Educational excellence, a proliferation of parks, a shiny new private members’ club, the lowest council tax in the UK and now the London Borough of Culture for 2025. There are…
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Has London reached ‘peak rent’? Here’s where room rents are falling fastest
by News Roomby News Room“Areas such as Westminster, Pimlico and Belgravia have all seen an increase in the number of rental properties being made available, which has given tenants a larger pool of properties…
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Sir Richard Branson’s Little Venice houseboat is for rent for £5,200 a month
by News Roomby News RoomPredictably, therefore, Branson no longer lives on Duende, which is moored on Blomfield Road on the Regent’s Canal. The Branson family does still own the boat, however, which has now…
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London leaver: ‘If we had all the money in the world we probably would never have left London’
by News Roomby News RoomGeoff and Lydia Wright swapped the pubs, restaurants and easy West End access of Zone 2 for family life in the Home Counties
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Grand 1701 Penzance vicarage packed with period features for sale for £850k
by News Roomby News RoomThe property is for sale for the first time in over a century
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Is this the UK’s skinniest house? Tiny Cornish "Doll’s House" for sale for £235k
by News Roomby News RoomThe Doll’s House is less than a metre wide at its narrowest point, and just over three at its widest
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Three-storey property in Walthamstow on sale for £150,000 (but it’s only 6ft wide)
by News Roomby News RoomFormer tenant used to live on narrowboat and says: ‘It’s weirdly spacious in there’
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First-time buyer stamp duty: the boroughs where property tax bill will increase most after April
by News Roomby News RoomFirst-time buyers in parts of London will have to find an additional lump sum of almost £12,000 after April this year, as new stamp duty rules come into effect. That’s…
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Fashion designer Harris Reed on the ‘divine, gilded creativity’ of his Holland Park home
by News Roomby News RoomReed was brought up in California, the son of English documentary film producer Nick Reed and American artist and fragrance connoisseur Lynette Reed. His sights were set on London since…
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Don’t Move, Improve! Minimalist Hackney home named House of the Year
by News Roomby News RoomThere are clues outside Johan Hybschmann’s Hackney house hinting that the inside is far from ordinary. Most of the street is lined with Victorian terraces. However, halfway along, on one…