Maida Vale Property

Buying advice for property searching in Maida Vale, London

It is hard to believe that in the 1980s the Church Commissioners, who were the big local landowners, decided to sell their holdings at seemingly any price. Local residents and developers alike were the happy recipients of the Church Commissioners’ largesse and it was not uncommon for freehold houses to be bought for less than half their worth. As an indirect result of this feeding frenzy, most of the houses in Maida Vale were converted into flats.

Much of the eighties’ conversion work has since reverted from flats back into houses. The big attraction of buying a house in Maida Vale is the multitude of communal gardens, the largest of which lies between Warrington and Randolph Crescent and is nearly three acres in size.

Whilst the centre of the area is dominated by large red-brick mansion blocks, the southern-most corner of Maida Vale centres on Little Venice, so called because of the views of the junction of three branches of the Grand Union canal. There is a parade of useful shops and restaurants on Clifton Road and Clifton Nursery garden centre on Clifton Villas, which completes the picture of a largely self-sustaining community.

For more information on buying advice and property searching in Maida Vale, London, contact the Property Vision London property search and advice team.