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Chester Square, Estate of the Day

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You probably won't need to worry about security if you buy today's home in London's posh Belgravia area. Homes and Property UK reports that Savills is selling this six-bedroom Grade II-listed Belgravia mansion where the owner will be neighbors with former PM Baroness Margaret Thatcher. Thatcher has recently been in the news after it was announced that Meryl Streep will be playing her in an upcoming movie.

The white stucco home has five stories, six bedrooms and an adjoining integrated mews house which provides a library, double garage, potential media room and a large roof terrace. This home is listed at £13.95 million.

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Dannii Minogue Drops The Price On Her London Apartment

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Dannii Minogue, the Australian singer/actress and sister of singer Kylie Minogue is ready to move back to Australia. There's just one problem, the X Factor judge needs to sell her London real estate. Homes and Property UK says that she has dropped the price on the two-bedroom Battersea home beside the Thames that she bought in 1997.

The apartment is on the ninth floor in a building on Plantation Wharf, a development of apartments, houses and live/work units located between Wandsworth and Battersea Bridges. The two-bedroom flat has an open-plan kitchen and wide-ranging city views. She put it on the market earlier this year for £550,000 through John D Wood but recently cut the price to £499,000.

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Designer Yuki Torimaru Lists London Home

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If you are looking for minimalist style in London you might want to check out the spare and bare home of fashion designer Yuki Torimaru. As the Daily Mail reported, the designer, who once created a dress for Princess Diana, is selling his Belgravia home and moving back to Japan. Torimaru replaced the Victorian home on the site and in 2005 with help from architect John Pawson. he created his "monastic cube." The modern home is bright white, calm space with three bedrooms and plenty of cabinets for keeping clutter at bay. He tried to sell this home three years ago for £5.5 million but it is now listed at £4.95 million with Strutt & Parker.

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34 Devonshire Place, Estate of the Day

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Today's English home is a Georgian mansion house with adjoining mews house in the Marylebone area of London. The Grade II listed property is one of the few in the area with an adjoining mews house which gives it plenty of space including two garden areas. The main house, while having traditional bones-- high ceilings, large windows and plenty of fireplaces-- has been given a very modern makeover that includes new floors, new bathrooms and a sophisticated decor. The eight-bedroom home also has a swimming pool, home theater, roof terrace and private parking. It is listed at £13,000,000.

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The Grove, Estate of the Day

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Today's home is a different sort of celebrity real estate, the literary kind. Homes and Properties UK reports that 3 The Grove, a Grade II-listed London mansion is for sale. Writer Samuel Taylor Coleridge lived at the home for 11 years until his death in 1834. Coleridge, the writer of "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and "Kubla Khan" was one of the key figures of the Romantic Movement. He was also an opium addict and he moved into the home with his doctor and friend Dr. James Gillman in 1823 (the good doctor apparently built him a special space to detox in). The home bears a plaque attesting to Coleridge's residency. It was built on Highgate Hill one of the highest points in London. It was later added to in the 1930s and has four floors and over 6,700 square feet of space. A second plaque on the nine-bedroom brick home commemorates the writer JB Priestley (1894-1984), who moved into the place in 1931 after the success of his first novel, The Good Companions. The home has been restored and modernized and the principal rear rooms overlook a west facing landscaped garden with views over Hampstead Heath and beyond. It is listed for sale at £8.75 million through Savills.

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Caprice in London, Estate of the Day

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Caprice Bourret is most known to us here in the States for starring on a season of the Surreal Life but she's a popular woman about town in London. And she has some pretty lovely real estate too. The Real Estalker Mama led us to the listing for Caprice's Notting Hill townhouse. The five-bedroom Victorian stucco has a south-facing garden and has been extensively remodeled into a contemporary space. The most interesting feature of the space has to be the basement which has a music studio, a home gym and an indoor swimming pool that has a screen for viewing movies behind it. The master suite has a dressing room, terrace and private bathroom. The lady with the figure is asking quite a figure for her home. The home is listed at £7,500,000 which is close to $13.5 million.

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