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Zoopla paints the town purple…with taxis…
Zoopla branded cab on the streets of London
We’ve decided to paint the town purple and have launched hundreds of Zoopla-branded cabs onto the streets of London.
Our branded London taxis, part of a multi-channel marketing campaign from Zoopla which also includes national TV (see below), print and radio, follow the campaign’s ‘smarter property search’ theme with each cab uniquely branded with different property data for various areas of the capital, giving Londoners the information they need to make better-informed property decisions.
Let us know if you spot one or take a ride in a Zoopla cab!
Here’s our latest TV campaign, in case you’ve not yet seen it:
Zoopla Purple Plaques – has someone famous lived in your home?
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Today we’ve launched a very exciting initiative called Purple Plaques – a scheme where we identify and recognise properties across the country where a celebrity/famous person has lived in the past.
First to be honoured under the scheme are the former homes of David Cameron (West London), Gary Barlow (Northwich), Liz Hurley (Basingstoke), Lewis Hamilton (Stevenage) and Chris Evans (Warrington) – you can see them here.
Zoopla Purple Plaques will be an ongoing scheme and one where we want you, the general public, to help us identify these homes where you know a former celebrity once lived – you can tell us here.
Inspiration for the scheme was taken from the Blue Plaques presented by English Heritage to properties associated with notable figures of the past – providing they have been dead for at least 20 years. The Zoopla Purple Plaque scheme will honour living celebrities and pay homage to the council flats, terraces, suburban semis and picturesque pads where they have lived across the UK…and unlike Blue Plaques, celebs don’t have to be dead for 20 years to qualify.
Today’s household names come from all walks of life and many are proud of their humble property beginnings compared to their penthouse suites and gated mansions of today. Cheryl Cole‘s childhood home in Heaton, Newcastle, where the average property value is £145,671 according to Zoopla.co.uk is a far cry from Hurtmore House in Oxshott where she lived with Ashley Cole and valued at £3.5m.
Our hunger for anything celebrity-related has as much impact on the property market as it does fashion, food or anything else. A property is more than just bricks and mortar and a unique history can improve a home’s marketability. Where Blue Plaques honour names of the past such as Sir Isaac Newton, Sir Edward Elgar and Lord Byron today’s buyers are just if not more interested in where Sir Elton John, Katie Price and Stephen Fry once lived.
We will be awarding many more plaques in coming months and years and would encourage homeowners treading the same boards that a star of stage once did or kicking a ball in what was the garden of a Premier League superstar are invited go to www.zoopla.co.uk/purpleplaques to apply for a Purple Plaque.
Here are the former homes of…
Chris Evans…
Former Warrington home of Chris Evans honoured by property website Zoopla.co.uk with a Purple Plaque
David Cameron…
Former London home of David Cameron honoured by property website Zoopla.co.uk with a Purple Plaque
Gary Barlow…
Former Cheshire home of Gary Barlow honoured by property website Zoopla.co.uk with a Purple Plaque
Lewis Hamilton…
Former Stevenage home of Lewis Hamilton honoured by property website Zoopla.co.uk with a Purple Plaque
Liz Hurley…
Former Basingstoke home of Liz Hurley honoured by property website Zoopla.co.uk with a Purple Plaques
Guess who Ryan Giggs bought his house from…
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In July 2004, Manchester United player Ryan Giggs purchased a 105 year-old Victorian property for sale, that at the time was called, Silver How.
A fascinating and somewhat timely fact we’ve discovered, thanks to a local Manchester newspaper, was that Mr Giggs actually purchased this house from a lady called Mary Wibberley.
Now, Mary Wibberley was a seller with an interesting career. She was a writer of romantic novels. An author of many romance novels for the Harlequin Presents imprint which later merged with non other than Mills & Boon in 1971: the UK’s undisputed market leader in romance fiction.
Her titles include: A Dangerous Man, Savage Love, Loves Sweet Revenge, Fire & Steel and Law of the Jungle, to name a few and Mills & Boon claimed that their:
…army of dedicated readers know that once they pick a brightly coloured paperback, they will be taken on an easy, thrilling read – with a guaranteed happy ending.
Love's Sweet Revenge (1979) A novel by Mary Wibberley
So, what can Zoopla tell us about the property?
Looking at Zoopla.co.uk sold house prices section (we have 16.6m), we see that the current owner paid £1,940,000 for the property on 23rd July 2004. We can also see from the Zoopla.co.uk sold house prices section that the previous owner (Mary Wibberley) paid £645,000 for the property on 25th October in 1996.
What we have also found out is that Ryan Giggs, having bought Silver How, immediately demolished the property in order to build the property we see above today. Not such a dissimilar story to that of the current Apprentice House.
We can tell you that the property is a six-bedroom home with landscaped gardens, every bathroom is en suite. There is also a four-car garage, a gym, sauna, swimming pool and steam room.
In terms of current home values in the area, properties on Chatsworth Road have an average value of £743,716 with properties in the M28 outcode (it sits within) have an average home value of £184,085.
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Duchess of Cambridge’s former Berkshire home auctioned – parents made £123,300 on sale in 1995
*UPDATE*
Today’s the day (June 3rd, 2011) when the hammer will fall on the Duchess of Cambridge’s former Berkshire home. What do you think it will fetch at auction? The guide price is £495,000.
Zoopla currently values it at £431, 682. Here is the home values page for the property on Zoopla.co.uk.
We also recently valued Wills and Kate’s first official residence at £47m.
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News broke today (4 April) that the child-hood home of Royal bride- to- be, Kate Middleton, is due to go up for sale by auction just after she gets married.
The auction listing price is due to be £495,000 and we currently value Kate Middleton’s childhood home at £433,060, down £15,897 (-3.5%) compared with this time last year.
The property is located in the village of Southend, Reading, RG7 where average property values are currently £430,794.
It’s believed her parents paid £34,700 for the four-bedroomed house in 1979 and our sold prices section on Zoopla show that the Middleton’s sold the property for £158,000 on 21st July 1995, netting them selves a tidy profit (before costs) of £123,300. Our sold price records also show that the current owners paid £395,000 for the property on 1st Jun 2004.
Zoopla.co.uk market overview for Southend, Reading, RG7
Kelly Hoppen’s stunning £6m home for sale on Zoopla.co.uk
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This unique Georgian terraced house has been put up for sale by its owner, the world-famous designer and interiors author, Kelly Hoppen MBE.
It’s a stunning property with a stunning price tag to match…£6,000,000!!
Located in the trendy Notting Hill area of London on Chepstow Crescent, W11 it’s set across four floors and, as the agent marketing the property says, it is:
…a homage to her style. Sensual, luxurious, indulgent and breath- takingly beautiful.
The property consists of:
- Drawing room, dining room, kitchen and breakfast room
- Master bedroom suite, guest bedroom suite
- Gymnasium, dressing room, cloakroom, large laundry room
- Designed garden, balcony and two terraces
- Separate staff entrance
- 2,574 sq ft /239 sq m
Let us know what you think of the property below or leave a comment on the Zoopla Facebook page. We think it’s a pretty stunning property, but one that needs a truck load of Mr Muscle to keep it shiny!
Here are the full details for Kelly Hoppen’s property for sale on Zoopla.co.uk
