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Wednesday 19 February 2014 Love Homes& letters Design trends Property Page 14 THE YOUNG PROFESSIONALS: NEW HOMES P4 FLOOD DEFENCES P28 SMALL GARDENS P29 SPOTLIGHT ON MUSWELL HILL P34 Our beautiful basement Interiors: Page 26 DAVID BUTLER DAVID London’s best property search website: homesandproperty.co.uk 2 WEDNESDAY 19 FEBRUARY 2014 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property Online homesandproperty.co.uk with This week: homesandproperty.co.uk Click and sold: secured by mobile phone app, this semi in Property Mitcham is now part of property search buying history London buy of the week news: super-smart Chiswick revamp Now you can buy a house £425,000: here’s a great little London home, perfect as a pied-à-terre or even a permanent base, set within a private with a phone app — scary gated development in Chiswick, W4. A smart new revamp to its 455sq ft of space has created a luxurious bathroom IN WHAT is thought to be a world first, a buyer has with flat-screen TV to catch up on your favourite soaps snapped up a London house for sale with a simple swipe while you soak. There are fitted wardrobes in the bedroom of his mobile phone. and solid wood floors to an open-plan reception room, plus In seconds, the house hunter was able to pay a £23,000 a sleek, white kitchen and French windows that lead to a deposit this month on the three-bedroom property in pleasant, private balcony. Through KFH. Mitcham using the Barclays Pingit phone app. The app was used to read a QR — quick response — code supplied O Visit homesandproperty.co.uk/buyoftheweekchis by Savills Auctions on the property’s details. Once the property was recognised by the app, one “Okay” click from the buyer was all that was needed to secure the house, with the deposit paid from his bank account instantaneously. Out of town buy of the week O Read Ruth Bloomfield’s full story at homesandproperty.co.uk move to the Sunny side of the street hot homes: A search for the £325,000: look forward to a brighter and an inglenook fireplace with wood future at Sunny Cottages in the burning stove. The rooms are set baronial and the plain bonkers charming village of Naunton in the over three floors and include a Cotswolds. Ideal for Londoners kitchen/diner and two bedrooms £2.3 million: a looking to downsize — or just to bag a with a dreamy outlook over a walled, Gaudi-inspired place for quiet weekends away — well-stocked country garden. seven-bedroom there’s a Grade II-listed home here Trains from nearby Kingham will home in Hurst, that is a real find. There are lovely reach London in about 80 minutes. Berkshire stone floors, mullion windows, beams Through RA Bennett. O Visit homesand Life changer a Georgian property.co.uk/ gaudi for details beauty with a capital B&B IF YOU don’t do ordinary, why not join us on a property £450,000: start making cash from the moment you buy O Visit homesand tour of the extraordinary — from magnificent historic this thriving B&B in Thorpe-Le-Soken, North Essex. Its property.co.uk/ homes for sale to the plain bonkers. We take a look at an Georgian good looks and prime position at the centre outsunny ambitious five-storey water tower conversion in of the pretty village are sure to attract a steady stream Leicester, a distinctive twin-roundel oast house in Kent, of guests, who can be accommodated in six bedrooms, this Gaudi-inspired modernist home, above, with turrets three of which are en suite. and elaborate ironwork in Berkshire, and we discover a There are three reception rooms and a vaulted sun room, patch of land in Cornwall that hides a 3,000sq ft Cold too, plus a lovely garden with a pond — just the spot to War bunker complete with blast-proof doors and that serve summer teas. Through John D Wood. must-have feature — a handy decontamination room. By O Visit homesandproperty.co.uk/lifechangerlesoken Faye Greenslade O Join our tour of quirky homes at homesandproperty.co.uk Editor: YOU can be the judge Janice Morley Join our New Homes Awards readers’ panel VISIT homesandproperty.co. WE ARE looking for 20 people with a uk/rules for details of our passion for property who are avid usual promotion rules. When readers of Homes & Property and you respond to promotions, would like to be on the judging panel offers or competitions, the for the 2014 Evening Standard New London Evening Standard and Homes Awards. its sister companies may You will join industry experts to contact you with relevant choose the very best homes and offers and services that may developments in London and the be of interest. Please give South-East, and will be a VIP guest at your mobile number and/or a glittering awards ceremony at The email address if you would Dorchester hotel in May. A shortlist like to receive such offers by of schemes will be prepared by the text or email. team of experts and the reader therefore applicants should have no judges will choose all the winners. direct links with house builders or Editorial: 020 3615 2524 You don’t need any professional have been on our panel before. Advertisement manager: qualifications to be a reader judge — Mark Wood just bags of enthusiasm for good HOW TO APPLY: simply tell us in no Advertising: 020 3615 0527 architecture and interior design. more than 150 words why you would Homes & Property, Northcliffe The awards cover all sectors of the like to take part and detail any House, 2 Derry Street, industry from starter homes to swish relevant experience. For more Kensington, London W8 5TT. penthouses and luxurious mansions. information and judging dates, visit Judging is completely independent — homesandproperty.co.uk/judges EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 19 FEBRUARY 2014 3 homesandproperty.co.uk with News Homes & Property He’s not short of a few quid É LOUIS VUITTON chairman and chief executive Michael Burke just splashed out £7 million on a Miami Beach mansion — the most paid for a home in the area to date. There’s 200sq ft of water frontage, right, with private dock, a pool, guesthouse and tennis court. But the fashion boss, pictured left with actress Uma Thurman, is knocking down the existing house to build a new one. Should he need a London base, a four- bedroom flat is for sale for £10 million in Mayfair, five minutes’ walk from the Vuitton store in New Bond Street. GETTY IMAGES O Visit homesandproperty.co.uk/may GETTY IMAGES Will newly single Where was the Kelly come home Bafta beefcake? for a fresh start? É WHICH prime location hosted the biggest clutch of Bafta A-list É KELLY OSBOURNE split from guests this week? Leonardo fiancé Matthew Mosshart last month DiCaprio, right, Cate Blanchett, and it appears she is keen to make a Tom Hanks, Bradley Cooper and fresh start. The Fashion Police host, By Amira Hashish Oprah Winfrey could all be found at 29, above, has put her one-bedroom, Grosvenor House. two-bathroom West Hollywood Got some gossip? Tweet @amiranews The hotel, in Park Lane, hosted home on the market for £811,000. the official party for this year’s The 1,250sq ft apartment, below, awards which attracted its most has spectacular views and private Strewth! Media dynasty’s mansion set to glittering crowd to date. Hollywood gardens. megastars dined on smoked The London-born daughter of break Aussie records with a £54m sale salmon, fine Aberdeen Angus beef rocker Ozzy and former X Factor and chocolate mousse in the judge Sharon loves coming back to ÉA VICTORIAN mansion with views dazzling Great Room. her roots and has been in town for across Sydney Harbour is set to break The drink was in full flow, with Fashion Week. With some of her pals Australian property price records. 200 magnums of champagne and based here, including One Direction Owned by the Fairfax media 1,200 bottles of wine consumed on singer Harry Styles and model Daisy dynasty, whose publications include the night. Lowe, it might make sense for her to the Sydney Morning Herald, it is And if all the starry detail has cross the Pond and invest in London. expected to sell for between given you the taste for a glamorous £43million and £54 million. The staycation, book a deluxe room current record for a luxury from £350 a night — or treat residential sale in Oz is £28 million, yourself to the premium park view so it is a hefty leap. suites, favoured by celebs, a snip The magnificent estate, right, at £1,600 a night. named Elaine, has been in the Fairfax Two new royal suites are being family since 1891. designed, so by the time the next It is on the market with Christie’s, Bafta ceremony comes to town it and seven bedrooms, seven will be a battle for the best room bathrooms, a ballroom, stables and a (marriott.co.uk). grass tennis court are included in the eye-watering asking price. PA BATHROOM SALE/C.P. HART ENDS 28/02/14 4 WEDNESDAY 19 FEBRUARY 2014 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property New homes homesandproperty.co.uk with OUNG career professionals shape London’s property market more than any other population group. The Young professionals capital is an employment Ymagnet and its share of graduate jobs is rising, especially in law, financial serv- set the pace for ices, advertising, IT and marketing. In boroughs ringing the main employ- property prices in the ment centres of the West End, the City and Canary Wharf, more than 50 per cent of residents are aged between 20 six inner boroughs and 44, while graduates make up 60 per cent of the workforce, twice the UK average.