It's a blue and white beach hut near Southwold, and it's offers over £70,000. According to this, local agents are expecting something more like £80,000. According to the particulars it does come with some plastic chairs, windbreaks and a kettle.

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It's Highwood House in expensive Mill Hill, and it's significant because during the early 19th Century it was the home to Sir Stamford Raffles, the man who founded Singapore. That might not get you all excited, but it appears to be creating a fuss in Singapore, where there are calls for the building to be turned into a museum or bought and restored by a wealthy Singaporean. I can't find a listing, but the story goes that it's on the market for £3.5m.

If these walls could talk... HG Wells edition [May 2, 2008]

UPDATE - a hearty thanks to the Rat and Mouse reader who put me in touch with the particulars, here.

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It's 12 Fitzroy Road in Primrose Hill, the former home of author HG Wells, and thought to be the place where he at least started work on War of the Worlds (remember the references to the area?). It's with John D Wood, and a guide price of £3.25m buys you three reception rooms, four bedrooms and two bathrooms in one of the capital's most sought-after areas. Listing here.

[via the Times]

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It's a reader find:

I came across a duplex apartment in Mayfair above commercial premises. Price: £7,500,000. I know that the stigma of living above commercial premises has become less of late, but I wonder if it's enough for someone to spend this sort of money.

He's right. It's pulling a whisker under £2,000 a square foot, but then it's Mayfair, and we think we've seen £3,000 a square foot in Belgravia.

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It's a first floor studio in an ex-council block on Rotherhithe Old Road. It's near a tube (Surrey Quays), it's not that small, for a studio, and it's £99,950. It's with Kinleigh Folkard & Haywood, here.

[via FindaProperty]

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I've scoured the Sotheby's website but to no avail, so if anybody else can lay their mouse on the particulars, I'd be keen to hear from them. The story is that Sotheby's are marketing the Green Street (Mayfair) top floor flat rented for the Beatles by Brian Epstein in the autumn of '63, shortly after She Love You. It's the only property the Beatles stayed in together, and it's featured on the cover of The Beatles Book ('63 edition). Guide price: £1.75m.

UPDATE - THANKS TO MARK IN THE COMMENTS... A LINK.

If these walls could talk... Naked Chef edition (February 8, 2008]

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It's the Chequer Street house made famous by Jamie Oliver in his very first TV series. It's over three floors and has been expensively modernised with five plasmas and fibre optics, and comes with a garage. The famous spiral staircase remains, but my memory of The Naked Chef isn't good enough for me to be able to tell whether the kitchen's changed. It's with Stirling Ackroyd and it's POA (of course, if somebody would like to apply and let us know, we'd be all ears). Particulars here.

If these walls could talk... George Bernard Shaw edition [January 30, 2008]
If these walls could talk... Peter Pan edition [January 15, 2008]

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The secret of über-developer Lois Gosling, as revealed to the Telegraph:

"People earning huge sums want top products."

Gosling has an enviable track record, turning mammoth profits on swish properties in no time at all. As well as paying attention to the kit, she apparently works fast, claiming to go from first viewing to detailed plans, costs, finance and purchase in less than two days. She's currently selling Cornwall Gardens in Kensington, Queens Gardens in up-and-coming W2 and Langham Mansions in Earl's Court Square. If you're a budding property developer the Rat and Mouse recommends you read the Telegraph piece so you can see what you're competing against... well-connected, well-financed pros with cheap credit and ready-to-move crews.

The Lancasters - some prices revealed [January 17, 2008]
Hookahs, hookers and Tony Blair get lucky... it's Bayswater time [November 19, 2007]

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So, the dining room's not completely dead. This extraordinary dining room is part of a Whitehall Court apartment. The Court - described as "a palace of flats" - is a former home to George Bernard Shaw, William Gladstone, Lord Kitchener and even MI6 during the First World War. It's attached to the National Liberal Club, right in the heart of Whitehall. Just two bedrooms, two receptions, two bathrooms, but arguably one of the most remarkable addresses in London, it's with Chesterton's, guide price £3.5m. Particulars here.

[Thanks to Ronan]

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At the forefront of the rise of Bayswater , the Lancasters - Northacre's ambition redevelopment of the listed Thistle Hotel - has been a hot topic since work began in 2007. Apartments will become available in 2010 and prices have remained a closely guarded secret, despite a lot of interest (there's a sense of ground being tested here... developers keen to see what Bayswater might realistically become in the next five years). But this morning, thanks to a tip-off, the Rat and Mouse can reveal some numbers. The first release involves two-bedroom apartments, with a guide price ranging from £1.9m to £2.5m. So you think that's a lot? You're right. Square footage is estimated at 1,046 to 1,415... giving a price per square foot of over £1,700. In Kensington & Chelsea, it's only just broken the £1,000 barrier.

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A six-bedroom house on Gloucester Road... and the former home of J.M. Barrie, author of Peter Pan. Barrie is believed to have been living at the house when he wrote the book, and the house has several interesting original features... the original sink in the bathroom, a dumb waiter. It's with Foxtons, here, with a guide price of £6.75m.

If these walls could talk... Biba edition [September 13, 2007]

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According to this trip around 61/2 Redington Road in Hampstead, it's had half the Arsenal team sniffing around its fingerprint entry system, floor-to-ceiling glazing and Ralph Lauren bed. It's a remarkable place... four bedrooms, John McAslan and Partners design, double garage... with Quintessentially Estates, guide price £6m (although I can't find any sign of it on their website... if you want pictures, go here for the Telegraph slideshow). It's apparently not so remarkable it hasn't been on the market for a while, though. Here's a piece from June, and the Times, welcoming the property to the market.

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Interior designer Richard Adams bought it in 2004 for £250,000, and set about scraping the snails off the damp carpet. Now, it's all silk wallpapered, Venetian chandeliered and juxtaposing Baroque with Modern in a way designers pull off and I don't. And it's on the market for £650,000 (the furnishings to be sold separately). Where? Cheyne Court, in Chelsea. Particulars, here. Interesting piece in the New York Times, here.

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£1,245,000? It's clearly neither here nor there when it comes to top London property. So it's here, in an interesting Telegraph piece about a Highbury Place mansion, over five floors, and with a separate converted coach house and 19 garages (currently let out and bringing in £20,000 a year... not far off what the current owner paid for the entire property back in the 1960s). According to the Telegraph, the guide price is £5.95m. But it's not there... in the Savills particulars, which list the property at £4.75m.

[One theory - I notice that the particulars make no mention of the garages. Have the owners decided not to part with a valuable going concern? Or are they being sold separately?]

The property's beautiful, and with an interesting history. Neighbours included Neville Chamberlain's dad, and the Rolling Stones apparently recorded in the basement.

For sale: the best view in London? [November 7, 2007]

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93 Albert Embankment, SE1. Three beds, three baths, on the ninth floor, with views over the Houses of Parliament and the Tate. With Fine & Country, guide price: £3.55m.

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In Mayfair, according to the Telegraph, and I've got to trust their judgement on this, it's out with the fat old cigar smokers and in with the hip. Evidence? New clubs are opening, buzzy boutiques and restaurants, celebs are being spotted... oh... and this:

In the summer, [Richard] Cutt [of Knight Frank] sold a fabulous apartment in a modern development in Davies Street over Cipriani's at £2,300 per square foot. "The price last year for that flat was £1,300." And he is now marketing a smart three- bedroom flat in Green Street for £5 million, equating to £2,439 a square foot. This is one for the boys with all the toys - Lutron lighting, Creston sound system, Baulthaup kitchen, top of the range TVs and electronic blinds.

Meanwhile, even East Dulwich is continuing to distance itself from Peckham in every way it can short of tearing up the Earth's very crust and leaving a wide rupture along the A2214. According to resident Ginetta Vedrickas - also writing in the Telegraph - it's become so chi-chi it's in danger of just becoming chite. Foxtons have arrived, house prices are shooting up, and residents are concerned the area might be about to lose its character. Before leaving us to worry about the future of SE22, she does, however, point out a few tasty properties, including this rather special former bakery on Silvester Road, currently being used as an office but presumably - judging by the particulars - with a residential future. Guide price £750,000.

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It's vanished, gone from Knight Frank's listings, with just this ghostly hint at what was, on Nestoria:

But when you click it, you get nowhere...

Lucky the RealEstalker got the scoop here.

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From the Huf Haus Owners Group (a group the Rat and Mouse would very much like to join, but lacks one particular qualification):

If you're not up on the Huf, it was the brainchild of German architect Peter Huf: a kind of über-prefab, all glass, beams, eco-friendly materials and striking good looks.

The Beaconsfield Huf Haus is listed at £1.6m.

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Fun, here, as the Telegraph's Ginetta Verdrickas visits an arresting Victorian water tower in Plumstead, converted into a highly original eight-storey, four-bedroom home (with lift). Inside, it's all Lutron and Starck, but makes sensible use of original features and - via its top-floor observatory - incredible views across London. It's with John Payne, listed at £1.395m. Particulars (a PDF download) here

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Once home to Biba creator Barbara Hulanicki, this 4-story townhouse in Kensington Park Road still features the odd nod to the fashion icon, even though she hasn't lived there since the 1980s. Check out the kitchen units... hmm. It's with Foxtons and it ain't cheap... this big house (with a garden and conservatory) is listed at £3.4m, here. Click through to the particulars for a cornucopia of photografia.

If these walls could talk... Derek Jarman edition [September 6, 2007]

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A fourth-floor studio apartment on Charing Cross Road, charing the building with the Phoenix Theatre, and home - through much of the 1980s and 90s - to writer-director Derek Jarman. There are rumours, too, that the flat was once occupied by Christine Keeler. Unfortunately... no hint they ever lived there at the same time, but imagine the parties. 19 Phoenix House is remembered in Jarman's diaries, as a creative hothouse where he wrote and produced much of his work. It's with Chesterton, at £325,000. Particulars here.

If these walls could talk... Carry On edition [July 19, 2007]
If these walls could talk... Elton John edition [July 16, 2007]

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As promised, I'll be dropping in a few choice properties that didn't make it into the Rat and Mouse's special ten days of property porn. This morning, a £9m, 3-bedroom (yes - those numbers are correct) house in The Vale between Fulham Road and the Kings Road, which I received by email (the particulars, not the house) just after leaving for my vacation. It's described as a studio house. I'm not entirely sure what that means. It's also described as spectacular. What do you think? Particulars, here.

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A Grade 2-listed, five bedroom home on Firs Avenue, with a clever arrangement around a central garden with silver birch trees, an indoor swimming pool hidden beneath a removable floor, an emphasis on natural light. It's with Foxtons, at £2.95m, and you'll find lots of photos here. By the way - this one isn't courtesy of Rat and Mouse readers. This one's my choice.

The Particulars - what's this about?

Thanks to the Rat and Mouse reader with expensive tastes who sent us this. Old Swan House, at 32 Chelsea Embankment, is a £32m mansion, 19,000 sq ft and Grade 1-listed. You can tell it's the real deal because its staff bedrooms outnumber the guest bedrooms, adding up to 20. The dining room seats 20, there's a swimming pool, lift, ballroom, cinema and underground parking for five cars. Particulars, here.

Tomorrow, silver birches in Muswell Hill.

The Particulars - what's this about?

I have friends in New York and, like Londoners, they like to talk apartments. But when it comes to property in our capital city, they just don't get it. A two-bedroom, one reception room, single floor home without a garden for... £1.85m. How does that happen? It's all about the quest for the original, the quest for character in a city packed with hidden gems. Lantern House is in Elvaston Mews, one of the last in London with an actual working stable. It's close to Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens. There's nothing else like it. Particulars, here.

Tomorrow, Chelsea mansion.

The Particulars - what's this about?

Pretty name, pretty house, colossal price tag. Vine and Bell Cottage is a 17th Century five-bedroom home on the corner of Fulham's Winchendon Road, and if it looks like a country cottage that's because it was a country cottage. Back in the day, this was countryside... an out of town residence for loaded Londoners. It comes with off-street parking for several cars, which, in this neighbourhood, is worth a mention. It's listed - clutch something sturdy - at £4m, with Lane Fox, here.
Tomorrow... a mews with a working stable.

The Particulars - what's this about?

Welcome back. One more week of interesting London properties suggested by Rat and Mouse readers.

Two bedrooms, one bathroom, in a converted mews house in Cricklewood, housing two further apartments. We like the way the conversion has retained so many original features. You get exposed brickwork, oak floors, original Victorian radiators, loading doors, vaulted timber ceilings, It's not a neighbourhood I know well... comments welcome (although they might take longer to appear than normal since I'm on vacation right now). Oakland Mews is listed at £549,950, with Urban Spaces, here.

Tomorrow... a country cottage... in London.

The Particulars - what's this about?

We can't comment on the area (Brunel Road)... other than rumours it can get a bit noisy down there. The Sausage Factory - submitted by a Rat and Mouse reader - looks stunning, even more so with a list price of £585,000. Three bedrooms, two bathrooms, three levels, a balcony and large roof terrace. And lots of glass... if that's your thing. For particulars, go to CityScope (we can't find a direct link).

The Particulars - what's this about?

A 2/3 bedroom conversion in The Paragon - a Victorian school conversion on Searles Road, off the New Kent Road. This is a ground floor apartment, but with double-height ceilings and an unusual layout, plus distinctive design features. The Rat and Mouse reader who sent this in drew out attention to the oak staircase and glass banister. Well spotted. Looks like a cool home office at the top. It's with Urban Spaces, listed at £795,000, here.

Tomorrow... a sausage factory.

The Particulars - what's this about?

But you'll have to be prepared to spend £3.35m. This four-bedroom home in Bark Place comes with a mews house and garage at the bottom of the garden. Plus conservatory, proper wine cellar and planning permission to extend. Full details here.

Tomorrow... a Victorian school conversion.

Contemporary design and views across London, for £325,000... a top-floor two-bedroom apartment with modern styling, a 23x22ft living room and the opportunity for off-street parking. It's in a gated development, Chartwell Court, in NW2. Particulars here.

Tomorrow... buy one house, get one free.

The Particulars - what's this about?

Kicking the series off... a bright and arresting, love-it-or-hate-it three-bedroom modern townhouse on Kensington's Abingdon Road off Kensington High Street, with off-street parking, a huge reception room, conservatory, garden and innovative design. £3.9m, here

Tomorrow, a budget penthouse.

The Particulars - what's this about?

If you've visited Portsmouth you've probably spotted that circular fortress, known as No Man's Land, lying about a mile off in the Solent. (And if you haven't visited Portsmouth, why not visit somewhere else instead?) Not being the kind of person who carries binoculars, I've never had the opportunity to get a closer look at it... until now. Apparently, it's for sale... and it's not just a weird rock in the ocean; it's a very cool luxury home fit for a Bond villain. Twenty-one bedrooms, two helipads, swimming pool, gym, amusement arcade... but the best bit is the giant atrium in the middle. No Man's Land dates - apparently - from the 1860s, when it was built to keep the French out. Its more recent history includes Doctor Who and commercial property fraud. It's now being sold to recoup some money from the aforementioned fraud... and it's on the market listed at £4m. A bit of historical perspective... here.

[photos via FindAProperty]

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Haven't you heard? Camden's great. And you don't get too many opportunities like this anymore. Floor-to-ceiling windows, a proper 1,173 sq ft blank canvas with the potential for some real open-plan living, and a Parkway address. With Urban Spaces, at £575,000.

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Nell Gwynn House, Hopton Street - once home, it's believed, to one of London's most celebrated actress-courtesans (and lover to King Charles II) - is listed with Hamptons with a guide price of £995,000. It's an extraordinary little gem, believed to be the oldest in the neighbourhood, and dating back further than implied in the listing. It comes with two bedrooms, a garden and allocated parking. You can download pdf particulars by clicking this.

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It's a Buckingham Place, Westminster townhouse... eight bedrooms, a terrace and a garden (note to non-Londoners: gardens in this neighbourhood are rare as travelers' teeth), and it's weighing in at a hefty £4.85m. It also comes with an elegant bit of history. It was previously owned by JFK's sister-in-law, the superbly named Princess Radziwill, and was Kennedy's London martini-pad of choice during his presidential years. Particulars, courtesy of Knight Frank, here.

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Rosalind Russell, writing in the Telegraph, pays designer of theatrical fashion Gail Berry a visit in her theatrical Hanwell semi (which, as it happens, is for sale, with Hamptons, at £665,000... although you won't find it on their website right now). It's a story of chandeliers in every room, Gothic detail and small dogs.

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Way back when the Rat and Mouse was just a little start-up, long before we even had premises and a receptionist, let alone valet parking, we drew readers' attention to the irony that Bob the Builder creator Keith Chapman was having something of a hard time getting his builders to finish work on his four-story house in Putney. Chapman had invited the Telegraph over to survey the damage. Well... today, they're back, and the house is on the market for £2.25m.

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It's with Savills, listed at £3.2m... a warehouse flat in Clink Wharf, SE1, overlooking the Thames, with three bedrooms, three bathrooms, one reception room and a balcony... and it was the setting for the Hugh Grant/Renee Zellweger big pants scene in Bridget Jones's Diary. Particulars, here.

[via Daily Mail]

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It's on Great Cumberland Place, it's a Grade 2-listed house with ten bedrooms, four bathrooms, five reception rooms and a balcony, it needs complete renovation after being used as a clinic for a number of years, it's priced at £5.75m and... oh yeah... it shares a party wall with Madonna. Particulars here.

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We're back in Notting Hill, with what is pretty much certainly the first converted church organ factory to appear in the Rat and Mouse. Four bedrooms, four bathrooms, a garden, off-street parking and cool conservatory (inappropriate furniture not mandatory), on Swanscombe Road. It's with Bective Leslie Marsh, and has a guide price of £3.95m

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Thanks to the reader who alerted us to this little ten-bedroom Holland Park hideaway, marketed by Knight Frank with a guide price of £28m. Yes, ten bedrooms, 12 bathrooms to ensure that everybody's really clean, six receptions rooms to ensure that everybody can receive their own guests, and leisure facilities that include an indoor swimming pool and a funny little man statue in the back garden.

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It's a bit of a triumph for unconventional estate agency franchise Re/Max... 17 Gerald Road in Belgravia was home to Noel Coward between 1930 and 1956, and the venue for some truly star-studded parties. It features a double-height reception room (extra clearance for all those egos), four bedrooms, a library and roof terrace. It also comes with 1 Burton Mews, which adds another two bedrooms, a garage and off-street parking (and was used, at the time, as an office by Coward's secretary). It's on the market with a guide price of £4 million. Too, too glamorous. Particulars, here.

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A three-bedroom house in north Clapham's Burgoyne Road - three bedrooms, one bathroom, lots of stripes. £465,000 with Aspire.

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It was (just) less than a year ago when the Rat and Mouse said "goodbye" to Knightsbridge's Bowater House and "hello" to news that it was to be replaced by a Rogers/Candy & Candy construction of 86 apartments.

The talk is of higher than high end, with price tags reaching £20 million...

... we said. Well, if only we'd have known. London's currently packed to the bonuses with UHNWIs (ultra-high-net-worth individuals) and rich people are said to be going nuts about the properties, even though One Hyde Park isn't yet a reality. In fact, there is already talk of penthouses in the development exchanging hands for £84 million.

[image from Candy & Candy website]

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It measures 10 feet 6 inches by 8 feet 9 inches, but it does come with a balcony, so there's a bit of extra space if you're very wide or very tall. It's on Winchester Street in Pimlico... really not a bad area at all. Our favourite part of the particulars:

This is a very light flat facing North East.

It's with Stern Studios, and it's at £139,000 for anyone brave enough to accept indemnity insurance in lieu of planning permission. Viewings Thursday February 8, 6.15-6.45pm and Friday February 9, 1-1.30pm.

And if you're stuck for idea about how to furnish your new mini-flat, check this for some ideas, courtesy of SketchUp user Simple Simon.

Only in Chelsea - flat the size of a snooker table: £170,000 [January 22, 2007]

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Well, not really. Writing in the Telegraph, Hannah Nemeth takes the forthcoming Shard as inspiration for a bit of domestic glass wall glamour. She visits a fund manager in Roedean Crescent, Roehampton (what? you like him already?) who bought a plot, knocked down the house and built two: one for him, one for a rich neighbour. Both designs are radically glass-heavy, and - in my opinion, anyway - they seem to work very well (although they look a little close together). Savills are handling the spare one (pictured), and it's priced at £2.9 million, which says to me... fund well-managed.

The Rat and Mouse - now with added search [January 29, 2007]

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You've just been looking at Swan House, down the road at 17 Chelsea Embankment. Sixteen bedrooms, views of the Thames, swimming pool, lift, theatre, plasma TV (just kidding)... it's listed at £32 million and it's one of a handful of London properties in a special Forbes feature about how the fabulously rich are forming fabulously long queues outside fabulously happy London estate agents' offices because multimillion pound superhomes with for sale signs are fabulously rare here right now. Which is, of course, all correct. Except it's interesting that the slide show starts with Updown Court and Toprak Mansion, both of which have been on the market for, well, forever...

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It's 12ft by 6ft, an unconverted cleaner's cupboard in the basement of 18 Cadogan Place, and it's still, apparently, full of rubble. The property has already received three offers. Interviewed in the Times, a Lane Fox director suggests someone might want to use it as a place to store their housekeeper or au pair.

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Following news that Sealand might be for sale - a virtual visit in photographs and movies.

For sale: Nation State [January 10, 2007]

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Actually, the links between Vlad the Impaler - the former Prince of Wallachia (pictured below and inspiration for Dracula) who found a method for extracting hours of entertainment from just a sharpened stick and an enemy - and Bran Castle are pretty tenuous. He might have spent a few months there, impaling, and he's also thought to have been imprisoned there, later. But the creepy castle - only relatively recently returned to the family of its original owners, after confiscation by the Communists - is up for sale. Dominic Habsburg, a New York architect, wants to sell it to the local city council for $78 million. Romania's Culture Minister, however, claims the castle's worth just a quarter of that.

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You might have heard of Sealand - twin towers and a platform perched above the North Sea, built during the Second World War to guard the entrance to the Thames Estuary. Ever since a crazy retired soldier restored the structure in 1967 and declared it a principality (he's now Prince Roy), it's been a favourite of quiz bores and the not-a-lot-of-people-know-that brigade. Now, it's for sale.

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According to the Sunday Times, the Emir of Qatar is selling Beechwood, his 11-acre estate off Hampstead Heath. However, there's no website, no particulars, few details... although the articles mentions £65 million as a likely guide price. And apparently, it's a little bit 1980s inside. Interestingly, the Emir isn't leaving London, he's just moving more central, and has paid £37.5 million for an office building, which he will convert into a colossal family home.

Time for a bit of property porn: a two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment on Mayfair's Upper Brook Street with five south-facing windows lighting up the reception room. The other walls are wood-paneled. It's in a block with lift and porter, and it's with Brompton, listed at £1.25 million. Particulars here.

It's a studio , on the 3rd floor of a 1930s mansion block (Basildon Court) on Devonshire Street, Marylebone. Good, central location, communal roof terrace, hall, big window, fold-down bed and storage. It's with Stern Studios, listed at £199,950. Viewings are by appointment, lunchtime Friday 15, or lunchtime or 5.45-6.30pm Monday 18

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Everybody wants to live in Chiswick right now. Have you ever wondered what one of those flats above the shops on the High Road is like? Here's a new conversion, on the market with Featherstone Leigh, comprising four bedrooms, one reception and two bathrooms... 1,948 square feet of space. It's listed at £595,000, and it's very convenient for Superdrug.

Here's an interesting one, on Arabin Road in Brockley. Two hundred and fifty thousand pounds buys you 552 square feet of open-plan living converted out of a former commercial garage (originally, a coach house, built in the 1840s) and still featuring the inspection pit. It's with KFH, particulars here.

Yes, it's Eaton Square, SW1... I'm not trying to pull the wool over your eyes with some other Eaton Square in, Glasgow, say. The catch is the lease, which has just another 14 years left. But, you say, you can extend a lease. That's true, I say, you can. But it might cost you a packet, say Colin & Justin, who write further about the property, here.

Two Times property journalists told "go out and spend £12 million [October 20, 2006]

A three-bedroom bungalow in Poole (a part of the UK with a property market as crazy as London's)... guide price, £1 million.

Particulars here.

Actually, I'm not positive they were actually given the £12 million to spend... but they certainly went out on a property shopping fantasy, one to Belgravia, one to Mayfair. In Belgravia, £12 million bought 76 Eaton Square (above) - my own favourite of the two - and a sensibly modern reworking of giant three-bedroom apartment on the right side of the square. In Mayfair, the choice a slightly strange part- reconversion of a series of offices and flats back into a giant home comprising some of 44 and some of 46 next door. 44 Park Street (below) is by Northacre, and - named The Ambassadorial - goes the Ferrero Roche route in terms of ambience. Interestingly, though, there's a "curved first-floor ballroom" where Churchill once held cabinet meetings. Read the full piece here.

And here are a few photos from Northacre's Ambassadorial launch party. Security, it appears, wasn't what it should have been, and a bunch of women managed to sneak in disguised as fixtures and fittings.

The Telegraph has done a good job of tracking down homeowners who've bagged property bargains by putting up with a bit of extraneous noise, and properties currently for sale which offer more in the way of facilities, if you're prepared to live near a potential disturbance. Like a pub. One that caught my eye is this bright and spacious three-storey home attached to the Queen Elizabeth pub in Bagleys Lane, Fulham. It's being sold by architec