It's the Aylesbury Estate, Elephant & Castle... due for a radical redevelopment that will see the 1960s block replaced with housing association and private homes. Residents have apparently hired Hill & Knowlton. But is the message already getting across? Here's the BBC's blunt picture caption:

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Mouseprice's ten fastest falling residential streets in the UK include a couple of London roads. Erebus Drive, in SE26, close to the river in Greenwich, is heavy on new-build apartments, but Russell Road in Barnet (NW9) looks like a fairly average residential road. You can see the full top ten on Mouseprice's actual report by clicking here.

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Campaigners who want to rescue Forest Hill Pools' Victorian frontage from planned demolition by Lewisham Council believe they might have shifted the argument in their favour, with news that neighbouring Louise House - which was also slated for demolition - has been granted a Grade II listing by English Heritage. The pools have been closed for a couple of years. The plan was to replace it with new facilities, elsewhere, but use the site for flats. Campaigners want the council to keep the frontage, and simply build a new pool behind it. There's more information here. Want to know what all the fuss is about? Great photograph... here.

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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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It's a first floor studio in an ex-council block on Rotherhithe Old Road. It's near a tube (Surrey Quays), it's not that small, for a studio, and it's £99,950. It's with Kinleigh Folkard & Haywood, here.

[via FindaProperty]

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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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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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In Mayfair, according to the Telegraph, and I've got to trust their judgement on this, it's out with the fat old cigar smokers and in with the hip. Evidence? New clubs are opening, buzzy boutiques and restaurants, celebs are being spotted... oh... and this:

In the summer, [Richard] Cutt [of Knight Frank] sold a fabulous apartment in a modern development in Davies Street over Cipriani's at £2,300 per square foot. "The price last year for that flat was £1,300." And he is now marketing a smart three- bedroom flat in Green Street for £5 million, equating to £2,439 a square foot. This is one for the boys with all the toys - Lutron lighting, Creston sound system, Baulthaup kitchen, top of the range TVs and electronic blinds.

Meanwhile, even East Dulwich is continuing to distance itself from Peckham in every way it can short of tearing up the Earth's very crust and leaving a wide rupture along the A2214. According to resident Ginetta Vedrickas - also writing in the Telegraph - it's become so chi-chi it's in danger of just becoming chite. Foxtons have arrived, house prices are shooting up, and residents are concerned the area might be about to lose its character. Before leaving us to worry about the future of SE22, she does, however, point out a few tasty properties, including this rather special former bakery on Silvester Road, currently being used as an office but presumably - judging by the particulars - with a residential future. Guide price £750,000.

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