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Cool kids get the picture Whitechapel’si on the hot tips list for 2015: Pages 4-6 LONDON’S BIGGEST AND MOST-READ PROPERTY GUIDE DANIEL LYNCH DANIEL 2 WEDNESDAY 22 APRIL 2015 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property Online homesandproperty.co.uk with This week: homesandproperty.co.uk news: Archway gets a Property second chance to be posh search Gone is the hated gyratory: how Archway could look Trophy buy of the week by 2017 mixing the old with the new £4.5 million: Regency, private and exclusive are buzz words for Scarth House, a 19th century property in a tree- lined avenue close to Barnes Village. The library/study and elegant drawing room befit a grand country pile, but the kitchen is a design showcase, perfect for entertaining. A HIDEOUS Seventies gyratory system was the blight that It leads through to a spacious conservatory overlooking brought down Archway, which can boast nothing more the 110ft walled garden. Five plush bedrooms and four than a line of tatty shops at its heart. bathrooms span the upper floors. Through Sell My Home. But Transport for London is riding in to rip up the hated one-way system and replace it with two-way streets, cycle O homesandproperty.co.uk/trophy lanes and a central piazza. Work is expected to start next year and will be completed by 2017. Then Archway can finally blossom. London buy of the week super-chic At present, house prices are a comparative steal at an average of £622,753. Half a mile up the hill in Highgate, Victorian flat offers room to expand the average house price is £1.32 million. £495,000: seek out this first-floor There is potential to acquire the loft O Read Ruth Bloomfield’s full story at homesandproperty.co.uk Victorian conversion flat in a leafy space and, subject to planning, convert area minutes from Battersea Park. it into a third bedroom or home office. A private entrance at street level Nearby there is a fitness centre leads into the well-proportioned and a good choice of restaurants on home, which features two double Battersea Park Road for that post- bedrooms and a chic kitchen/dining workout meal. Through John D Wood. and living room space, with a small balcony overlooking the rear gardens. O homesandproperty.co.uk/botw Life changer push the boat Visit our new online out for farmhouse by the sea luxury section £775,000: set sail for the Isle of Wight and a charming old farmhouse in glamorous Cowes. Medina House has five HomesAndProperty.co.uk/luxury acres of land with lovely gardens, paddocks and stables, an indoor pool and a large open barn ripe for conversion. The house oozes character, has four bedrooms, a bathroom, a large lounge and a kitchen. There is also potential to let a one-bedroom annexe. Through Watson Bull & Porter. By Faye O homesandproperty.co.uk/lifechanger Greenslade Facebook: ESHomesAndProperty • Twitter: @HomesProperty • Pinterest: @HomesProperty

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Ingrid Bergman’s REX Chelsea apartment Epstein’s Barnet number is fab for a family É THE 68th Cannes Film Festival gets into full swing on May 13. É BEATLES manager Brian Epstein rooms and a spacious garden, while This year’s official poster pays — pictured above with the Fab Four’s Mill Hill Park is just around the tribute to Hollywood legend Ingrid George, John and Paul — lived in a corner. Estate agent Godfrey & Barr Bergman, below. The festival Tudor-style house in Mill Hill, suggests the 1,712sq ft home has describes Humphrey Bogart’s Barnet, that’s now on the market scope for an extension. Casablanca co-star — who also for £1.12 million. Meanwhile, in Liverpool, a Beatles- worked with Alfred Hitchcock, Cary Epstein, who was enlisted into themed luxury hotel is for sale at Grant and Gregory Peck — as a America’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame £11 million. Hard Days Night Hotel, a “modern icon, an intrepid actress last year, bought the four-bedroom hit with fans since it opened in 2008, and a figurehead for the new realism”. property during his Sixties success is on the markt with CBRE. The late actress’s former home in with the band. It is an ideal family Cheyne Gardens SW3 is fittingly home with two large reception O homesandproperty.co.uk/brian glamorous. Now on the market with John D Wood for £3.95 million, the refurbished two-bedroom flat in a well-maintained but secluded location has views over the gardens of Cheyne Walk. The property comes with a terrace and is convenient for the shops, bars and restaurants of Kings Road. REX

Home fit for a king. . . and for Naomi GETTY É THE Pullens Estate is home to by supermodel Naomi Campbell, Roberts stands to make a pretty penny some of London’s last remaining above, who grew up there, in Iliffe Victorian tenement buildings. Street. A one-bedroom flat on the É JULIA ROBERTS is selling her with her husband Danny Moder for A popular location for several second floor of the building where retreat in Hawaii. The six-bedroom £9.4 million in 2011. high-profile movies, the estate can she lived is for sale. As well as a house, above, was built in 1915 by For those with slightly smaller be spotted in The King’s Speech, large private terrace, there is a sugar plantation executive Hans Peter budgets, there is still an opportunity starring Colin Firth. The 2010 film communal terrace on the roof. Fayé and incorporates a one-bedroom to stay at the picturesque getaway as made the most of the preserved The £450,000 apartment, in guest cottage in the grounds. the house is also on the rental market external façade and authentic need of a revamp, could make for a The Pretty Woman star, who is now for £1,000 per night, with the cottage

REX interiors. Charlie Chaplin was once smart investment. filming Money Monster with George an extra £235 per night. a resident, and the estate, in Clooney and Dominic West, is asking O homesandproperty.co.uk/berg Newington, is looked upon fondly O homesandproperty.co.uk/trophy £20 million for the house she bought O homesandproperty.co.uk/julia 4 WEDNESDAY 22 APRIL 2015 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property New homes homesandproperty.co.uk with

Big business: Royal Docks, right, is set to become London’s next major ﬁnancial district. Hale Village, left, is proving a popular place to live for young professionals

Property predictions Tide is turning for the better in the booming outer zones Buyers who head for promising new London frontiers get rewarded for their courage, says David Spittles

HERE do you start the role of tipster again, predicting 10 or even 20 years — for the full homes to date, a 1,200-room student station, replaces an industrial estate looking for a new areas that will rise the most between impact to be felt. So you have to campus, a supermarket, a Diocese of and has 260 homes priced from home? London is now and 2018. And Crossrail figures weigh up whether the wait is worth London community centre and a £249,950. Call Bellway on 0845 676 brimming with prominently in the report. At the it. Crossrail is scheduled to open in specialist kidney care unit run by 0261. building projects and very least, such analysis is food for 2018 and its impact is already lifting Royal Free Hospital. And there is Wtransport upgrades that are creating thought and a decent starting point the veil on some areas while much more to come, including a OLD OAK COMMON new property-buying opportunities, for bargain hunters. increasing the allure of others. residential skyscraper, private rental Current value: £600 per sq ft whatever your budget. Whereas over the past five years, Slashed journey times are the great accommodation, shops and offices. 2018 prediction: £950 per sq ft, a rise Urban renewal is a constant in the the biggest price rises have been in reward — 1.5 million more people will Homes are proving popular with of 58 per cent capital — areas that have been coveted areas ringing so-called prime be within a 45-minute commute of key workers and young career City planners have great ambitions forgotten are reawakened for central London, the new growth London’s key business districts. professionals — among them junior for this little-known west London many reasons. districts are further afield, in Zones doctors and nurses. A high district lying just north of Young home buyers in search of 2, 3 and 4. This correlates with a TOTTENHAM HALE proportion of residents — 44 per cent Wormwood Scrubs. It has been undervalued property will colonise demographic trend. Current value: £450 per sq ft — are in the 16-29 age bracket. earmarked as the location for a the fringes of a popular area, or London’s population is rising 2018 forecast: £750 per sq ft, a rise The 12-acre site borders protected transport superhub, where Crossrail regeneration projects will transform fastest in these zones, and housing of 67 per cent parkland and the Lee Navigation, and HS2 will integrate. a district and make it suddenly supply is failing to keep up with Its rough image deters many, but a once-vital canal route running Mayor Boris Johnson has set up a desirable, as in King’s Cross. The demand. And, as ever, people are Tottenham is undoubtedly good into Docklands. The next phase development corporation to spur might be commercial, such as hunting for well-connected, but first-time buyer territory, being of apartments is scheduled for spearhead regeneration and deliver the tech sector sprouting up in more affordable areas. relatively cheap and having quick release later this year. Visit up to 24,000 homes plus offices Shoreditch, or cultural, such as the So while new-build prices for transport links to the centre. halevillagelondon.co.uk or call and shops. opening of Tate Modern at Bankside. London as a whole are expected to Crucially, regeneration is beginning 020 8808 4070. Old Oak Estate, dating from the New tribes settle, bringing vitality, rise by 25 per cent for the period up to make a difference. Tottenham Hotspur FC’s new Twenties, consists of houses grouped hastening gentrification and pushing to 2018, some areas are forecast to Hale Village, next to Tottenham stadium project will bring flats, around greens, in a garden-suburb up prices. It is a familiar cycle. increase by as much as 67 per cent. Hale station, is Haringey borough’s shops, a technical college and layout, and is surprisingly Buyers who take a punt on biggest development project since primary school, while Lawrence countryfied. Even Wormwood LOOKING INTO THE promising new frontiers often get the Sixties, with 870 new “green” Square, close to Seven Sisters Tube Scrubs, despite the prison CRYSTAL BALL rewarded for their boldness. It paid compound, is an attractive, open In 2011, property consultant off handsomely for those who From £499,995: space incorporating, surprisingly, a Knight Frank cherry-picked a moved to Canary Wharf in the First Central nature reserve. dozen areas where property values Nineties and for those who more in Park Royal, Rather than being an isolated would jump during the period up to recently spotted Dalston. once a hub for triangle of land, Old Oak Common is this year. But beware of false prophets. manufacturing, beginning to merge with its At the time, the predictions Areas take time to turn around and is now home to neighbours. Park Royal, for decades appeared bullish but have proved developers are prone to talking up modern a manufacturing and distribution broadly correct, spectacularly so in values in regeneration zones where apartments base for companies, is part of the the case of Nine Elms, the booming they are building. By offering new wider master plan. A branch of the riverside strip that wraps around design ideas and lifestyle extras, Grand Union Canal passes through it, Battersea Power Station, where they will talk up an area beyond its providing an opportunity for values have increased by 140 per reality and command steep prices waterside living. First Central is one cent. based on the promise of better of the new residential schemes, with Fitzrovia and Blackfriars, two more things to come. three-bedroom apartments priced hotspots, actually exceeded the Regeneration normally takes a long from £499,995. Call Bellway on forecast. The company is taking on time — five years at least, possibly 0845 018 0716. EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 22 APRIL 2015 5 homesandproperty.co.uk with New homes Homes & Property

From £990,000: townhouses are on the market at Royal Wharf, right. Regent’s Place, Euston, below right, won top prize in the Mayor’s London Planning Awards

ROYAL DOCKS Several projects are under way or in £350,000, with three-bedroom the train station, itself the subject of a of the mix at a big office complex Current value: £600 per sq ft the pipeline, including Silvertown, a houses from £1.05 million. This part of major redevelopment plan linked to called Regent’s Place, where 2018 forecast: £900 per sq ft, a rise neighbourhood of up to 3,000 homes, Docklands will have the first UK the HS2 rail project. Facebook has relocated. The of 50 per cent a central piazza the size of Covent “floating village”, with 50 eco-friendly Japanese-style “bullet trains” will project scooped top prize in the Equivalent in size to the area from Garden, and “brand” pavilions for top houses linked by pedestrian and cycle not arrive before 2026, but Euston’s Mayor’s London Planning Awards Hyde Park to Tower Bridge, and with firms to showcase their wares. bridges to a market square. transformation has already started. last year, and despite its corporate more waterfront than Venice, Royal Royal Wharf is another new Traditionally it has been a place to feel (it is home to 14,000 employees) Docks is set to become London’s next neighbourhood, mainly low-rise with EUSTON pass through rather than a place has become a convivial hub, with big business district, a centre for a primary school and a DLR station. Current value: £1,000 per sq ft to live. Office towers loom over restaurants, cafés, a food market, global trade and green technology. The first of 3,385 homes will be ready 2018 forecast: £1,500 per sq ft, a rise car-clogged Euston Road, while it art studios and a theatre plus a The Greater London Authority’s next year. Townhouses are for sale of 50 per cent was once one of the capital’s public space for performances, vision is for tens of thousands of new now, from £990,000. Call 0808 118 Euston Area Action Plan has been most pedestrian-unfriendly homes and convivial waterside living. 1987. One-bedroom flats start at agreed to rejuvenate the area around thoroughfares. New homes are part Continued on Page 6 6 WEDNESDAY 22 APRIL 2015 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property New homes homesandproperty.co.uk with

Continued from Page 5 events and art installations. The district has strong academic and charitable links, with numerous university buildings and medical campuses, including Wellcome Trust. This settled backbone gives the area character amid the scurrying commuters. Over time, this neighbourhood will entice more people out of the West End. WHITECHAPEL Current value: £900 per sq ft 2018 forecast: £1,250 per sq ft, a rise of 39 per cent Whitechapel remains the cheapest City fringe area — but perhaps not for much longer. The Overground extension gave the district a boost, and a new fairy godmother has descended in the form of Crossrail, which has helped trigger a building boom that will bring many hundreds of new homes. The area is still quite rough around the edges, but that’s not a negative for a lot of young buyers and renters. And with London’s digital economy moving eastwards, Whitechapel is a logical extension to the Shoreditch tech cluster. Wickhams, a colonnade-fronted Edwardian former department store in Mile End Road, originally designed as an East End Selfridges, has been converted into a hub for tech and Arty feel: Whitechapel Gallery has linked up with Berkeley media start-ups. Homes to create an arts space at Goodman’s Fields, Aldgate, Barts’ five-acre Whitechapel above and below, with 920 homes priced from £735,000 Estate next to Royal London Hospital is the latest chunk of land to be snapped up for development — a commercial and residential mixed- use scheme with 550 homes. And Redrow’s launch of four penthouses at One Commercial Street is a telltale sign of where the area is heading. Prices start at £2.95 million. Call DTZ on 020 3302 3115. Whitechapel Gallery, which is credited with helping to launch the careers of several renowned British artists, from David Hockney to

Gilbert & George, is one of the area’s LYNCH DANIEL institutions. The gallery has linked up with WOOLWICH London will be as well-connected. is the address that will benefit most. blocks above the station. Prices from developer Berkeley Homes to Current value: £650 per sq ft Locals will be able to travel to The new Crossrail station is being £425,000. Call 020 8331 7130. establish a new arts space at 2018 forecast: £950 per sq ft, a rise Canary Wharf in eight minutes, to built within the walls of this The local council is lobbying Goodman’s Fields, where 920 of 46 per cent the City in 14 minutes, to Bond Street architecturally historic housing Transport for London to make homes are being built alongside Crossrail “throws Woolwich into a in 22 minutes and to Heathrow in estate, a former armaments factory Woolwich Arsenal a Zone 3 station — hotels, shops and restaurants. A new demand bracket, morphing it 50 minutes, without changing trains. that once employed close to it’s now in Zone 4 — while another public park and landscaped into a serious commuter zone”, Though touted as “up-and-coming” 80,000 people and has a collection of objective is to reconnect the courtyard gardens are also being according to Knight Frank. for more than a decade, Woolwich listed buildings. riverside with Woolwich town centre, created. Prices from £735,000. Call When the station opens in 2018, no has never really achieved that status Developer Berkeley Homes is achieved via new pedestrian routes 020 3217 1000. other place beyond Zone 1 in south until now. Royal Arsenal Riverside building 592 apartments in five tower and a public square.

From £425,000: Royal Arsenal Riverside will feature 592 apartments by the Thames in ﬁve tower blocks above a new Crossrail station, right EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 22 APRIL 2015 7 homesandproperty.co.uk with Renting Homes & Property Do letting agents’ fees really add up? From extortionate Out of pocket: Miranda Bryant wants a better service from letting agents admin charges to reference check fees, plus for a three-bedroom flat, while many say they are charged about tenants are being £100 a year to renew their tenancy. The Property Ombudsman says ripped off, says there is no legislation controlling agency fees, except that agents are Miranda Bryant required to disclose all “non-optional fees” with the rental figure as early in the process as possible. GENCY fees — two words Agents can charge for changing a guaranteed to make any name on a tenancy or for having a prospective tenant guarantor. According to campaign shudder. They come in group Generation Rent, one agency countless guises, such as even charges an additional £60 for Aa non-returnable holding deposit, the luxury of moving in on a Saturday. deposit administration charge, Labour and the Green Party have administration fee, reference check promised to scrap agency fees, which fee... the list goes on. is likely to prove popular with the They are non-refundable, add capital’s 2.2 million private sector hundreds of pounds to the cost of tenants, but not among agents who moving and no tenant really seems to claim if fees were banned, the costs know what they’re for. But we pay would simply be added to the rent. them because, well... because we ARLA claims tenant fees are needed have to. For letting agents, these fees to cover the cost of essential items seem to be big business. Figures from during the letting agreement process, the Association of Residential Letting such as reference checks. Its Agents (ARLA) show that the average managing director David Cox says if fee for central London is £239. fees were banned outright, letting But perhaps more revealing is agents “may try to recuperate the research by Citizens Advice Bureau costs elsewhere, most likely by that illustrates the huge disparity in increasing the cost of rent for tenants”. agency fees, supporting the argument that some agents appear to be ICHARD LAMBERT, chief profiting from the charges. executive of the National The survey, carried out in the Landlords Association, capital over February and last agrees, saying there are month, found that credit references legitimate business costs are charged at anything between Rin finding and placing a tenant and £21 and £300, admin fees at £50 to that it is fair for agents to charge for £420 and renewal fees between £20 their time and expertise. and £250. Personally, I think tenants should be These are on top of the deposit, paid the fee because it’s usually us which is usually the equivalent of six who do the legwork. I’ve had to weeks’ rent, plus a month’s rent in correct paperwork, and I’ve had advance as well as other moving costs. reference-checking agencies To move into my current flat, a employed by letting agents pass my one-bedroom property in Herne Hill, details to home insurance firms. my boyfriend and I were charged If they could at least give good £474 in fees — £180 per person admin services for their fees, perhaps we fee and a £114 check-in inventory fee wouldn’t feel quite so ripped off, — probably the most I’ve ever paid. rather than doing the bare minimum,

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Rugged mountains, bedrooms is £1.7 million, all through villages, such as Santa Maria del Camí. Engel & Völkers. Barrera adds that the Mandy and Graham Smart, from Cob- fertile plains, beaches, average sale of properties on Majorca’s ham in Surrey, bought a holiday home west coast last year was £870,000, but on Majorca in 1999 and moved to the 8th -10th May 2015 smart Palma town — in Deià it was closer to £2.53 million. island in 2002. Now the couple’s tradi- Olympia London tionally styled four-bedroom stone Majorca’s a good buy, NORTH EAST: POLLENÇA house built in 1995 is for sale, reduced Further north-east, the town of Pollença from £1.45 million to £1.26 million says Cathy Hawker has markets, shops and a lively central through Engel & Völkers. square. In the centre, Londoners James and Kim Matthews are selling their PALMA’S MAKEOVER HE Spanish island of Majorca three-bedroom townhouse for £326,250 More than half of historic buildings in has been a tourism success through Engel & Völkers to get more Palma’s old town have been restored, since package holidays space for their young family. while the city’s newest hotel, Sant began in the Sixties. The The couple moved 15 years ago to Francesc, opened last month in a pains- initial appeal was simple, Majorca, where their two young daugh- takingly restored 1880 manor house. basedT on sun, sea and sand, but it now ters were born. “I was a broker in the For visitors, Palma Suites in Plaza offers a wide choice of activities with City for 10 years but I wanted a change,” Mercadal is a good option. Now in its increasingly classy accommodation. says James, 40. “We have mountains, second year, the scheme of 35 contem- This gear change is most evident in the beaches and the climate to enjoy.” porary flats in a renovated palacio is the Serra de Tramuntana mountains, span- Buyers can also find a cheerful two- brainchild of Swedish architect Peter ning from Andratx on the prime south- bedroom townhouse with a pool for Ödlund. It is centrally located by Plaza west coast to Pollença in the north. £282,700. “A townhouse like this was Mayor with a communal pool, small Properties there include some of £362,500 in 2004,” says Gary Hobson gym and reception. Prices start from Majorca’s priciest waterfront homes and of Engel & Völkers. “It is private, has a £500 a week for a junior suite based on country villas in rural isolation. Hotels pool and is central, so would rent for two people sharing. also range in style, from rustic agritour- about £1,800 a week in high season.” isms to modern splendour, such as Son O Engel & Völkers: Brull, a former convent near Pollença. A RURAL RETREAT engelvoelkers.com/mallorca “Majorca has many faces, as the choice Inland and east of the Serra de Tramun- O Son Brull: sonbrull.com EXPERT ADVICE ON PROPERTY AND SERVICES IN: in the Tramuntana mountains shows,” tana are many small and quiet rural O Palma Suites: palma-suites.com says Eddie Barrera of Engel & Völkers. SPAIN FRANCE PORTUGAL FLORIDA ITALY “There is something for everyone.” £1.7 million: a two-bedroom TURKEY GREECE CYPRUS ...AND MORE VILLAGE ABOVE detached stone THE SEA: DEIÀ house in Deià Barrera describes coastal Deià as a with a gorgeous “fairy-tale mountain village above Mediterranean the sea”. He adds: “It is 45 minutes garden and Early bird booking discount 2 tickets for £15 from Palma airport and has always mountain views To book tickets visit www.aplaceinthesun.com/exhibitions attracted artists and writers.” Prices start from £188,500 for a one-bedroom, 753sq ft apartment on the main road and rise rapidly. OFFICIAL AIRLINE PARTNER A three-bedroom townhouse with a wide terrace but no pool costs £616,200, while a charming detached stone house with gardens twice as large and with two 10 WEDNESDAY 22 APRIL 2015 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property Design homesandproperty.co.uk with Young graphic artists are creating a world Illustration is a big new homeware of choice in textiles. You can see and buy at Somerset House from tomorrow, says Barbara Chandler Wild for PENING tomorrow with prints: a verve and irreverence Aztec Snow at Somerset House on double- the Embankment is the sided cotton sixth edition of Pick Me cushion by OUp, a festival of the graphic arts. Kristjana S It showcases a growing wave of Williams artists making their way in illustration, a relatively new discipline at British art colleges. You can view and buy prints from rising stars and meet artists from a range of disciplines, such as comics and film, during the 12-day festival. Illustration is becoming a major movement in homewares. Graphic art, from simple outlines and slogans with attitude to finely coloured drawings, is bringing imagination, storytelling, humour and even satire to home design. Claire Catterall, co-curator of Pick designs, Potions, is a charming Me Up, agrees. “There is a wealth of wallpaper collage of finely drawn talent out there and a growing vintage bottles and packets she has awareness of its design potential by collected, inspired by a TV documen- manufacturers,” she says. tary about Victorian apothecaries. Returning to Pick Me Up for the “I was fascinated by the second time is Niki Best (nikibest. ingredients once used for beauty com), who ran a popular gallery in treatments,” says Dupen. Clerkenwell before moving to Look closely at her design and you Brighton in 2007. can see labels for opium — used to Now she has teamed with a group treat female hysteria — plus hair loss of illustrators and she is adapting oil, bird droppings (an ancient facial their work for textiles, cushions and treatment) and even “bull semen upholstery, helping to smooth out gloss” for shiny hair. The wallpaper the mechanics of production. costs £65 per three-metre roll, or “It’s immediate and accessible art £165 for 10 metres. for the home, bringing individuality Ohh Deer (ohhdeer.com), another and maybe wit and a bit of a story,” Pick Me Up exhibitor, was founded she says. in 2011 by Jamie Mitchell and Mark Also showing alongside Best is Callaby. Now the duo work with Brighton-based artist Emily Dupen nearly 40 illustrators all over the (dupenny.com), who graduated from world and have branched out into Brighton University in 2004. textiles and ceramics. Eight years ago her risqué wallpa- Already celebrated for illustrative per drawings of Fifties housewives homewares is Kristjana S Williams were an instant hit. One of her latest Handy tools: Camilla Barnard with her wooden sculptures (kristjanaswilliams.com), who comes Flying high: Lear Dark wallpaper by Kristjana S Williams

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In the hot seat: Intricate: Animal Burlesque chair Tile cushion by by Emily Dupen Kristjana S Williams from Iceland and trained at Saint ad hoc murals as she goes. But Martins. She co-founded the Beyond now she’s made her drawings into the Valley shop, off Carnaby Street, wallpaper for the New Wave for new graduates and ran it for six collection produced by Graham & years before founding her own Brown (grahambrown.com). award-winning brand for her vividly Also contributing to New Wave is intricate artwork based on hand- graffiti artist Kev Munday coloured drawings and collages (kevmunday.co.uk), who created made from Victorian scrapbooks. artwork by covering an existing Hoxton-based Camilla Barnard wallpaper design with his trademark (camillabarnard.co.uk) is another faces. Called Alien Crowd, it has been young London illustrator. used by a comedy programme on She turned her prolific sketches of Channel 4. household packaging and appliances Ozlem Djafer (ozlemdjafer.co.uk) into wooden sculptures, niftily is a graduate with a unique style fashioning shapes from plywood. for drawing faces. She has These now have a cult following. sketched 40 celebrity icons on to a Some of Barnard’s former clients one-metre repeat of wallpaper called include Paul Smith and the Design Fashion Hierachy. Museum. She is currently working on And, finally, Paul Bishop of The a station installation for TfL, while New English (thenewenglish.co.uk), just last week at Milan Design Week based in Stoke-on-Trent, is also she launched her own range of promoting the work of illustrators. cheeky and charming wallpapers. He has built a ceramics company Another name to look out for is with an international reputation by Lizzie Mary Cullen (lizziemarycullen. putting artists’ sketches on to plates. com), a London illustrator who usually draws her intricate tales of O Pick Me Up: Graphic Arts Festival, fantasy directly on to walls, creating Busy bodies: Alien Crowd wallpaper by Kev Munday April 23-May 4, somersethouse.org.uk Fine detail: Lizzie’s Doodle wallpaper by Lizzie Mary Cullen

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Is luxury quality or golden crown, but the underlying ideas are mostly illustrated by work cost? Who knows, from contemporary designers and WHAT IS LUXURY? makers, with a number of important asks Corinne new commissioned pieces. “The show reveals the stories and Julius at a new craftsmanship behind the exquisite Precious metals: and intriguing objects on display and V&A exhibition the Golden Fleece demonstrates the skills invested to Headpiece took produce them,” says Wierzba. 2,500 hours There are four sections — Creating ONDON has become home to make Luxury, A Space for Time, A Future to some of the world’s for Luxury and What is Your Luxury? wealthiest people in recent Creating Luxury looks at the time years. We are surrounded and skills involved. As well as by images of opulent homes historical objects, the section features andL sumptuous interiors, expensive modern works such as the sculptural branded clothes and cars. positive mould Bone Chaise (2006) by While we all have personal views Joris Laarman, made using software on what is luxurious, we have all, to inspired by the biology of human some extent, been “persuaded” by bones, and silver spoons from Simone popular views of splendour. Recent ten Hompel’s The Stuff of Memory American research has shown that if exhibition (2010). we know something is expensive and Time taken to make an object — and branded as luxurious, our brains the maker’s passion — are illustrated perceive it as more lavish. by pieces such as Giovanni Corvaja’s High-end brands have fought long Golden Fleece Headpiece (1999), a and hard to persuade us that buying gold and platinum wire hat that their products confers exclusivity. Everyone’s cup of tea: metal worker took 2,500 hours to make, and But as Guy Salter, deputy chairman Simone ten Hompel’s silver spoons Chung Hae-Cho’s Five Lacquer of luxury brand association Walpole, Bowls (2013). states, there is a “discernment curve” Ever more crucial and seemingly whereby branded products become unobtainable luxuries in the 21st less appealing when sold to a wider century are examined in A Space for base of consumers. Time, featuring George Daniels’s So what is luxury? For some, Second Space Traveller Watch, while privacy has become the ultimate Hairway to A Future for Luxury looks at the luxury. For busy people, it is time. heaven: Studio relationship between value and A joint exhibition between the Swine’s Hair materials, as the world changes and Victoria & Albert Museum and the Highway, with the latter become scarce. Crafts Council, titled What is Luxury? human hair set It features objects such as Hair and opening at the V&A, sets out to in resin to Highway (2014) by Studio Swine, with challenge popular assumptions on create colourful human hair set in resin to create the subject. accessories decorative pieces of furniture and “As its title suggests, the exhibition accessories, in a material reminiscent questions the very idea of luxury in colour of exclusive materials such today,” says Jana Scholze, V&A curator as tortoiseshell, horn and exotic wood. of contemporary furniture and co- This free, thought-provoking curator of the show. “We didn’t want exhibition examines luxury in its to offer a definition, but rather to broadest sense and raises questions stimulate discussion.” that visitors might not expect in a Scholze and her co-curator, visiting decorative arts museum. research fellow Leanne Wierzba, have ensured that this is not just a O What is Luxury? From Saturday to galaxy of golden objects, branded September 27, The Porter Gallery, V&A. bling and familiar luxury items, or Timeless: George O Designers in the show include Max even beautiful objects from the Daniels’s Second Lamb (maxlamb.org); Marcin Rusak V&A’s collection. Space Traveller (marcinrusak.com); Simone ten Hompel There are some wonderful historical Watch, inspired (tenhompel.com); Studio Drift (studio works, including textiles, a bejewelled by the ﬁrst moon drift.com) and 1660 (1660london.com). snuffbox, a silver howdah and a landing in 1969 Many will work to commission.

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Lots of appeal: clockwise from far left, Royal Saxon brass-mounted town coach, c1870, £20,000-£40,000; George III mahogany tallboy, £1,000- Intriguing stories make £1,500; a rare Chinese “peach” ewer, c1640-1660, £4,000-£6,000; 19th-century Chinese snuff bottles, for great investments £1,000-£2,000; portrait of Queen Charlotte, £15,000-£25,000 Aristocrats and of a slightly lower value than superb- quality homewares, so they can be an royals are selling affordable investment. “Chinese buyers are buying export off the family silver. back now, not just as an investment, but as heritage,” says specialist Paul Philippa Stockley van den Biesen. “The most important thing is condition,” he adds, explaining takes a look at that many of these exports that were brought over in ships and then used the lots on offer got chipped. Christie’s offers free in a new Christie’s condition reports on any item. FABULOUS FURNITURE auction — and So, what is good value? “If you want to buy brown furniture, now is the asks the experts moment,” says Van den Biesen. He points out several chests, a tallboy and what to buy wardrobe from the Earl of Harewood’s house in Orme Square. HETHER it’s a tomato sale is a great place to get a feel for what pretty, small decorative items such as because they are painted by a follower A handsome George III mahogany or a T-shirt, most of us to go for, and what might be a good buy. colourful Chinese snuff bottles. At the of Sir Joshua Reynolds, rather than the tallboy (lot 140) is estimated to fetch like to know where As well as some rare items, there are top end, there is a chance to own a master himself, their estimate is very from £1,000 to £1,500. An attractive our food and clothing plenty of collectables at lower prices, beautiful black and gold “Berline” town fair at £15,000 to £25,000. set of four 1830 Swedish chairs with gilt come from. Antiques along with good-quality “brown” coach (lot 230). It was made for the dolphins (lot 241) carries the same esti- Ware no different — provenance matters, furniture that is a steal given its Royal House of Saxony and bears its A PLATEFUL OF CHOICE mate. Items of furniture of this quality, which is one reason why the European quality. arms, and was the luxe model of its day. Porcelain has long been undervalued. were they ever made today, would cost Noble & Private Collections sale at It has a wide estimate of £20,000 to This sale has 48 lots of Chinese export a whole lot more. Christie’s next week is special. GOT HORSES? BUY A COACH £40,000 because it’s impossible to be porcelain, ceramics that were exclu- Each one of the 264 lots has a story The auction is rich in Chinese export exact about something so unusual. sively made for Europe. O The European Noble & Private to tell and many of the sellers are either porcelain. There are also portraits, Equally special are a pair of 8ft-high A 17th-century “peach” ewer (lot 83) Collections sale is at Christie’s South of noble or royal descent. If you are tapestries, some nice Georgian chests portraits of George III and Queen is extremely rare, with an estimate of Kensington on April 30. For more interested in starting to collect, this and a tallboy — a chest on a chest — plus Charlotte in robes of state (lot 133). But £4,000 to £6,000. These exports were details, visit christies.com

24 WEDNESDAY 22 APRIL 2015 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property My home homesandproperty Little shack in Bethnal Green that’s big on space A boarded-up workshop just 440sq ft with the yard became the perfect project for two young architects — and home for one of them. Philippa Stockley reports

OME people dither for years the planners would react — and the plan- over starting a business, but not ners rejected it out of hand. But this architecture practice Kirkwood usefully clarified what could be done. McCarthy. “It was a debate over The next application for a three- three bottles of prosecco,” storey, two-bedroom, two-bathroom laughsS Sophie McCarthy. “But the next house — with an extra floor created by morning at the office, we still felt exactly digging a basement and with a tiny back the same, so we did it.” yard, all of which stayed entirely within That was in 2013. McCarthy, 34, had the original plan’s massing but was laid met her future business partner, Fiona out differently — sailed through. Kirkwood, 30, the year before when both And the project was ideal for the newly were working at the huge global firm, formed partnership to work on. Woods Bagot. “I sometimes worked 100 hours a week,” McCarthy says. CREATING SPACE AND LIGHT What also triggered the jump was Considering that the plot including the that Kirkwood, who had moved here yard is a mere 440sq ft, it is amazing from Australia to study, had just what they have squeezed on to it. bought an “ugly” little building in But that isn’t the only genius idea here, Bethnal Green. for inside, the levels are staggered. The The one-storey shack, which was an lower two are open to each other upholsterer’s workshop at the end of a vertically at the back, not only letting lane of similar buildings, was built by the much more light in, but making both economical but structurally dubious spaces feel roomier. It’s the same effect method of putting a lid of unreinforced as using mirrors, confusing one’s percep- concrete across a rectangle made from tions of space. other people’s walls. Another light-creating trick is that the It also had a tiny yard with an outside short run of bespoke, perforated steel toilet. The street frontage had been stairs that lead up to a mezzanine wet boarded up for 40 years and callers went room and bedroom also let light sift in round the back. “You could have down into the open-plan living space pushed it with your finger and it would and kitchen in the basement. have fallen down,” says McCarthy. From the back of the mezzanine bed- But when Kirkwood and her fiancé, room, a balcony overlooks the living Benjamin, spotted it through an estate area. This vertical connecting space is agent, it had the added bonus of suffused with light by double-height planning permission for a small two- windows with a French window looking bedroom house. out to the brick-stepped yard. Since it is difficult to get a loan to turn The yard is just a series of brick steps commercial property into residential, up to the back gate, but perfect for Kirkwood and her partner applied barbecues — and it makes the yard an instead to the Bank of Mum and Dad, extension of the living area. and then made a cash offer directly to Finally, tucked under the aluminium- the owner, who sold it to them on the clad sloping eave is the master bedroom spot. They completed in summer 2012. and en suite bathroom. There’s a full-size What happened to Hoxton in the Nine- bath and the wardrobe doubles as the ties is happening in Bethnal Green today. wall between the bedroom and bath- The former bastion of mobsters and of room. There’s even a tiny balcony. the East End rag trade, with its rundown housing and old Victorian pubs, is smart- A RESTRAINED PALETTE wall was built up higher using reclaimed the space feel uncluttered. “But it isn’t ening up faster than you can shake a stick The pair were adamant about using an London stock. Considering that the plot all expensive,” says McCarthy. “For at it. This small quarter of artisanal work- appropriate palette. Given that this is an On the balcony they used an unusual example, we tested lots of flooring, from shops near Columbia Road is just part of area of brick buildings, they used five black brick, so that from the outside it is so very small, it is £300 to £30 a square metre, and the one that transformation. different bricks and pavers. already looks weathered in to its sur- amazing what they have we chose for looks and wear cost £30.” Since Kirkwood didn’t like the existing The basement is floored in herring- roundings. The rest of the palette is What the two partners have done on design for the house, she quickly submit- bone Dutch pavers that Kirkwood white paint with smart American oak squeezed on to it this midget plot not only makes a great ted another, pushing things, she says grouted herself, one party wall has been floors and black window frames, steel calling card for what they can do, but for cheerfully, as far as she could to see how left exposed and the original back yard stairs and ironmongery. This all helps how architects in general can get the best EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 22 APRIL 2015 25 y.co.uk with My home Homes & Property

In the hot seat: architects Fiona Kirkwood and Sophie McCarthy enjoy the outdoors from the balcony, left

Elegant ﬁnish: clockwise from above, French windows lead out to the brick-stepped yard; the street frontage has been smartened up; a quirky painting adorns a wall; stairs double as storage; and GET THE LOOK: herringbone O Architects: Fiona Kirkwood Dutch pavers in and Sophie McCarthy at the basement kirkwoodmccarthy.com O Builder: IMS at imsbuildingsolutions.co.uk O Joinery (kitchen, cupboards, windows) by topnotchjoinery.co.uk O Bricks and pavers from traditionalbrickandstone.co.uk O Steelwork by Premier Steel at out of space. “What we tell people,” says Photographs:: premier-ssl.com Kirkwood, “is to look for the area David Butler O Ironmongery from they want and amount of space they williamsironmongery.co.uk need — because there is so much you can O Flooring: American do inside to change it.” oak floors from woodfloors4u.co.uk O Cost of original building in 2012: O Tiles in bathrooms — £200,000. Cost of works: £300,000 DFLS.01 Ricepaper from (excluding fees). Value now: £950,000 Domus at domustiles.co.uk 30 WEDNESDAY 22 APRIL 2015 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property Outdoors homesandproperty.co.uk with

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ITH its own village Barnes, it tells a story. Castelnau takes estate, on market gardens behind Brandreth, children’s author, perform- The area attracts: estate agent green, cricket pitch, its name from Castelnau-le-Lez, a Castelnau. It named the roads — ance poet and playwright Roger Samuel Bide, from Marsh & Parsons, ancient church and village on the outskirts of Montpellier Stillingfleet, Nowell and Alderbury — McGough, and Judith Kerr, who wrote says Barnes is a place that attracts delightful old pubs, in southern France. after former deans of St Paul’s. the children’s storybook The Tiger Who second- and third-time buyers who it’s hard to believe In the late 17th century, the 10th Barnes occupies a large — almost Came To Tea. are looking for a family home, and eight Wthat Barnes is only 15 minutes away Baron of Castelnau and St Croix, a island-like — loop on the south bank of out of 10 sales involve houses rather from central London by train. Huguenot, fled France for England the Thames, with Hammersmith across WHAT THERE IS TO BUY than flats. This attractive spot in the borough of following persecution, and his son, the river to the north, Putney to the Barnes has narrow lanes that are lined “Barnes has a strong sense of com- Richmond upon Thames is almost Charles Boileau, settled in Barnes. south, and Mortlake and East Sheen to with pastel-painted cottages, plus munity, with many families living in certainly what Londoners have in mind Descendants went on to build a row the west. enviable Georgian houses with river the same house for 20 or 30 years,” when they say their city is made up of of fine Regency-style villas along That loop forms part of the Champi- views, substantial red-brick early he says. However, with few houses for a series of villages. the road. onship course for the Oxford and Victorian villas along Castelnau, and sale for less than £1 million, most of Barnes still feels like that isolated Further development followed the Cambridge boat race. large Edwardian houses in Lonsdale Barnes’ homebuyers today work in the riverside village which for centuries arrival of the railway in 1846, the event Today, Barnes is home to many Road. There is also a good supply of financial sector. was surrounded by land owned by that eventually turned Barnes into writers and celebrities, including Lord mansion flats. Staying power: while families settle the Dean and Chapter of St Paul’s one of the capital’s most desirable Patten, former chairman of the BBC This is a wealthy area and many in Barnes, says Bide, the local market Cathedral. commuter villages. Trust, television journalist Peter Snow homeowners have invested heavily in is active with people moving up and Old maps show that a village on any In 1926, London County Council built and his son Dan, the broadcaster extending their properties with striking down the property ladder. major scale didn’t emerge until 1827 Castelnau Estate, a cottage-style garden and former Conservative MP Gyles contemporary additions. Best roads: The Crescent, Hillersdon when the first Hammersmith Bridge opened and a new road was built through the fields. That road is ForF more about Barnes, visit homesandproperty.co.uk/spotlightbarnes Castelnau and, like so many roads in To find a home in Barnes, visit: homesandproperty.co.uk/Barnes

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■WHAT HOMES COST BUYING IN BARNES (Average prices) One-bedroom flat £545,000 Two-bedroom flat £803,000 Two-bedroom house £764,000 Three-bedroom house £1.17 million Four-bedroom house £1.69 million Source: Zoopla RENTING IN BARNES (Average rates) One-bedroom flat £1,535 a month Two-bedroom flat £2,240 a month Two-bedroom house £2,773 a month Three-bedroom house £3,046 a month Four-bedroom house £5,317 a month Ca Source: Zoopla

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Avenue and Laurel Road. Roads near market every Saturday in the grounds calm that is home to nationally impor- petitive swimmers, with training based the village that are highly regarded of the Essex House Surgery opposite tant grebe and gadwall populations. mostly at St Paul’s School. include Rectory Road, Melville Road the village pond. A branch of The Thames Path runs through Barnes Putney Leisure Centre in Dryburgh and Nassau Road. The Regency-style Gail’s Artisan Bakery recently opened, crossing the river at Barnes Bridge. The Road is the nearest council-owned villas with their coach houses in while Luma is good for furniture and six-and-a-half mile Beverley Brook walk swimming pool. Castelnau suit those who don’t mind accessories — as is Karavan, which has from Putney to Wimbledon Common Travel: bus services 209, 283 and 483 living on a main road. its own café in the courtyard off runs through Barnes and across Barnes go from Barnes pond in the village to Church Road. Common. Hammersmith Tube station. SHOPS AND RESTAURANTS The all-day restaurant at Olympic There are trains to Waterloo, via Most of the shops in Barnes are Studios is a welcome addition to the LEISURE AND THE ARTS Clapham Junction, and to Vauxhall independent, which adds to the Barnes culinary scene. Sonny’s Olympic Studios in Church Road is a from Barnes and Barnes Bridge village-like feel. Kitchen offers modern European great addition to the village. A former that take 15 minutes and 18 minutes There are shops on Barnes High cooking with a delicatessen attached, music studio — U2 was the final group respectively. The stations are in travel Street, Church Road and Castlenau. while Riva is an Italian eatery that is a to record on the site in 2009 — it has Zone 3 and an annual travelcard The Barnes Bookshop is the official favourite with Evening Standard res- been converted into a cinema, all-day costs £1,508. bookshop for this Saturday’s Barnes taurant critic Fay Maschler. The Sun restaurant and members’ club. Council: Richmond upon Thames is Children’s Literature Festival. Inn has a terrace that overlooks the OSO Arts Centre — it stands for old Conservative-controlled and Band D TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE There are two butchers, the estab- pond and is busy on sunny evenings sorting office — by the pond has a café council tax this year is £1,582.39. lished J Seal and newcomer The Ginger and at weekends. and puts on exhibitions, music events Where in Barnes is an English Tourist Pig, while cheese lovers head for The and wine tastings. NEXT WEEK: Woolwich. Do Board site of rock ‘n’ roll importance? Real Cheese Shop, and Totally Swedish OPEN SPACE The Bull’s Head in Lonsdale Road is you live there? Tell us what Find the answer at caters for homesick Swedes with food London Wetland Centre in Queen a great venue for live music. Barnes you think @HomesProperty homesandproperty.co.uk/spotlightbarnes and homewares. There is a farmers’ Elizabeth’s Walk is a 110-acre oasis of Swimming Club is open to all com-

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@SINEADKELLYLDN For good food, atmosphere and the best quiz night I love @TreeHouseBarnes #friendlystaff #bestpub #barnes 36 WEDNESDAY 22 APRIL 2015 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property Ask the expert homesandproperty.co.uk with How do I transfer home into my name? Fiona WHAT’S I AM going to start developing properties. I YOUR do not intend to let or keep them for long- McNulty PROBLEM? Q term appreciation, but I want to sell when IF YOU have a refurbishment is complete to try to make a OUR LAWYER ANSWERS YOUR QUESTIONS question for profit. I am unsure whether it is best to do this in my Fiona McNulty, name or set up a company, as I do not know enough please email about property tax — what taxes would be payable? MY father died many legalsolutions@ years ago and my mother standard.co.uk THE tax that will be due depends on whether the Q remarried. She then or write to Legal activities you are undertaking are trading or bought a house with my Solutions, Homes A investment in nature. HMRC will look at the stepfather in 2005. & Property, original intention and the circumstances to When my stepfather died about London Evening determine this. Generally, if properties are acquired with six years ago, my mother stayed in Standard, 2 Derry the intention of renting them out, such activity amounts the property until recently when Street, W8 5EE. to investment and the properties will be capital assets. she passed away. We regret that On any sale, a capital gain will be realised, taxable under I am an only child, and in her will questions cannot capital gains tax if owned by an individual, or corporation my mother left everything to me be answered tax if owned by a company. Any rental income will be and appointed me as her executor. individually, but subject to income tax or corporation tax for a company, I have been looking at the deeds we will try to but deductions can be made from this, for example the to the house and it is registered at feature them cost of interest on borrowing. the Land Registry in the joint here. Fiona However, if properties are acquired with a view to names of my mother and my late McNulty is legal redeveloping then selling them at a gain, which appears stepfather. The solicitor, who has director in the to be your intention, they will be treated as trading stock. my mother’s original will, says that On the death of the first one of them, will be registered in the sole name of real estate Any profit on the sales will be trading income, subject to this is not a problem as the house the property automatically passed to your mother. For the property to be team of Foot income tax for you as an individual and corporation tax automatically passed to my mother the survivor, who was your mother. transferred into your name, a grant Anstey LLP for a company. when my stepfather died, but that Even if your stepfather had a will, he of probate will need to be issued and (footanstey.com). Please note that for a company, gains and income are this was not registered at the Land could not have passed on his interest an assent prepared, which will vest taxable at the same rate, but the profits are calculated in Registry. What should I do now? in the property under the terms of the property in your name. different ways. Do discuss these options in more detail

that will, as he and your mother held You are not obliged to use the with your accountant. THE property must have the property as beneficial joint tenants. solicitor who holds the will to been registered in the joint If a copy of your stepfather’s death administer the estate. More legal O These answers can only be a very brief commentary on names of your mother and certificate is sent to the Land Registry, You may instruct another law firm Q&As the issues raised and should not be relied on as legal advice. A Visit: homesand stepfather, in which case they then his name will be removed from of your choice or you could apply for No liability is accepted for such reliance. If you have similar each had equal rights to the property. the register of title and the property the grant of probate personally. property.co.uk issues, you should obtain advice from a solicitor.

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booked. It’s a positive reaction from Pizzas will give buyers. We will definitely do this again. THURSDAY I get a flat tyre on the way to work this us pizzazz as we morning. I spend 15 minutes looking for my locking wheel nut and a similar amount of time changing the tyre. I’m late for a meeting and my hands work late and are black with grime. Not a great start to the day. I need to get on though, as I have a dine al desko member of staff from another office shadowing me today. He is joining us from a well-known estate agency, so MONDAY has a good understanding of the The start of the week is always busy Diary of job, although he is surprised by how with following up viewings and offers much emphasis we put on customer from the weekend. service. We received offers on four properties an estate on Saturday, two of which are looking FRIDAY promising, so it could be a happy day agent It’s a very busy morning trying to tie for a couple of our clients. up as many loose ends as possible Then I’m instructed on the most before the weekend. fantastic garden flat in the heart of in Hammersmith on effective sales I meet a good client for lunch, a local Parsons Green. I expect a great result progression and conveyancing. It’s not developer I’ve worked with for years. for the vendor and my team doesn’t the snappiest of subjects, so I know We are currently selling five of his prop- disappoint, with 11 viewings booked I have to work hard to keep everyone erties. We discuss the launch of a new within 30 minutes of me returning to awake. property and the best marketing strat- the office. There’s nothing quite like After two hours peppered with good egy, and agree on a multi-office pre- the motivation of earning individual amounts of laughter, the session comes view to make sure negotiators from our commission. to a close. I am running five more of four offices surrounding the property We agree sales on three of the offers these sessions, so let’s hope all the attend for a brief on the specification from Saturday by close of business. I’m groups are as responsive. the exchange of contracts so they can some more activity prior to the and finish. That’s 14 negotiators within beginning to quite like Mondays. relax for the weekend. If only the weekend. With some rather delicious two miles of the house. WEDNESDAY solicitors shared their enthusiasm. pizzas to keep the troops going Then it’s the end of the week — hoo- TUESDAY How can it be Wednesday already? As Quite often, it can be tricky to get hold — thanks to the superb Pappa Ciccia ray. Oh wait... I’m working tomorrow. There’s lovely sunshine brightening up always, the pressure’s on to exchange of buyers during the working day, so on Munster Road — we get to work, and the London skyline — it’s a real mood on various transactions before the end I invite the team from our central it proves to be a real success. O Ben Gee is associate director and changer. This afternoon I am running of the week. Both sellers and buyers Fulham office over to Bishops Park We’ve spoken to plenty of people and sales manager of Marsh & Parsons’ a training course at our head office want to know they have the security of for an evening “call-out” to generate a good number of new viewings are Bishops Park branch. 40 WEDNESDAY 22 APRIL 2015 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property Letting on homesandproperty.co.uk with

HAVE just flung a guy out of a property. I don’t mean I evicted him, which would suggest I had been through some sort of Not so much a legal procedure. I really did just Ifling him out. I found out this bloke had moved into my flat even though I hadn’t agreed to him being there and I tenant — more hadn’t received a penny from him. No rent upfront, no deposit, nada. You might think this was careless of me, that somehow this chap sneaked in when I wasn’t looking, but he was of a squatter invited to live there by the three other tenants. One of their flatmates had moved Victoria Whitlock turns DIY bailiff when out, but as they wanted to stay for another year, I’d agreed that they an unofficial ‘tenant’ moves into her rental £650 per week: this superb church conversion in the heart of Angel offers a could find a new sharer, but I warned split-level reception room, two double bedrooms, two bathrooms — one en suite them they might struggle to find flat, but fails to pay a penny for the privilege — and is available to rent through Hamptons (homesandproperty.co.uk/alrent) someone willing to replace their friend as I’d require the tenant to sign a new joint tenancy agreement The paperwork in place. Naively they cockily, “but it won’t be any time soon.” should do it properly by issuing a with them. gave him the keys straight away, Worried that the longer he stayed, Section 8 notice, the wording of I didn’t want to end up with a messy without asking for any rent upfront. the harder it would be to get him out, which changed on April 6, so if situation where I had three tenants accidental When I then presented him with I told him, in my sternest voice (last you’ve got a copy of an old one, that on one contract and a fourth tenant the contract — surprise, surprise — he used to reprimand a toddler) that he will no longer be valid. Further on a separate agreement. I’ve done landlord refused to sign it, saying he didn’t had 15 minutes to leave. advice is available at gov.uk. this in the past and it’s awkward to want to be locked into a long-term I must have sounded pretty scary It’s not nice evicting a tenant, but manage, plus I end up out of pocket. responsible. If they are on separate agreement with three strangers. because within 10 minutes he was sometimes it can’t be avoided, When you have tenants on different contracts, you would struggle to get It wasn’t ideal, but as he’d already piling his stuff into a friend’s car and especially if they sneak in. contracts, no one takes overall anyone to pay. moved in, I said I was prepared to five minutes later he was gone. responsibility for the property Anyway, these tenants promised give him a separate agreement as If you do find yourself in the O Victoria Whitlock lets three and any problems end up on the they’d find another friend to take the long as he paid a deposit and the first unfortunate situation where you properties in south London. landlord’s shoulders. spare room, but instead they found month’s rent upfront. have to evict a bona fide tenant, this To contact Victoria with your ideas For instance, if someone burns a this guy through an online advert. 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