Wednesday 17 September 2014 Wallpaper Homes& is back London Design Festival Property Page 30 FIRST-TIME BUYERS: NEW HOMES P6 OPEN HOUSE P18 SPLASHY BULBS: GARDENING P38 SPOTLIGHT ON KILBURN P42 Homes abroad: Scotland? Where to buy a castle: Page 10 London’s best property search website: homesandproperty.co.uk 4 WEDNESDAY 17 SEPTEMBER 2014 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property Online homesandproperty.co.uk with This week: homesandproperty.co.uk news: so many homes will need a new railway station Property Big future: City East will be part search of the Barking Riverside development, one of London’s Trophy buy of the week biggest it’s regeneration new — with old-world charm zones, with plans for 10,800 homes £4.75 million: seven-bedroom Heron Lodge is set in 12 acres of Berkshire, just outside the well-heeled village of CHANCELLOR George Osborne is expected approve plans Mortimer. 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O Visit homesandproperty.co.uk/luxury O Visit homesandproperty.co.uk/luxury Facebook: ESHomesAndProperty • Twitter: @HomesProperty • Pinterest: @HomesProperty EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 17 SEPTEMBER 2014 5 homesandproperty.co.uk with News Homes & Property Make yourself at home in Mirren’s kitchen. Magnifique! ÉHELEN MIRREN is on Michelin-starred French fine form in her latest film, restaurant run by Madame The Hundred-Foot Mallory, played by Mirren, Journey, which is in left. Now the film crew has cinemas across London. gone, work is under way to The culinary drama turn it into a residential showcases delicious country club and spa, with properties, including a free membership for all château in Tarn, south- owners of the 57 homes. west France, part of a The development development called La overlook vineyards and Durantie. On a 15-hectare miles of dense oak forest. estate, the belle époque- Prices start at £268,300. style house, right, was For more information, visit used as the set for the durantie.com. GETTY Too small for all Vote for Winnie those shoes, SJP? and buy a flat here ÉSARAH JESSICA PARKER, right, has É WINSTON CHURCHILL’S much- put her Greenwich Village townhouse loved family home, Chartwell in on the market. Could it be the wardrobe Sevenoaks, was the place where he is no longer big enough? drew inspiration, from when he The big, stylish, five-bedroom New and wife Clementine bought the York property, below, which she shares property in the Twenties until his with actor husband Matthew Broderick death in 1965. and their three children, was first put Ever a formidable presence in the up for sale by the couple in 2012, but Kent commuter town, the former By Amira Hashish they ended up taking it off the market. Tory PM was pictured peering out of Tweet @amiranews Now they have listed it again, but the Sevenoaks Constitutional Club Got some gossip? dropped the asking price to delivering an election speech to £13.6 million. They splashed out just constituents in 1950. These days, the under £11.7 million for the 6,800sq ft club houses five luxury apartments home three years ago, when the Sex by Vine Projects. Bond star’s £5m rumoured mill and the City actress deemed the walk-in A two-bedroom flat in the block, wardrobe roomy enough for her below, is for sale with Hamptons ÉDANIEL CRAIG and wife Rachel designer dresses and Manolo Blahniks. International at £499,950. It has a Weisz, right, were thought to be keen With the work of London-based Russian triple-aspect living room flooded to buy a former mill in Warwickshire. artist Nikolai Ishchuk currently with light, and the all-important gym. Word got out after the owner of adorning the walls, this is a chic space Blackdown Mill allegedly said an to suit budding Carrie Bradshaws. O See homesandproperty.co.uk/seven A-lister’s agent had approached him. The 18th-century house was being rented out for more than £800 a week but the owner would reportedly sell for £5 million-plus. Craig’s agent denies the Bond actor will be buying the place but if the film star couple have set their hearts on a mill, Seaton Mill in Lincolnshire is a conversion to an immaculate family home, on for £1.95 million with Humberts. O homesandproperty.co.uk/Seaton AP REX 6 WEDNESDAY 17 SEPTEMBER 2014 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property New homes homesandproperty.co.uk with First-time buyers take heart — there are rewards beyond Zone 1 Average house prices in London may have topped £500,000 but first-timers are seeking homes priced £250,000 to £400,000. David Spittles shows them where to look LMOST 80 per cent of hous- credit scoring is making it harder, while From £305,000: GET IN THE ZONE ing demand in London is even those who have parental help to affordable Served by four Tube lines, Wembley is for homes below £500 per put down a 10 per cent deposit typi- penthouses with one of the capital’s best-connected square foot. This roughly cally have to spend more than 70 per generous-size areas — less than 20 minutes from the equates to a price ceiling cent of their net income on mortgage roof terraces at West End— and also a fairly cheap Aof £250,000 for a decent-size one-bed- repayments. The Ridge, location, a combination that is often room property and £400,00 for a two- This is why shared ownership and St Mary Cray overlooked. bedroom home. Help to Buy are so popular. Not enough near Bromley Two-bedroom flats at Wembley Park, However, latest Land Registry data new homes at the right price are being a new 5,000-home district ringing the shows the average price of a home in built to ease the burden, but more famous stadium, cost from £420,000. the capital breaking through the developers are pushing into the This giant 85-acre development is the £500,000 barrier. This is a sobering cheaper Travel Zones 3 to 6 and buying size of Leicester Square, Trafalgar statistic for young Londoners trying to less expensive land for more affordable Square and Covent Garden com- get on the property ladder.