It's on Gauden Road... a two-bedroom flat in a large house, with big rooms, a very nice bathroom and (the pièce de résistance) a giant garden and heated swimming pool. It's with Marsh & Parsons. Guide price: £375,000. Particulars here.

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Residents of the Razor in Elephant & Castle have been getting overheated about the overheating. A building that wears its sustainability on its sleeve, it's already been criticised for its all-show, little-blow wind turbines. Now, aspersions are being cast on its ventilation. Londonist has the full story.

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Hats off to estate agents Marsh & Parsons for this innovative marketing initiative. Downloadable from the M&P website: three walking tours in the SWs (Balham, Clapham and Battersea), PDFs combing a map with interesting historical facts and illustrations, designed to take about an hour each. Drop into a the local branch to pick-up a free frisbee, and into partner cafes for a free cuppa. The tours are designed for potential buyers interested in the area... but probably work best for families looking for something to do at the weekend. Either way, Marsh & Parsons come away looking cool. "Love the area," they say. "We do." Download them here.

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Battersea Power Station's long and tortuous recent history of development ambition and development setback starts a new chapter with news that Irish owners Real Estate Opportunities is looking to raise cash for the development by floating the project on the Alternative Investment Market. They also want a new partner, to share the project 50-50. The firm has taken an inevitable kicking recently, with the disaster that is the Irish property market. But even before then, the Battersea Power Station has been one long tale of woe as expensive and ambitious plans have been shelved, and the iconic London landmark has been left to crumble. More here. Plus some recent history.

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Including buying the land, the house cost us £500,000, but we haven’t compromised on design: it really is a bespoke house. We have no energy bills so it’s very cheap to run and I’m not planning on selling up any time soon.

I can remember when Will Anderson began this remarkable experiment. In fact, wasn't the Independent following the build for some time, in a kind of diary/column format? What happened to that? Anyway, it's finished, it works, it's one hell of an achievement, particularly on that budget. We're pleased.

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It's at the top of the Metro Central Heights buildings in Elephant & Castle, an Ernö Goldfinger production from the early 1960s originally built for offices, and the home of the Ministry of Health. It turned residential in 1997. This penthouse duplex was refurbished about six or seven years ago by Simon Allford.... three bedrooms, a walk-in dressing room, dining and living rooms, a very large terrace (with the kind of views you'd expect from the seventeenth floor). More importantly, if you share our love of 20th Century architecture, it's a little bit of history. It's with The Modern House, at £1.1m, particulars here.

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The Hyde Farm Estate in Balham has £100,000 in the British Gas Green Streets competition and will now spend it on making the row of Victorian terraces a showcase for energy-efficient, but traditional, London housing. A number of solar panels are expected to be fitted, and the community's looking into easy solutions for drafty sash windows.

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Bills. For fire safety improvements. It's lease-owners in Perronet House, Marie Curie and Castlemead who are affected, 51 of them facing bills of £500,000 between them, their share of works to the blocks. More here.

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It's a six-bedroom detached house, built in 1912 for an army officer, and - although it's been properly refurbished - still has a few nice features (colonial-style veranda... presumably ordered by the India-based army officer who commissioned it, log-burning fire in hallway). Other features? A rare mulberry tree in the garden. It's with Marsh & Parsons, £3.35m. Particulars here.

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It's a slim three-bedroom house detached in Streatham... should she take advantage of current upward trends and sell while the going's good not bad? Or add it to their current rental portfolio, making a hat-trick? Details here, and if you can bring yourselves to care, drop me a line or comment below. Agent comments more than welcome.

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