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Buy of the week: Camden Town
This two-bedroom flat has a pretty park on its doorstep, while buzzing Camden Town is only 10 minutes’ walk away. Big sash windows and high ceilings give a spacious feel and there’s a private garden with a studio/home office (£525,000).
Swap of the week: Willersey, Glouc
This little Cotswolds beauty is just across the road from the village green and duck pond. For £530,000 you get beams, exposed stone walls and an open fireplace, plus four bedrooms, a useful attic room and lush gardens to enjoy.
Life-changer: Trescowe, Cornwall
For a project brimming with potential, what about this coastal home, yours for £545,000? The family space includes six bedrooms, while its collection of outbuildings overlooking an acre of gardens could become income-generating holiday lets.
Spotlight on Camden Town
The shops and markets clustered around the high street and canal make Camden one of the most colourful of London's neighbourhoods. The area's period homes and loft-style apartments attract a mix of homebuyers.
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Cross Creek is enough to make even Sheryl angry
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Sheryl Crow and Cross Creek Farm in Tennessee
The five-bedroom, solar-powered Nashville property includes a three-bedroom guesthouse, nanny flat, six-car garage, salt water pool and theatre, as well as a 14-stall barn and indoor riding school.
The rockin’ Missouri lawyer’s daughter, whose album sales exceed 35 million, recorded her last two CDs in its music studio. She had earlier tried to sell the ranch for £4.7 million, preferring to spend time with her two recently adopted sons, Wyatt and Levi, at her antique-filled three-bedroom loft apartment in Manhattan.
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Alexandra Burke
She has spent an estimated £300,000 on a peaceful and anonymous two-bedroom property, a lavish contrast to her pre-fame housing association flat where she had to share a double bed with her older sister, Sheniece.
Alex, recently described as “a sexy, sassy beauty with flicky hair and a mesmerising pout”, adds: “I miss my family and hope to buy a place near them at some point when the fuss dies down.
"I spend so much time flying to LA, Paris, Tokyo or Sweden that when I get back to London I curl up with my pink teddy and Yorkshire terrier Alfie.”
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The Hairy Bikers
It replaces the nearby four-bedroom Victorian terrace house overlooking Morecambe Bay that he shared with his seamstress partner Lili and her two children.
The ex-Spooks make-up artist and his co-chef, former location manager Simon King, present BBC2’s daily cookery and celebrity chat series, The Hairy Bikers’ Cook Off.
They are also filming The Hairy Bikers: Mums Know Best Christmas Special for BBC2, demonstrating personal festive recipes through the ages.
London’s most fashionable magician, Drummond Money-Coutts, has bought his first home, a four-bedroom Victorian terrace house in Fulham, with a garden and roof terrace. The price? £1.1 million through Douglas & Gordon.
He will share it with his sisters Sophia and Rosie. The lofty maker of short films was at Eton with Princes William and Harry and has performed his magic in front of the Queen, the Duchess of York and Princesses Eugenie and Beatrice.
“We were renting in Clapham before,” he says. “We are now putting the final brushstrokes to the new place, which is conveniently near North End Road market, where I always buy a special melon for my act.” Money-Coutts, heir to retired banker Lord Latymer and grandson of the late journalist Lord Deedes, is resident magician at Annabel’s nightclub in Berkeley Square.
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