According to the Times, it's the new Hoxton... a once-rundown area, chosen by young artists for its rents, trendified, gentrified, Cityfied, a little bit annoying but still a nice place to live. They've even found a genuine artist's studio for sale.

Adam Ball is selling this two-bedroom warehouse apartment, with classic loft-style exposed brickwork, high ceilings and big windows. It's had a price drop (from £695,000) to £655,000. Particulars here.

A call-out to our readers... send us your favourite London properties [July 11, 2008]

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Back in August, the Rat and Mouse celebrated the Coin Street Community Builders' plans for a 472ft tower on the South Bank. We warned, however, that English Heritage weren't happy. Here's news of a public enquiry... currently taking place at Lambeth Town Hall.

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Okay... where to start? Gypsy Tower is a Grade II-listed former church, built in 1861, extensively renovated in 1998, and located in Gypsy Hill, Dulwich Village. Inside... four bedrooms, a lift to the roof terrace and belfry, and a working church clock. The Rat and Mouse has never seen anything like this before in London. One of a kind, available for rental at £1,200 a week. For more information, contact Cityscope.

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It strikes the Rat and Mouse that now is a particularly good time to be paying close attention to PropertySnake, the place to watch real-life asking price collapses as they happen. Today, we're particularly taken with this rather charming five-bedroom Victorian house in Clapham, down from an original guide price of £1.399m (according to this) to the current £995,000... that's a bargaintastic fall of 28%. Stay tuned for more. And have a great weekend.

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According to a survey by Savills, the following addresses are potential candidates for future primeness. The important driver is an influx of professionals combined with nice existing stock, preferably Victorian or Edwardian homes. The advantages to being "prime"? If you've been reading the Rat and Mouse at all over the last few years you'll know that prime London tends to outgrow the rest of London, indeed the rest of the UK. So here goes:

• Tooting ("the new Notting Hill")
• White City
• East Acton
• Tulse Hill
• Camberwell
• Fortis Green
• Finchley
• Brondesbury
• Willesden Green
• Cricklewood

[via the Times]

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93 Albert Embankment, SE1. Three beds, three baths, on the ninth floor, with views over the Houses of Parliament and the Tate. With Fine & Country, guide price: £3.55m.

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When I was a student, I lived in a room that got so cold in the winter the ice settled on the inside of the window. According to this in the Telegraph, students at London's universities - and particularly the richer, foreign students at Kings College and LSE - are about to get a luxury skyscraper, on Middlesex Street, near Spitalfields market. The plan's for a 33-storey building, housing 1,200 students, plus retails space, gym and commercial office space. Presumably, the motivation was commercial property (although - just a the moment - we can't think why), and the student bit is there to fulfill social responsibility criteria. How clever to target the rich kids and make a profit there too. The Telegraph has an artists impression here, and it looks glorious.

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... as far as Clapham. Where Lucy Alexander discovers just how much you can buy for £3.85m. Actually, I'm only being facetious out of duty. It's an interesting story about what began as a small project, turned into a major renovation, and is now one of Clapham's finest... a beautifully spec'd house originally built for the creator of Royal Doulton china. The point being made is... why, these days, would anyone pay Chelsea prices to live in Chelsea? Except... guess where the developer wants to move once she's got her sale?

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It's to be built on Doon Street, by the Coin Street Community Builders - a remarkable social enterprise group set up by local residents in the 1970s in order to buy much of the Coin Street district and save it from a planned blanket coverage by office space. The CSCB's mixed use happy ending now includes the Oxo Tower and Gabriel's Wharf. The new tower (designed by Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands) will rise 472 ft, and will - as well as office, educational space and possibly a new home for the Rambert Dance Company - include 329 residential apartments. It's not, however, without controversy. It's been criticised by English National Heritage for potentially ruining views from the St James' Park and Somerset House, and for looming over the South Bank arts buildings.

[image from Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands website]

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A 2/3 bedroom conversion in The Paragon - a Victorian school conversion on Searles Road, off the New Kent Road. This is a ground floor apartment, but with double-height ceilings and an unusual layout, plus distinctive design features. The Rat and Mouse reader who sent this in drew out attention to the oak staircase and glass banister. Well spotted. Looks like a cool home office at the top. It's with Urban Spaces, listed at £795,000, here.

Tomorrow... a sausage factory.

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