17 June 2020

19 Wednesday 17 June 2020 CYCLE TO WORK Homes near your office: Pages 20 & 21 The super-rich fixer F1 heiress Petra Ecclestone’s ﬁancé Sam Palmer on running billionaires’ mansions and bringing his business to the UK PAGES 22 & 23 COURTESY OF TONY TAAFE PHOTOGRAPHY TAAFE TONY OF COURTESY homesandproperty.co.uk BEST LIFESTYLE NEWS SITE Winner 2020 20 WEDNESDAY 17 JUNE 2020 EVENING STANDARD Homes Property | New homes GREENWICH SITTING between travel Zones 2 and 3, house prices in Greenwich come in at 11.6 times the average wage for the area. The Jubliee line runs through Greenwich North station while the Docklands Light Railway is a Work from short walk away and there is a Thames Clipper service from the O2, stopping at Tower Bridge, London Bridge, Embankment and the West End. The river bus company has reorganised its home? We’d fleet for greater travel safety. Cycle Superhighway 4 is under construction and will run from Greenwich to Tower Bridge. Greenwich Millennium Village has been taking shape rather walk for 20 years. The 50-acre site is being carved out of abandoned brownfield land in what was a heavily industrialised area. New homes sit around four acres of wetlands and squares with shops, cafés and a new primary to the office school. Prices from £414,995. Visit greenwichmillenniumvillage. As lockdown lifts, Londoners want co.uk or call 020 8023 6290. Back to nature: formerly an walk-to-work homes, or property on a industrial area, new homes at Greenwich Millennium Village sit cycle route or near a river bus pier, for around wetlands and squares a fresh air commute. By Anna White NEW wave of buyers are has reported a spike in enquiries for searching for homes near homes in Covent Garden, Fitzrovia their London offices so and Southwark. they can safely walk, cycle or take a boat to work. IT’S A COMPLEX MARKET AFirst-time buyers and single The property market that is professionals are topping the list of emerging from lockdown is a those trying to get on the ladder complex one, as the nation close to the main employment reassesses its needs. districts. Jennet Siebrits of CBRE says: At the same time, second steppers “Cities will remain higher are looking to upsize to a family education, leisure, social and house with a garden in nearby cultural epicentres.” Just think how well-established London villages. many people make friends and Both groups expect to spend at meet their partners in the office. least a few days a week in the office “The established migration trends and want to move somewhere that in and out of London are likely to “reduces stress”, according to remain but young professionals will London estate agent Dexters. keep arriving for employment Across its 70 branches, Dexters opportunities and favour more has reported a threefold increase in central locations,” adds Siebrits. registrations of buyers looking for a home in central London since the HOW CLOSE CAN YOU GET? From £467,000: flats at The Silk District in Whitechapel E1 From £655,000: for a two-bedroom apartment at lockdown, compared to the same Buying around inner London is come with outside space, a gym on site, communal roof Newham’s Yard by Galliard Homes, an industrial-style time last year. expensive at the best of times terrace with wi-fi zones and a 24-hour concierge service residential scheme in walking distance of the West End “This is the complete reverse of without a looming recession: the what I expected to happen,” says Jeff average house price is 13.1 times the Doble, chairman of the group, average income. The five boroughs TOWER HAMLETS SOUTHWARK which also owns agents Kinleigh that offer the best combination of Folkard & Hayward. “These buyers affordability and location are Tower THE average house price in Tower Hamlets is nine-and- IN ZONE 1, the borough of Southwark stretches from the believe there is a limit to working Hamlets, Greenwich, Southwark, a-half times the earnings of the people who live in the Southbank to Crystal Palace. The average house price is from home. They want to be able to Lambeth and Hackney, Hamptons borough. Whitechapel, in Zone 2 and within walking and 12 times the average salary in the area. cycle or walk to work, with limited International rsearch shows. cycling distance of the City, has been badged as the new It’s home to the overhaul of Elephant & Castle time on public transport as we live But following the coronavirus extension of Shoreditch, with a strong street art and shopping centre, the gyratory and the post-war Heygate in fear of further contagion.” lockdown, buyers are becoming street food scene. Estate, which are being replaced with a new town centre Meanwhile, property group CBRE more discerning. New schemes will Transport options include a London Overground and college campus. have to present decent-sized station, the Tube and a new Crossrail station. Cycle Notting Hill Genesis is building one-, two- and apartments with room for a home Superhighway 2 runs from Stratford to Aldgate. three-bedroom apartments at Manor Place Depot. Prices office, outdoor space and simple Banker Duygu Baydur and her partner Basak Unalan start from £467,500 with Help to Buy available. Call 020 Thinking of ways to get to work. moved to Whitechapel from Wapping during lockdown, 3883 5199 for details. moving? Start As Dr Lara Gosce of the Institute buying a two-bedroom flat at White + Green. “We really Cycling commuters can jump on Cycle Superhighway 6 of Global Health warns, those like this location, it has a good community feel with lots from Elephant & Castle to King’s Cross. your search on people who use multiple transport of coffee shops and independent stores, and I can walk to At the City end of Southwark, there are new homes links are more likely to contract a work in Liverpool Street in 20 minutes,” says Duygu. available by Tower Bridge. Newham’s Yard is an flu-like virus. Following the From £530,000 for a one-bedroom flat (020 7247 2025). industrial-style residential scheme comprising 86 Covid-19 pandemic, people will try The Silk District nearby comprises two towers and apartments. It’s walkable to the Southbank, the West End to limit their time on the Tube. low-rise blocks around landscaped courtyards and and the City, with Borough Market and Tate Modern on Homes & Property takes a look at gardens. All flats have outside space and there’s a gym, the doorstep. how close to the core of the capital communal roof terrace with wi-fi, concierge, cinema Prices start from £655,000 for a two-bedroom new homes buyers can get. room and café. From £467,000 (020 3930 4287). apartment. Call Galliard Homes on 020 3146 4520. EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 17 JUNE 2020 21 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by New homes | Homes Property SHARED OWNERSHIP UNLOCKS LAMBETH AND HACKNEY SHARED OWNERSHIP gives young buyers a way into Lambeth and Hackney, where affordability PAUL ECCLESTON, CHARLIE JH ROUND-TURNER CHARLIE ECCLESTON, PAUL ratios sit above the inner London average — 13.5 and 16 times borough earnings respectively. One- and two-bedroom apartments are available on a shared-ownership basis at SO Resi Clapham Park, part of the regeneration of the 2,500-home Clapham Park housing estate in Lambeth. Buyers will pay £109,250 for a 25 per cent share of a one-bedroom flat. Visit soresi.co.uk for details. From £109,250: shared-ownership at SO Resi Clapham Park It’s a short walk to Clapham Below: Fish Island Village shared ownership starts at £108,750 POWERFUL PLACE MAKING High Street and Cycle Superhighway 7 takes commuter THE redevelopment of Battersea Power Station in cyclists from Colliers Wood to Lambeth is one of the best examples of modern-day Cannon Street via Clapham. place making on the edge of central London. The bars Fellow housing association and cafés have been doing takeaway during lockdown, Peabody is selling shared- while shops on the site reopened this week. “The appeal ownership flats in the Fish Island was the sense of community and feeling of safety. I’m Village canalside redevelopment looking forward to the Circus West high street gradually in Hackney Wick. A 25 per cent opening back up,” says resident Lyndsey, 35, above. share of a one-bedroom As for transport from the new power station flats, the apartment starts from £108,750. Thames Clipper has restarted, the Northern line will run Visit peabodysales.co.uk for more. to the new Zone 1 Tube station and trains go from nearby Cycle Superhighway 1 is being Queenstown Road station to Victoria. Commuters will improved and runs from also be able to walk or cycle to Vauxhall through the new Tottenham to Liverpool Street 14-acre Nine Elms linear park when it is completed. Flats station. are priced from £870,000. Call 020 7501 0678. ADVERTISEMENT FEATURE How to bring colour into your kitchen Your questions answered by Ian Brown, interior design specialist at home decor expert Neptune I’ve always had a white kitchen – Don’t be afraid of colour in a small what is so wrong with that? space. 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