@EachandEveryone
But thats the thing- those places are not near the private school that Grand-dad, Daddy and all the cousins went to. This house is 0.2 miles from Hall School (which has an extremely high rate of boys getting into St Paul's, and an average of 31.5% of St Paul's boys go onto Oxbridge, and this number is only surpassed by Westminster and Eton).
Those places are also not near the City of London which I guess someone with £2 million to spend a house probably has some business interest in.
And Primrose Hill is also where many celebs live, and always has been, Sylvia Plath used to live there!
And of course compared to the likes of HK and New York, this isn't thaat expensive in comparison. And to many foreigners, they would want to buy in areas that they know. I bought in zone 3 north london - East Finchley and my relatives back home in Singapore positively sniggered cos it wasn't in zone 1 or 2. Cos the people they knew who bought London property bought in the likes of St Johns Wood/London Bridge/Canary Wharf/Victoria/Knightsbridge/Holborn. If i had bought outside London in the countryside, they would probably be on the floor rolling with laughter. Of course, I didn't take their opinions into consideration when buying but more image conscious people probably would,and naturally being Singaporean, they don't understand the concept of 'suburbs' and 'countryside'. They don't understand how people can commute for 1.5 hours to work or that the most central neighbourhoods aren't necessarily the kind of places you want to raise a family in.