Six new family homes to love in Wimbledon June 24, 2014 AS TENNIS fans don their sunhats and grab a glass of champagne at centre court this week, a thriving community will be shopping and meeting for lunch a stone’s throw away in Wimbledon Village. In recent years, the area has become a veritable family hotspot. “Wimbledon is a true London village because the hill means [...]
Four luxury penthouses unveiled at NEO Bankside on the Southbank June 20, 2014 ANOTHER week, another luxury penthouse. No new residential development in London is complete unless it has a £12m monster sitting astride it, while the rest of the inferior apartments peek up at it in envy. Perhaps it’s to create a natural hierarchy in the block, a way of fostering that “keeping up with the Jones’” [...]
Focus On… Peckham: Only fools wouldn’t invest in SE15 June 20, 2014 PECKHAM has come a long way since Del Boy and Rodney. The Nag’s Head might still be there, but these days you’re more likely to bump into artists making things than cockney geezers on the make. And it isn’t just artists. Parts of Peckham are actually quite posh now. Bellenden village, with its smart pubs, [...]
How to buy a slice of history in the Floridian sun June 20, 2014 INTERNATIONAL property hunters with a fondness for the halcyon days of the Rat Pack may want to take a flutter on a new Richard Meier and Nadim Ashi designed development on the Miami coast. The state of the art complex called The Surf Club lies on the site of a club that was a favourite [...]
Was this Primrose Hill mansion King Edward VII’s secret love nest? June 20, 2014 EVERY street corner in London tells a thousand stories, and the same can be said of its buildings. But an unassuming family home in Primrose Hill, north London, probably has a few novels under its roof, given its connections to royal scandals and the invention of daylight savings time. Elsworthy Road is on the market [...]
Wood you buy a home like this? Meet London’s new timber homes June 20, 2014 AN ENGLISHMAN’S home is his castle and his castle is almost always made out of bricks and mortar. Many house buyers take these building materials – along with stone and concrete masonry – for granted but it’s actually something of a national obsession. In Southern Germany and Austria, the cold mountain climate is perfect for [...]
Create your grand design inside an Edwardian factory June 5, 2014 PROPERTY brochures are often packed with glossy computer generated images depicting pavement café culture at its peak on a summery afternoon in June. But the promotional material for Loud and Western on the Broughton Road in Fulham is stark and bare. The first four houses went on the market yesterday in what’s known in the [...]
Joining the dots from east to west May 22, 2014 High speed rail network Crossrail will arrive in 2018. Here are the new homes cropping up along the route ACTON MAIN LINE NAPIER SQUARE from £975,000 A luxury development of 23 new three, four and five-bedroom town houses in a gated community. 020 8811 2336 / napiermews.co.uk FARRINGDON GAZZANO from £920,000 This new development seven [...]
Joining the dots from east to west May 22, 2014 High speed rail network Crossrail will arrive in 2018. Here are the new homes cropping up along the route ACTON MAIN LINE NAPIER SQUARE from £975,000 A luxury development of 23 new three, four and five-bedroom town houses in a gated community. 020 8811 2336 / napiermews.co.uk FARRINGDON GAZZANO from £920,000 This new development seven [...]
What the experts say: Will the arrival of Crossrail really push up property prices? May 22, 2014 Everyone’s heard that line, imparted as a pearl of wisdom, that it would be wise to buy a property near a new Crossrail station before prices shoot up. But will the high speed rail network really impact on house prices and should it make you think differently about where you’re buying? A number of developers [...]