The 16 London areas tipped for growth
Price ripples spreading from prime central London are driving up values in surrounding districts, so where should you buy? We reveal the 16 lower-priced areas with new homes and growth potential over the next 10 years.
Waterloo and London's South Bank: 2,000 new homes
The South Bank's residential population is about to get a significant boost with nearly 2,000 new homes underway on the doorstep of Waterloo station - including 877 flats with spectacular views next to the London Eye at the iconic Shell Centre.
Banbury spotlight
The small town of Banbury in Oxfordshire is a home-hunter's dream, with good-value elegant family houses and charming cottages surrounded by attractive countryside villages - all within an hour's commute to London.
Rochester spotlight
Rochester sits close to the river Medway in Kent, 30 miles south-east of London. The cobbled streets of this ancient city have set the scene for some of Dickens's most famous works, while its mix of period homes and riverside flats attract Londoners.
Home aboard the Mary Rose
Henry VIII's famous Tudor warship capsized more than 500 years ago. Now, the Mary Rose Museum in Portsmouth is a time capsule that reveals the elegant simplicity of this astonishingly well-preserved early English oak furniture.
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Buy of the week: Fulham, SW6
This smart Victorian garden flat in sought-after Sands End, Fulham, has two double bedrooms and an open-plan reception/dining space opening to a stylish walled garden.
Out of town: Lower Slaughter, Glos
This Cotswolds cutie is in Lower Slaughter - one of Gloucestershire’s prettiest villages. The three-bedroom home has a spacious drawing room, a fine conservatory and stunning views over clipped gardens.
Life-changer: King's Lynn, Norfolk
City living might become a distant memory once you up sticks to The Old Coach House in the village of Ingoldisthorpe. There is bags of potential with this 4,000sq ft house to turn its seven bedrooms into guest suites.
Spotlight on Berkhamsted
Nestled in the rolling hills of Hertfordshire, Berkhamsted is 30 miles north-west of the Londonand has a pretty high street, a picturesque canal and a good mix of family houses and town centre flats.-
Buy of the week: Fulham, SW6
This smart Victorian garden flat in sought-after Sands End, Fulham, has two double bedrooms and an open-plan reception/dining space opening to a stylish walled garden. -
Out of town: Lower Slaughter, Glos
This Cotswolds cutie is in Lower Slaughter - one of Gloucestershire’s prettiest villages. The three-bedroom home has a spacious drawing room, a fine conservatory and stunning views over clipped gardens. -
Life-changer: King's Lynn, Norfolk
City living might become a distant memory once you up sticks to The Old Coach House in the village of Ingoldisthorpe. There is bags of potential with this 4,000sq ft house to turn its seven bedrooms into guest suites.
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Homes gossip: Stella McCartney; Emily Blunt; Jeremy Langmead
By Amira Hashish
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Stella McCartney
Plenty of room for designer clothes at Stella's old place
Stella McCartney’s former Notting Hill home is under offer, with an asking price of £2.5 million.
The designer, who got rave reviews for her Paris Fashion Week show last week, is said to have bought the Westbourne Park Road townhouse in the Nineties for £695,000.
The big draw of the four-storey home is the loft-like master suite and open-plan bathroom over the entire top floor.
The daughter of Paul and Linda McCartney now lives in a bigger family home in the same area with husband Alasdhair Willis and their four young children.
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Emily Blunt and John Krasinski
Eco-friendly Ojai estate for Blunt
British star Emily Blunt and her American actor husband John Krasinski have moved into an eco-friendly estate in the peaceful Ojai area of California.
The four-bedroom house offers the kind of privacy that appeals to the couple. It comes with a separate guest wing, pool and spa. Roehampton-born Blunt’s parents live in Britain, so the actress, whose new film is sci-fi thriller Looper, is sure to enjoy plenty of family visits.
The savvy stars recently sold one of their two homes in West Hollywood for £545,000.
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Jeremy Langmead
Jeremy's garden flat will be a high-style item
Jeremy Langmead is selling his sophisticated Primrose Hill apartment. The Mr Porter editor-in-chief has put his two-bedroom garden flat on pastel-pretty Chalcot Square on the market for £1 million (homesandproperty.co.uk/chalcot). As the former editor of Wallpaper and Esquire, Langmead has put a stylish stamp on the flat, which is just a short stroll away from the restaurants and boutiques of Regent’s Park Road.
With locals including celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, model Agyness Deyn and singer Gwen Stefani, whoever snaps it up will be in starry company.
£8.95m: five-bedroom Georgian house in Curzon Street
Double blue plaque home has prestige value
A double blue plaque home, one of the capital’s most prestigious properties, is for sale. Once owned by the 18th-century original dandy, Beau Brummell, the Mayfair building was later home to Suez-crisis prime minister Anthony Eden.
The five-bedroom Georgian house is just off Curzon Street. With six floors and three private terraces, it is a family dream home. If you have £8.95 million to spare and the idea of a historical gem appeals, visit homesandproperty.co.uk/blueplaque.
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