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For buyers interested in taking their home security to the next level, this pair of historic forts floating off the coast of England might suit. The duo, dubbed No Mans Fort and Spitbank Fort, are nestled in the sea between the Isle of Wight and Portsmouth on the mainland and they’re headed under the hammer with Savills on June 18 with a guide price of £1 million (US$1.26 million) each. Though both are currently used as hotels, each has pre-existing permission to be converted into a residential property for a buyer or buyers looking for the ultimate private escape.   (No Mans Fort is a 35-minute boat ride from the mainland. Savills) Mansion Global couldn’t...

A stunning mansion has hit the market for $3,295,000 (£2,600,000) – and it’s a model train lover’s dream. The six-bedroom property boasts over 20,890 square feet, including eight bathrooms, a wood-burning fireplace, gym, sauna and walk-in wardrobe. But the real surprise is in the basement where a full model train set takes up almost the entire room. The incredible collection includes buildings, depots, stops, bridges, crossovers, mountains, towns and villages. Even the walls have been painted to match the tracks, making guests feel as though they are right in the middle of a station like Liverpool Street because who wouldn’t want to be reminded about their...

First of all, who knew royalty lived in leafy Potomac, MD, well known for its historic river and “Real Housewives” franchise? Records indicate, however, that an elegant property in this Washington, DC, metro community belongs to the Crown Prince of Iran, Reza Pahlavi. The home was last purchased in 1996 for $1.25 million, and the prince has reportedly been caring for and renovating it ever since. The surprisingly understated, gated compound includes a seven-bedroom, 7.5-bath, stone-and-brick clad, Georgian-style main house, as well as a large carriage house with parking and living accommodations. The buildings, which total 11,522 square feet, were first erected in 1989. With...

ADVICE on how to win the lottery was given by a man who won a whopping seven times. Richard Lustig of Orlando, Florida, has won more than a million dollars and swears by these few tips.   (Seven-time lottery winner Richard Lustig recommends keeping to a formula to have the best odds.Credit: Getty)   (Theodorus Struyck used one of Lustig's tips to win the lottery.Credit: The US Sun - Commissioned by The US Sun Digital edition)   “The three things you can do to increase your chances of winning a lottery game is to pick your own numbers and stick with them every time,” Lustig told Unilad on Friday. “Set a budget. “And never spend rent or...

The $200,100 winning bid for a private lunch with software titan Marc Benioff might appear disappointing at first glance after years of multimillion-dollar bids for a private meal with investor Warren Buffett, but the winner also pledged to donate a total of $1.5 million to the California homeless charity that benefits from the auction. The weeklong eBay auction that raises money for the Glide Foundation in San Francisco wrapped up Friday night. This is the first year that a meal with Benioff, who is Salesforce’s Chairman and CEO, was the prize after Buffett raised $53 million for Glide over more than two decades of lunches. The winner of the Benioff auction chose to remain...

WITH a council £1.3 billion in debt and services cut to the bone, most people in hard-up Tilbury have given up on voting. The port town in Essex, which has no pub or public toilets but plenty of boarded-up shops, has one of the lowest turnouts  for elections in the country.     (Tilbury, in Essex, has one of the country's lowest voter turn-outs.Credit: Peter Jordan)   (The area has no pubs after crime-plagued venues were shuttered.Credit: Peter Jordan) Even though it is home to London’s biggest dock, a terminal for cruise liners and a huge Amazon distribution centre, the town’s unemployment rate is close to twice the national average. New...

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Everyone has their hobbies, and one of mine just so happens to be whiling away hours on Rightmove, fantasising about living in houses I will never be able to afford. So you can bet I was pretty darn excited to discover a listing for Britain’s most expensive flat on the market for an eye-watering £175,000,000. The five-bedroom penthouse is located in the iconic One Hyde Park development in Knightsbridge, London, a complex made up of four luxury apartment buildings. According to the latest Rightmove data, properties in Knightsbridge had an overall average price of £2,915,809 over the last year, making this home more than 60 times the average property price in the...

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A group of around 1,500 homebuyers in the Chinese city of Tianjin, near Beijing, have yet to see — let alone move into to — the apartments they said they paid for about eight years ago. As is common in China, the apartment complex in Tianjin sold the units before they were completed. The promise was that they would be ready by 2019, but the majority are still unfinished, according to five of the homebuyers, who spoke to CNBC via telephone but requested anonymity out of fear of retaliation. The buyers are a mix of people who paid in full upfront but also in smaller installments. Their concerns are just one example of the wider challenges that persist in pockets of...