Some people are still able to buy and sell expensive houses
Howard Lake | 8 September 2009 | Blogs
Lots of expensive houses are being bought and sold – as usual.
The (free) Wealth Bulletin www.wealth-bulletin.com has just published an item (from the Daily Mail) on Maurice Robson, (property and finance magnate), being forced to sell his family’s country estate near Woodstock, Oxfordshire, for £42 million to finance a divorce settlement with his estranged wife, Chloe. The Daily Mail reports that Robson inherited Kiddington Hall in 1982 from his father, Sir Lawrence Robson, a founder Robson Rhodes & Co., accountants. The Mail also reports that Robson has raised £2.6 million by selling his 19,000 acre estate in Scotland. Robson hasn’t appeared in recent Rich Lists, but might be worth watching, even if things aren’t looking too good for him at the moment. Am I being terribly mean?
Last week, Wealth Bulletin reported that Knight Frank said that the number of London homes selling for more than £1 million had increased by 234% compared to last year. In August, it included an item citing a report from Savills that properties in some of the UK’s top seaside resorts were still commanding prices double that of their urban counterparts. “Super-luxury properties” in places like Sandbanks in Dorset, Padstow and St Mawes in Cornwall, and Salcombe in Devon, are reported to have increased in price by up to 500% over the past 10 years.
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It can be a bit of a trudge, but some of the estate agency websites will tell you about expensive properties up for sale, and some of the house price websites give you information on the actual sale prices.
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Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
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