A TEENAGER who was critically injured in a horror fall at his South Tyneside home has died. Grant Adams suffered horrific throat injuries after falling into a sunbed at his flat in South Frederick Street, Laygate, South Shields, at 9am on Sunday. One of the sunbed’s glass lighting tubes pierced his jugular, and the 17–year–old [...]
The Police star recently sold a house in Green Park for £7.5 million, and now he has put his nine-bedroom mansion over looking St James's Park on the market for more than £20 million, according to The Sun newspaper. The publication reports Sting and his wife Trudie Styler bought the expansive property for around £5.7 [...]
Nowhere in life is the old adage that beauty is in the eye of the beholder truer than in real estate. One woman’s dream home might be a mid-century modern, Mad Men styled contemporary, while another’s includes all the gingerbread charm of a classic Victorian. But when it comes to prepping a home to be [...]
The reforms by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) aim to tackle the rise of the compensation culture and reduce the amount being paid out unnecessarily by insurance companies - which can lead to higher premiums for honest customers. The price of average motor insurance fell by more than £100 over the last year, according to [...]
Many house sellers, particularly those in the less desired northern areas, have their home on the open property market for more than six months – and finally end up selling for less than 80% of their original asking price,” reports Richard Mews, senior relationship manager of sell my house fast company, Property Result. For this [...]
BILLY Connolly has sold his Scottish mansion and estate for almost £3 million. The comedian and his wife, Pamela Stephenson, have parted with Candacraig House, the baronial home in Aberdeenshire they bought in 1998. Connolly, commonly known as the Big Yin, used the property as a Highland retreat and often hosted famous guests there including [...]
Government mortgage schemes in Scotland are hitting their targets by helping first-time buyers rather than fuelling price hotspots, the industry said this week. First-time buyers took out 5900 new loans in Scotland in the first quarter of 2014, up 31% on a year ago, and 45% higher in value, according to the Council of Mortgage [...]
An elderly widower whose wife died after an accident on holiday has been forced to wait seven months before finally receiving a £20,000 payout due to him from his travel insurer – with The Mail on Sunday’s help. Peter Hicks, 83, and his wife Jean, 80, who had difficulty walking, were on a cruise in [...]
Less than half of areas saw house prices rise in May, as further signs emerged that tougher new mortgage rules are putting the squeeze on borrowers and cooling the housing market. House prices continued to rise across the UK in May but there has been a slight slowdown in the rate of inflation compared to [...]
Some 7,313 homes have been sold so far under the Help to Buy mortgage guarantee scheme, the Treasury says. The figures are the first comprehensive measure of the scheme since it was launched late last year. The numbers from the Treasury also show that 80% of the properties sold went to first-time buyers. The majority [...]