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<p>The townhouse is one of 12 garden-facing freehold houses on Eaton Square</p>
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Belgravia former home of Greek Royal family listed for £39.5 million

The palatial Eaton Square townhouse was once home to Prince Philip’s cousin, Princess Katherine of Greece, who lived in London as Lady Katherine Brandram

<p>The Holme covers 29,000 square feet</p>
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Britain’s most expensive house for sale for £250 million

The Holme in Regent’s Park has been put on the market for £250 million, and could become the most expensive property ever sold in the UK.

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Controversial semi-subterranean Kensington house for sale for £44m

Conspicuous among its stucco-fronted neighbours, this ultra-modern home received a cool reception from locals when it was built 15 years ago

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Vanishing pools and car vitrines: what £40k-a-week rents you in London

Inside London’s ultra high-end rental market, where the very best homes can cost more than you earn in a year — and there seems to be no ceiling

Renting

Is this London’s swankiest flatshare? Room advertised for £3,800pcm

“This ad is definitely one of the more expensive flatshare set ups we’ve ever seen,” said a spokesperson from SpareRoom.

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Wizards, helipads and panic rooms: what super rich homebuyers want now

No request is too big or too strange when it comes to the ultra-rich. We talk to agents who find the homes with it all

Celebrity homes

Listed Bloomsbury townhouse featured in Cruella on sale for £2.35m

The perfect house for cinephiles? The original shop fronts of Duke’s Road have been “magically transformed” for films starring Eddie Redmayne, Paloma Faith and Bill Nighy, amongst others.

Property News

Revealed: the UK’s 10 most expensive streets to buy a home in 2022

Two of the top three most expensive streets in the UK are A-list addresses either side of Holland Park in west London

Luxury

Evelyn Waugh’s country mansion sells for £3.16m at auction

The property’s current tenants have refused to leave the property or allow estate agents and prospective buyers in.

Luxury

Berry Bros & Rudd rental homes come with access to ‘wine concierge’

Fancy living next door to the ultimate offie? These sustainably refurbished apartments come with their own wine concierge

Celebrity homes

The luxury property portfolio of Rishi Sunak, Britain’s richest PM

The new Prime Minster owns a string of luxury properties from a Pacific-facing penthouse in Santa Monica, to a rambling Georgian manor in North Yorkshire

Luxury

London mega mansions for sale with a price tag of £10m or more

A stumbling pound is likely to spell renewed interest for the luxury market from overseas buyers

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Empty site at foot of Barbican tower block for sale for £3.5m

A rare opportunity has come up to stamp your authority on a long-vacant, soaring Barbican space

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UK’s first modernist house in London commuter belt for sale for £3m

High and Over was built by the architect Amyas Connell for his professor Bernard Ashmole between 1929 and 1931.

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£210m mega-mansion on market as falling pound sparks global interest

Overlooking Hyde Park, the mega-mansion includes 20 bedrooms, many with double bathrooms, and an Olympic-sized swimming pool

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London’s oldest power station roars back to life with 260 homes

Lots Road Power Station, which once powered the Underground network, is relaunching as a Chelsea address

Luxury

As luxe would have it: Ultra high-end new homes across London

The Evening Standard New Homes Awards also celebrates the top end of the market, where the bar is being raised higher and higher.

Property News

Historic station master’s house on the Sandringham Estate is for sale

Two miles from Sandringham, Station House is beside a railway station used by the royal family until the late 1960s

Property News

Rare ‘working’ windmill and cottage listed for sale in Buckinghamshire

The windmill’s former owners include writer Gilbert Cannan and his wife Mary who had close ties to the Bloomsbury Group.

Luxury

From mansions to one-beds: what £1m buys in every London borough

The number of property millionaires has almost doubled in a decade. Here’s what £1m will get you in every London borough, from tiny flats to acres of space

Luxury

Design hotspot: The Laslett hotel is London’s chicest ‘home from home’

Whether it’s for a speedy morning meeting or a Carnival brunch blow-out, The Laslett Hotel’s new terrace is a hidden gem. And the rooms are worth checking out, too.

Celebrity homes

Inside Petra Ecclestone’s £170 million home in Chelsea

F1 heiress Petra Ecclestone and her new husband Sam Palmer created a walk-through video of their £170m Chelsea home when it first went up for sale last year.

Luxury

Mega-mansion boom: sales of £5 million plus homes smash records

Almost £3 billion was spent on £5 million-plus properties in the first half of 2022 as prime central London retains reputation as a ‘safe haven’ for foreign buyers

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“Extraordinary” lighthouse on ‘saddest ever’ Grand Designs on sale

After a tumultuous 10-year build, “spectacular” Chesil Cliff House is finally on sale.

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Inside Mayfair’s ‘House of Gucci’ listed for sale as £55m private home

Tom Ford was at the Gucci helm during the fashion brand’s years in Grafton Street, with fashion royalty among guests to his first-floor creative space

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Commuter belt vineyards sell for record prices

The epicentre of the English wine industry is within a few hours of London and it’s growing fast

Celebrity homes

Johnny Depp and Amber Heard’s former LA home is for sale for £1.42m

The one-bedroom apartment is located inside the historic Eastern Columbia Building, where Depp once owned five penthouses.

Property News

Three metre-wide skinny house in Hackney on sale for £1.3 million

This converted coach house is priced more than double the London average per square foot

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Terrace opposite ‘blue-door’ Notting Hill house to become luxury flats

Seven high-end apartments and a row of boutique shops will take the place of Nu-line Builders Merchants on Westbourne Park Road

Property News

True scale of Russian-owned London property far greater than recorded

New analysis into offshore data shows there are 1,895 Russian-owned properties in London, over three times higher than official records show

Property News

Rare flat for sale in Earls Court mansion where Princess Diana lived

The £3.15 million apartment in Coleherne Court is available for the first time in 30 years.

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BBC’s The Apprentice mansion in Hampstead for sale for £16.5 million

The Victorian home is on the market for £16.5 million.

Property News

Inside the largest home in the Barbican — for sale for £4.5 million

The street-level home was once the management office for the 1960’s housing estate. Now, it’s for sale for a cool £4.5 million.

Property News

Art dealer Ivor Braka to swap gallery home for £60m mansion project

The maverick art collector is swapping his Cadogan Square home of 30 years for a Grade II- listed mansion across the road.

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From Barking to Barnet the most expensive megamansions in each borough

From a £54 million Mayfair mansion with a “dirty kitchen” to a penthouse in Battersea Power Station, here are the most expensive homes in each London borough

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9-bed stately home for sale for £450k — but it has no roof or windows

The seventeenth-century house became a nightclub believed to have been frequented by the Kray twins

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‘Forgotten castle’ behind William and Kate’s rumoured London departure

If the rumours are true the Duke and Duchess will be the latest young royal family to move to Windsor