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London's Top 10 Hottest Areas in 2022

London's Top 10 Hottest Areas in 2022

Where to buy in 2022: focus your new year home hunt on the 10 areas surrounding London’s hottest high streets. Shops, restaurants, cafes... and house price growth. The London areas that savvy home buyers should get to know now

Here's everything we know so far about the delayed Crossrail launch

Here's everything we know so far about the delayed Crossrail launch

London’s Crossrail project is expected to launch in "summer 2021", the company revealed today. The high-speed train and Tube link will connect the outer western edges of the capital to the outer east. First to open will be the central section, between Paddington and Abbey Wood; with the other sections, from Reading and Heathrow in the west to Shenfield in the east, coming into service by mid-2022. 

Why everyone's talking about Peckham

Why everyone's talking about Peckham

A vibrant community has set up home in SE15 where fancy restaurants and vintage shops are among the many independent start-ups catering for an influx of new buyers who can pick up a home from £260,000. 

Everything you need to know about buying a home at auction this spring

Everything you need to know about buying a home at auction this spring

Over the next three months millions of pounds worth of London property will go under the hammer during the annual spring auction season.

With the Brexit shambles denting confidence and buy-to-let landlords squeezed out by higher taxes, buyers are facing less competition in the battle to secure the best homes in this year’s sales season.

ULEZ London: car clubs, bike hire and free taxis among incentives to encourage new homes buyers to go car free

ULEZ London: car clubs, bike hire and free taxis among incentives to encourage new homes buyers to go car free

London’s journey to becoming a car-free city is moving up a gear. On Monday the new Ultra-Low Emission Zone will be introduced by Mayor Sadiq Khan who also wants more central London streets pedestrianised and a ban on car parking spaces at new London homes and office blocks.

Price gap between asking and sold prices across the capital reaches £27k

Sellers are “shooting themselves in the foot” by not lowering their price expectations as London establishes itself as a buyers’ market, according to Rightmove's latest house price report.

Is running an Airbnb in London more hassle than it's worth?

A chap in my office is going on a three-week business trip next month, so he decides he will let his one-bedroom flat in a trendy part of south London via Airbnb. But he is appalled that its automated pricing system suggests he charges a nightly rate of just £27.