.
The luxury mansion, christened “Steppingstone”,also boasts a helipad, an indoor spa pool and a seven-a-side football pitch in the front garden.
British house prices barely rose during August, according to Britain's biggest mortgage lender Halifax, adding to other signs of moderation in the housing market.
The average house price rose 0.1pc in August to £186,270, slowing sharply from an increase of 1.2pc in July, the Halifax House Price Index showed.
Between June and August prices rose 3pc when compared to the previous three months, however this quarterly growth was down from 3.5pc last month.
On an annual basis prices rose 9.7pc in the three months to August, but this was down from 10.2pc in July.
Halifax said there are tentative
Measuring just 84in wide, this terrace home in Haringey, will be auctioned with starting price of £235,000 next month - same price as a four-bed in Burnley.
Buyers will have to sit under the stairs in the super-slim living room but they do also get a roof terrace. “I think it will appeal to owner-occupiers or perhaps an investor,” said James McHugh of estate agent McHugh & Co, who is handling the sale. A buy-to-let landlord, he said, could rent out the corridor-shaped home for around £1,300 a month.
The London house was built, in a driveway, in 1996 by a keen entrepreneur who wanted to make
Six months on from the launch of the UK Land Registry’s Property Alert service more than 12,000 people have signed up to the free service which provides an early warning of suspicious activity on someone’s property.
The Land Registry has stopped fraud on properties worth more than £66 million in the last five years. In a recent case, two fraudsters managed to pocket £50,000 by selling an empty home they didn’t own. Staff at the Land Registry spotted the fraud before it was registered but the fraudsters got away with the money and are still wanted by the police.
The Free service can be set up
Auction House has announced that a record number of lots were sold by the firm in July, marking a six year high for UK industry as a whole.
The group sold 379 lots in the month, an 8% increase on its previous best, raising £38.5 million in the process.
Auction House Founding Director Roger Lake said that the record figures highlighted the buoyancy of the property auctions sector.
“As our numbers demonstrate, regional auctions are becoming more and more popular. But it’s the increasing consumer confidence in the auction method of sale that is the important driver. With auction fast
A £250m guide price has been placed on New Scotland Yard as the Metropolitan Police prepares to move to a smaller headquarters on the Victoria Embankment.
The office block near Victoria station has housed the Met since 1967, but is being sold off as part of a cost-cutting effort. Having housed the force's headquarters since 1967, the 0.7-hectare (1.7-acre) site could accommodate three or four blocks of flats, shops and offices with views of Buckingham Palace, St James's Park and the Houses of Parliament.
Up to 200 police buildings are due to be sold by 2016, with £124.5m already brought in by
A tiny, unmodernised one bed London flat, which is currently uninhabitable has been sold for more than its £600,000 asking price by Hamptons International.
Not the most appealing of properties....as well as having only 30 years remaining on its lease, it is said to shake when tube trains pass nearby.
However its location on Stanhope Gardens in South Kensington has attracted a lot of interest from potential buyers, with the new owner expected to spend at least an additional £350,000 to extend the lease and fully renovate and update the interior.
James Wardle, director of the Hamptons office in
Russian bank, Sberbank, one of the country's biggest lenders, is giving free cats to people who take out a mortgage, in an attempt to capitalise on a Russian superstition that a cat entering your home first is good luck.
Customers are being offered a choice of 10 felines, which will be delivered to their home. The bank's website features 10 breeds, including Toffee, a siamese, Timothy, a tabby, and Kuzma, a Sphynx.
Sberbank's advert features two van drivers handing over a white cat to an excited couple who have just bought a home. It also shows the couple in a branch talking about a mortgage
And no, we're not telling you porky pies! The "unique" one-bedroom house for sale in Ipswich apparently comes with a resident pig.
A bizarre property listing featuring a photo of a very large sleeping pig has sparked online intrigue. The photo listing also features a cat sitting on top of an oven!
There is no mention of what the pig is doing inside the property or if the animal will be residing there to greet prospective buyers.
Ipswich-based estate agents, Connells, who listed the detached property on Rightmove, later removed the photo.
Can you spot the pussy cat?
New research from London rental website Rentonomy has earmarked the south-east London district of Woolwich as the capital’s top area for students to rent.
The report, which analyses 200 postcode districts across the capital, compares average monthly room costs, journey times to central London, crime levels - and the all-important number of local pubs, bars and clubs - to rank the top 25 areas for students to live throughout the capital.
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