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Wednesday 28 November 2018 FIND SOMETHING SPECIAL Pop-up shops: Page 14 LUXURY EXTRAS THE EXODUS MY HOME SPOTLIGHT ON TWICKENHAM Tempting millennials to buy First-time buyers head out of town A warehouse with a water tower Rugby, riverside and family homes Page 8 Page 12 Page 18 Page 24 Buy into a thriving borough Page 6 BEN BROOMFIELD 4 WEDNESDAY 28 NOVEMBER 2018 EVENING STANDARD Homes Property | News THIS WEEK IN... Property search ‘Sensible buyers will find a way through the Brexit fog’ Lifechanger of Janice the week Make Morley guests welcome in Winchester EDITOR £1.5 million: this five-bedroom, bespoke house in Winchester, Trophy home of the week You’re bound to get minutes from the city’s boutiques BUYERS could be forgiven for feeling dizzy and medieval cathedral, serves as papped with a hot roost near Chiltern Firehouse with Brexit indecision, wondering where the a first-class B&B — though it was used as a dance studio in an £5.95 million: commanding prime position among Marylebone’s celebrity haunts and top-end property market is going. Huge areas of the earlier life. boutiques is a new 15-storey luxury tower. Just a few doors from Chiltern Firehouse hotel and capital appear becalmed, with buyers scared Its grand rooms, offering restaurant in fashionable Chiltern Street, the two-bedroom duplex apartment is the largest of to spend amid rumours of mortgage rate rises 3,000sq ft of living space, include three at almost 2,000sq ft and enjoys a private, south-facing patio garden overlooking pretty a vast beamed dining hall, an Paddington Street Gardens. A mass of deluxe details feature in the spacious living area with its to come and more uncertainty. Yet, as we elegant sitting room opening to a huge sliding doors to the patio, the super-sleek kitchen/breakfast room and two plush en suite reveal this week, new research finds that south-facing courtyard, a kitchen/ bedrooms. Concierge service, valet parking, a residents’ members club and gym are among some areas are thriving, proving what we breakfast room with a striking exclusive perks. It’s on the market with Savills (020 8012 0342). island, marble worktops and a already knew — that with the right guidance butler sink, and sleek, under- the decision to buy can still be a profitable heated micro cement floors. Each London buy of the week Be on trend one in all respects. of the bedrooms is en suite and individually styled. Through with a warehouse mews flat in Brixton Active boroughs, where developers are Winkworth (01962 460052). considering the daily lives of all age groups, where families can live and employment rates £450,000: this one-bedroom duplex in Horseshoe Mews, a gated scheme in are high, can offer opportunities to everyone Brixton, oozes warehouse wow. The — to small businesses, independent shops ground floor offers a private entrance, a spacious bedroom laid with parquet and restaurants that help high streets flourish. and an en suite bathroom. The entire Sensible buyers will navigate their way first floor, lit by a large window, is an through the Brexit fog and find the value industrial-style open-plan kitchen/ dining/living room, showcasing created by strong and loyal communities. distressed oak floors, exposed brick walls, inky blue cabinetry and ample storage space. Private parking is VISIT homesandproperty.co.uk/rules for details of our included and Brixton and Clapham usual promotion rules North Tube stations are a stroll away, along with SW2’s markets, Ritzy Editorial: 020 3615 2650 Cinema and Tate Library. Chain-free Advertisement manager: Ann Finan and available through Hamptons Advertising: 020 3615 0538 International (020 3369 4374). By Faye Greenslade Homes & Property, Northcliffe House, 2 Derry Street, Kensington, London W8 5EE NEWS Do the maths before you commute YOUNG couples are moving out of the unaffordable capital in droves but does a move to the commuter belt really save money? A recent study suggests not … unless you move to Basildon in Essex. The average starter home in London has hit £420,000, so buyers who can scrape together a 10 per cent deposit face monthly mortgage repayments of £1,600.33. Two monthly travelcards for Zones 1 to 4 will add another ALAMY £376.40 to the bill, totalling £1,976.73. Research by Which? and Lloyds 40-minute commute. The study £271,567: the Bank looks at similar costs in the shows first-timers would actually be price of an commuter belt and finds Basildon is worse off in these terms if they average starter the nearest to an affordable option. bought an average home in a string of home in Basildon, An average property in the land of “affordable” commuter towns Essex, above, is a reality TV’s The Only Way Is Essex including Luton, Rochester and lot more costs £271,567. Mortgage repayments Harlow. However, lower entry prices achievable than of £1,100, plus two travelcards, brings mean they can take advantage of the the London the total monthly cost to £1,879, stamp duty amnesty on properties average of making a first-time buyer saving of priced less than £300,000. £420,000 £97.73 a month — just enough for a daily coffee on the train during the See Ruth Bloomfield’s full story at homesandproperty.co.uk EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 28 NOVEMBER 2018 5 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by News | Homes Property Fans will love this House of Hackney Do we need four homes Keith? Nah NICOLE KIDMAN and husband Keith space aplenty, plus Urban, inset, have found a buyer for staff quarters. The their four-bedroom Tennessee house couple, who have after two years. It was listed for two children — Homes £2.7million but the Big Little Lies Kidman also has actress and country music star Urban two adopted eventually settled for £2.1 million. children with ex- A 30-minute drive from Nashville, it husband Tom Cruise gossip sits in 35 acres and has entertaining — still have a HOUSE OF HACKNEY founders £2.7 million home in By Amira Hashish Frieda Gormley and Javvy M Royle, Nashville, a Beverly right, are selling their incredible Hills mansion and a Got some gossip? London Fields home. penthouse in Sydney. Tweet @amiranews@ Their cult interiors brand, loved by celebs including Poppy Delevingne and Alexa Chung, is synonymous with flamboyant floral and animal prints and their five-bedroom Victorian townhouse, pictured, is a House of walls, while bedrooms display a Hackney fan’s dream, showcasing the bold blue pinstripe with flying wild style of Gormley and her whales or archive William Morris husband — from the zebra print study daisy print. The house, named to a leaf-printed runner up the central Loddiges after the famous stairway and atrium. Victorian nursery garden which Moroccan-inspired Mamounia stood near Mare Street, is for sale paper covers living area ceilings and with Butler & Stag for £1,825,000. Romance in Diaz’s cosy cottage IN FESTIVE movie favourite Hamptons International. It TheTh Rock’s R k’ loving l Richmond R h d life l f The Holiday, starring has an inglenook fireplace HOLLYWOOD actor Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is so Cameron Diaz and Jude with a log burner and enjoying the huge London house he’s renting that he can’t Law, left, Diaz’s character exposed timbers. The seem to stop posting pictures of it to his 122 million Amanda jumps at the bespoke hand-painted Instagram followers. The eight-bedroom property in chance to leave her US kitchen has an oil-fired Aga Richmond, above, is no stranger to starry tenants: Brad Pitt home and spend Christmas and there is oak joinery and Angelina Jolie have stayed there, as have Michael in a quintessential English throughout. It is the perfect Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones. cottage. winter escape but the The Rock has installed a gym in a marquee in the 35-acre The production crew built landscaped gardens with a grounds with all the state-of-the-art kit the semi-retired pro a house in Shere especially flagstone terrace and lovely wrestler needs to keep those famous muscles in shape. for the film, inspired by views will come into their There’s an indoor pool, plus an outdoor pool and tennis Honeysuckle Cottage, left, own in sunnier months. court, and he can host screenings of his latest projects in the in the commuter village of Just an hour from central cinema. Surrounded by trees and next to a lake, there is Holmbury St Mary nearby. London by road or rail, it plenty of privacy for the star as he spends time in the UK to Honeysuckle Cottage is now would make a picturesque shoot The Fast and the Furious spin-off, Hobbs & Shaw. for sale at £650,000 with commuter base. THE ROCK/INSTAGRAM GETTY, BENETT, DAVE PHOTOGRAPHS: 6 WEDNESDAY 28 NOVEMBER 2018 EVENING STANDARD Homes Property | homesandproperty.co.uk powered by New homes BEN BROOMFIELD All in the game: Cakes & Ladders, above, a free community board game café and taproom in Haringey’s Blue House Yard creative hub, where affordable work and events space is provided in brightly coloured sheds, right, by Meanwhile Space Boroughs beating the Brexit blues MCMINN TRENT Strong communities can cope with international crises. We bring you a guide to the post-Brexit boroughs to invest in. By Anna White HE London property market neighbourhood. Clusters of small is shrouded in Brexit independent businesses are another uncertainty ahead of the indicator of prosperity. “When small March deadline. There are businesses thrive, local economies pockets of the capital that thrive,” says Michelle Ovens, director Tare thriving but it is “erratic at best”, of the government-backed scheme with dramatic swings in sales month Small Business Saturday UK, which to month, says Featherstone Leigh will help independent shops, estate agent Oscar Doyle.