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Succession: inside the Roy family’s real estate portfolio

Kendall and Roman’s luxury New York apartments on opposite sides of Central Park are currently for sale for £23.3m and £30.6m respectively.

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Very rare full Knightsbridge house with underground mews link for sale

The property, on a street once inhabited by Michael Caine and Ava Gardner, hides a huge revamped home with basement pool and cinema - plus internal links to a terraced property on a different street

Celebrity homes

All the King’s homes — from Clarence House to cottages in Transylvania

It’s not all fairy-tale castles — the King’s property portfolio includes a farmhouse in Wales and cottages in Transylvania

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Luxury homes on the cusp of recovery as sales in outer London slump

House price growth in central London may overtake the outer boroughs for the first time in almost 10 years

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Blank canvas flat in former MI6 headquarters is for sale for £4.85m

Residents of Whitehall Court have included former Prime Minister William Gladstone and the spy chief that inspired a James Bond icon

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Public could lose access to Mayfair icon in planning reversal

The hoteliers are set to withdrawn an offer to allow public access to the 7th floor of the Eero Saarinen-designed Mayfair landmark

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Kosovo buys Spike Milligan’s former Hyde Park mansion for £6.5m

The Goon Show, Thunderbirds and Dr Who and the Daleks were all produced at the Hyde Park mansion

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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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Ornate but ‘unfinished’ London home sees price reduced by £150,000

The former coach house between Clapham and Wandsworth commons is not a project for the faint-hearted.

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Are pastels past it? Notting Hill embraces trend for black exteriors

Residents of this well-heeled west London neighbourhood are ditching picture-postcard pastels

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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

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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.

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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

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Ski in winter, hike in summer and watch house prices rise year round

Aspen is a popular year-round investment for United States buyers, but the mountain town has global appeal thanks to beautiful scenery — and booming property sales

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Former Arsenal co-owner’s Mayfair house for sale for £11.95m

The mews property features a cinema room where the football fanatic used to watch games

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Gothic clocktower home near Hastings goes on sale for £2.5 million

Once the official timepiece of St Leonards-on-Sea, The Clock House is now an opulent family home.

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£110m mansion for sale on Rihanna and Robbie Williams’ former street

The property features a triple-height swimming pool room and an underground art gallery

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‘Breathtaking’ Roman-inspired Grand Designs house for sale for £5.95m

Abbey Orchard House, half a mile from the centre of St Albans, appeared on Grand Designs in 2017. It took 10 years to build — and now, it’s for sale.

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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Is this unfinished £60m penthouse London’s most expensive home?

A 57-home development in Queensway will have three trophy penthouses, one of which is for sale with a price tag of £60 million.