According to Winkworth, there's no sign of London's top-end boom market ending soon, while wealthy Eurozone and Middle Eastern buyers continue to plough money in. Prices in Knightsbridge, Chelsea and Belgravia rose 17% in 2011, with 41% of those sales involving figures above £2m (up from 33% in 2010). London's safe haven status is behind the demand, and a shortage of available properties is pushing prices ever higher. More here.

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She's said to have bought in a luxury new-build development in the Fitzrovia area. Details? It's apparently "modern concrete" on the outside, has floor to ceiling glass, four penthouses and a communal courtyard. Any ideas?

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An interesting piece in the Daily Mail (is this what it's come to?) about designer Tom Dixon's work to turn a 5,000 gallon water tower into a 5,000 square foot living space. It's a fascinating project, perhaps blighted a tiny bit, though, by its position. The photo below, from Google's StreetView, shows just how one side "benefits", as they say, from a view of the canal; but the other looks over a Sainsbury car park. Will it matter?

Another noteworthy detail from the Daily Mail piece is that Tom Dixon's a self-taught designer. Very, very impressive. More here.

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Total number of apartments: 85
Total number in full time occupation: 3
Total number classed as second homes: 49 
Total number unsold: 27
Total number sold but empty: 6

The numbers come courtesy of Westminster Labour group's Paul Dimoldenberg, who's concerned that only three of the flats are accruing full council tax charges (there's a 90% discount if it's a second home). Here's what he has to say:

"This building - London's Mary Celeste - contributes nothing to local businesses or London's economy."

More here.

Sold! To the oligarch with the worried look on his face... [April 19, 2011]
Kylie buys in One Hyde Park [April 6, 2011]
Exclusive! Rat and Mouse tipster inside 1 Hyde Park! [April 23, 2010]

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It featured as an exterior - Sherlock's flat in the BBC's contemporary re-working of the Holmes stories - but the interiors were shot elsewhere. North Gower Street, NW1, a one-bedroom flat available from February for £330 a week. Particulars here.

[via Daily Telegraph]

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A two-bedroom house in Knightsbridge's Ennismore Gardens Mews with an asking price of £2.75m and a swinging sixties history that includes use as a location in The Avengers. More here.

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Another good year for low-supply, high-demand, safe-haven, super-prime London property has left cash-rich Savills celebrating by signing a 20-year lease on 64,142 square feet of new office space in 33 Margaret Street, on the corner with Regent Street (better known as Marcol House). More here.

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Business Week claims to have a source with news of a £100m sale of Knightsbridge penthouse, in the Bulgari Hotel and Residences, the mage-upscale block at no. 171. I'm guessing we're talking about this property, recently advertised with Christie's. The sums come out to about £7,000 a square foot. That's not a record, but it's hardly recession chic either.

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Property. According to this, her well-connected father-in-law (Francois Pinault, founder of PPR) has just paid £20m for Uncle Monty's pad, a two-bedroom property with famous triple-heigh ceilings (in case Hayek needs to lie down) in Glebe House, Glebe Place, Chelsea.

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It was apparently on the market back in February with a guide price of £15.75m. It's on Hamilton Terrace, between Maida Vale and St Johns Wood, and it's a wedding-cake-on-the-outside, modern-on-the-inside style place with five bedroom, screening room, nice garden. Go here for a floorplan. According to the Daily Mail, it's still for sale, but I don't know where they've got that information. I can't find a listing anywhere.

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