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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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Justice done, following yesterday's announcement of changes to the high-speed rail route. Remember the Primrose Hill campaign against vibration? Now, Dame Joan Bakewell, Adam Ant and Robert Plant can sleep easily on their silk sheets. However, it's not looking so good for the (soon to be ex-) council tenants in the Regents Park Estate. Nor has everybody in Primrose Hill escaped the risk of vibration. Expect more trouble. And - if you think you might be affected - have a look at the maps here.
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A "knight" who bought a title online while still a student has been kicked to the curb by Camden Council, after they'd discovered he owned homes in Bromley, Devon and Buckinghamshire, while claiming to be homeless and living - courtesy of the council - in a flat in Primrose Hill. Sir Barry apparently made the mistake of driving Jaguars in silver and gold.
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Lily Allen's said to be looking in the south Cotswolds, possibly Stroud area, with £2m in her pocket. Meanwhile, Amy Winehouse is apparently back in Camden, after spending £1.8m on a new home. More here.
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Primrose Hill's most fragrant celebrities could be about to tangle with the Government about plans for the new high speed rail tunnel. The tunnel, taking trains from Euston to Birmingham and then on to Scotland, at speeds of up to 250mph, will escape London via Camden, Primrose Hill, Swiss Cottage and Maida Vale. According to this, the trains will travel beneath Primrose Hill at a depth not that much greater than some Tube lines. But instead of traveling at an average speed of 20mph, they could pass beneath Primrose Hill at 111mph. Nobody wants Primrose Hill to fall down, but the big question is surely... where are all the structural problems following the line out of East London through Kent?
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It's a very nicely kitted-out two-storey, three-bedroom house on a cobbled mews in Primrose Hill, with more wood than Dirk Diggler. And it belongs to a British comedy hero... the Fast Show's Simon Day. It's with John D Wood, with a guide price of £1.45m. Particulars, here.
If these walls could talk... Daniel Craig edition [March 12, 2010]
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Marcus Cooper Group - the developers behind Witanhurst - are back with a gala development... seven listed office buildings in the prime real estate area around Regents Park are to be turned back into the mansion they once were. Plans - lodged with Camden Council - suggest something on a truly grand scale... 50,000 square feet, two staff houses and a car park. People are already talking about London's first £100m home. More here.
Witanhurst plans dig deep [September 25, 2009]
Witanhurst - flipped, but slowly [July 17, 2008]
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Why the long face?
Michelle Young - wife of multi-millionaire property tycoon Scot Young - has been served a possession order on the £10,000-a-month Regents Park rental where she and her teenage daughters have been living since the marriage broke down. Mr Young has - apparently - ceased making payments, after claiming to be penniless due to the recession. Mrs Young - apparently - is threatening to squat. So to speak.
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We recently highlighted the Matthew Wright's subterranean woes, as the baggy-eyed presenter gets little help sleeping from a Camden neighbour's basement extension work. Now there's news that Camden Council - smarting at being forced to give way to refused planning applications at appeal - is considering tightening up the rules after a significant increase in interest in extending underground.
It suggests that all subterranean extensions should be of "modest" size and descend no deeper than three metres. That policy will be tested later this month when the council rules on plans for a 35ft double-height project in King's Street, Primrose Hill. The local conservation area advisory group "objects strongly" to the plans, citing fears about the risk of subsidence to neighbouring properties.
Celebrity burrowers mentioned in the piece include Ricky Gervais (underground pool in Hampstead), David Cameron (digging down in North Kensington) and hedge fund manager Chris Rokos (counting room, Kensington Square).
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The extraordinary story in the Mail on Sunday of TV and radio presenter Matthew Wright's Camden nightmare, as his neighbours embark on a basement extension, and he's forced to give up a radio show because he can't get enough sleep to function, and face repairs to his own property.
The excavations have also caused damage to my property, which I believe will cost thousands of pounds to put right. The wooden floor in my living room has come an inch away from the wall it once abutted. Chunks of plaster have fallen off my walls.
So what's this... just another celebrity abusing his position to moan in a paper? No. Actually, the thrust is about the downside of the Government's new, short-red-tape, fast-track approach to planning, in a market that favours improvement over sale. It's an interesting read.
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It wasn't four months ago that we were reporting that Paris Hilton had been spotted snapping up brothels in the east... now - according to this - she's just bought in Camden. Keep going Paris, the London property market needs you.
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24dash.com visits Camden's eco-council house, a Victorian building reworked for maximum energy efficiency without destroying its original character.
It is believed changes made to the house, which was built around 1850, could cut carbon emissions by up to 80 per cent – and this will shape plans to cut emissions in the Council’s 7000 period street properties.
Sounds good. The Ali family are in, and they're being monitored closely by UCL (clever) and Camden Council (nothing to see here, move along).
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It's an apartment "in a house near Regent's Park"... and it cost in the £4m region, that's all we know. The Standard found another connection. It's...
... close to flats designed by the real-life Goldfinger.
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Her Camden neighbours have had enough of her "antics", they say, and are campaigning to the council to have her evicted. One of them, quoted here, has apparently been filming her frolics and fisticuffs, and will be handing the evidence over to Camden Council shortly. (What's that? The sound of half a dozen newspapers opening their cheque books?)
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Seems like an odd time to open a new branch, but that's exactly what Foxtons is doing. The Camden office - at 120 Parkway - opens its doors on Saturday, June 14, and will be celebrating their new premises with cappuccini and zero commission for the first 200 instructions. It's a courageous way of winning business from the rivals and getting a bunch of Foxtons boards about, but how will the zero percenters fair compared to the other clients when it comes to pushing homes?
[via housefund.co.uk]
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It's 12 Fitzroy Road in Primrose Hill, the former home of author HG Wells, and thought to be the place where he at least started work on War of the Worlds (remember the references to the area?). It's with John D Wood, and a guide price of £3.25m buys you three reception rooms, four bedrooms and two bathrooms in one of the capital's most sought-after areas. Listing here.
[via the Times]
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He's likely to be moving in with girlfriend Kirsten Dunst now that his Camden home has... er... collapsed.
A main wall inside his home in Camden, North London, had collapsed leaving the place looking like a "bombsite". Johnny is said to be so fed-up, he wants rid of the place altogether. He and 25-year-old Spider-Man star Kirsten already have their eye on a £5million townhouse nearby.
[via the Mirror]
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 So property price increases in Prime Central London might have taken a hit, but the same can't be said for rental growth which, according to Knight Frank, reached its highest point in eight years... 12.2% June-to-June. If you're a landlord, how did you do in the postcode lottery? Here are the winning numbers... SW1, SW3, NW1, SW10, W8, and the bonus postcode is W14. This month's jackpot isn't as high as you might expect. Although house prices in these postcodes have slipped slightly in the last quarter, they've still, historically, outstripped rental growth, meaning that in a lot of cases yields aren't actually that impressive. If you own the property, though, and you bought it in time... who cares?
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Haven't you heard? Camden's great. And you don't get too many opportunities like this anymore. Floor-to-ceiling windows, a proper 1,173 sq ft blank canvas with the potential for some real open-plan living, and a Parkway address. With Urban Spaces, at £575,000.
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Rosalind Russell writes about house price indices and Camden's mysterious rise from rathole to ratpack, in the Telegraph. Sure - the different indices reflect different types of data collected in different ways (and the Rat and Mouse firmly believes in the micro-local nature of house price valuation); but the piece also poses an interesting... to what extent can agents talk a local market up?
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And expensive. In fact, according to this, the UK's third most expensive neighbourhood after Kensington and Chelsea. Chesterton's "meta-index" (more on that - I think - to come) shows Camden achieving a 2.8% property inflation rate in April, which was more than twice that of the other two illustrious names, bringing NW1 an average property price of £509,157... putting it ahead of Westminster. And it wasn't that long ago the borough was declared fit only for the rats.
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According to this, the first phase in Barratt's Lockhouse canal-side development in Camden's Oval Road has sold out in a single day. Anybody have any idea as to the number of apartments released?
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Sometimes the Telegraph can seem a little Thames Gateway-obsessed - but, you've got to hand it to them, they know how to do these redevelopment features. Here's Sheila Prophet with a very nice state-of-play piece, looking at Brent Cross Cricklewood, Paddington Basin, King's Cross, Elephant & Castle, Convoy's Wharf Deptford, Silvertown Quays, oh, okay, and Greenwich Peninsula. She also asks, "Should you invest?" Elephant & Caslte, King's Cross (above) and Silvertown (below) get something of a thumbs up.
Ah smell that? That's the smell of money, Mrs Turveydrop... [October 3, 2006]
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John McCririck's wife, of Albert Terrace Mews, does her bit for local house prices and talks to the Ham & High about the increasingly unpleasant atmosphere on Primrose Hill:
"There would be one small group of men over in one area and another in another area and it can be desperately dangerous."
A "walk in the park" compared to living with John McCririck, you'd think. But she's joined by fellow residents, who claim the influx of celebrities to the area has lowered the tone and attracted celebrity-spotters, party people and drug dealers. Full story, here. |
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