'Fantasy flat' - where in London would you buy?

[MorrisZapp]

Ok, so if money was little or no object and you were going to buy a 'pied a terre' type small flat in London to stay in on your many shopping/ cultural weekends , which area would you buy in?

OR somewhere like Bloomsbury Square - one of those little enclaves around the British Museum.

Covent Garden. There aren't many residential properties in Covent Garden so they're nice and exclusive. I did find my dream flat a few years ago . It was £3.75 million and totally beautiful. Very modern with lots of technical mod cons that I didn't understand but sounded impressive. This would do though.

Oohhh Hassled, do you think we should club together and buy that flat?

Cadogan Place, Cadogan Square or Cadogan Gardens.

But these places have gorgeous private communal gardens with tennis courts etc and are next door to Peter Jones, Sloane Street and the Kings Road.

This would, of course, only be my central London bolt hole. The rest of the time I'd live exactly where I do now - out in the burbs of London SE twenty something!

Hampstead.

Fitzrovia?! REally, is there a Fitzrovia!?

Of course there's a Fitzrovia! (its round the back of Warren Street tube, btw).

Marthasmama - I'll be in touch just as soon as that lottery win comes through . I LURVE that flat.

Ok Hassled, it's a deal. If you win the lottery then you can stump up most of the cash unless you will accept buttons......

Marylebone. Which is exactly where I live now. Except I would be in one of the fabulous Nash Terraces overlooking the park. Not in a flat without a garden.

how about this 2 bed flat for over 2 million?

or a mortgage payment of £12,000 + per month, apparently.

Wonder what it was worth at the peak of the market???

Just don't know why none of you are mentioning my area (east end)

Love those carefully placed martini
glasses Mintyy

Near Exmouth Market - feels a bit raffish and walking distance to lots of cool things. Or the Brunswick Centre near Russell Square (sigh).

I'd choose either islington down by the canal or Borough round the back of the market getting on to the south bank.

Hampstead, Belsize Park or Primrose Hill.

Soho
Fitzrovia
Bayswater
Primrose Hill
Holland Park

but mainly Soho

Oh yes, I too love the re-vamped Brunswick Centre Lala.

On the Barbican, definitely. Beautiful modernist architecture, a cinema next door, very near to some fab restaurants and a lovely new Twatrose.

Bloody children getting in the way of my fantasy property ownership .

twatrose... brilliant. have darling sister who lives in chiswick and was eulogising just how perfect chiswick is now that waitrose has opened, didnt know what she did before.. t*sser.

Mintyy - agree on the Cadogan Square
A friend's mom lives there, it is lovely

Oh, forgot Primrose Hill. Yes. Lovely.

Horrified at Barbican suggestions! It's a creepy, badly designed ghost town at night. NO to anywhere in the city -dead after 8pm.

The City's not dead after 8pm. 10 years ago maybe, but now most places are open throughout the weekend. Fabric anyone?

Well, I have a friend who lives in the Barbican and I shit myself every time I have to get into one of the creepy lifts to go up to her flat ...

at your friend. may I ask which block? I have always fancied one of the towers, or the Postern m'self.