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Wednesday 23 April 2014 New trends Homes& from Milan The world’s top interiors show Property Page 12 PROFIT FROM A NEW HOME P4 GREENWICH IS HOT P7 BUY ON THE CENTRAL LINE P10 SPOTLIGHT ON TOTTENHAM P32 I sent those rats packing Transforming a wreck: Page 24 PHOTOGRAPH: SIMON ELDON AT SIMONELDON.CO.UK/STYLING: SAMANTHA GIDDINS AT MINKINTERIORS.CO.UK SAMANTHA GIDDINS AT SIMONELDON.CO.UK/STYLING: SIMON ELDON AT PHOTOGRAPH: London’s best property search website: homesandproperty.co.uk 2 WEDNESDAY 23 APRIL 2014 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property Online homesandproperty.co.uk with This week: homesandproperty.co.uk news: the true cost of buying a first Property home in each London borough search £205,000: for a studio apartment in the recently London buy of the week converted Royal Military Academy views to make the heart sing at Woolwich (homes and £699,950: rooms with a view are guaranteed at this property.co.uk/ über-smart apartment on the 14th floor of Canary Wharf’s military) Pan Peninsula tower — thanks to wall-to-wall windows and sliding glass doors to a balcony. 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EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 23 APRIL 2014 3 homesandproperty.co.uk with News Homes & Property Raise a glass, then steal that style ÉTHE restored Cat & Mutton pub, right, on the corner of London Fields and Broadway Market is a buzzing new destination. Owner Tom Gibson was keen to accentuate the property’s rich history in its design. Stuffed and Spot the star £17m Miami Beach mounted animal heads pay homage to the building’s livestock traditions. quality of this house to suit glam There are references to East End boxers from the Thirties and old glass place, Alesha Kardashian clan signs from the 19th century which came from a pub in Bermondsey. É WITH Britain’s Got Talent É SO YOU want to keep up with the Gibson’s parents own a reclaimed back on our screens, life is now Kardashians? Then move to Florida, furniture company called Castle very different for judges Simon where sisters Khloé, Kim and Gibson and have clearly influenced Cowell and Alesha Dixon, both of Kourtney, below, recently hosted the his interiors style. So if the decor whom have become parents since opening of the family’s Dash boutique appeals, be inspired to give your own the last series. in Miami Beach. home a spring refit. Dixon, right, lives in a small village The event was covered for reality TV’s house in Welwyn Garden City, Keeping up with the Kardashians, and Hertfordshire, but with baby Azura during filming the girls stayed at Casa now in tow she is sure to want more Casuarina, once home of the late space. This five-bedroom property, fashion king Gianni Versace, and now above, on the market locally could fit run as a high-end boutique hotel. the bill for a new family home. If the über-glam mansion tempted Tucked away behind private gates, them to buy in the city by the sea, One its exposed beams were sourced from Sotheby’s International Realty is selling MATT WRITTLE MATT old ships and churches, while singer- a suitably extravagant house, above, for turned-gardening guru Kim Wilde is a £17 million in exclusive Harbor Point. near neighbour. It’s on at £2 million By famed architect Cesar Molina, no with Hamptons International, and expense was spared on custom wood- nearby Knebworth station is just over work, marble floors, Lutron lighting, a By Amira Hashish 30 minutes from King’s Cross.