Remember, we recently revealed how Colonel Gaddafi's controversial son Saif was looking for tenants for his Hampstead Garden Suburb mansion? The property - now part of the family's frozen assets - has apparently been invaded by activists, demanding the proceeds are returned to the Libyan people. They're flying a banner reading "Out of Libya/Out of London". We just hope nobody's paid their deposit.

Your new landlord - Mr Gaddafi [February 22, 2011]

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That's Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the Colonel's second son, the one who threw some cool parties but appears to have created some uncool controversy for himself after publicly taking a very anti-protest stance. He's only likely to be your landlord, though, if you've a budget that will stretch to almost £10,000 a week, for an 8-bedroom home in Hampstead Garden Suburb. Go here to read about the Gaddafi billions. If you want to be a Gaddafi tenant, go here and view the particulars.

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I know... you're going to need help. The average time between a contender leaving the TV show in a blaze of outrage/celebration and the viewer completely and utterly forgetting they ever existed is around 90 minutes in my experience. It's the nature of reality TV. So here's a little hint. Gable Lodge - a modest seven-bedroom place on The Bishop's Avenue - is listed at £11m... about twice as much as it was worth when the contestants were stinking it up in 2006. Particulars here.

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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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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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Way back - and I mean way back - in 2005, the Rat and Mouse reported on steel gazillionaire Lakshmi Mittal's ruckus with The Bishop's Avenue neighbour Princess Samerah concerning plans to build a development of 12 apartments with balconies overlooking his Summer Palace. The ruckus has now ended. Because - according to this - Mittal's decided that if you can't beat 'em, clear out. The house is said to be listed at £40m, with local specialist Glentree Estates, although there's no sign of online particulars right now.

Tumbleweed blowing down Millionaires' Row [February 18, 2008]

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An interesting interview with Trevor Abrahmsohn, the man who brokered the Toprak Mansion deal and is now selling Lakshmi Mittal's gaff next door, in the Telegraph. He has The Bishop's Avenue sewn up, and he doesn't seem in the least concerned that it's a ghost town. The piece is a good read, and includes a potted history of London's most expensive avenue.

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And for £50m, a new London record, after nearby Palladio's sale for £35m just a fortnight ago. The buyer? A Kazakhstani billionaire by the name of Horelma Peramam. More here.

Feeling horny? Forbes UK property porn special [January 26, 2007]
Bishop's Avenue's £50m house [May 5, 2006]

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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Welcome back. One more week of interesting London properties suggested by Rat and Mouse readers.

Two bedrooms, one bathroom, in a converted mews house in Cricklewood, housing two further apartments. We like the way the conversion has retained so many original features. You get exposed brickwork, oak floors, original Victorian radiators, loading doors, vaulted timber ceilings, It's not a neighbourhood I know well... comments welcome (although they might take longer to appear than normal since I'm on vacation right now). Oakland Mews is listed at £549,950, with Urban Spaces, here.

Tomorrow... a country cottage... in London.

The Particulars - what's this about?

Contemporary design and views across London, for £325,000... a top-floor two-bedroom apartment with modern styling, a 23x22ft living room and the opportunity for off-street parking. It's in a gated development, Chartwell Court, in NW2. Particulars here.

Tomorrow... buy one house, get one free.

The Particulars - what's this about?

It's shaping up for a right royal freeze-out in Hampstead, with even Forbes reporting on the most expensive neighbours-from-hell story in a while. It appears that steel zillionaire Lakshmi Mittal isn't taking at all kindly to plans by neighbour Saudi Arabian Princess Samerah bint Mokhtar al-Saadawy to build a huge luxury development of 12 apartments behind his second home on The Bishop's Avenue. One of the problems is that all 12 balconies will overlook his "Summer Palace" garden. But Mittal's objection to the council is that the plans fail to "preserve or enhance local character". The development has been described as "in the style of an English country manor" (except with 12 apartments, swimming pools and secure car parking). Oh yeah, and "evolving, post-modern, neo-Jacobean". So we can't think where he got that idea. Nevertheless, the plans have - as things stand - been passed.

For sale: £50 million on Bishop's Avenue [May 11]