Wimbledon Property

Buying advice for property searching in Wimbledon, London

Wimbledon has two distinctive parts – the village and the town. Unlike many other areas where all the green spaces have been filled in around it, Wimbledon Common is sufficiently rural and large that there is a real sense of arriving in a distinctive place. Wimbledon looks in on itself rather than being a satellite of central London.

Wimbledon Village has the same feel as a small Surrey town, with pretty houses behind walls and a sophisticated High Street with numerous cafés, restaurants and upmarket boutiques, but also where one would not be surprised to see people riding horses. The houses are low-built and not in the usual terraces that characterise west London. More than anywhere in south-west London, there is a high proportion of large detached houses on separate plots. Schools are a real driver to people moving to the area, with King’s College School in the village and Wimbledon High School for Girls at the bottom of the hill in the town.

A five-minute walk down the hill, Wimbledon town feels like a town, with all the usual high-street retail names very much in evidence. The atmosphere is much more urban with a mainline railway station, multiplex cinemas and a shopping centre. Prices are generally lower in the town than the village, reflecting the snobbery between the two.

Unlike Richmond and other areas in south-west London, Wimbledon is off the flight-path into Heathrow.

Transport is mixed, with bottlenecks around Wandsworth and over the bridges crossing the Thames. However, people do drive to the City, navigating their way along south of the river before crossing it nearer London Bridge. Wimbledon is the terminus of one branch of the District line on the underground, but many use the mainline station with its fast access to the City.

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