New homes in London's Zone 1 on a Zone 2 budget
Our exclusive research shows a "price wall" formed by the Northern line, with property values to the east less than half those in the west. We reveal the emerging lower-value districts in Zone 1 for buyers on a Zone 2 budget.
Embassy exodus returns acres of central London to its residents
As the embassies exit Mayfair and Marylebone, their former bases will free up stunning family homes. While the move of many embassies to Nine Elms at Vauxhall is creating a new residential quarter including thousands of new apartments.
Oxford spotlight
The small city of Oxford is famous for its university and honeyed stone architecture, but its huge range of property - from affordable new homes to luxurious Victorian houses - and one hour commute to London, are big attractions to home buyers.
Brighton spotlight
The East Sussex city of Brighton and Hove offers its residents the best of both worlds: a relaxed life at one end of the line within an hour's commute of London, and a good mix of Regency terrace houses, seafront apartments and family homes.
Clerkenwell Design Week 2013
Discover one of London's most creative neighbourhoods at this year's Clerkenwell Design Week. This three-day event showcases the hottest trends in design, architecture and cutting-edge furniture.
Find a rated tradesman
Want to add value to your property, make your house a home, or sell your place fast? With 1,000s of tradesmen nationwide, rated and recommended by previous customers, this is the smart way to find a reputable tradesman.
Buy of the week: Putney Hill, SW15
This glossy new apartment just off Putney Hill has two bedrooms and two bathrooms, plus a bright open-plan reception space with floor-to-ceiling windows and spectacular skyline views.
Out of town: Wigginton, Oxfordshire
This three-bedroom Grade II-listed thatch in the pretty village of Wigginton, near Banbury, is a tempting package of beams, wood burners and cottage gardens.
Life-changer: Tiverton, Devon
A five-bedroom house set in a valley at Cheriton Fitzpaine, Tiverton, surrounded by farmland and sweeping gardens, with B&B potential and a garage block ripe for conversion.
East Grinstead spotlight
East Grinstead in West Sussex is 30 miles south of the capital in the High Weald. The town's exclusive gated estates attract celebrity home buyers such as Tom Cruise, while London families are drawn to the area's good mix of period homes and modern flats.-
Buy of the week: Putney Hill, SW15
This glossy new apartment just off Putney Hill has two bedrooms and two bathrooms, plus a bright open-plan reception space with floor-to-ceiling windows and spectacular skyline views. -
Out of town: Wigginton, Oxfordshire
This three-bedroom Grade II-listed thatch in the pretty village of Wigginton, near Banbury, is a tempting package of beams, wood burners and cottage gardens. -
Life-changer: Tiverton, Devon
A five-bedroom house set in a valley at Cheriton Fitzpaine, Tiverton, surrounded by farmland and sweeping gardens, with B&B potential and a garage block ripe for conversion.
Property search
Five things to do in June
By Barbara Chandler
POPUPdesign
June 20-26, 59 Great Titchfield Street, W1; 020 8993 5881; popup-design.co.uk
A new pop-up shop in the heart of the West End with designers from New York, Switzerland, Jordan and the UK, selling furniture, wall decoration, homeware and more.
Buy concrete candleholders, pretty wooden stools, lamps that look like buildings, and tables that hold plants (by Puzzle Design from Geneva, pictured right)
New Designers 2012
Part 1: June 27 to 30; part 2: July 4 to 7, Business Design Centre, Islington, N1; newdesigners.com
Spot a rising star as the best graduates from our finest art colleges display their design ideas, materials, and techniques. Part 1 is for contemporary applied art — ceramics and glass, jewellery and metalwork alongside textiles, fashions and home accessories (like this coffee pot by Mirjana Smith made from recycled tins and spouts, left).
Olympia International Fine Art & Antiques Fair
From tomorrow until June 17, Olympia Exhibition Centre, Olympia Way, W14; Olympia-art-antiques.com
The season’s glamorous antiques event celebrates 40 years with 200 exhibitors showing contemporary art, antiques and 20th-century furniture, glass, silver, tribal art and ceramics (like this Edwardian diamond and pink sapphire pendant, c1910, exhibited by John Joseph). There are themed free lectures and a daily tour.
Luminaries
Tomorrow until June 30, London Glassblowing Studio and Gallery, 62-66 Bermondsey Street, SE1; 020 7403 2800; londonglassblowing.co.uk
London celebrates the “Glass Games” with the Contemporary Glass Society (cgs.org.uk/events). View glass blown, cast and/or engraved, as sculptures, panels and vessels. We like this cast glass sculpture (left) by Peter Bremer from Peter Layton (stockist details from londonglassblowing.co.uk).
After Bloomsbury: Rugs from the Omega Workshops
Open now until June 23, Somerset House, WC2; 020 7845 4600; somersethouse.org.uk
Set in this majestic stone building by the Thames is a show of rugs for sale organised by specialist Christopher Farr (christopherfarr.com), inspired by patterns from the famous but short-lived Omega Workshops (1913-1916) set up by Bloomsbury artist Roger Fry with contributing artists Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell.
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New homes in London's Zone 1 on a Zone 2 budget
Our exclusive research shows a "price wall" formed by the Northern line, with property values to the east less than half those in the west. We reveal the emerging lower-value districts in Zone 1 for buyers on a Zone 2 budget.
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London's top property growth areas
Wise homebuyers can get ahead of the curve by buying in London's potential growth areas, thanks to new transport links, regeneration projects and the arrival of iconic new buildings such as the Shard.
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New Homes Awards 2013: the winners
This year's London Evening Standard New Homes Awards, hosted by comedian Vic Reeves and England rugby captain Chris Robshaw, praised thoughtful design and spacious interiors at a range of new homes developments.
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Clerkenwell Design Week 2013
Discover one of London's most creative neighbourhoods at this year's Clerkenwell Design Week. This three-day event showcases the hottest trends in design, architecture and cutting-edge furniture.
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Homes gossip
Keira Knightley and James Righton have bought a new marital home in Spitalfields; Reese Witherspoon's adds to her LA property portfolio; and Elton John's personal trainer sells up.
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Post-Olympic regeneration: Bethnal Green, Bow and Stepney
East London is still enjoying the benefits of post-Olympics with a regeneration boom that involves new affordable developments in areas such as Bethnal Green, Bow and Stepney.
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New Homes Awards 2013: the winners
This year's London Evening Standard New Homes Awards, hosted by comedian Vic Reeves and England rugby captain Chris Robshaw, praised thoughtful design and spacious interiors at a range of new homes developments.
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London's latest new homes update
Take your pick from London's newest properties, including 800 new homes in a former Bermondsey biscuit factory; family houses in Muswell near near the top-performing Fortismere School; and hundreds of new flats on the leafy slopes of Shooters Hill.
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Property search: budget under £500,000
This week, we uncover 1,000sq ft two-bedroom apartment in Stoke Newington, a four-bedroom stone house in the Cotswolds and an Old Station Master's house in the heart of Snowdonia National Park that comes with its own railway station.
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First Olympic village homes up for rent
Relaunched as East Village this week, the Stratford athletes' quarters is set to become home to thousands of London's renters in streets named with the Olympics in mind — from Prize Walk and Cheering Lane to Medals Way and Celebration Avenue.
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