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Victory place was built in 1996 by St George PLC. This secure gated development consists of several different blocks, including Osprey House, Gainsborough House, Oriana House, Imperial House, Hamilton House, Drake House, Fleet House, Challenger House, Conrad House and Forrester house. The various blocks are made up of one, two and three bedroom flats that surround a central car park and garden area. Although most of the flats include covered parking, which is located underneath each block. There is also a three bedroom penthouse in Drake house, that has panoramic views across the basin and out towards the River Thames. VICTORY PLACE , BASIN APPROACH

The homes which are free from taxes have been dramatically returned for London. It was disappeared virtually because of the increasing booms for properties. Everybody knows the fact there is a huge dip in markets. There was increase of stamp duties previous year. This was a resultant of an amazing offer given due to recession for the first time buyers. The offer was that they were free from the Gordon Brown bills which seemed to be a great burden for most of the new house owners. There has been a huge increase in offering of the houses which down with the threshold in the capital. Especially it was at that time when government decided to raise the cost under the influence of the survey.

There were only few tiny flats which were offered south and eastern part of the London for cheap rates and mainly free from all kinds of taxes. It has took a drastic change as now there are some more available. Any property which has been purchased at a difference of 1% from the threshold will gain you some good amount. The agents criticized that it is not such a big revival and there are all chances to improvise it. The vendors have been very much encouraged by the high thresholds. The encouragement was regarding the reducing possibilities of the price levels such that it seems more realistic. They all come at that times when the reports suggested by the agents at the buyers stalk levels is at the peak. The property market of London especially has faced a great problem of great dip in biddings.

One of the survey recommended by a well known property finders offered online named as Globrix was successful to find a large number of duty properties which are not stamped in Corydon. The properties counted up to 639 in numbers. The boroughs which seemed to be most expensive in Chelsea and Kensington are a single studio which is located at Gloucester Road. It has a single flat and it is less than the threshold level of the stamp duties. There are about five spotted in Westminster. The place where property has been offered for a lowest price is recorded as Dagenham and Barking and Newham. Te magnet for the prices of your house is nothing but is nothing but the higher thresholds as they help you by pulling them down such that it seems realistic.

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The name relates to the local lime kilns located by the river and operated by the large potteries that served shipping in the London docks[1]. The earliest reference to Les Lymhostes occurs in 1356[2]. From its foundation, Limehouse, like neighbouring Wapping, has enjoyed better links with the river than the land, the land route being across a marsh. Limehouse became a significant port in late medieval times, with extensive docks and wharves. Although most cargoes were discharged in the Pool of London before the establishment of the docks, industries such as ship building, ship chandlering and rope making were established in Limehouse.

Limehouse Basin

Bethnal Green is an area in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, in the East End of London. Bethnal Green is situated in 5.3 km (3.3 miles) north east of the Charing Cross. During the 19th century, this place was characterized by market gardens and also by many silk – weaving traders. This was also a place of gardens and large houses. In the end of 19th century, this place was also one of the slums in the London. The operator of Bethel Green was “Jack the Ripper”.
In the year 1900, the “Old Nichol Street Rookery” was destroyed, and in the same site they started a “Boundary Estate”, near by boundary with Shore ditch. This building was also known as the first council housing in the world, and brothers Bernard Delfont and Lew Grade were brought up in this place.

In 1943, the Bethnal tube station which was not opened was a site of wartime disaster. Lots of families and people crowded in this underground tube station to escape from the German bombing. Even tough the sound of the bomb explosions started the panic and one hundred and seventy three people was crushed and died in this incident. The news of the death of these people was not released as it will damage the wartime morale.

During the 1960s, “Kray twins” who were famous gangsters lived in this place, but by the starting of the 21st century, this place started to undergo a route of gentrification.

Most of the famous sketches of Lou and Andy in the Little Britain are also filmed in “Bethnal Green’. This place is also famous for staple cheap London mash, meal and pie with jellied eels. The Kelly’s shop which was located in Bethel Green Road was famous for mash and pie. They also have 2 outlets in this area.

Bethel Green is also well – known for street market on “Roman Road”. This market is specialized for fashion. The seventh model of “Lara Croft” (Karima Adebibe) lives in this place with her family. In the videogame of Lara Croft the Bethnal Getaway is showed as a hub of cockney gangster activity.

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Out of the many residential districts of London, Bloomsbury is famous for its awesome beauty and architecture. Loaded with all the latest amenities, Bloomsbury is the perfect place for to experience a comfortable living. Everyone is surprised to see this district of London which offers countless options to people wanting to invest here.

From the investment point of view, Bloomsbury is a delight for its high-rise mansions and residential buildings. You can rest assured of good returns of your investments in Bloomsbury. If you want your own home or want to invest in Bloomsbury, then your investments are definitely safe because Bloomsbury District guarantees you good profits on your money. The market value of the property here has never gone down . More information about  , please check here for property in Bloomsbury

KNARESBOROUGH ROAD, HARROGATE, YORKSHIRE

20 flats (13 sold to Housing Association). Therefore 7 flats producing a total ground rent income of £1,750 per annum.
Leases : 125 years with ground rents doubling every 25 years.

Freeholder has the benefit of management and insurance.

.Price: £30,650 subject to Section 5 Notices and subject to contract

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The second phase of a superb refurbishment of London’s Smithfield meat market, which brings back to life all its colour and technical exuberance and keeps a leading UK market in the heart of the capital, is now underway.

The original market was completed in 1868 to the design of the City Corporation’s architect, Sir Horace Jones, who was also responsible for Leadenhall Market and Tower bridge. Since that time the internal arrangement has remained unaltered. work on Phase I (East Market) of the refurbishment project began in 1992 and was completed early in 1996 at a cost of £30 million.

The restored Victorian frame encases the most up-to-date meat market in Europe. After nearly 130 years the cast iron gaters were found to have 17 layers of paint. These were all removed, the iron repaired where necessary, and re-painting carried out in a contemporary palette of viridian, magenta and violet, with some gold embellishment.

Contemporary glass and steel have been introduced in the modernisation. This was partly to meet the requirements for unimpeded views, for example along Buyers’ walk and, partly to enable the canopies to provide transparent protection for personnel and produce during loading and unloading. The new market is almost an operating theatre in its cleanliness.

A parade of traditional scarlet telephone boxes lines Grand Avenue, the central thoroughfare. In the middle, the market’s centrepiece a large four faced clock of 1870 hangs from the roof after being thoroughly restored and restarted in 1995.

Smithfield began centuries ago as a market for live animals on a field outside the City Wall. Ultimately there came the Metropolitan Meat and Poultry Market Act 1860 after which the livestock market, and slaughterhouse were exiled to Islington and Jones started building.

The basement was originally built as a reception area for meat. Converting this to car parking will shortly allow it to accommodate about 700 vehicles.

The BSE scare has seen Smithfield provide a better market in game and specialist poultry. Smithfield handles about 100,000 tonnes of meat a year, 8% of the national tonnage, although this is way down from the peak 500,000 tonnes in the 1960′s.

Trading starts at 4am and is mostly over by 9am. the pubs and cafe’s also open at 4am with the Hope, the Fox and Anchor and Ferrari’s being long–time favourites of the corporate breakfast set.

During the day the market acts as a focal point for many of the City’s and Clerkenwell’s new residents, with restaurants and brasseries such as Mustards, Dome, Café du Marche, Abbaye, Rudland & Studds Oyster Bar and the well thought-of Smithfield Tandoori.

Should the market one day close, its passing would be greatly mourned by Londoners who appreciate its unique atmosphere. A much vaunted Covent Garden-style redevelopment is, at this stage, unlikely given the considerable grant aid that is currently being used to create modern temperature- controlled enclosed shops for the traders to work from.

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Knightsbridge is a street, which goes along the south part of the Hyde Park, west from the Hyde Park Corner, in the City of the Westminster, to the Rutland Gate, where the path becomes the Kensington Road. The name Knightsbridge is comes from the Knightsbridge station and the area around it. And all these lie to the west part of the central London Property. To Brompton Road, the way forms separately from the A4 arterial road and beyond that it becomes A315.The place is well known for its financial wealth, educational institutions and cultural. Knightsbridge is residence to several of the world’s wealthiest and richest people. Knightsbridge has a few of the top London property rates in the world.
Fourteen of the top two hundred most luxurious and expensive streets in the Britain are in the zip code SW1Y or SW1X. Knightsbridge is luxuriant; especially the places at the central part of the London, with apartment buildings and houses situated around big private gardens. It is also nearby to the Inner London’s major public Park in Hyde Park.
In the year 2006, a 4 bedroom apartment in the Knightsbridge Street sold out for over 25,000,000 pounds, and the car parking spaces in Hans Crescent sell for over 300,000 pounds on a ninety four year lease. In February 2007, an apartment at the One Hyde Park was sold out for 100,000,000 pounds, which is considered as the most expensive apartment in the world. The growth is valued over of 4,000 pounds per square foot.

Knightsbridge is mainly made up of sternly controlled Conservation Areas and development land is hard to get or find. Most of these sites and properties are provided by the developers are renovated houses and flats. Several of these now have big basement accommodating, extensions and eclectic range of facilities. The main landowners in this area are the Earl Cadogan and Duke of Westminster. The two places of the aristocratic landholdings could be differentiated visually, on the Cadogan Estates most of the Queen Anne Revival buildings are build with red brick where as the on the Grosvenor Estate , there are white stucco fronted residences mostly found.

Now the world’s most important financial centre, the tight knit network of medieval streets known as the Square Mile, once housed not only all the City’s commercial ventures but also London’s entire population.

As London expanded, especially from the early eighteenth century, the City became increasingly commercial. In 1901 the residential population was 30,000 but by 1990 it had declined to a low of 4,500 mainly housed at the Barbican.

The table below shows that by the Millennium this number is predicted to have increased by as much as 80% as the City once again establishes itself as a noteworthy residential address.

With the shortage of development sites in London’s more established residential areas, but a plethora of too-small and outdated commercial buildings in the centre (especially 60s & 70s office blocks) it is perhaps surprising that developers have taken so long to recognise the potential of the City as a place where people want to live.

The combination of 1990′s working hours and the strains of commuting on an historically under-funded transport system have persuaded increasing numbers of professional and business high-flyers to look for homes close to their work where they can enjoy all the amenities of a metropolitan environment.

One of the first residential developments was at Little Britain. House builder, St George created 143 new homes London (some behind an original facade) whilst retaining the oak-panelling architraves and staircases of the original buildings.

Berkeley Homes are creating 150 homes in Ludgate Hill, Bunhill Row, Monument, Carthusian Street, Fleet Street and Trinity Square. Barratts have sold 224 new homes in Aldersgate Street, Pemberton Row and Globe View, Upper Thames Street.

All these homes, though new are located in areas steeped in history and residents can enjoy not only the comfort of high specification finishes and original features but also the social and leisure facilities the city can now offer, including the Barbican Arts Centre, excellent health clubs and superb restaurants and bars.

Shopping is also easy. The new Marks & Spencer in Moorgate is open at the weekend, there is Tesco Metro at Cheapside, Safeway at the Barbican and clusters of stores around Leadenhall Market, Cheapside, Liverpool Street and Fleet Street, all opening longer hours to serve the growing population.

Thus today’s City is much more than the financial centre. The quality of life now attainable places it firmly among the finest places to live in London.