Hill hires London Square‘s sales & marketing chief

Marquee Goddard Littlefair-designed residence at Belvedere Gardens has two master suites and a huge terrace overlooking some of the capital's most famous landmarks

London's average £1m home is only a third (36%) bigger than the overall average-sized home in the capital, says Savills. Buyers would get an average of 70% more space if they looked beyond the M25.

London has seen "a normalisation of single-storey basements as the 21st-century version of the loft conversion," says Professor Burrows in a new study of the capital's "luxified troglodytism".