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.

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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.

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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.

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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).

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

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Haart's London Property Index is showing a 22% rise since January, the average price of a London property rocketing from £152,207 to £194, 052. Hotspots? Blackheath Village, Southgate and Willesden Green. More here.

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They cause flooding, they effect the "architectural balance" of properties, they put tall trees at risk, according to the preservationists, who - after a little local flooding - hired consulting engineers to look have a look. (No evidence... they said.) Anyway, the news is that after a last super-ambitious underground development, the council has announced a moratorium on future burrowing.

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I used to live a stone's throw from Charing Cross hospital... and remember watching plans for their specialist cancer centre closely. Architecture's all about form and function, which is why Maggies Centre won the Stirling. No Stirlings for Poundbury, eh, Charles?

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From the Telegraph.

If a street can possess a dissipated glamour then Cheyne Walk has it by the silver coke spoon. It is a boulevard for the beautiful, a road for the rich bohemian that rose to international fame during the swinging Sixties when Chelsea was cooler than a Dave Brubeck jazz solo. Today it still feels as if it has a metaphorical pair of Ray-Bans wrapped above it like an Alice band.

Coke spoons of dissipated glamour, Dave Brubeck solos in the swinging 60s, with metaphorical Ray-Bans wrapped above it, like Alice bands? Is anybody following?

It was always the smart place to live, even when first developed in the 18th century. Behind its iron railings and stucco walls it housed fashionable Londoners from peers to politicians, painters to racketeers. Then Rolling Stone Mick Jagger took up residence.

I knew he was old, but...

Property here.

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There's been an update... here.

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