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Property search ‘Our rivers are the bedrock on which London life is built’ Life changer of Janice the week Run a Morley thriving business down on the farm EDITOR £2.5 million: cultivate a new way IF YOU told a Benedictine nun a new east of life at Kelsey’s Farm in Sidcup, London community was planned for Kent, with 25 acres, a farm shop, Trophy home of the week You’ll surely be hooked a 70-seat café-restaurant and a Bromley-by-Bow she might ask where the children’s indoor adventure play £4.95 million: quintessentially Georgian Elms House in Twyford village, near Winchester, is quite news was in that. A community of nuns barn. An ideal ready-made a catch. Walled gardens and grounds cover almost four acres. There’s a tennis court and swimming business, the thriving shop is pool, along with 130 yards of fishing rights along the River Itchen. Inside, the generous proportions established themselves on the marshy known for delicious fruit and veg. of more than 7,000sq ft across three floors — plus a wine cellar — include an impressive hall River Lea in the 12th century. Flour was There’s also a caravan/camping warmed by an open fireplace and a grand staircase up to a master suite with glorious views. There milled there to bake bread for the City of site with space for five caravans, are six further bedrooms and three bathrooms. An elegant drawing room with space for a piano, plus 20 acres of rolling plus a family room and a huge kitchen/breakfast room/orangery with stone floors complete the London. Our rivers are the bedrock on agricultural land laid to vegetable idyll. Through Hamptons International (01962 920265). which London life is built. They are our crops and pasture bordering the River Cray. The main house has soulmates. We sit above them, walk four bedrooms, ample family London buy of the week Stroll home beside them, draw peace from them. space and lovely walled gardens. Trains from nearby Sidcup station from the urban beach to a sleek SW6 flat Voracious for space, we have returned to reach London in 30 minutes. colonise the Lea’s banks in Bromley-by- Through BTF Partnership (01435 Bow with 8,000 new homes in a new 688016). £799,000: this fabulous apartment within a secure gated development is in community. Nine centuries later, ancient Munster Village, Fulham, half a mile rivers still give us food and shelter, flowing from lovely Bishops Park with its Thames footpath and urban beach. On steadily on from past to future. the ground floor, the flat has good ceiling heights, white walls, pale wood VISIT homesandproperty.co.uk/rules for details of our floors and floor-to-ceiling glass doors usual promotion rules. When you respond to promotions, that open out to a neat patio garden offers or competitions, the Evening Standard and its from a sleek, open-plan kitchen- sister companies may contact you with relevant offers reception-dining room. Two bright and services that may be of interest. Please give your double bedrooms have generous built- mobile number and/or email address if you would like to in storage, and one has a stylish en suite receive such offers by text or email. bathroom. There is a further bathroom and a utilities cupboard for washer and Editorial: 020 3615 2650 dryer. Through Savills (020 8012 3089). Advertisement manager: Ann Finan Advertising: 020 3615 0538 By Faye Greenslade Homes & Property, Northcliffe House, 2 Derry Street, Kensington, London W8 5TT. News Price cuts at record lows as buyers hold off WITH the property market firmly in It’s a buyers’ the hands of the buyer, 2018 is market: only one already a record year for price in 10 London cutting, writes Ruth Bloomfield. homes achieves NAEA Propertymark, the national the asking price, association of estate agents, says according to almost nine out of 10 homes, or 86 industry experts per cent, went for below asking price in March, the highest level since the body began the record in 2013 and 12 per cent up on February. There’s no shortage of house hunters, with the average agent having just over 300 on its books. But in London, Trevor Abrahmsohn of Glentree International blames ALAMY overvaluing by agents and high moving costs and taxes that at asking price because buyers are residential at Colliers International, encourage vendors to aim too high ultra-cautious and price sensitive. says: “Homes that are selling are when setting an asking price. Many owners not desperate to below the £600,000 mark.” Brendan Roberts, a director at move simply withdraw from the Aylesford International, says only market if they fail to achieve their ⬤ Read the full story: visit about one in 10 London homes sells price. Ashley Osborne, head of UK homesandproperty.co.uk EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 2 MAY 2018 3 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by News | Homes Property GETTY Dare you make Bob an offer he can’t refuse?? A supercool £17.5m A LITTLE Robert De Niro star quality landscaped roof garden via buys Cara and Kate’s rubbed off on the South Bank when the an electronically film giant, inset, reportedly snapped controlled skylight. converted party pub up a flat in 2001 at The Jam Factory, Measuring above, a converted Hartley’s plant, for approximately IF YOU’D care to make your home £750,000. 1,300sq ft the where a starry crowd of models and Hollywood coming to Southwark outdoor terrace has hipsters used to party the night away, caused quite a stir and gave the district 360-degree views you’ll need a cool £17.5 million. the trendy Tribeca touch — New York’s taking in St Paul’s Homes Behind its original classic façade in trendy Tribeca district is where the Cathedral, the Notting Hill, The Lonsdale DJ bar, a star of The Godfather: Part II bought London Eye, the former watering hole frequented by commercial and residential properties. Shard, Tower gossip the likes of Cara Delevingne and Kate The two-bedroom loft apartment in Bridge and Canary Moss, right, has been transformed SE1 certainly has celeb appeal. It’s all Wharf. This super- Amira Hashish into an amazing private home. about open plan, with floor-to-ceiling smart home is listed By In what is surely London’s plushest GETTY windows and a contemporary-design with SellMyHome.co.uk pub makeover, 48 Lonsdale Road, staircase leading to the private for £1,595,000. Got some gossip? listed with Domus Nova, has one of Tweet @amiranews the largest private swimming pools in Kensington & Chelsea borough as well glass wall dividing sleeping and as its own health spa, cinema and a dressing areas, fills the second floor, 50ft-high atrium with a four-storey opening on to a private terrace. There chandelier. Developer Fenton Whelan is also a VIP master bathroom with is behind the new look, creating a walk-in double shower, a bath and turnkey home of über-luxe standards. double wash basins.Family homes The master bedroom suite, with a don’t come much more sumptuous. Downsizer Bruce just can’t leave NYC DAVE BENETT DAVE BRUCE WILLIS and his English model wife Emma Heming, inset, have found a buyer with £12.9 million for their New Form an orderly queue for the Forte sisters’ Naughty Corner York duplex. The action star, 62, set to reprise his GLAMOROUS sisters Lydia and Michelin-star chef Heinz Beck Adam Ellis, sits above the 1900s oak role as John McClane in Die Hard 6, Irene Forte, above from left, Hot has taken over the dining room panelling while bespoke chandeliers bought the six-bedroom, 6,000sq ft daughters of hotel empire boss spot to give the hushed reverence from Florentine designer Chelini apartment at Central Park West three Rocco Forte, are sprinkling their and daily roast a bit of a shake-up further enhance the Dolce Vita vibe. years ago for £12.3 million. On the third stardust on the iconic Brown’s — and the Rome-based culinary The adjoining Donovan Bar ramps up and fourth floors of a 12-storey block, Hotel in Mayfair, revamping it with a supremo’s first London venture the fab factor with bronze-based glass the skyline views along Fifth Avenue millennial luxury makeover. really looks the part. Designers Olga tables and a main bar that has doubled and Central Park South are hard to top. The stylish duo, who play a pivotal Polizzi and Inge Moore have in size and now takes centre stage. Set However, the A-list couple have role in their family’s business, have transformed the space into a bright, to be the most sought-after seat in opted to downsize. Staying in been toasting the launch of their new botanical utopia, with a colour palette Mayfair, the “Naughty Corner” is a Manhattan, they’ve bought a place at restaurant and bar with pals including of greens and turquoises with brass sumptuous booth decked out with the newly developed One West End fashion photographer Alistair Guy and accents. Wallpaper, specially iconic Terence Donovan photographs.