I bet some vetting took place before this contract was signed. David Cameron apparently has tenants, in his Notting Hill home, earning him around £6,000 a week. More here.

Technorati Tags: property, real estate

Damn... high house prices might be enough to keep the non-Boden set out of Muswell Hill, but what can you do about extra-terrestrials? Apparently fed up with visiting the snaggle-toothed, tailgating inbred of the country, people-of-other-planets are pointing their UFOs at a more chi-chi environment. So often, in fact, that - according to this - the people of Muswell Hill have informally renamed the nabe.

Technorati Tags: property, real estate

Two bedrooms, lots of light, nice internal architecture and a bed raided on perspex... bestselling chick lit author Adele Parks is selling her Evershed Walk (Chiswick) flat. It's with KFH, £1.295m. Particulars here.

If these walls could talk... are you pleased to see a US edition, or is that a gun in your pocket? [June 11, 2010]

Technorati Tags: celebrity, London, property, real estate

Zoopla's revealed the UK's most expensive postcodes, and it's topped - less than surprisingly - with W8, where average property prices are in excess of £1.5m. The most expensive street? Kensington Palace Gardens... at £18m a house, on average. Other £1m+ postcodes are SW7, SW3, W11 and SW10. Virginia Water, alone, represents the rest of the country in the top ten list.

Technorati Tags: London, property, real estate

Thanks very much to the Rat and Mouse tipster who sent me this. It's 4 St Luke's Mews, in Notting Hill, the house in which Paula Yates lived, and died, in 2000. Two bedrooms, two bathrooms, a very trendy location off All Saints Road, and its own share of notoriety. It's with Bective Leslie Marsh; guide price, £1.75m; particulars, here.

If these walls could talk... Simon Day edition [April 6, 2010]

Technorati Tags: celebrity, London, property, real estate

I could link straight to a tabloid on this one, but that would mean missing out on the wonderful Divorce Diva divorce blog (I kid you, not), which says:

It has been reported that Ronnie Wood is selling his £7.25 million five-bedroom house for £5.8 million, as he needs a quick sell so that he can pay for his divorce settlement to ex-wife Jo Wood.

If we're right about this house, it's this, on Cheyne Walk, and he bought it a couple of years ago as an investment. (Not much of one, it turns out.) It's currently little more than a shell, with detailed planning permission for a substantial extension, including basement, sub-basement and pool. Click through to the particulars for its interesting history.

Technorati Tags: celebrity, London, property, real estate

John D Wood estate agents had to fight buyers back with rolled up newspapers after this modest and unmodernised three-bedroom house on Haldane Road was offered to the market. According to JDW, it went on the market on Wednesday, had 45 viewings and two offers by the end of Thursday. Sealed bids are next.. in two Tuesdays' time.

Technorati Tags: estate agents, London, property, real estate, real estate agents

Back in 2007, we reported on plans by Declan "Dec" Donnelly to renovate his Chiswick home so that it would match the Chiswick home of Anthony "Ant" McPartlin, which can be found, conveniently, a few doors away. The neighbours weren't happy, was the story, and I'm not surprised. A whole street can be tainted by that kind of weirdness. I didn't think Dec would get away with it... but apparently - and a little bit creepily - he has:

Just so visitors can tell the difference, Ant's is on the left and Dec's is on the right - the positions the pair religiously follow in their public appearances.

And there's nothing like mock-Edwardian when you want everyone to know you've arrived.

Technorati Tags: celebrity

That 66 inch-wide house on Goldhawk Road is back on the market, after four years. It was once home to photographer Juergen Teller and a senior Winkworths agent (at different times), and it's certainly unique... five storeys, a small garden, terrace, and some say the skinniest in the country. It's with Faron Sutaria, with a guide price of £549,950 (particulars here).

Technorati Tags: London, property, real estate

Apparently, he's on the lookout for a British pub... preferably close to the Chelsea ground. Oi, hands off The Fox.

Technorati Tags: celebrity, London