- "Imaginative", "clever" and "economical"
were words being used by estate agents yesterday to describe one new home
on the property market.
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- However "room", "swing" and "cat"
were more likely to spring to the minds of buyers visiting one of the smallest
flats in London.
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- An apartment taking up little more space than a full-size
snooker table, but situated close to Harrods in Knightsbridge, has been
put on the market for £125,000. The studio flat, located on the sixth
floor of Prince's Court on Brompton Road, measures 11ft by 6ft.
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- Reassuringly, it has been "completely modernised
in a clever minimalist style", according to the estate agents Stern
Studios.
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- Features include a fitted wardrobe, chrome storage shelves
for a microwave and a television as well as a white-tiled shower room.
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- At an estimated £2,000 per square foot, its views
over "the historic Regency Trevor Square" at least partially
compensate for the lack of space.
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- Service charges for the flat, described by the agents
as a "quiet, light, secure and really economical bolt-hole",
will cost an estimated £1,324 a year.
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- While the estate agents warn prospective buyers that
its dimensions are little more than "tiny", its prime location
amid the boutiques and mansion blocks of Knightsbridge "and just a
300 yard stroll from Hyde Park" has ensured interest in the property.
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- The current owner, who did not want to comment on the
property, is believed to have bought the flat last September for just £58,000.
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- The price tag is part of the legacy of the Eighties property
boom when a string of cupboards were extravagantly transformed into "luxury"
studios at central London mansion blocks. In 1987, a converted broom cupboard
at the same block, measuring little more than the flat currently on sale,
sold for £36,500.
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