HIGHBURY VILLAGE LONDON

RENOWNED FOR ITS CREATIVE COMMUNITY, LAIDBACK CAFE CULTURE, TRANSPORT LINKS AND ABUNDANCE OF BEAUTIFUL FAMILY HOMES, THIS NORTH LONDON ENCLAVE'S PROPERTY MARKET IS AS HOT AS EVER

You don’t have to be a Gunners fan to live in Highbury, but it certainly helps. On match days, streams of supporters in Arsenal’s signature red and white head down to the Emirates stadium. While the team enjoys its return to form at the top of the Premier League this season, so too is Highbury riding high.

“The market in Highbury and the immediate surrounding area continues to run hot,” says Grant Bates, head of prime London at Hamptons. On quiet residential streets, you’ll find handsome family homes renovated to exacting standards. “The beautiful period properties that the area has to o er together with the size of property available for the family market means the market is both strong and resilient,” says Bates. “There’s also an appetite for turn-key homes, these are ready-to-live-in properties where no structural or aesthetic work is required. Much of this part of town is blessed with beautifully renovated homes as the younger generations have moved in over the last decade or so, and extensively renovated the homes to fit with their style.”

People who move here tend to want to stay. There's a village feel, yet you’re very well connnected: Highbury & Islington station is on the Victoria Line, with overland services to Canada Water to the East and Clapham and Richmond to the West. Many residents work in the media, from film directors to well-known authors, as well as in the City. “The borough has a young and creative feel, but is also popular among financiers and lawyers, largely for its good connectivity to the City, as well as having a number of good restaurants, bars and shops,” says Dan Fox, head of sales in Savills Islington.