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.