The Primelocation blog wonders why Jade Jagger's £1.5m Queens Park flat still - after a year - hasn't shifted. Could it be the strippers' pole (see where I place that apostrophe... the Rat and Mouse provides itself on an extravagant imagination) in the bathroom? Those things are expensive to install, you know? Particulars, here.

Celebrities who don't sell [April 16, 2009]

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And visited by Glenda Jackson. Actually, this is an interesting project, by Genesis Housing Group, and sees the regeneration of some Grade II-listed Victorian tenement blocks in Hampstead Village... flats which have apparently been home to Sid Vicious, Johnny Rotten and Boy George.

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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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It's a former scout hut near Kilburn High Road, and it (or rather the land it's on) has sold at auction for £400,000. Expect it to spark off a predictable debate on a Radio 2 phone-in, shortly.

[via Hot Property]

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A year-and-a-half ago the Independent took a trip to Kilburn High Road to look at an extraordinary house - a modern, architecturally uncompromising structure overlooking Kilburn Grange Park and on the market for £2 million. Okay, they said, the High Road's a tip, but the house - cedar-clad, flat-roofed, underfloor-heated, glass-walled - is a "gem". Read more (although not the original link, which has died) here. Or just don't bother, and instead head over to today's Independent, where you'll find a strikingly similar piece, which also calls the property a "gem", and points out it's currently on the market, this time with our friends at CityScope, and priced at £2.1 million. This time round, though, the emphasis is on the High Road... is it up-and-coming enough for such a serious investment? And has the house been bought and sold since it was last featured? Or is it just hanging around? Read it here.

Ioan Gruffudd and Matthew Rhys, they're leaving for good. We're sorry, but it's true; and we know because their three-bedroom flat on Kingsgate Road, has just joined the market for £400,000.