Anna White
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Burnham's property dream is 'ambition we should all support' — but his plan 'ignores the countryside' and 'throws young Londoners under the bus', say agents (opens the original)
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Prime Minister Andy Burnham kicked off his speech to the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool this week not with pensions, Brexit or tax, but with a story about his grandmother, Kitty, in post-war Liverpool. 'She walked three miles out of the bombed-out city after the war to put a deposit down on a house,' he said. 'She put a deposit down on a house. The house where I was born. It changed the fortunes of my family... 'That home on Keble Drive unlocked the aspiration in my mum and dad for a bette
The 10 best far-flung villages worth a lengthy commute (opens the original)
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The London commuter belt swells periodically and slims back down again, and needs adjusting on a semi-regular basis. Traditionally this has been linked to the property cycle. When the London property market gets too hot, homeowners sell up, cash in and take advantage of the huge value gap between the capital and the countryside. Most recently the expansion of the commuter zone was due to a unforeseen disruption. During the pandemic and in the aftermath, commuters pushed the boundaries of travel
Two rural homes for sale on the historic Essex estate where H. G. Wells and the Countess of Warwick partied (opens the original)
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Novelist H. G. Wells (1866-1946), widely considered the father of science fiction, wrote about war, loss and grief in Mr Brightling Sees It Through and devised the rules of miniature battle gaming from an unlikely spot in the Essex countryside. The author who penned over 100 novels in his lifetime, including The War of the Worlds and The Invisible Man, spent the third chapter of his career writing about politics, history and social reform. This coincided with his move from Hampstead, London, to
10 super-commuter villages, where true country life is under an hour from London (opens the original)
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If pushed, most estate agents operating in the country-house market will admit that getting a sale done this year has felt like being stuck on a winding lane behind a load-bearing tractor. The data supports this, with prices for high end rural homes falling 7.8% during the 12 months to March 2026, according to Savills. This is, in part, a reversal of the covid 'race-for-space' boom as millions of workers have returned to the office at least three days a week. Stubborn inflation, sticky interest
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