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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So a NASA employee named Pete Mouginis-Mar, who used to live on Trinity Road, gets the chance to name a crater and decides he'd thrill his mum and dad by naming it "Tooting". For those interested in this kind of thing, Tooting Crater is 28km across, at latitude 23.1N, 152.4W. And you can find the crater's official listing here. Whether it will do anything for house prices in (our) Tooting is still being debated.

The latest Harden's Restaurant Guide is out today, and after a nine year run the Ivy has been displaced as London's top-rated restaurant. The honour now goes to Wandsworth's Chez Bruce, whose Michelin star also trumps the Ivy.

We wonder how quickly this information will find its way onto house particulars in SW17?