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Buy of the week: Streatham Hill
On leafy Downton Avenue in SW2, plenty of family space can be yours for £550,000 at this Edwardian home. There are four bedrooms and a convertible loft space, and the open-plan kitchen/breakfast room has French windows to a good-size garden.
Swap of the week: Dalwood, Devon
Cosy up by woodburning stoves or cook a feast in the vaulted kitchen/breakfast room of this 18th-century thatch for £525,000. Three bedrooms overlook cottage gardens and a timber studio makes a perfect home office.
Life-changer: St Erth Praze, Cornwall
Tregenhorne Farm (£550,000) has four acres of paddocks, stables and valley views, minutes from Cornwall's north coast. You can run your own equestrian business from the garden office and the four-bedroom home has a country kitchen with an Aga.
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Canals will make a splash
The capital's man-made waterways have been ignored for too long. Now developers and Londoners are moving in, says David Spittles
The apartments at Caspian Wharf, N1, have contemporary interiors and overlook the canal in Bow (0844 800 1152)
From £210,000: Caspian Wharf, in Bow, has 82 apartments, some with views of Canary Wharf. Call 0844 800 1152
As in Docklands during the Eighties, there are miles of neglected stretches of waterside that could become attractive residential locations – car-free, with less pollution and noise.
The Grand Union Canal is the main inland waterway in the capital. It comes in from the west, through Brentford and on to Paddington, before joining up with the Regent's Canal and running into the Thames at Limehouse.
Here, the Limehouse Cut spins off in a different direction, heading north-east through Bow, Hackney Marshes and Walthamstow.
The 2012 Olympics is providing a boost. Homes and offices are sprouting up, creating better access to the towpaths and encouraging more leisure uses. Caspian Wharf, in Bow, has 82 apartments, some with views of Canary Wharf. Prices from £210,000. Call Berkeley Homes on 0844 800 1152.
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Wenlock Building, Wharf Road, N1, is a contemporary-design block looming over the canal. Prices from £510,000 to £1,225,000. Call 020 7288 0330.
Live/Work schemes
Islington and Hackney are the focus of much activity. This began piecemeal about five years ago, especially around Wenlock Basin, N1, when loft developers started converting redundant warehouses.
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Since then, several live-work developments have sprouted up. Angel Wharf on Shepherdess Walk has 74 apartments around a central courtyard.
The site is midway between Angel and Old Street underground stations. Prices from £280,000 for one-bedroom canalside flats.
"Some owners have failed to complete and the apartments are coming back onto the market at a sensible price," says Nick Davies of estate agent Thomson Currie. Call 020 7354 5224.
City Basin, off City Road, is second only in size to Paddington Basin. It has been an untapped resource for years but regeneration of the nine-acre basin is under way. The aim is to open up the basin and turn it into a mixed-use estate of homes, businesses, recreational outlets and a boat club.
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From £138,950: High Point Village in Hayes, by the Grand Union Canal (0845 351 2345)
Wenlock Building on Wharf Road is a contemporary-design block looming over the canal. Glamorous penthouses have huge terraces. Prices from £510,000 to £1,225,000. Call Chesterton on 020 7288 0330.
On the other side of London, in Hayes, canalside homes cost from £138,950 at High Point Village alongside the Grand Union Canal. Call Thames Valley Housing on 0845 351 2345.
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