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HomesWednesday 23 November 2016 & Mustard’s hot Interiors trends Property Page 18 LONDON’S NEW HOTSPOTS P6 HOMES OF THE FUTURE P12 GET HUNG UP: WALLS P14 SPOTLIGHT ON SHENFIELD P24 Spectacular 20th London anniversary issue Two decades of change BLOOMBERG London’s best property search news: homesandproperty.co.uk 4 WEDNESDAY 23 NOVEMBER 2016 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | News th 20anniversarya issue Homes&Property A message from the editor: Janice Morley Trophy home of ‘Thank you for keeping the week us at the top for 20 years’ a perfect glass TODAY we celebrate the 20th birthday of party palace in Homes & Property. As a Londoner and a Fleet Street journalist, then with the London Putney Heath Evening Standard, I have lived in and walked through this city all my life. It’s easy to fall in £3,475,000: with almost 5,000sq ft of living space this love with London, its architecture, its house at Putney Heath history, and its ever-changing landscape. delivers on the wow-factor This city has been burned down, flooded front, right from the off. and flattened by bombs but it remains the Full-height glass panels in most resilient of capitals. the entrance hall lead to a 28ft reception room Homes and property have always been my featuring a fabulous passions. I made the journey of everyman — mezzanine level that’s from rented flats to home owner. Property is perfect for a festive bash. a huge issue in London, so it wasn’t difficult The bespoke kitchen has a huge breakfast island, and to sell the idea of the first newspaper Then and now: our launch issue from 1996, the striking double-height property magazine to the Evening top, and this week’s cover stories, above glass dining room opens to a Standard’s editor of the day in 1996. Since south-facing garden. The then we have published every week, master bedroom comes with further en suite bedrooms gym potential completes the producing exclusive and exciting stories. especially for young average earners. a super-luxe en suite and are above. A detached package. Call Chestertons dressing room, while three double garage with home (020 8012 3879). This is a city that constantly reinvents There is a lot that needs fixing. We air itself; a steady flow of new ideas runs your problems and search for solutions in through every district, as fast and our constantly shifting property market. fascinating as London’s main artery, the With London as the main player, writing Lifechanger Thames. The city is both urbane and urban, its property story is easy — it was always of the week from its glittering central zones to its edgy, going to be a thriller. youthful fringes. It has transformed itself sell four-star out of all recognition in many boroughs, as After 20 years we remain the market breaks on your its enterprising residents and wealth leader — bigger, better and unique in creators generate the energy that draws in having London as our patch. And that’s Welsh farm a privilege. Thank you for keeping us £1.2 million: rolling, scenic newcomers. countryside, a rare-breed We all know the problems of our city, at the top. farm and holiday cottages form a fine Welsh package at Cwmcrwth Farm near VISIT homesandproperty.co.uk/rules for details of our usual Editorial: 020 3615 2524 Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire. promotion rules. 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London buy of the week monochrome flat in cool Chamberlayne Road will melt your heart £599,950: it’s hard not to fall for the chic monochrome styling in this second-floor flat near hip shops, bars and restaurants in Chamberlayne Road, Kensal Rise. The spacious reception room is all about sleek lines — from the glossy white floor tiles balanced by grey walls, to the floating dark wood sideboard that ties in nicely with matching cabinetry in the open-plan kitchen area. It’s all nice and bright thanks to two large windows and a skylight. second bedroom, and in the More good looks can be white metro-tiled shower found in the master bedroom room. For sale through with its smart en suite, in the Foxtons (020 8012 6806). By Faye Greenslade Facebook: ESHomesAndProperty • Twitter: @HomesProperty EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 23 NOVEMBER 2016 5 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by News | Homes & Property REX Fancy a flat REX at Titanic HQ, Kate? É THE London HQ and ticket office of the famous White Star Line shipping By company, of Titanic fame, SEALIGHT STUDIOS has been transformed Amira Hashish into a £100 million luxury Pretty Woman’s apartment block. Grade II-listed Oceanic pretty good profit House, right, in Cockspur Street, yards from É JULIA ROBERTS has sold her Trafalgar Square, is now Hawaiian estate. The Pretty Woman home to six lateral flats actress, below, bought the property O For more celebrity and a show-stopping five years ago for £10.7 million. gossip, visit two-storey penthouse. Called the Faye Residence, it comes homesandproperty. The ground-floor main with a 200ft stretch of beach. The co.uk/gossip foyer, once the first-class main plantation-style house, above, booking office, evokes the built in 1917, has beamed ceilings, a glamour of the early galley kitchen and a sea-facing porch. 20th-century ocean liners The sale includes a guesthouse and with a scale model of the taken together, the properties Live where doomed Titanic on provide seven bedrooms and four display. The homes are bathrooms. Oscar-winner Roberts the movie priced from £5,265,000 to failed to achieve her asking price but big cats £25 million through nevertheless made a decent profit, Beauchamp Estates and selling the estate to Mike Fleiss, loved to stay the penthouse has four creator of American TV dating game spacious bedrooms, five show The Bachelor, for £13.06 million. ÉAUTHOR and owned by film actor four-bedroom house in bathrooms and two roof journalist Neil Forsyth Michael Trubshawe, the Seventies. terraces. Perhaps is selling his West best known for his roles For sale through Peter Leonardo DiCaprio or Sussex home. Famed in Bedazzled and The Hughes, it has recently Kate Winslet, right, stars for his comedy writing Lavender Hill Mob. been spruced up and of the 1997 blockbuster including the BBC Fellow British actor comes with a secluded film Titanic, might fancy a sitcom Bob Servant, David Niven, who garden. move… starring Brian Cox, appeared with It’s in the village of Forsyth has listed the Trubshawe in The Pink Kirdford and nearby Got some gossip? Georgian house, above Panther movie, above, Horsham station is less Tweet right, for £695,000. was a good friend and than an hour’s train trip The property was once stayed regularly at the from London Victoria. @amiranews You’ll be seeing stars in Belgravia É ONE of Belgravia’s tallest homes is and is a striking piece of architecture for sale. The seven-floor townhouse covering 4,243sq ft. The stunning in Wilton Place is on the market for interior includes a first-floor drawing £14 million with Harrods Estates. room that opens to a charming The house neighbours The Berkeley terrace with dark wooden decking and its new, über-modern glass-and- and white linen furniture. steel bar extension. The hotel is an Wilton Square residents have enduring favourite with the rich and included Margaret Thatcher, and famous — singer Mariah Carey and football bosses Jose Mourinho and Hollywood’s Penélope Cruz were Sven-Göran Eriksson. Elizabeth recent guests. Street, Motcomb Street and West The townhouse, left and far left, a Halkin Street are close by for peaceful retreat, was built in 1825 luxurious shopping and dining. GETTY 6 WEDNESDAY 23 NOVEMBER 2016 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | New homes homesandproperty.co.uk powered by th HAT a rip-roaring 20 anniversarya issue Homes&Property years it has been — 20 encompassing five British prime minis- ters, the dotcom Wboom, a currency crisis, the biggest banking crash in living memory, the London is a spectacle of the London 2012 Olympics and the shock of the UK’s Brexit vote. And each of those events had its impact on the capital’s property market. It has also been a period of huge physical change in London, with high- city full of profile urban regeneration sparking the return of city-centre living. New residential quarters have been created, especially in the east, while dramatic high-rise architecture has transformed surprises the skyline. At the same time, transport upgrades, such as Tube extensions, Twenty years of dramatic change have have brought run-down and forgotten areas in from the cold. transformed 10 areas of London out of all So the capital’s property map has been redrawn, but through it all there recognition.