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Borough of Haringay
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This is St Margaret's Road in Tottenham, normally a quiet row of terraced houses, but more recently the theatre for a battle that has been rousing the tabloids. It's where Julian and Samantha Mosedale and family were apparently turfed from their newly renovated home by a gang of Romanian squatters, forced to rent locally and called racist by the police when they complained. They're now back in their home, which - according to reports - has been trashed... and the squatters have moved down a few hundred years to Strode Road, where they're either renting or have taken over an apartment. The reporting has been distinctly manipulative (suggesting there was nothing the Mosedales could do... when - in fact - they received a fast-tracked court order and the squatters were forced to leave, and resulting - in the case of at least one Daily Mail comment - in calls for the BNP to sort this out). Obviously, their position is upsetting, and the fact that they've been put to considerable expense very unfair. But - at this point - the tabloids are in danger of starting a race riot in a quiet corner of N17.
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One of Colonel Gaddafi's sons is said to have recently paid £10m for a new four-bedroom house on Winnington Road. The deal was done by Glentree's Trevor Abrahmsohn. No news yet as to whether he's having his folks over for the holidays.
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Plans submitted to Camden Council reveal ambitious basement plans for the Highgate mansion and star of Fame Academy, including an underground swimming pool, cinema, car park (for 24 cars), and living/dining room for servants. It's believed to a be a record-breaking project, and the Highgate Society is described here as cautious here about setting a precedent that could see an underground building spree around Hampstead Heath. Interestingly, the piece, in Camden New Journal, describes the owner as "currently anonymous". Does that mean Elena Baturina has flipped the property already?
Witanhurst - flipped, but slowly [July 16, 2008]
Witanhurst - ready to flip? [September 4, 2007]
Plans for London's most expensive home [July 19, 2007]
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We believe it's this.
Three bedrooms and first-floor in the swish Allingham Court, on The Bishop's Avenue. Full particulars, here.
Heather Mills looking for flip [September 14, 2009]
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Want to live on The Bishops Avenue? Opportunities are few and far between. Last year you could have made an offer on Lakshmi Mittal's place, on the market for £40m. Or you could just go and squat in a property a few doors down, like 32-year-old Calin Ciufudean. According to this, Ciufudean claims to be doing the owners a service... renovating, fixing, gardening, even going so far as to set up a Ltd company (Prep Ltd). He's said he'll stay there until the owners sell or develop. The property's worth around £30m, and it's extraordinary that it's been left to apparently rot, and that the security was so poor a cleaner could break in. So who does own the property? Right now, we're not sure, but we're looking into it.
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You get the bling address, va-va-voom interiors and service staff for a fifth of the price. The only thing you don't get is a friendly atmosphere, the lack of which is suffocating
What? The Bishops Avenue? Stuffy?
This interesting piece is about the appearance of - cough - apartments, among the £40m mansions. Apparently, it's a credit crunch thing... £2.85m to £10m is much more affordable in the current climate. See here and here. Look, you can even rent.
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The recession here is a mere mouse-squeak in the roar of fame and infamy that rolls round these megalithic houses.
Blimey. The Telegraph's Caroline McGhie is in Hampstead, visiting a few properties that start at £25m on Courtenay Avenue and The Biships Avenue. Nor - apparently - is it just journalists visiting... the developers say they're getting viewings, and lots of them.
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Following this, the Telegraph goes in search of London's most expensive council house, and finds a £2m Highgate lodge... temporary home to a woman and her 22-year-old son, who can now count George Michael, Sting and Tessa Jowell as their neighbours. There's a picture of it over at the Telegraph, and it's certainly very beautiful. I'm not sure I enjoy this kind of snidery and snobbery, though:
A local authority source said: "This must be the most expensive council house in Britain. The place is dripping with history and there are a lot of wealthy people who would give their eye-teeth to live there. To hand it over to a council tenant is extraordinary. It's like they made her lady of the manor overnight."
I mean... you could say the same about Tessa Jowell.
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The news, almost exactly a year ago to the day, was of Marcus Cooper's £32m purchase of Witanhurst, Highgate's 65-room West Hill mock-Georgian mansion, and plans to do it up and sell it on for an estimated £150m. By September, the talk was of a flip, for £75m. You see, those were the days... the days of 234% profit in less than two months. How things have changed. In the current market it takes an entire 12 months to make a measly 156% profit on a property. The news, today, is that London's second largest gaff - after Buckingham Palace - has, at last, found a buyer, and has been picked up, for £50m, by Russia's first richest woman, Elena Baturina... who according to the Telegraph is so rich she's actually married to a construction company.
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