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.
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Homes gossip: Madonna, Steven Tyler, Erin Brady, Samuel Beckett
By Amira Hashish
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Make Madge your neighbour
The London leg of Madonna’s highly anticipated tour couldn’t be better placed for the pop queen. Her Marble Arch W1 home is only a stone’s throw away from her Hyde Park gig on July 27. And she’ll have a few days to rest at the Georgian townhouse before heading to Scotland for her next concert.
The Material Girl’s show may be the hottest ticket in town but fans (with big budgets) can also become one of her neighbours. Galliard Homes has converted an office block near the singer’s home into six sleek two- and three-bedroom apartments, some with outdoor terraces.
The flats are so stylish that even Madge would feel at home, and they are right by London’s most famous shopping streets, restaurants and landmarks. If you have the cash, call Kay & Co (020 7486 6338; www.kayandco.com).
‘Four movies and a TV mini series’
Fancy living in one of London’s most popular filming locations? Here’s your chance. A house overlooking the Priory Church of St Bartholomew the Great is available for rent.
Best known as the setting for Four Weddings and a Funeral, the magnificent Norman church has featured in blockbusters from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and Shakespeare in Love, to The Other Boleyn Girl and Sherlock Holmes.
So future tenants of the four-floor property now for rent, in historic Farringdon’s Cloth Fair, should keep their eyes peeled for the latest A-listers and camera crews who will surely soon set up camp across the street.
The contemporary three-bedroom residence is available with Hamptons City Lettings for £1,250 a week (www.hamptons.co.uk; 020 7236 8399).
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Tyler and Brady say aloha to luxury in Hawaii
When rocker Steven Tyler isn’t plucking future pop stars from obscurity on American Idol (Thursdays at 9pm, ITV2) he’s dabbling in property.
The Aerosmith frontman’s latest buy is a £3.2 million beach house in Hawaii — a relative bargain compared with the £4.14 million it was first listed for.
The two-bedroom retreat in the Maui nature reserve has stunning sea views, plus an aquarium and saltwater pool — a perfect love nest for Tyler and fiancée Erin Brady.
If George Clooney’s latest film, The Descendants, made you lose faith in the paradise island’s allure, this pad would restore it.
For sale: where Godot author Beckett waited for freedom
Waiting for Godot writer Samuel Beckett, a member of the French Resistance, hid in this house on the Cote d’Azur while on the run from the Gestapo in 1942.
He kept weapons in the garden and worked on his novel, Watt, during his two years there.
Now the five-bedroom Roussillon house is for sale for £713,000. Call + 33 (0) 4907 255 00, or visit www.proprietesduluberon.com
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