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Wednesday 26 April 2017 New homes for city Homes& chickens Property Page 15 COMMUTING: THIS SPORTING LIFE P8 EALING HOTSPOT P10 GROUND RENTS SCANDAL P14 SPOTLIGHT ON HARLESDEN P32 Crossrail delivers for Paddington New homes: Page 6 ALAMY London’s best property search news: homesandproperty.co.uk 4 WEDNESDAY 26 APRIL 2017 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | News Look inland for the best buys Trophy ORGET about loft conversions home of or a parking space — a view of the week the Thames is a London prop- erty’s priciest feature, a new enrol at the study reveals. And if that view Fincludes a glimpse of Tower Bridge or academy for a St Paul’s Cathedral, expect an extra boost in price. cool £13 million The report, published by Cluttons property consultants, compares relative £12.95 million: this six- cost of homes overlooking the river with bedroom Kensington flat is similar nearby “inland” properties. part of Academy Gardens, a An average riverfront home overlook- former ladies college and ing Tower Bridge will now cost you now one of London’s most bedrooms, a kitchen/ has an en suite dressing £1,285,000. An inland home with all exclusive apartment breakfast room and dining room and bathroom, while the same features but no river view buildings, close to room, all set around a each bedroom has doors to costs an average of £667,500. Kensington Gardens and spectacular glass domed private patio space. The biggest price premium was found Holland Park. reception room with highly Underground parking to be around Borough, at 93 per cent. As one of the largest homes polished parquet floors, spaces, a residents’ gym, Premiums are almost as high at Shad £2.4 million: this £767,000 — and on the South Bank, in the building, it covers a huge wall space to display swimming pool and 24-hour Thames — where an average £1.45 mil- three-bedroom where you’ll pay £1,367,000 as against vast 5,369sq ft across two works of art and doors that concierge are among the lion buys a river view home, 89 per cent flat at Cinnabar £737,500, or an 85 per cent difference. floors. There’s a magnificent open to a beautiful private perks. For sale through more than a non-waterfront home at Wharf West in Generation Rent is also willing to pay entrance hall, plush garden. The master bedroom Savills (020 8012 3125). Wapping High over the odds for a view. A home at Street has much Shad Thames with water views, per- to offer but its haps with a backdrop of Tower Bridge Editor: chief selling and St Katharine Docks, costs an aver- Lifechanger Janice point is its view, age £730 a week. This is £240 or 49 per Morley which takes in cent more than a non-riverfront rental. of the week Tower Bridge and So over the course of a year, gazing at barn with pool, VISIT homesandproperty.co.uk/ the Shard. This the river would cost a renter in Shad rules for details of our usual can be expected Thames well over £12,000. paddocks, plus promotion rules. When you to add about 42 On the South Bank a rental with a respond to promotions, offers or per cent to its river view costs an average £710 a week, a holiday let to competitions, the London Evening price. Through 43 per cent more than a home without Standard and its sister companies Cluttons (020 the view at £495 a week. Around Bor- pay your bills may contact you with relevant 3504 7515) ough, renters pay a 39 per cent pre- offers and services that may be of mium for a water view — £680 a week £1.1 million: this barn interest. Please give your mobile versus £488. conversion in a glorious number and/or email address if “In a congested city like London, country setting, in the you would like to receive such riverside homes with balconies com- Bedfordshire village of Great offers by text or email. pensate for lack of garden space and Billington, scores highly in space throughout sitting and gardens and more than three offer river views and outdoor space, the charm stakes with plenty dining halls, a bespoke acres of paddocks. Leighton Editorial: 020 3615 2650 perfect for entertaining,” explains of 16th-century character. kitchen/breakfast room and Buzzard with its scenic Advertisement manager: James Hyman, Cluttons’ head of resi- Vaulted, beamed ceilings, five bedrooms, including two railway, farmers’ markets Ann Finan dential agency. “Homes around South exposed brickwork, lovely en suite. There’s a separate and shops is just three miles Advertising: 020 3615 0266 Bank command the highest premiums big fireplaces and stone tiled two-bedroom holiday home away. For sale chain-free Homes & Property, Northcliffe as they offer the most interesting views floors make this a stunning you can let out, a heated through Hunters (01525 House, 2 Derry Street, Kensington, across the City skyline.” home and there’s a mass of swimming pool, sweeping 625015). London W8 5TT. O Find Ruth Bloomfield’s full story at homesandproperty.co.uk London buy of the week grand flat in a great central location with a choice of Royal Parks £570,000: newly launched Parker House is a grand converted Victorian building that now offers 19 flats in Cuthbert Street, Paddington, perfectly sandwiched between Regent’s Park and Hyde Park. This first-floor pad is due for completion towards the end of the year and will be finished to a fine level, with high ceilings and large sash windows in spacious living areas that include a bright, 17ft living/dining room, open-plan to a bespoke bicycle storage will be kitchen showcasing stone included. Colourful worktops and integrated Paddington Basin and appliances. Edgware Road Tube are on The bedroom has plenty of the doorstep. Through built-in storage space and Hamptons International (020 doors to a sun terrace, while 3451 1544). the bathroom features underfloor heating. A lift to all floors, CCTV security and By Faye Greenslade EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 26 APRIL 2017 5 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by News | Homes & Property Ready to roar back, a £35m glam Twenties hotel Katy proves it. Bayswater beauty California Gurls bought for £13.5m É IT ISN’T every day that a 60-room, into a creative space displaying the can’t have too ÉSTUART RODEN,N, seven-storey townhouse opposite works of contemporary artists boss of London Hyde Park comes on to the market. Gordon Cheung, Jon Rafman, Lee many mansions hedge fund The Averard Hotel, above, opened Marshall and Royal Academy Schools É POP singer Katy Perry, right, has Lansdowne in the Roaring Twenties but has stood graduate Sean Steadman. Now the invested in a Beverly Hills mansion. Partners, has paid empty for a decade, apart from being 25,000sq ft landmark building near The American star, whose hits include £13.5 million used as a gallery earlier this year Lancaster Gate Tube is for sale at Chained to the Rhythm and, aptly, for a six-bedroom when Slate Projects, who loved its £35 million. It would make elegant California Gurls, reportedly splashed home in Craven Hillll GETTY faded grandeur, turned the ballroom flats — or another glamorous hotel. out £14.8 million in an off-market deal Gardens, above. The white stucco for the five-bedroom, 5,500sq ft Bayswater townhouse was once an mansion, above and above right, in the annexe to The Hempel hotel. Coldwater Canyon complex, a celebrity Guests at the five-star boutique favourite. retreat included the Beckhams and Perry’s new place comes with an actress Chloë Sevigny, inset, while infinity pool set in designer outdoor the Zen garden was used for the final space. She bought from Cody Leibel, wedding scene in the 1999 hit movie, son of Canadian developer Lorne Notting Hill. Leibel. Cody stands to make a healthy The 8,353sq ft house was first sold profit, having paid £7.02 million in to Yiannis Misirlis, son-in-law of the 2007. Los Angeles-based Perry will President of Cyprus, who has been add the home to her collection — she investing heavily in central London also owns two Hollywood Hills property. He listed it with Hyde Park By Amira Hashish mansions. Agencies who secured the sale. It has a 118ft terrace and is the only O For more celebrity gossip, visit home on the square with access to Got some gossip? Tweet @amiranews homesandproperty.co.uk/gossip the private gardens there. A full GETTY restoration of the house is planned. Picture yourself in royal artist’s home É PRETTY as a picture, Bourne down-to-earth nature and revealed Mill Cottage, right, in Tonbridge, that he was on such comfortable Kent, is the former home of royal terms with the royals that the portrait artist Bernard Hailstone, Queen once asked him to adjust a left, who died in 1987. TV aerial so she could watch the The artist worked so quickly that horse racing while she sat for him Prince Charles once nicknamed at Buckingham Palace. him “the fastest brush”. His sitters Hailstone’s three-bedroom included Sir Winston Churchill, Georgian cottage was both his Hailstone having painted the last sanctuary and his studio. Tucked commissioned portrait of him in away in lovely gardens that feature 1955, the year Churchill resigned as a magnificent magnolia tree, the prime minister. Hailstone’s son, Grade II-listed home is on PA Donovan, praised his father’s Humberts’ books for £925,000. 6 WEDNESDAY 26 APRIL 2017 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | New homes homesandproperty.co.uk powered by ALAMY From £915,000: Paddington Exchange, 123 flats in high-rise Canalway Cavalcade: narrow boat fans gather at Paddington Paddington Cube: new offices and a blocks with communal roof terraces (020 3866 0934) Basin, near the junction of Regent’s/Grand Junction Canals restaurant near the station entrance Paddington shapes up nicely The promise of a 17-minute Crossrail commute to the City is bringing a new armada of buyers to the canalside neighbourhood around Paddington station, discovers David Spittles ROSSRAIL, launching next but still close to the West End and Hyde year, has triggered a second Park, and enjoys undeniably superb wave of regeneration in Pad- transport links.