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INTERNATIONAL REd SAIL dIStRIct A flat near the Moulin Rouge that has just sold for €1.16m with VINGT

HOMe cOMfOrts Stefanie Cunha BoBo French fami- is an elegant three-bedroom Haus- and her lies arriving in this mannian apartment with high ceilings, husband Xavier area, says Ashby. parquet floors and six fireplaces for FOR SALE in Paris, and “We are now seeing €1.55 million, through estate agency Buy in the hip 18th arrondissement Buying in the their loft, below prices being VINGT Paris. achieved of €11,000 “Buyers love this area and all want to €13,000 per sq m ‘dans son jus’ [fixer-upper] apartments, that is completely but because there’s hot competition, new for SoPi.” It is they all end up going for around perhaps not surpris- €12,000 per sq m,” says Susie Hollands, BLANCHE ing that the uber- founder of VINGT Paris. “It’s less com- With soaring ceilings, ‘BoBo’ streets stylish new Blanche mercial than areas such as Le Marais in intricate mouldings and big gym, dubbed “the the 4th, and American buyers really windows, this classic sexiest sports club discovered it before the British.” three-bedroom third-floor in Paris”, already has While the 6th and 7th arrondisse- apartment is near Rue Lepic. 2,500 members. ments are the most in demand with Guide Price: €1.45 million The rebirth of the buyers with higher budgets – and there Agent: Junot (0033 1 42 52 40 00; of Paris 9th has been helped junot.fr) by the transforma- In the shadow of the tion of Rue des Mar- AVENUE JUNOT tyrs into a foodie red-light district is With a huge roof terrace, hotspot. It is also the this four-bedroom Bohemian locations subject of a book, super-chic SoPi penthouse has views from The Only Street in the Eiffel Tower to the such as Montmartre and Paris by New York Times writer Elaine are many now in the resurgent Paris Sacré-Coeur. Sciolino, who called it “the last real market – she tips the 1st as offering street in Paris, a half-mile celebration scope for further growth for investors. Guide Price: €7.8 million Pigalle are hip pockets of the city in all its diversity”. “This area of Hausmann-era boule- Agent: Knight Frank (020 7861 1727; British-born writer Caroline Harrap vards, the Louvre and the Tuileries is knightfrank.com) for property hunters, lived in the street for five years before undergoing a lot of development, espe- moving to the slightly more affordable cially round the Rue de Rivoli, so I see 18th last year for more space. it getting better.” RUE DES ABBESSES says Liz Rowlinson This bright and airy “I love both these areas of Paris. In In a beautiful 19th-century building south-facing flat looks the 9th I lived in a beautiful but run- there’s a large one-bedroom property over a courtyard and the ince the mid-19th cen- vegan and artisan shops and restau- down 1800s building, between special- for sale for €1.3 million through agency roofs of Paris, and has three tury, artists and rebels rants,” says Alison Ashby, director of ist food shops and bakeries that have Home Hunts. It may be the perfect bedrooms. have gravitated towards Junot Immobilier. “Many of the artist helped the area become so fashiona- pied-à-terre for those in town right the hilltop village of studios are being bought by actors and PARISIAN ble,” she says. “But I also love the tea now for Paris Fashion Week, as it is Guide Price: €2.2 million Montmartre on Paris’s movie producers as residences, but PLEASURES garden of the Musée de la Vie Roman- within a short sashay of the designer Agent: Knight Frank (020 7861 1727; Right Bank. After be- classic hôtel particuliers [town houses] Sacré-Coeur tique, a mansion where figures from boutiques of the chic Rue Saint Honoré knightfrank.com) coming part of the city are also sought after, as are grand villas Basilica rises above up by 8.6 per cent over the past year in the Romantic era such as Franz Liszt, and Place Vendôme. S in 1860, it became a with great views across the city, espe- Montmartre in the the 18th, according to Knight Frank, is George Sand and Frédéric Chopin lively hub of bars, cafés and cabarets cially from La Butte.” north of the city, also making it attractive to investors. In would meet.” life is a that stoked non-conformist and crea- Along with the village of Montmar- above left; below, the 9th, the district to the south of the In one of the apartment buildings cabaret tive ideals. tre, the quartier includes an apartment on 18th, prices rose by 11.7 per cent. there’s a four-bedroom flat overlooking Four-bedroom Vincent van Gogh, Henri Matisse, the working-class commu- Avenue Junot, In the shadow of the fading red-light the Moulin Rouge for sale for €2.17 mil- apartment has Pablo Picasso, Henri de Toulouse-Lau- nity of Abbesses, which is €7.8m with district, the 9th’s South Pigalle, or lion. Or in the Saint-Georges area there views of the Moulin trec and Pierre-Auguste Renoir are centred around Rue des Ab- Knight Frank SoPi as it has been moni- Rouge, below and among the many artists that lived or besses with its increasingly kered, has become one of left, €2.17m with worked on “La Butte” (the hill) among fashionable boutiques, pa- IMAGES GETTY CHARLIE DE VAIVRE; the super-chic areas of Paris, Knight Frank the secret gardens and pretty cobble- tisserie windows full of with its mix of decadent live stoned streets that wind their way up mouth-watering fruit tarts, Junot (the status address of the district), nearby, there’s a two-bedroom fifth- Saint-Germain-des-Prés in the 6th, music venues and cocktail to the summit, where the Sacré-Coeur the mythical Moulin Rouge with views of the Eiffel Tower from one floor apartment for sale for €730,000, “but the 18th is full of interesting bars. Designer Jean Paul Basilica with its distinctive white trav- cabaret club, and the vi- side and the Sacré-Coeur from the or a three-bedroom light-filled atelier spaces such as artists’ studios,” she Gaultier’s Fashion Freak ertine dome was built by 1914. brant African communities other, priced at €7.8 million. At the for €1.8 million, both through Knight says. “We loved the youthful and ex- Show is running nightly at A tourist magnet alive with colourful in Goutte d’Or and Barbès. other end of the scale, you can get a bi- Frank. perimental feel of the place, with its Pigalle’s famous Les Folies- street artists, the 18th arrondissement The average selling price jou 323 sq ft one-bedroom flat in a When London-based Stefanie Cunha eclectic mix of one-off shops, and Bergère cabaret club until is today, along with the next-door 9th, for Junot Immobilier prop- Haussmannian building just steps from and her French husband, Xavier, were amazing bakeries run by talented December. an increasingly fashionable district for erties there is €1,052 (£944) Montmartre with change from seeking a weekend home in Paris, they young pastry chefs just starting out. But the 9th’s other cul- home hunters in Paris looking for per sq ft, compared with €350,000. chose a 1,400 sq ft artist’s loft on Rue “Our home is only a €7 taxi ride away tural offerings, the Belle- something a little more “BoBo” – bour- €1,245 in the 1st to 4th ar- In the Abbesses district, which is Caulaincourt, which skirts Montmar- from the Eurostar terminal at Gare du Époque department stores geois bohemian – than the traditional rondissements, and €1,429 slightly cheaper than Montmartre, at tre. It has open-plan living across two Nord. I love the way Paris still offers of Galeries Lafayette, good favourites of the 3rd/4th, nearer the across the 5th, 6th and 7th. the end of the popular street market in levels and vast panelled windows. “We a less structured way of living, a schools and handsome neo- river, or the 6th/7th on the Left Bank. At the higher end of the Rue Lepic, there is the historic Cafédes wanted something unique, not just a quirkiness, that London doesn’t, and classical architecture – the “Buyers seeking a village feel are at- scale, the agent has a four- 2 Moulins that featured in the 2001 lot of rooms off a hallway,” says Ste- we decided to move here full-time two part of it developed in the tracted to the 18th for its garden spaces, bedroom penthouse apart- film Amélie. Tucked away in a peaceful fanie, 36, who works in financial ser- years ago.” Twenties is called Nouvelles food markets, but also the new organic, ment on the elegant Avenue little gated garden square full of trees vices. She was initially looking in The fact that property prices went Athènes – are also a pull for