Agency ties up England’s biggest land sale of the last 30 years

93 buildings - including an 11th Century former convent in Venice, and a 15th Century palazzo in Florence - are being sold off by the populist League and Five Star parties to help trim the country's €2.

In Pictures: The sale of The Blenkinsopp Estate is "a generational opportunity to purchase one of Northumberland’s pre-eminent estates," says Knight Frank.

More than half of waterside properties sold in the UK go to cash buyers, reports Knight Frank.