Hot properties: rounding up the week in north London property

Features like this fireplace and floor-to-ceiling windows give the house an edge on the competition (Image: Archant)

Big buy

In the heart of Hampstead £7,250,000 isn’t your biggest buy – in fact it’s a fairly shrug-offable figure in an area that’s used to eight-figure asking prices. But let’s not pretend it’s cheap. So what do you get for that money?

Features like this fireplace and floor-to-ceiling windows give the house an edge on the competition (Image: Archant)

A neo-Georgian, grade II-listed property built by Primrose Hill-born architect Horace Field (who designed swathes of late-Victorian Hampstead) in 1893 in a gated enclave of family houses with huge communal gardens as well as a smaller private one, a two-storey orangery extension, large kitchen/dining room, five bedrooms, off-street parking and a garage, not to mention some stonking interior décor.

Features like this fireplace and floor-to-ceiling windows give the house an edge on the competition (Image: Archant)

Marcus Parfitt, 020 7431 0000

First time buyer

What price this view? A mere �600,000 (within budget for a Help to Buy London government loan) (Image: Archant)

Think first time buyers can’t dream of buying into Hampstead’s famous hilltop London skyline views? Think again. Sure, this one-bedroom house is at the top end of the first time buyer spectrum, but at £600,000 it is still – just – eligible for the Help to Buy London government mortgage guarantee, so long as you can muster up a mortgage on £570,000.

What price this view? A mere �600,000 (within budget for a Help to Buy London government loan) (Image: Archant)

And slummy first home this ain’t: on the fifth floor of a portered Belsize Park block with a fitted kitchen, sparkling bathroom and fitted wardrobes in the bedroom, not forgetting that view, this is a hot buy for any first timers.

C. H. Peppiatt, 020 7449 9222

Fixer upper

Milton Road, Benham & Reeves (Image: Piotr Gozdek)

Anyone dying to find somewhere to put their own personal stamp on won’t want to pull out a newly installed kitchen/laminate floor/bathroom suite, even if it’s not to their taste so this completely unmodernised terraced property in Highgate is the perfect find.

Milton Road, Benham & Reeves (Image: Piotr Gozdek)

Backing on to the Parkland Walk, the four-bedroom Milton Park house comes with potential to extend and is packed with original Edwardian features, ripe for restoration by a new owner. And £1.2million for a house of this size in Highgate should leave a little wiggle room in the budget for any improvements desired.

Benham & Reeves, 020-8348 2341

Rental

This Highgate one-bed would be a dream for a professional couple – it’s near the tube and recently refurbished with attractive wooden floors and a clean and stylish modern kitchen and shower room and it’s unfurnished so you can bring your own bed!

Light and clean, this Highgate flat is a great rental option (Image: Archant)

It’s on the top floor of an Edwardian house so is light and bright and at £360 per week (£1,560 per month) is reasonable value. Available from August 6.

The one-bedroom flat is on the top floor of this Edwardian house on Milton Park, N6 (Image: Archant)

Taylor Gibbs, 020 8341 0123