FOCUS ON: BRENTWOOD, ESSEX November 3, 2011 LANGTONS, SOUTH WEALD Price: £2.8m This listed eight-bedroom country house has 11 acres of gardens and paddocks. It is situated opposite Weald Country Park. It has four reception rooms, three bathrooms, a heated swimming pool, tennis court and stables. Contact: Savills on 01245 293 233 or go to www.savills.co.uk KENDALL COURT, THE GALLERIES Price: £440,000 [...]
PROPERTY NEWS November 3, 2011 APARTMENTS FOR FAR EASTERN INVESTORS Weston Homes has just launched a new development in Cambridge. The company is marketing the homes exclusively to investors in the Far East. 120 apartments and townhouses are available. The prices range from £230,000 to £450,000. Contact: Weston Homes on 01279 873300 or go to www.weston-homes.com GALLERY SHOW HOMES Linden [...]
PROPERTY NEWS November 3, 2011 JACKSON-STOPS & STAFF IS OFFERING NEW HOMES IN OXTED A new development in Wyckham, Oxted containing 14 apartments has been launched by Jackson-Stops & Staff. It is 40 minutes from London by train. Contact: Jackson-Stops & Staff on 0845 771 1711 or go to www.jackson-stops.co.uk A new site close to the city has also launched. [...]
BUY November 3, 2011 DIRECTOR OF ESTATE AGENT DOUGLAS & GORDON Q.We’ve been offered a flat but the lease is less than 80 years. Should we avoid buying a short lease? A.The explosion in flat conversions sold off on 99-year leases in the 1980s has meant many of these flats now have leases approaching or below 80 years. In London, [...]
Miami vice: $60m for ultimate pad November 3, 2011 AN almost comically opulent property in Miami’s private Indian Creek Village is soon to come to market. The home, 3 Indian Creek, neatly shows that when it wants to be, America still means bigger and better. Courageously out of sync with high unemployment and a fresh wave of economic woe, this house is an unapologetic [...]
Machine Gun shoots, badly misfires November 3, 2011 Film MACHINE GUN PREACHER Cert: 15 THE true story of a drug-dealing criminal who is moved to help kidnapped children in war-ravaged Sudan, Machine Gun Preacher has explosions, sermons, and Gerard Butler in the lead role of Sam Childers. The real-life Childers found God in 1992 after years of violent crime and travelled to Sudan [...]
SOMETHING FOR THE WEEKEND | HELENA LEE November 3, 2011 COLLABORATORS Collaborators, a new play about Stalin, is on at the Cottesloe theatre and stars Simon Russell Beale and Alex Jennings. The evening may already be sold out, but day tickets are available, from £12. The play will also be broadcast to cinemas across the world on 1 December as part of National Theatre Live. [...]
A different stratosphere November 2, 2011 DO you dare store all your files remotely? Does the idea of shifting your entire My Documents folder online fill you with dread? Without us realising it, the more the world operates online, the more the world moves towards “cloud computing”. City A.M. asks Paddy Smith, online editor at the tech-specialty magazine Stuff (www.stuff.tv), what [...]
Q&A November 2, 2011 Q.WHAT IS THE CLOUD? A.Instead of accessing files from your hard drive, you are accessing files remotely. Cloud email is simply the way you’ve always accessed your webmail or Hotmail or Gmail. Cloud computing is taking that idea and extending it to everything you traditionally keep on your hard drive such as documents and pictures. [...]
OUT OF OFFICE November 2, 2011 SKYLON COCKTAIL CLASSES Jazz up your Monday and join in Skylon’s cocktail classes. Learn how to make the perfect Manhattan cocktail with mixologist Zoran Peric and evoke old school New York glamour against the London skyline. These drop-in classes are informal, so brush up your classic cocktail skills before taking dinner in the restaurant, or [...]