News Archive: quirky and amusing: 2012

09, 2012 March:

Top five villages in need of an owner

The village of Courbefy caused a stir recently when it was put up for sale. All of it. For £275,000. But it's not just in France that you can buy a whole hamlet: villages in need of an owner are popping up all over the globe. If purchasing a house is simply not enough, here are five villages currently for sale, from abandoned resorts in France to ancient stone farms in Croatia.

28, 2012 February:

Lilliput homes make large splash in Italy

The Eurozone crisis has crippled many countries, causing economies to shrink several times over - but now the properties are getting smaller too. Micro-apartments are flooding the housing market as Italy tries to combat the recession. These tiny homes, dubbed "Lilliput properties", are popping up all across Rome, offering as little as 4 square metres of floor space to lucky buyers.

10, 2012 February:

Pisa’s Tower Straightened for Real

On the 1st of April 2006 we published an April Fool story entitled "Tourists in Pisa surprised to find tower straightened".

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