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 4 WEDNESDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 2013 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property New homes homesandproperty.co.uk with Fringe benefits More space and better value when you live on the edge Zone 2 has overtaken prime central London. Buyers can find variety, bigger family homes and friendly neighbours. By David Spittles

ONE 2, ringing central Lon- for prime inner London. Buyers are prime opportunity even if they are not across London. The main flows are and £1,075 in west London. New devel- don’s most expensive neigh- also looking with fresh eyes at ‘prime’ areas,” says Nicholas Finn, from north and west London to south opments are of varying quality and bourhoods, is the area of Bloomsbury and Barnsbury, and fam- director of Garrington Property London, where family houses are sig- scale, and many are under construc- choice this autumn for smart ily-friendly neighbourhoods such as Finders. nificantly cheaper and new London tion, meaning buyers have to beware home buyers searching for Primrose Hill, Wandsworth and Ful- Overground stations are helping to and do their homework. Zspace and good value. ham, where smart riverside develop- PLAYING CATCH-UP revitalise areas such as Brockley, For family buyers, the good news is Developers are stepping up to build ments are under way. The property experts are beginning to Dulwich and Crystal Palace. that planners are keen to encourage more homes in Zone 2 areas — finding Increased stamp duty thresholds are think that the top-tier areas, such as Buyers are realising they can get a more and better new-build houses. that they can build bigger and sell to a having an impact, too. Buyers want to Knightsbridge and Mayfair, have property twice as big for half the price Five years ago, 95 per cent of all new market likely to thrive in the next five avoid the higher rate payable on homes peaked in value and that a “catching- and still get to work quickly. One hot homes in the capital were apartments years. Leading estate agents also priced above £1 million (five per cent) up” process is kicking in as developers address is Telegraph Hill, SE14, where whereas by 2015 about 30 per cent of predict these so-called “non-prime” and £2 million (seven per cent). deliver better homes in fringe areas. large Victorian houses priced up to new homes will be houses. areas will see the biggest price gains. Often this boils down to buying a This is borne out by the latest Land £1.3 million are attracting City people, “Well-designed townhouses do not “Even some wealthy buyers cannot home with a value of no more than Registry data showing some Zone 2 doctors and lawyers from other parts have to cost a fortune and boost areas afford to live in the best central loca- £1,000 a square foot, a price point that boroughs registered double-digit price of London. The commute to London by attracting families, who demand tions,” says Andrew Palmer of property has spread to reach Hammersmith in rises over the last year, ahead of Bridge is six minutes. Houses with the better schools, libraries, parks and consultant DTZ. “This has triggered a the west, Lambeth to the south, Swiss Kensington and Chelsea. same floorspace in, say, Pimlico would neighbourhood shops,” according to hunt for cheaper addresses that are still Cottage in the north and Shoreditch in cost £3.5 million-plus. Sean Ellis, managing director of St close in.” east London. FLOWING ACROSS THE RIVER Research by property data company James, soon to launch 13 four-bedroom Holborn and Aldgate are changing “Second-tier areas often have a Cross-river moves, once uncommon, Lonres shows square-foot values in houses at Hurlingham Gate, Fulham. fast as they return to residential, and greater variety of property and a more are another market trend, according south London average £650. This Coming later are 68 apartments. Call have still to reach their full potential village-like feel, which makes them a to Winkworth, which has 60 branches compares with £956 in north London 020 8246 4199.

New start: FOLLOW THE NEW HOMES developer In the spotlight are Islington, South- London Square wark, Lambeth, Wandsworth, Ham- hopes to scoop mersmith, Fulham, Camden and up emigrés from Hackney. Up to 60 per cent of the SW3 with its 278,000 new homes planned for Farm Lane London during the next decade will be scheme of 40 built in inner-London boroughs. townhouses in SW6. Building is DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE under way. Call Riverside districts on the south bank 01895 627 300 of the Thames are set to jump in price during the next five years, says Knight Frank. “Nine Elms to Vauxhall will change out of all recognition, while the extension of Tate Modern, due for completion next year, will see Bankside From £790,000: values rising even higher.” Taylor Wimpey South Bank Tower is a refurbishment is carving 76 of an office skyscraper in Stamford apartments from Street bringing 173 private homes. Prices a former tired from £625,000. Call 020 7409 8756. office building at Directly opposite on the north side of St Dunstan’s the river is Holborn, which takes in the Court, Fetter former newspaper district around Lane. Call 020 Fleet Street and the historic Inns of 3675 0673 Court, and borders Georgian Bloomsbury. Global law firms have moved in recently, sparking demand for local EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 2013 5 homesandproperty.co.uk with New homes Homes & Property

Left: riverside areas on the south bank of the Thames are expected to see considerable price hikes in the next five years. Vauxhall is likely to change most dramatically, with the arrival of thousands of new homes and the US embassy at Nine Elms

Right: prices in Hammersmith now routinely reach £1,000 a square foot. Developers have been quick to spot increased interest in this district of west London. The impressive Sovereign Court scheme in W6 has flats from £499,950. Call 0800 008 6977

Here first: main homes, and crash pads for high- Chelsea’s best roads. Waterfront regen- Italo deli, left, earning career professionals. There are eration is bringing cafés, bars, bou- in Bonnington niche developments of boutique flats, tiques and galleries to former industrial Square, in keeping with the area’s individuality, zones. Fulham Riverside, between Vauxhall, has but bigger projects are under way. leafy, polo-playing Hurlingham Park become a local A slab of nondescript office blocks by and sought-after Peterborough Estate, institution but Temple station has been bulldozed to replaces a supermarket depot. The new shops and make way for a courtyard complex of 8.25-acre development will have 463 cafés are 206 apartments. To register, call homes either side of a central piazza opening up Berkeley Homes on 020 7118 9190. and boulevard leading to the river. nearby at a rapid St Dunstan’s Court, an outdated Prices from £525,000. Call Barratt on pace, as buyers office building on Fetter Lane, is being 0844 8114334. spot the area’s redeveloped by Taylor Wimpey into 76 Developer London Square is aiming exceptional apartments. Prices from £790,000. Call to capture SW3 emigrés at Farm Lane location and 020 3675 0673. townhouses. The two-acre site, once a potential base for horses and Hackney carriages, FUTURE FULHAM is set to become a traffic-free retreat Fulham is described as “affordably with 40 homes. prime” by Jo Eccles of Sourcing Prop- Residents will have use of an under- erty. Family houses sell for approxi- ground private garage with direct mately £1.5 million to £3 million, the access to the house. Construction is

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WEST WYCOMBE School, is rated “good” by Ofsted, and network was installed, and the high The village is largely owned by the seniors can go on to one of High street went downhill. Happily, there National Trust and it has worked hard Wycombe’s highly rated grammars. are plans to rejig the roads, including to preserve its old-fashioned charm. The other key advantage of West potentially removing a flyover known Most of the property there is leased by Wycombe is its commutability. Trains as the Berlin Wall of Wycombe. the trust, which is currently offering a from High Wycombe station, three There is tremendous variety in the one-bedroom cottage just off the high miles away, take 31 minutes to Maryle- quality of houses across High street for rent at £875 a month (visit bone thanks to an upgraded line, and Wycombe. Some areas are extremely nationaltrust.org.uk/lettings). an annual season ticket costs £3,940. run down. Giles Davidson, of Hamp- “There is also a precious handful of tons International, tips the Daws Hill !') &  8 houses in the village which are freehold HIGH WYCOMBE Lane area to the south of town, close and can be bought and sold, although For commuters who like to have things to the famous Wycombe Abbey School,  they are very rare,” said Graeme right on their doorstep and might find as the best place for family homes. "! Pierce, a director at JNP Partnership. West Wycombe too much of a one- A four-bedroom, detached house built !  He is selling a traditional brick-and-flint horse town, High Wycombe is itself in the Eighties would cost from about two-bedroom cottage for £325,000 — worth consideration despite its rather £500,000, while for £1.5 million you only the third time in his 30-year career tarnished reputation. could secure a six- to seven-bedroom  .
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EONARDO Ferragamo knows for sale on the waterfront, all different about the finer things in life. £1.06 million: for a waterside apartment — from one-bedrooms of 517sq ft to two- Whether at work in his Floren- with a berth, plus your own cruiser, below bedrooms of 1,345sq ft. All have large tine palazzo overseeing his right, at Marina di Scarlino terraces and while there is no compul- boutique hotel company The sion to rent, Puro Beach will manage LungarnoL Collection, or holidaying off lettings from its marina office. Low-sea- the Sicilian coast with his family on his son weekly rents start from £1,020. Swan 90 yacht, his lifestyle is one of Apartments start from £264,500 with understated elegance. modern, well-chosen furniture pack- So when he chose to develop a Tuscan ages from £16,200. An issue for some resort you might picture a pale, stone buyers has been the apartments’ borgo in the vine-clad hills near Siena. 85-year government lease, typical said But no, Leonardo has chosen to create Leonardo for property on the Italian a contemporary marina resort along coast. There is also the chance to buy the wild, undeveloped and — for most an apartment, a berth and a 45ft Britons — unknown Maremma coast in Endeavour 42 Camper & Nicholson southern Tuscany. His exciting plans boat for £1.06 million. for Marina di Scarlino are not without their challenges but Leonardo’s THE MAREMMA COAST infectious passion for both the area and Many Italian noble families have size- for yachting means he might just pull able estates nearby, including the this off. Antinoris, among the country’s most “I spent most of my childhood illustrious wine makers, whose must- summers along the Maremma so yes visit vineyard Le Mortelle, 20 minutes there is a sentimental attachment,” he from the marina, serves farm-fresh acknowledged. “It has intense, unspoilt food in their old farmhouse restaurant nature.” next door to a super-modern subter- Leonardo’s late father Salvatore made ranean £11 million winery. his name creating bedazzling shoes for Leonardo has clear plans for the marina’s future, adding more homes, holding more regattas and increasing the range of sports on offer. Unveiled: dazzling Marina di Scarlino “What will never change is the Maremma’s natural beauty,” he added. “We have a marina resort next to a Embrace the Ferragamo lifestyle in this new luxury Tuscan resort, says Cathy Hawker national park, truly one of the finest places in the Med to have a boat.” Hollywood’s finest, from Judy Garland tore Ferragamo international empire. MEDITERRANEAN HUB Balearic-inspired Puro Beach Club, a to Marilyn Monroe. He set up shop His son, now 58, entered the family Marina di Scarlino is 90 minutes from surprisingly urban choice perhaps for CONTACTS beside the Arno in Florence in 1938, is company aged 20. Today, along with Pisa airport and Siena, two hours from rural Tuscany but its all-white, wafting- O Marina di Scarlino: credited with inventing the wedge his hotel business, he also owns two Rome and Florence. For boat-lovers its linen décor is welcoming and reso- marinadiscarlino.com sandal and laid the foundations for the luxury boating brands — Nautor’s Swan location in the Med is faultless: it looks lutely family friendly. O Le Mortelle: antinori.it/en/ highly reputable and successful Salva- and Camper & Nicholsons. across to Elba, one of seven islands in the There are 39 completed apartments passione-in-evoluzione/le-mortelle Tuscan archipelago all within an hour or two. Corsica and Sardinia are to the north, the South of France is five hours west and Portofino within three hours. Leonardo bought the marina in 2011 and has created a hi-tech, efficient and attractive operation with 960 berths of 19ft to 118ft. Along the quayside there are small, quirky boutiques — a refresh- ing absence of high-fashion expensive names — affordable restaurants and food shops, a functional laundry and full concierge services. 0pened this summer is a smart

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ULES WRIGHT, former director of the Royal Court Theatre, is director of The Wapping Project, the east London arts centre housed in aJ late-Victorian hydraulic power station, where the original engine and turbine house has been turned into a restaurant and bar. Here she tells KATIE LAW why she has never cooked a meal at home, keeps bees on her roof and prefers rain to sunshine on her days off. She also reveals her daily ritual for collecting her thoughts. WHERE I LIVE I live in a one-bedroom apartment in Bankside, next to Tate with amazing views. I originally bought it off-plan in 1998 as a buy-to-let and lived in Wapping. But that was too close to work and I found that I never crossed the Thames. So in 2003, I moved into it and now I like to walk everywhere as it’s in the centre of the city, which I love, so it really suits me. MY SECRET SHOP It’s not exactly a secret, but I find The Republic of Fritz Hansen an irresistible shop. I love the whole period of the Fifties and have lots and lots of Scandinavian stuff, so this shop has all the kind of furniture I like best (fritzhansen.com). MOST INTERESTING NEW DESIGNER Am I allowed to have architects? If so it would be 6a Architects. They did the extension to the South London Gallery very beautifully and also converted the London house of some friends of mine very elegantly; it’s all timber-lined, white-painted and Scandinavian in feel (6a.co.uk). FAVOURITE GALLERY It’s the Victoria Miro Gallery. I like a lot of people they represent and I like the fact that they always try to sell me something. The last thing I bought there was by Idris Khan.However, I also think it’s a well-designed space: seductive, elegant and understated and it doesn’t feel like an institution (Victoria-miro.com). GREAT ESCAPE I have little rituals that are always connected to whatever work I’m doing and what I need to do in my head at that time. For example, this week I’ve adopted a place that I’d never go to normally, called the JULES WRIGHT Cinnamon Coffee Shop, on the DIRECTOR OF corner of Cinnamon Street in Wapping. I go very early and order a THE WAPPING PROJECT double espresso and then I concentrate on how I want to handle the day. I always find a place like that wherever I am, because I need to have somewhere I can be alone and no one I know is going to walk in. It can be quite hard to find. FAVOURITE MARKET Maltby Street market is still special. There are lovely traders, including the London Honey Company — I’ve got his hives on my roof. Then there’s the Irish butcher, O’Shea in Druid Street. I feel I can buy things there which aren’t imported and are genuinely wholesome (maltby.st). BEST RESTAURANT I never cook. I’ve never even used the oven since I moved into my apartment. Isn’t that disgusting? I EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 2013 11 The knowledge Homes & Property

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IT’S THE ONE WE ALL WANT A ramshackle Victorian terrace AYSWATER, a village crossed with a white-stucco wedding cake, has the power to surprise and delight. became a sumptuous, highly Its secret back streets, with their tucked-away gardens, lead in sleepy crescents and plaster considered space with interior curlicues towards the design shops and restaurants ofB Westbourne Grove. finishes, colours and fabrics to die Here, in 2010, lawyer Miranda Yeung and her partner Jeremy Wrigley, an accountant, went to see a house they’d spotted in for, discovers Philippa Stockley a local magazine. Jeremy was divorced, with five sons — now aged between 11 and 19 — from the marriage and the boys all loved visiting in a pack, so the couple wanted to find a house flexible enough to fit everyone in when required. Jeremy knew Notting Hill well, so they started their search between there and Marylebone. The house they’d noticed was a flaking Victorian terrace that had a fourth floor added, plus an extra bit tacked on to one side, and a conservatory built on the back. When Miranda and Jeremy walked in, the staircase sailed right up the middle with a row of small rooms squashed into the side extension. Little had been done to it since the Sixties but the house had a happy, rather hippyish feel, including a spiral staircase leading to a flat roof with beehives. “I’m pretty instinctive,” said Miranda. “Either you go in and like it, or you don’t. I liked it but live by a simple rule: a home should have room shapes that are regular with plenty of light. You can then add the rest later with fabrics and textures — which you can change when you get bored.” On their second visit, the couple took architect Luke Tozer of Pitman Tozer, who had worked on Miranda’s previous flat. To get those regular shapes and more light, Luke suggested pushing the staircase right over to one side, making a very wide space with room for a sumptuous drawing room running front to back, and a huge kitchen below. “That advice was worth its weight in gold,” Miranda said, “because it’s hard to find houses in London that offer the width we wanted.” Moving the stairs was just the beginning. The house is in a conservation area, but not listed, so while they preserved the now immaculately painted front, the rest was all change, into a high-spec, smoothly modern, beautifully finished family house, with a floor for the boys, and a top floor given over to a master bedroom, with a bathroom and a walk-in dressing room. An important aspect of working with a trusted team is that Luke, the quantity surveyor and, later, the contractor, made sure that their figures stacked up. Going over budget in a job with major structural work can be punitively costly. “And if
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Light box: you have to tell your contractor every single detail, there will the vast television, “because I hate to see a big TV in a room if Artful design: full-width sliding be no end to your project,” Miranda added. you’re not watching it”. Attention to detail includes different the sleek kitchen doors lead out As well as moving the staircase, the couple demolished the fittings — all from CP Hart — in each bathroom, from a plain (top) has two to the courtyard conservatory and extended the house at the back at basement Duravit basin downstairs to the curvy, rather deco glass-topped large islands but (above), flood level, with full-height, full-width sliding glass doors that go double basin in the master bathroom. assorted the kitchen with softly into a pocket at one side. In the big, fresh room, the pale The garden is equally transformed. Set between the house paintings ensure light and make oak dining table is top-lit with a sliver of rooflight, and five and a new garden room at one end — which holds a multi- it retains a the most of the beautiful suspended lamps. The kitchen, soft grey, with two functional space, bathroom and sleeping platform for guests homely feel outdoor space islands and a big bank of cooking equipment down one side, — it shows what a good designer can do with an overgrown still has a comfortable feel because of a pair of sofas that Jeremy wilderness. Emma Griffin used a mix of pale stone paving Couched in Room outdoors: brought with him, plus paintings (including some by Miranda), with designed-in planters, and planted seasonally, so luxury: the huge Miranda (left) and a mustard-yellow accent wall. that each month the view changes from a phalanx of black red sofas (above can now sit back The extension also creates a stylish decked terrace outside Queen of the Night tulips in spring, to swathes of Agapanthus centre) are big and enjoy the the drawing room, with steps made of Kebony — a hardened in June. enough to fit the fruits of her timber — leading gently to the garden. It isn’t easy to mix an ultra-stylish house with a family home, whole family of labour in a Last, they replaced the shaky spiral stair to the roof with a but Miranda and Jeremy have pulled it off. five sprawling garden designed strong straight one, opening to a large terrace with romantic boys at once to provide a chimneypot views and, very cleverly, a sink and coffee MIRANDA’S TIPS: year-round show machine, because, said Miranda, “that gets us up here, O With a big job that includes structural work, get a fixed-price Bathing beauty: for breakfast, and drinks, otherwise we’d probably stay contract and however well you know anyone, put them under Miranda’s On the up: downstairs.” competitive pricing. But don’t automatically choose the attention to moving the Two things stand out in this house. The first is its design — cheapest people, choose the best for your job. detail comes to staircase (far both in terms of the highly considered layout, but also in O Create clean lines. They are easier to work with, then you the fore in the left) provided features such as the glass balustrade on the basement stair can put anything in the interior. bathrooms enough space and the terrace, a wrap-around window in Jeremy’s study, and (above), each of for a sumptuous the crisp cornicing in the drawing room, recast from the tired WHERE TO BUY which has drawing room original version. O Architect: Luke Tozer (pitmantozer.com) differentfittings and the huge Secondly, there are the interior finishes, which display O Contractor: J&Z Construction (jandzconstruction.co.uk) kitchen Miranda’s acute sense of colour and fabric. Choosing elegant, O Quantity surveyor: Andrew Ohl (andrewohlassociates.com) muted tones from Farrow & Ball ranging from greys to duck- O Garden designer: Emma Griffin (emmagriffingardens.com) egg blue, offset with similarly subtle fabric-textured wallpa- O Bathroom fitting: cphart.co.uk pers, all the rooms blend elegance with comfort, with highlight O Bespoke sofa and kitchen table: bamptondesign.co.uk colours provided by silk cushions, glassware, and paintings. O Paint: farrow-ball.com Photographs:: Personal touches include the huge Bampton Design sofa that O Sliding glass doors by Skyframe from cantifix.co.uk Charles Hosea can take five sprawling boys at once, and the sliding cover for O Garden decking and stairs: kebony.com
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OR seven years, I lived in a Gardening sunny first-floor flat in maniac: David Highbury Hill without any Sexton (right) garden whatsoever. All I and his plot (left) ever grew there was basil in at home in Fpots from the supermarket. the Harringay During this time I was, however, Ladder district becoming ever more obsessed with gardening in all its forms, incessantly reading about it, visiting gardens and making notes for future use. By the time my girlfriend and I finally bought a terrace house in north London — in the Harringay Ladder district and with a 40ft back garden, I was like one of those jets on a short runway with its engines revved up to the max with the brakes still on. That was last summer. The south- My new love facing garden at the new house was an indecipherable mess. Overgrown with brambles and nettles, it still Until just a year ago David Sexton had sported some thorny old roses and bluebells and columbines prospering never owned a garden. Now he’s a convert among the weeds. The main problem was that it was flowering, if I was quick. I went white, French favourite, General Schablikine. entirely overshadowed by two vast mostly. From Columbia Road I got a The gloom of this year’s dismal and ugly sycamores at the far end. big tray of white Cosmos Purity cheap, spring was lightened by a dozen wild They were expensively removed in plus some gaura, lavender stoechas primroses (£1.75 each from Rassells) a single day by a gung-ho team of tree alba and anemone Honorine Jobert. I put out on February 1, which surgeons (Tree Amigos from Stoke From a National Garden Scheme flowered for many weeks. Newington). Afterwards the garden garden in Alexandra Palace came lots Eventually, though, it became looked as though a bomb had gone of verbena bonariensis at £1 each. All possible to plant out some annuals: off — but at least there was light. these plants, in open ground, thrived seedlings of Spencer sweet peas (a So overgrown had the garden been, through August and it felt happy little pot picked up for £1.50) and I hadn’t realised it had a definite straightaway. poppy seeds (Shirley, Ladybird, structure already: raised beds around In October we made an expedition White Cloud from Chiltern Seeds), the edges, with a concrete path going to The Place for Plants in East which I proceeded to weed out all the way around them, enclosing Bergholt and packed five trees into enthusiastically when they came up, what had once been a lawn. the car. For the centre of the lawn, as until I learned to recognise them.

it was yet to become, we chose a They’ve carried on all summer. GRAHAM HUSSEYP A SIMPLE PLAN Robinia x slavinii Hillieri, a bit of a This might have been the point to punt since I hadn’t seen it in real life: BORDERING ON OBSESSION atlantica Eternal Fragrance, all out- the Californian Tree Poppy, romneya redesign the whole thing with curves as it has turned out, its pinky-purple I bought wherever possible from NGS done by masses of tobacco plants, coulteri, half-price (£7.50) from and different areas, taking inspiration blossom is lovely and its feathery open gardens and became a repeat both affinis and the monster sylvestris. Alexandra Palace Garden Centre has from Dan Pearson’s lovely London foliage even better. Otherwise, we visitor to Enfield to buy top-quality The borders soon filled with romped away, flowering non-stop. gardening book, Home Ground. I went for the obvious: a pear, a crab plants at amazingly good prices from erigeron, violas, phlox, salvias, Having a garden is one of the great didn’t, though. I liked its simple plan, apple, a winter-flowering cherry and a Clockhouse Nursery. scabious, erysimums (mutabilis as joys and privileges of home ownership. and, intending to plant the whole magnolia (x loebneri Leonard Messel). The main expenses were turf for well as the essential Bowles’ Mauve), The day a plant you have never grown, garden as fulsomely as possible, Then there were the roses. I bought the lawn (£54) and a basic garden euphorbias, all kinds of verbena or perhaps even seen in real life before hoped the constraint of the beds bare-root from David Austin and put shed bought online (£170). From (rigida and hastata, as well as now flowers for the first time is a special would work well with such anarchy. in just before Christmas, Mme Alfred Criterion Auctions in Islington I self-seeding bonariensis) and flax. As happiness. It’s been a year of many While the borders were all bare Carrière for the north fence; in the bought an old, silvery teak bench at this hot summer has progressed, the such firsts for me. When you make a earth, I dug in 40 or 50 bin bags of side borders, Gloire de Dijon, Alister probably slightly more (£120) than a garden has become abundant, a garden, though you are expressing well-rotted horse manure, carefully Stella Grey and the first actual Austin new one would have cost. joyous muddle, blowsy even, beyond yourself in a plan and plants, you carried in through the house, this rose I’ve tried, The Generous Around the tiled area for sitting out, all expectations. never do control it: plants grow as they being the only access to the garden. Gardener; in the front border, visible I have concentrated on scent, with After gardening only in the will and you have to learn to work with Then the planting, so long though the house, I planted Mutabilis, trachelospermum and honeysuckle imagination for so long, I’ve been them. Perhaps after this first year it will anticipated, began. There was still ever-flowering, ever-changing (if you climbing the fence, Lilium regale and surprised by how easy it seems to grow all become routine, even a chore? But time to enjoy some summer plant one rose, make it this) and a the new variety of scented daphne, x anything and everything in London: I doubt it. EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 2013 29 homesandproperty.co.uk with Outdoors Homes & Property Pot yourself a blooming lovely Indian Summer Autumn is here — but without much effort you can still keep your garden looking good through October and well beyond REATE an Indian summer Pattie glass earrings. Coupled with shapely with flowering latecomers leaves that turn a dark purple in autumn, that keep blooming until Barron and clusters of pretty white lace-cap October and beyond. Daisy flowers in June, this is a real showcase flowers predominate, with shrub that will not grow larger than rudbeckias,C the golden-rayed, brown- 1.5 metres yet will add a touch of the centred coneflowers, providing the countryside to the town garden. sunniest splash of late colour. The RHS Sedums are late-summer stalwarts has justifiably given Rudbeckia fulgida that just keep getting better as the var sullivantii Goldsturm, which has weeks roll on, their flat flower heads single, yolk-yellow flowers centred with gradually intensifying in colour. chocolate-coloured cones, an Award Autumn Joy is drought-tolerant, of Garden Merit. Create high jinks in dependable and its flower heads start the border by teaming it with another out a pale green and pink, intensifying coneflower, the deep pink, rust- through brick and finally to copper in centred Echinacea purpurea. October and November. Try, too, one Asters provide a more familiar, of the sedums with dark stems and foli- smaller-headed daisy, but choose with age such as Purple Emperor, that has care, as many varieties are susceptible deep ruby foliage, which complements to mildew. Aster frikartii Monch is the the rich pink flowers. One sedum in the fail-safe variety that, grown en masse, border looks good; several grouped creates a pool of lavender blue; Little together look sensational and will Carlow, reaching a more modest 80cm, create a mini-sanctuary positively is ideal for containers. buzzing with bees and butterflies. Clematis will put on a late-summer For maximum flower power, how- show that lasts through autumn, pro- ever, simply buy yourself a pot full of vided you buy the right variety. Lemon lanterns: Clematis tangutica mini-mums. Garden centres and nurs- Prairie queen: American beauty Echinacea purpurea is a welcome latecomer Clematis tangutica has striking lantern eries are currently offering the fullest, flowers in sharp acid yellow from late fattest plants that form a full, wide summer to October, and follows these and autumn light. If you’ve never tried parasol of crowded button chrysanthe- — sometimes at the same time — with them in your garden, buy a trio of Stipa mum heads, too numerous to count. silvery, silken seed heads, the size of tenuissima, plant them around any flow- Just a pair of these on the patio, at their your fist, that ask to be stroked. Just cut ering perennial and you will be hooked finest in shades of rich gold or deep the stems back to a pair of strong buds on the teasing way they swish in the wind garnet, will keep the summer sun burn- above ground level in early spring for and catch the sunlight, flattering the ing for weeks and remind you, in the a repeat performance. flowers around them like a gauzy veil. nicest possible way, that autumn is not Every garden should have an exotic All you need do to keep this golden, shim- so very far away. or two to add a little spice: Salvia guara- mering grass hitting its peak every year nitica Black’n’Blue bucks the trend of is cut off the old growth in spring to allow Photographs:: late-summer’s fiery tones with dark for the new fresh growth. Marianne Majerus Garden Images purple spikes bearing sage flowers of Viburnum opulus Compactum, the a wonderful royal blue that will keep compact version of our native guelder coming until late autumn. This is a rose, is a jewel of a shrub and, at this time stunning plant for either a container of year, the bunches of translucent scar- Gardening problems? or a sheltered spot. let berries which hang from the stems Email our RHS expert at: Grasses look magical in late summer resemble the most beautiful Venetian [email protected] Bountiful blooms: mini chrysanthemums make great container displays END OF LEASE RELOCATION SALE. UNREPEATABLE BARGAINS NO REASONABLE OFFER REFUSED on all stock items marked with a ‘green dot’ Geoffrey Drayton, retailer of quality modern furniture and lighting from Europe’s leading designers and manufacturers is to close its fine quality home furnishing showroom in London, located at 85 Hampstead Road, to Opening Times consolidate its business into the Epping shop. 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USY Mare Street sets the scene for the contrasts that bring such character to the north-east London neigh- bourhood of central Hack- Spotlight Bney. Sitting alongside the “cultural quarter” with its Edwardian town hall, the Hackney Empire, a wonderful new Hackney Central library and now a new Picturehouse cinema, there is a high street domi- £425,000 nated by cheap takeaways, phone A ONE-BEDROOM garden flat in shops and nail bars. Montague Court with wood floors, high Yet a wander down the back streets ceilings and smart, modern kitchen. paints a more complex picture, with Through Stirling Ackroyd. a new wave of independent retailers homesandproperty.co.uk/montague that could tell Mary Portas a thing or Still full of O two about retail revival. Broadway Market has already established itself as a hub of cafés, pubs, bookshops and stores serving a fresh generation of young and arty newcomers, and now contrasts, it is the turn of Wilton Way and Ment- more Terrace to show the way. Many homes in Wilton Way were created from shop conversions. Now, to everyone’s surprise, some have been now packed turned back into interesting independ- £400,000 ent shops and cafés. There is good A NEW, three-bedroom apartment in coffee at the Wilton Way Café, cupcakes Matchmakers Wharf, with a private at the café attached to Violet bakery, balcony and a secure parking space. and fine wines at Borough Wines. Through Cornerstone. Estate agent Sovereign House (020 with style O homesandproperty.co.uk/match 8985 5800) is selling a two-bedroom house in Wilton Way for £599,950 with a ground floor that could be house currently for sale in central converted back into a shop. Arty types and City Hackney is in Lansdowne Drive, where In Mentmore Terrace, meanwhile, Foxtons (020 7386 6565) is selling a similar retailers, such as the E5 Bake- slickers flock to a four-bedroom detached Victorian house, an artisan baker with a café house for £1,595,000. attached, are popping up in the railway neighbourhood rich Typical of Hackney’s loft-style homes arches close to London Fields in independent shops is the three-bedroom property that station. Keatons (020 8525 7788) is selling for Back on lively Mare Street, the and colourful cafés, £1.1 million at the Academy Apartments Lock-in: Regent’s Canal at the end £1,595,000 sight of a gaggle of young Japanese in Dalston Lane. of Broadway Market provides FOXTONS has this four-bedroom tourists clutching Burberry, Aquascu- says Anthea Masey In one of the prettiest streets in the enjoyable waterside walks house close to London Fields with tum and Pringle bags adds another London Fields area, Parkholme Road, modern interiors and a garden. bizarre twist to this multi-layered Foxtons (see above) has a three- O homesandproperty.co.uk/ neighbourhood. They have found WHAT THERE IS TO BUY bedroom maisonette for sale for an ally draws a creative crowd who work lansdowne their way to the off-the-tourist-beaten- Like everywhere else in the borough, eye-watering £790,000. According to in new media, art or fashion, although track designer outlet shops to be housing at the heart of Hackney Carl Schmid, of estate agent Fyfe with improvements to the East London found in Chatham Place, off Morning presents a contrasting picture. Large McDade, 10 years ago homes in De Overground line, an increasing number Lane, a destination that has proved so council estates sit next to rows of fine Beauvoir town, which are closer to of buyers are employed in the City and successful that Hackney council, Georgian houses — there is a particu- Islington, were more expensive than at Canary Wharf. According to Carl Network Rail and the Manhattan Loft larly lovely terrace in Mare Street — those in London Fields; now there Schmid, Hackney has wide appeal. Corporation are planning to develop while there are mid-Victorian terraces has been a reversal of fortunes, “This is a place where people want to it further with more designer shops, in the gentrified London Fields area, with London Fields outperforming its spend time at the weekend. We get start-up fashion businesses, cafés and plus lofts in warehouse conversions close neighbour. buyers moving over from more settled restaurants. and new flats. The most expensive The area attracts: Hackney tradition- areas such as Notting Hill, and it is popu- £595,000 lar with European buyers, too.” THIS refurbished split-level flat in Staying power: London Fields is Penpoll Road has a private To find a home in Hackney, visit popular with young families but once entrance, a garden and two double children reach secondary school age bedrooms. Through Keatons. some families move to be closer to the O homesandproperty.co.uk/penpoll homesandproperty.co.uk/hackney school of their choice.

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CHECK THE STATS ■WHAT HOMES COST: BUYING IN HACKNEY (Average prices) One-bedroom flat £315,000 Two-bedroom flat £454,000 Three-bedroom flat £645,000 Four-bedroom house £1.21 million Source: Zoopla.co.uk RENTING IN HACKNEY (Average rates) One-bedroom flat £1,415 month Two-bedroom flat £1,830 a month Two-bedroom house £1,994 a month Three-bedroom house £2,480 a month Four-bedroom house £2,967 a month Source: Zoopla.co.uk GO ONLINE FOR MORE O A breakdown of the best schools O Renting locally O Latest new housing schemes O Five-year price trends O Smart maps to plot your property search For all this and more, visit homesand property.co.uk/ spotlighthackney

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SHOPS AND RESTAURANTS Lane: the Railroad and Brew for wild flower meadows. Nearby Victoria street is the local multiplex cinema Mare Street is the main shopping street Two. Climpson & Sons on Broadway Park is, as the name suggests, one of showing a mix of first-release and art and though it buzzes, it has seen better market is a local institution. Lardo is a London’s great Victorian parks. It is the house films. days. Interesting independent shops new pizzeria on Richmond Road that oldest public park in London and Travel: Hackney Central is on the are found by exploring the back streets. has opened a pop-up restaurant, recently had a £12 million facelift. Overground and the journey to the City Broadway Market is a favourite place Coppa, housed in a series of beach huts and Canary Wharf has improved since to hang out at the weekend and new on a rooftop in Martello Street. Green LEISURE AND THE ARTS the arrival of the East London Over- retail areas are developing along Wilton Papaya and Tre Viet are two popular London Fields Lido, heated and open ground line at Dalston Junction. Lon- Way and Morning Lane. A new designer Vietnamese restaurants on Mare Street. all year round, has been a particularly don Fields station has trains to outlet village — the developers are call- Rawduck on Amhurst Road close to popular haunt during this brilliant Liverpool Street. All stations are in ing it a fashion hub — will join Burberry, Hackney Central station is a newcomer: summer. The beautiful Frank Matcham- Zone 2 and an annual travelcard to TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE Aquascutum and Pringle on Chatham it is a café by day and wine bar at designed Hackney Empire theatre Zone 1 is £1,216. Place and Morning Lane. night. reopened in 2004 after a £17 million Council: Hackney council (Labour- Why did diarist Samuel Pepys come Eating out is a favourite activity but refit. It is the jewel in Hackney’s crown controlled); band D council tax for the to Hackney in 1667? There’s a clue in it is a case of the relaxed and the quirky, OPEN SPACE and shows a mix of comedy, opera, 2013/2014 year is £1,301.45. the pictures; find the answer at homesand rather than fine dining. There are London Fields is the area’s green lung, musicals, plays and community property.co.uk/spotlighthackney two cafés/restaurants on Morning and the high point is the newly planted events. The Picturehouse across the Photographs::Graham Husssey

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From £456,500: for a flat with terrace at Marine Wharf Reborn Rotherhithe is continuing upmarket Swept away SELLAR Property Group has unveiled a scheme for 1,046 homes designed by award-winning international architect David Chipperfield in Rotherhithe, a short hop from its by chimneys Shard of Glass at London Bridge. Meanwhile, property giant British Land and Tesco have announced a makeover OW this is an address to style makeover. He added an extra of the outdated Surrey Quays shopping mall, part of the boast about: Albury Park floor and 63 candlestick chimneys. £1 billion Canada Quays project which includes much- Mansion, part of the Duke A later addition is Sir John Soane’s improved public realm space and a head-turning new of Northumberland’s head-turning cantilevered staircase. library in the shape of an inverted pyramid. 150-acre Surrey estate Like Pugin’s chimneys, every As well as stylish new homes, the Sellar scheme will Nwhere 10 magnificent apartments have apartment is individual, with a bring restaurants, shops and recreational space around a been created. Few properties set the unique floorplan, high ceilings, tall new public square and dock basin (visit sellarcanada heart racing as much as these fine windows and lots of original features. water.com for details). heritage conversions, which provide a It is a meticulous restoration by It will be a while before these homes come to the market splendid sense of arrival as well as a specialist developer Michael Wilson, but other local schemes have been launched. Marine grand interior and private gardens. who says country buyers “like a Wharf, a 529-home development by Berkeley Homes, This is not the first time the old peaceful and secluded setting but has interlinking apartment blocks with central court- Jacobean mansion has seen massive don’t want to be too cut off from yards. Duplexes and penthouses, all on 999-year leases, change. In the early-19th century, civilisation”. The commuter town of have good-size terraces and the development includes a “God’s architect”, Augustus Pugin, Guildford is six miles away. gym, car club and concierge. Prices from £456,500 for was tasked with giving the Prices start at £1 million. Call Strutt two-bedroom apartments. Call 020 8694 3100. ramshackle house a Gothic-Tudor- & Parker on 01483 306565. EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 2013 45 homesandproperty.co.uk with New homes Homes & Property

From £1 million: an The Masons’ secret is out at last apartment at Albury Park Mansion in Surrey. Call CROSSRAIL construction The Georgian courthouse has 01483 306565 upheaval at Farringdon has made been snapped up by Silvertown, Clerkenwell a place to avoid. But a veteran local developer, for a only for a while. The area, famous £30 million transformation into for its designer lofts and creative a private members club. community, will be a much bigger Meanwhile, resourceful business district once the new residential developers continue east-west rail link is up and to unlock historic sites for running in 2018. As one of boutique apartments. Launching London’s key transport hubs next week is Ragged House at with gleaming new office Vine Hill. developments, Clerkenwell’s The handsome Victorian character may change a little. building was once a charitable For the past 30 years, the area’s school offering free education to best building, the splendid Old the destitute. One- and two- Sessions House on Clerkenwell bedroom flats are priced from Green, has been home to the £545,000. Call Hurford Salvi Carr £545,000: boutique apartments at Masons, but now the secret is out. on 020 7250 4950. Ragged House. Call 020 7250 4950 BRUTALISM TO LUXURY MAKEOVER FOR CAR PARK

AN UGLY Sixties car park in Marylebone has been bulldozed to make way for The Chilterns, 44 luxury flats backing on to a green space called Paddington Gardens. Designed by architect Squire and Partners, it is a step up for the area, a high-quality, contemporary-style new-build with a “lifestyle package” of extras — concierge services, spa, gym, private cinema and wine cellar — for residents. Completion is due in 2015. Joint developers Frogmore and Galliard report brisk overseas sales — despite asking prices of £3,000 a square foot — ahead of the UK launch next month. For more information, call 020 7620 1500.

Former car park: The Chilterns, 44 flats in Marylebone 4648 WEDNESDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 2013 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property Ask the expert homesandproperty.co.uk with You’d better stump up the stamp duty Fiona WHAT’S E WANT to buy a flat in an apartment block YOUR where we would have a share in the McNulty PROBLEM? Wfreehold. However, there is only 40 years IF YOU have a left on the lease. The estate agent says there OUR LAWYER ANSWERS question for is nothing for us to worry about because when you YOUR QUESTIONS Fiona McNulty, own the freehold, it is easy and cheap to update the please email lease. Is this true? I AM hoping to buy a legalsolutions@ house but the estate agent standard.co.uk REMEMBER that the estate agent acts for the Q is warning me that I will or write to Legal seller, not you. If you need a mortgage, then you have to pay stamp duty. Solutions, Homes Amust establish the unexpired time left on the lease However, several friends have told & Property, because most lenders won’t accept only 40 years. me that lots of people are getting London Evening In practice, a “share of freehold” means some or all of away with not paying stamp duty, Standard, 2 Derry the flat owners have bought the freehold and manage it so how is this done? Street, W8 5EE. between them, usually by setting up a management We regret that company. If you buy a flat, your lease will govern the STAMP duty is charged on questions cannot relationship between you and the freeholders, of which land and property be answered you will become one. To extend the lease you need the A transactions in the UK and individually but agreement of the freeholders, which you are likely to get there are different rates and we will try to because at some stage they’ll want their leases extended, thresholds for different types of feature them too. And once you’ve owned the flat for two years, you property. The five per cent rate Budget last year that he would not penalty. In addition, the Solicitors here. Fiona usually have a legal right to an extension (though check applies to homes where the value is hesitate to use retrospective Regulation Authority is likely to look McNulty is a with a solicitor first). more than £1 million but does not legislation to close down stamp duty very closely at any law firm that is partner in the If the seller has been there for two years, ask them to exceed £2 million. avoidance schemes. In fact, HM actively involved in these schemes. residential extend the lease before you buy. If they refuse, find out Your friends are probably referring Revenue & Customs has warned that Any scheme should be carefully property, farms why. If you can’t wait, get the seller to commence the to stamp duty savings schemes, “where we find property sale considered by a stamp duty specialist and estates team process and then assign any benefit to you under the which are designed to reduce or arrangements that have been to ensure the implications are fully at Withy King LLP purchase contract, which may be acceptable to the eliminate the correct level of duty artificially structured to avoid paying understood. (withyking.co.uk). lender. Remember, too, that the freeholders might want payable on a property. the correct amount of stamp duty, Instead of getting involved in tax their legal costs covered and may even impose a charge

Such schemes tend to be very these will be actively challenged avoidance, perhaps you should ask for the extension. complex, constantly change and through the courts”. your seller to accept a lower price in amount to deliberate tax avoidance. If the Revenue is successful in view of the stamp duty you will have More legal O These answers can only be a very brief commentary on Some schemes involve the transfer of challenging such a scheme, a buyer to pay. Or you could buy a less Q&As the issues raised and should not be relied on as legal advice. rights or sub sales. could be liable to pay the whole of expensive property which will be Visit: homesand No liability is accepted for such reliance. If you have similar The Chancellor made it clear in his the tax plus interest, and maybe a subject to a lower rate of stamp duty. property.co.uk issues, you should obtain advice from a solicitor. EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 2013 4749 homesandproperty.co.uk with Inside story Homes & Property

MONDAY Mondays always start with a morning Diary of an estate agent meeting. I share my findings with the team and run through customer questionnaires. These are sent to all customers, regardless of whether we Paddle-boarding end up dealing with them to find, sell or let a property. We’ve got lots of good feedback, which is very pleasing. pensioner coasts Hannah, our property manager, receives a special mention — her job is one of the hardest as people only ever call with maintenance issues, so if she to successful sale is getting great feedback, it means our landlords and tenants are happy. I receive a friendly call from one of ments. I will be sharing the tips I had unhappy pair of tenants who have my old clients asking me for an update from him with my team in my next woken up to a leak at their flat. She gets on the value of his freehold property, Monday morning meeting. them to explain the situation fully and which consists of a shop and two calms them down expertly. She upper-floor flats. We have let and man- WEDNESDAY explains exactly how the problem will aged his property for many years and My freeholder calls me to check on the be resolved and then immediately have never let him down. Prices in the advice to sell his shop and two flats in contacts the relevant contractors. She area have increased since we last three separate parts. I reassure him understands the tenants’ needs and valued his property 18 months ago, so and explain that the value of the units this is an almighty asset. I am confident the latest valuation will separately is higher than if they were bring a smile to his face. I get a letter sold as one investment. FRIDAY prepared and send it over to him. I know he wants to offer the shop- My favourite day of the week has for my client, and for my sales team, quickly as he can without falling over. keeper a long lease and I therefore arrived — not because it is the weekend as they get another new instruction to Watch out coffee table, and the dog. TUESDAY suggest he offers him first refusal on tomorrow but because it means the offer to our long list of waiting buyers. At close of play, it’s time to head out My diary is full with back-to-back meet- that, along with the flat above. first coffee of the week for me. I abstain Although the team has been breaking for a few drinks to round off the week. ings today. One of these extends into He thanks me for my honesty and says the rest of the week so when Friday records for prices achieved in the local Having been in the area so long, we lunch with a commercial agent I met a he will update me once he has spoken comes, it adds to my excitement when area, instructions have been hard to know loads of local business owners few weeks ago, who is a real character. to the shopkeeper. He goes on to tell I get back from the gym with my double come by. With money cheap to and residents and, as ever, we end up I wanted to meet him as he has many me he is off paddle-boarding on the espresso. borrow, many flat owners are holding bumping into some of them. We trade years’ experience and an exceptional Solent — not bad for someone aged The first thing on my to-do list is to on to their property and purchasing stories about what’s going on in our record in the market. We both know 70-plus. I have always wanted to try call to get an update from the free- another home. neighbourhood, and it’s a great way of the right way to do business, versus this myself and now I have no excuse. holder. It’s the best outcome for him I ask our client how the paddle-board- keeping up with local gossip. cheap short cuts that are bound to — the shopkeeper wants to keep the ing went. He says it was tough but the return to haunt you. THURSDAY shop and the flat directly above, and instructor advised him to practise by O Jonathan Hudson is the founder of We end up at his favourite café, As I arrive at the office, our property we are to look after the sale of the lying down in the living room on his Hudsons Property in Charlotte Street, before I return to a long list of appoint- manager Hannah is dealing with an remaining top -floor flat. I am delighted tummy then standing up on one leg as W1 (020 7323 2277). EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 2013 49 Letting on Homes & Property

ERE’S my idea: in a bid to make my rental ad stand out from the trillions of others online, I’m Lights, camera, thinking of becoming Hone of the very few landlords to include a walk-through video tour of my property —maybe with scripted footage from my current tenants action! I could talking about what an awesome place it is to live, and what a fantastic landlord I am. The idea of a video ad was suggested to me by former BBC get used to this producer Anna Shelmerdine who has set up London Property Video Tours to provide professionally shot and Victoria Whitlock is excited by the idea of edited footage of properties in and around the capital. making a walk-through video of her rental flat Fees start at £120 for a video of a flat with up to two bedrooms, but having watched some of the sample films — mostly of properties for sale, not to let — on londonproperty videotours. £675 A WEEK com, I don’t see why landlords A two-bedroom couldn’t shoot their own footage on a maisonette on smartphone. the Peterborough Anna’s videos, complete with Estate, SW6, with classical music, are excellent —and a smart interior I’m absolutely certain I wouldn’t be and patio garden, able to make anything nearly as slick. is available to But I’m not sure that a video tour set to rent through a violin concerto tells potential viewers Hamptons that much more than they could glean International. from a decent set of photos and a link to Google Earth, whereas one that O Visit homesand includes personal commentary from property.co.uk/ the landlord and tenants could be rentpeterborough really useful. It could also be a lot more fun. I might ask my tenants to dress up in sumo suits (a small bribe might be required) and get them to jump out his running commentary — and his of the wardrobes to show how The occasional whistling — that he was spacious they are. I could ask one of the sort of chap who cared about his them to swing a cat in the living room property. OpenRent says that even to demonstrate that although it’s accidental though it has offered landlords the small, it’s not that small. option to upload videos since its Alternatively, I could film them landlord launch last May, less than one per cooking supper in the super- cent bother, so I reckon those who do equipped kitchen, sipping sun- take the trouble have more chance of downers on the west-facing balcony, wobbly, gloomy footage that will only making their ad stand out. and singing in the power shower. put off prospective tenants. Okay, maybe not the last bit, but you However, rival online letting agent OWEVER, if your get my drift. OpenRent does enable you to upload homemade video makes Both Zoopla and Rightmove, the your own videos to Zoopla and your property look like a largest property websites, support Rightmove. I watched one of a three- crime scene, it might be video ads but Upad, the biggest bedroom, recently renovated better to take the online letting agent, doesn’t enable property in Chelsea, apparently Hprofessional option. After all, as landlords to upload them because, made by the landlord, which was Anna says, you’ll be able to re-use says marketing director Alan really good. Admittedly there was far the film for several years and it could Duncan, the ones they’ve seen so far more footage of the blank white walls create a great first impression of have tended to make a property look and bare floorboards than strictly your rental. more like a crime scene than a necessary, but aside from that, I desirable let. liked it. Mother-of-two Victoria Whitlock lets I know what he means and there’s a As the landlord walked through the three properties in south London. To danger that if you don’t know what house you got a real sense of the size contact Victoria with your ideas and you’re doing you could end up with of the place, and you could tell from views, tweet @vicwhitlock

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