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Wednesday 24 August 2016 Weave in Homes& a new way Design trends Property Page 12 FIRST-TIME BUYERS LEAVE LONDON P8 EALING P10 HOMES: SUPER-RICH SECRETS: P16 SPOTLIGHT ON BRIGHTON P28 Keep the Olympic torch burning Thousands of new London homes for sports lovers Page 6 GETTY London’s best property search news: homesandproperty.co.uk 4 WEDNESDAY 24 AUGUST 2016 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | News stop press: , GETTY Happy days: tenants are in a position to haggle over price Trophy home of the week get your tan in Ealing with four sun terraces £2,799,950: the Dickens Yard opens to a huge decked terrace. development is transforming Ealing Plush living/dining areas, a bespoke Rents fall as with new piazzas to encourage kitchen, and heated marble walls markets and street theatre, jazz and floors in the three bathrooms cafés, restaurants, boutiques and are among extravagant treats. sleek new homes like this three- Hotel-style extras include 24-hour homes to let bedroom penthouse on the ninth concierge, underground parking and and 10th floors of Vista a residents’ spa and fitness suite. Lifechanger of the week Apartments. Completion date is 2018. Contact It has four sun terraces plus a developer St George (020 8012 flood market holiday barns for Tudor buffs fabulous rooftop sun room that 0712). £1 million: this double-fronted ENTS are falling 8,800 to 14,000, was partly village house in Haslingfield, for the first time due to the stamp duty rise on Cambridgeshire, presents an London buy of the week light, airy since the 2008 buy-to-let homes, which attractive package should you wish warehouse flat for Thames beach baby financial crash, came into force in April. to run a B&B or convert its large giving tenants Would-be landlords rushed barn and charming chapel into £500,000: Odessa Rmore choice and the chance their purchases through to holiday lets. Wharf in SE16, an early to haggle. beat the deadline, resulting The house itself has five 19th-century grain New figures from agents in the short-term influx. bedrooms, four reception rooms store/warehouse Countrywide show the aver- Nik Madan, group lettings with open fires and bay windows, conversion, faces “the age paid for a newly let home development director of and a mass of family space in a beach” on the Thames, in London fell last month, to Connells and president of the generous kitchen/breakfast room with striking views to £1,280 a month — but rents Association of Residential with lovely old brick floors. A Canary Wharf and of are still far too high in rela- Letting Agents, believes garden room enjoys views over lush London’s riverside tion to young workers’ pay. Brexit is also playing a part, lawns with colourful borders, and landmarks, easily The fall was triggered by a with owners deciding to rent there’s a large sun terrace — reached via river taxi. flood of new rental homes to homes out rather than sell, perfect for summer barbecues. The lofty layout of the market, with 33 per cent until the sales market stabi- Tudor buffs might love that this flat within includes more properties to let in the lises and house prices rise. Haslingfield was favoured by a 19ft reception/ capital last month than there More “build to rent” devel- Elizabeth I in 1538 when she stayed dining/kitchen area, all generous bedroom and living area for taking were 12 months before, sub- opments are also springing the night at the manor and lost a light and airy thanks to bathroom, concierge, the air over a relaxing stantially improving tenants’ up. “Landlords are accepting valuable ring in the moat. Ring white walls, wood and a huge communal after-work drink. It’s options. This increase in offers,” says Madan. “It’s a hunts still take place to this day. By Faye floors and glass doors roof terrace complete for sale with Savills available properties, from great time to rent.” Through Cheffins (01223 787058). Greenslade to a balcony. There’s a with a kitchen and (020 8012 3123). O Find Ruth Bloomfield’s full story at homesandproperty.co.uk Facebook: ESHomesAndProperty • Twitter: @HomesProperty • Pinterest: @HomesProperty Editor: 2,000-ticket giveaway Janice Morley Homebuilding & Renovating Show at ExCeL VISIT homesandproperty.co.uk/ READY to tackle that long-awaited rules for details of our usual extension project? Or do you want to promotion rules. When you respond build a sustainable new home from to promotions, offers or scratch? 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Homes & Property, Northcliffe House, 2 Derry Street, Kensington, TO ENTER London W8 5TT. For your chance of a free pair of tickets to the Homebuilding & Renovating Show at ExCeL London, visit standard.co.uk/offers before 3pm on September 22. EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 24 AUGUST 2016 5 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by News | Homes & Property Keep up with Kylie Kardashian It’s heaven to be near Nigella É ANOTHER couple of May. She plans to É THE former home of married. Luxe-modern months, another luxury turn the new house wartime Tory PM Neville interiors, above, lie behind home for reality TV’s into a base for her Chamberlain is for sale. the period façade of the Kardashian clan. Youngest Kylie Cosmetics The three-bedroom blue plaque flat, with a sister Kylie Jenner, 19, right, business. She also owns a penthouse in sought-after “heaven-themed” master REX has bought a £3.4 million place in Calabasas, LA, Eaton Square, Belgravia, suite, a contemporary house, above, in four acres close to other Keeping Up neighbours the property kitchen, terrace and It’s no joke as Mr Bean in Hidden Hills, California, with the Kardashians stars, where Nigella Lawson, balconies. It’s £6.95 million next to the £4.5 million but put it up for sale for left, and Charles Saatchi through Sotheby’s drops his price again home she bought there in £2.9 million in June. REX REX lived when they were International Realty. Homes gossip É ROWAN ATKINSON has dropped Byy Amira Hashish the asking price of his Oxfordshire Got some gossip? home again. The star of Mr Bean and Tweet @amiranews Blackadder, top, listed the charming property in Waterperry village for £2.9 million more than a year ago. No half-baked offers please It failed to shift, so he dropped the É THE wait is over for fans above, and the property price by £250,000 in June. However, of The Great British Bake featured recently on BBC2’s it’s now down to £2,425,000 with Off. The new series starts The Mary Berry Story. Carter Jonas. The Grade II-listed, five- tonight, when judges Mary The 3,455sq ft, six- bedroom property, above, dates back Berry, left, and Paul bedroom home has a to 1777 and is set in six acres including Hollywood will no doubt be dining room where Berry a stretch along the Thames. whipping the new served 1,000 dinners, a The comic actor renovated the contestants into shape. coach house in the grounds house, adding a fitness complex with Aficionados will be keen to with garage, workshop, an indoor swimming pool. There is know that Berry’s old family store and tack room, and a also a tennis court and four-bay home in the village of Penn, self-contained first-floor garage — essential for a motoring Buckinghamshire, is on the annexe. It’s about an hour’s enthusiast such as Atkinson. market. Much of her early drive from central London, TV work was filmed in the and it’s for sale with Savills O For more celebrity gossip, visit kitchen at The Red House, for £3 million. homesandproperty.co.uk/gossip (940)< 0-:-2+ F] 320= 3* 8,-7 %4%681)28 8=4) %:%-0%&0) '+2 7+ :$' '$)2 9 ) )1> "1 %:27 3 ($):72 <> (!$) '1! +-) -') :-'= +;1 9 1! +-) -') :-'= ,,8 20 7 27+1>2 <$7" 8 1++(2 ) !)1+:2 7:1 $'$)! "$!"7 7+ !1+:) ++1 '$)! "$!"7 7+ >+:1 '$;$)! 2-/ :($1 ++ 27+1! :72$ 711 :-'= $2 +) ;1! , . 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