We have suspected for some time that we have been selling some mews houses for considerably higher prices per square foot than the surrounding properties so we did some research and what we found amazed us.

Many mews properties are not only light, bright and flawlessly designed for modern living, they also offer surprisingly spacious interiors. Discover more on:

Walking around the glorious mews streets of Notting Hill, you’d be forgiven for thinking you’d stumbled onto a movie set. These beautiful streets, so full of period character and charm, have provided the backdrop for famous films such as Performance (1970) and more recently Richard Curtis’ famous romcoms, ‘Love Actually’ and ‘Notting Hill’ .

It is an accepted fact amongst experienced letting agents that, regardless of the market, the best presented and competitively priced properties will be the ones that let fastest.

Looking for a South Kensington mews for sale or rent? This Autumn we help you discover five outstanding mews streets, all just minutes from the area’s museums, restaurants and oh-so exclusive shops.

As a 21st century London resident, you may find it hard to process some of the everyday sounds that emanate from Bathurst Mews; such as the gentle clip-clop of hooves on a cobbled street.  

Lurot Brand’s expertise in mews properties is legendary, but it’s not just our clients who approach us for help. As the only independent mews specialist in London, Lurot Brand is in a unique position to offer property advice when it comes to mews houses.

  Here at Lurot Brand, the mood is mellow. Our staff sip hot chocolate while watching the first leaves fall. If you’re looking for a cosy mews home, our handpicked selection of mews properties for sale is sure to leave you fired with enthusiasm.

At Lurot Brand we often find ourselves laughing out loud when a clever political cartoon gets passed around the office. The portraits may be unflattering, and the situations are invariably ridiculous, but these brilliant satirists nevertheless manage to use their comic skills to make a serious point about UK politics.

The American president and lawyer Abraham Lincoln once stated that ‘a man who represents himself in court has a fool for a client.’ 

The delicate, diamond-paned windows are dirty, there is peeling paintwork everywhere and the faded whitewash on the brickwork gives it a ghostly pallor.

Here’s something to muse over: how do you identify a traditional mews house when so many properties these days might be described as a “mews”?

There was a time when owning a prime Central London property was the best tax free investment you could make. Not only could you live in it, it was an overdraft facility, a school/university fee vehicle for your children and it still took care of you into your retirement.

There’s a new Instagram trend taking over from diners taking pictures of their dinner plates

London’s commercial property and residential property sectors are very different beasts but their success is, to a degree, interlinked

Would you significantly improve the energy efficiency of your property in order to add value ahead of a house move? The

Estate agents may be asked to provide information on the air quality around each home they sell, suggests one of the most influential trade bodies in the property sector

Are drones set to play a bigger role in the property industry? Unmanned aerial vehicles, as they are formally known, are already being used to capture aerial images and videos of sprawling estates and farmland to give a sense of scale, and now property specialists have found a new use for the technology

Mews properties offer buyers a slice of London’s history in the most central of locations, usually complete with an interesting past use and unusual layout

It may not be time for champagne corks to pop just yet, but at Lurot Brand we are feeling cautiously optimistic. This renewed optimism follows a report which revealed that from next year, prime London property prices are projected to grow by more than 10% over five years.

The choice of mortgage products available to home buyers and property investors has reached a nine-year high, comments Moneyfacts