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Jonathan BramwellWelcome to the millionaire zones. Are you a millionaire yet? Give it another 14 years. As house prices continue to rise, the number of UK homes worth £1 million or more is expected to more than triple by 2030, according to a report by Santander Mortgages, making one in four London homeowners into property millionaires.…
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Philip EastwoodWhy buyers in London’s Clapham are staying put. As prices soar, the district is no longer just a stepping stone to country life — it’s a place to put down permanent roots. When the author John Lanchester was writing Capital, his 2012 novel about London’s spiralling property market, he chose to set it in Clapham…
Read more Philip EastwoodCentral London mews houses’ rising value. Central London mews houses are now at the top of the prime property shopping list, thanks to their villagey feel, sense of privacy, lack of redevelopment restrictions and skyrocketing value. The most expensive mews house ever to be sold in London fetched £24m – a sum that would have…
Read more Jonathan BramwellBuy-to-let: four ways to beat the stamp duty rises. Panicked would-be landlords fear not, is still possible to avoid the 3 per cent rise in stamp duty set to hit this spring — but you’d better be quick. Chancellor George Osborne’s sudden three per cent hike in stamp duty on second homes and buy-to-let investments has caused panic…
Read more Philip EastwoodThe impact of ‘buy to leave’ on prime London’s housing market. Fears are growing about the number of homes being bought by investors and left empty — but what can be done to stop it? Should we be morally outraged by the phenomenon called “buy to leave” or should we dismiss it as a tiny…
Read more Philip EastwoodThe lowdown: Earls Court redevelopment. One of the biggest regeneration projects in west London since the Second World War is under way. Arabella Youens asks the experts whether now is the time to invest… Earls Court has remained a bit of an anomaly on London’s residential map given that it’s sandwiched between some of the…
Read more Jonathan BramwellWinchester: the ‘village city’. For Londoners anxious about abandoning pavements—and big-name restaurants—altogether, a move to Winchester is considered by some to be the perfect stepping stone to life in the country. Chefs Rick Stein and Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall both have outposts in the city and, between the college and cathedral, many of the historic buildings…
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