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Through the 3D-hole: Estate agents offer potential buyers interactive cyber tours of properties placed off-limits during coronavirus lockdown by using special virtual reality cameras Estate agents have not been granted essential status during the Covid-19 crisis House hunters are not allowed to visit properties which are up for sale in the UK Software companies have … Read more
This one-of-a-kind footage is believed to be the only video in existence showing the private lives of MI6 operatives working at a top secret country house during World War Two. The incredibly rare, 11-minute silent film, should not exist at all – owing to the highly secret nature of the Buckinghamshire facility where it was … Read more
KGB’s secret Cold War weapon: Russian agents drugged British and American ‘spies’ with poisoned sherry so they could ransack their hotel rooms for secrets, documents reveal Files from Britain’s National Archives recount a Cold War story from 1967 A British military attache and his American counterpart were seized at winery They were given a wine … Read more
Anyone who thinks this is no time to consider buying or selling a home with the country in lockdown and estate agents’ offices shut, should think again — and head for their laptop. Thousands of estate agents have accelerated plans to use digital technology to show off homes to buyers who they hope will remain … Read more
Rightmove is facing a backlash from estate agents who claim it is not doing enough to help them throughout the coronavirus crisis which is seeing them lose business amid plummeting home viewings and sales. The property listing website has offered estate agents a 75 per cent discount for the next four months as the housing … Read more
A #KeepCalmTravelOn campaign promoted by travel agents amid the coronavirus outbreak has been met with furious backlash. As flight and package holiday sales plummet, the travel industry launched the hashtag to ‘spread advice and travel deals’ to encourage people to keep going on holiday despite the epidemic. But the move has been branded ‘irresponsible’ and … Read more
Princess Corinna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein’s lawyers, Kobre & Kim, have written to Home Secretary Priti Patel and Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab to warn them of a potential diplomatic row It was strange enough that, in the small hours of June 2017, an unknown intruder found his way across the many dark acres of the Chyknell Hall Estate … Read more
You may have to travel at the last moment. You may go to a destination you had not previously considered. But you could well bag a bargain. Membership-based websites offering flash sales of package holidays or hotel stays have been around for a while, but competition is hotting up — and there are some great … Read more
House prices have risen across the country for the first time in 18 months amid a surge in confidence among buyers and sellers following the Tory election triumph. There has been ‘a noticeable pick-up’ in the housing market since Boris Johnson defeated Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn in December, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors said. But … Read more