Stunning 2 Double Bed/2 Bath Flat - NW4 A new luxury Stunning two double bedroom two bathroom apartment in a sought after location in Hendon. Features an open plan...A derelict pebble-dashed garage in the heart of trendy north London has gone on sale for a jaw-dropping £360,000.The space, which comes complete with a lurid lime green interior and two large mounds of dirt inside, lies in the hipster heartland of Stoke Newington and has been put up for grabs by agents Courtneys.Located off road with a gated entrance, the property has one room with a garage door entrace, but Courtneys hope prospective buyers will see its potential for expansion. Perfect hipster hut: This derelict garage in trendy Stoke Newington, north London, has gone on sale for a jaw-dropping £360,000 Bare space: The property has a bright lime green interior but has no utilities whatsoever, including running water or heatingHowever, there is one slight catch - the garage still lacks planning approval to be transformed into a living space.

On an advert listing for the property on Right Move, a statement says: 'Courtneys are delighted to offer for sale this garage with planning soon to be submitted to the council, the planning application to be submitted is for a two-storey one-bedroom mews house.'The property is situated in a very quiet yet very central small mews just off Stoke Newington Road and thus benefits from being very close to numerous bus routes and the amenities of both Stoke Newington Church Street to the north and Dalston to the south.' While there is room for development with the property, buyers certainly are not getting much bang for their buck.The garage has no utilities and appears to be dirty inside with considerable transformation to take place until it could be used to live in.While many would find such a listing as shocking and infuriating, to Londoners this just another example of the city's housing crisis spiraling out of control.Other examples of people trying to cash in on the city's lack of housing has included homeowners renting out a tent pitched in their front room, hiring out a cupboard under their stairs and a wooden shack by their dining room.

One pint-sized flat in Hendon was so cramped that it had a toilet cubicle hidden away in a wooden closet right next to studio's kitchen area and sink.Ready Made Curtains Faux Silk Central location: Agents Courtneys said the property was located in a 'very quiet' mews and is close to a number of stations in the areaThe apartment set back prospective renters £126-per-week and was actually a living space crammed into a room in someone else's house.English Shepherd Puppies For Sale In IndianaWhile the flat is pokey, it may have some competition for London's most infuriating rented property.Bathtub Drain Stopper DiyIn recent months many potential tenants have taken to social media to vent their fury after turning up to view rooms, apartments or houses only to be greeted by a small space at extortionate prices.

Extreme cases have even seen people offered a cupboard under the stairs or a tent in someone's living room. Student Alex Lomax attended a flat viewing in Clapham, south west London, in September, and was shocked to find a single mattress wedged into a closet. Surprise: Tenants at this property in Hendon, north London, will have their toilet hidden in a cupboard right next to their kitchenDespite the lack of space, the room was still listed at £500-per-month with an extra £60 charge for bills.Taking to Twitter she compared the conditions to those endured by Harry Potter at his aunt and uncle's house, writing: 'I have literally just been shown a bed under the stairs for £500 a month. In another case, a landlord put a mattress inside a wooden shack in the corner of his living room before trying to rent it out for £530 a month. Furious: Alex Lomax was asked to pay £500, plus bills, for this cupboard under the stairs in Clapham, south west London Disgusted: Joe Peduzzi was shocked when he was offered this wooden shack in a man's living room in Bethnal Green, east LondonJoe Peduzzi, from the Isle of Wight, said he 'couldn't believe what he was seeing' after viewing the outlandish set-up in Bethnal Green, east London, and said there was 'no chance' he would be taking the landlord up on his offer.

Meanwhile, another homeowner decided to make a bit of extra cash by marketing a spare corner of his dining room in Gipsy Hill, South London – by erecting a crumpled tent and advertising it as £550 a month with 'access to a shared bathroom and kitchen'.The boundary between inner and outer London is blurring as buyers push into areas just beyond the North and South Circular roads, where homes can be built at prices low enough to attract people who want to be within a 30-minute commute of the City. Several factors are working to make these areas more accessible and better places to live. London’s new Mayor, Sadiq Khan, has pledged an improved deal for the “neglected suburbs” and is calling for imaginative, high-quality architecture for new neighbourhoods on brownfield land where transport upgrades are planned. Meridian Water, Enfield, is the first of these projects to be announced. Live there and you could happily work north of London as well as in the West End and City.

Get in quick: the new homes planned for north London With 10,000 new homes it is one of the UK’s biggest housing projects, and will have a new train station with 25-minute commutes to Liverpool Street plus an 18-minute rail link to Stratford. The first phase of 725 homes and the new station will be ready by 2018. Schools, a medical centre, shops and sporting facilities will be built. In the long term there will be a station connecting to Crossrail 2, in 2030. The land covers 85 hectares and is next to the Lee Valley Regional Park, a vast green swathe perfect for sports, walks and picnics, stretching along the banks of the River Lee from Docklands to Hertfordshire. Barratt, the developer, plans a mix of flats and family houses, with 30 per cent of homes designated “affordable”. To register, call Barratt on 0844 8114334. Well-connected and youthful: Enfield The borough of Enfield, served by three train and three Tube stations, is well-connected to the road and motorway networks, suiting commuters travelling inwards and outwards.

It borders the green belt and Enfield Town retains some character. The area changes quite dramatically the further north you go, becoming leafier and more prosperous, with neat and untroubled tree-lined streets close to golf courses, riding schools, highly rated academies and parks. The under-34s make up more than half the population, a figure boosted by expanding Middlesex University, which keeps the rental market flourishing. The former Royal Small Arms Factory, which closed in 1987, is now Enfield Island Village, an estate of boxy housing beside the Lee Navigation canal where two-bedroom homes start under £300,000. But there are a few period gems, too, including an original detached mill house overlooking Enfield Lock, on the market for £1.25 million. Call Savills on 020 8012 3092. Southgate, Winchmore Hill and Bush Hill Park are the most sought-after pockets. Bolingbroke Park, close to Cockfosters station at the end of the Piccadilly line, is a new development of flats and townhouses.

Prices start at £455,000. Call L&Q on 0333 003 3637. Hendon is another well-connected north London suburb benefiting from regeneration. Hendon Waterside, with 2,000 new homes, is a 30-acre site alongside the giant Welsh Harp or Brent Reservoir, a great nature reserve. Architect Allies and Morrison, known for intelligently designed central London skyscrapers, has come up with a mix of high-rise and low-rise residential buildings with shops and cafés at street level, aiming to bring vitality to this new neighhourhood. The Vista, the latest phase, is a 26-storey tower with two-bedroom water-view apartments priced from £489,500. Call 0844 811 4321. Where suburbs began: outer London Though often depicted as a place for “happy families”, outer London is enormously varied in terms of wealth, housing stock, ethnicity, education and culture. This diversity has not always been matched by the output of property developers, who have built some pretty unimaginative housing.

Hopefully, that is now changing, driven by the acceptance of the importance of good architectural design, and by informed, pro-active buyers demanding more from their developer. London has 19 outer boroughs — from Sutton in the south to Enfield in the north, from Havering in the east to  Hillingdon in the west — and suburbs extend into the home counties, where commuter towns were created by the expansion of the railways in the early 20th century. During the interwar years, the pioneering Metropolitan Railway built its own housing estates to the north-west of London in Buckinghamshire, Middlesex and Hertfordshire, and marketed the area as Metro-Land, later famously celebrated by the poet John Betjeman. Suburbia has plenty of development land that avoids the need for green belt encroachment. Stanmore Place in Harrow, north London is built on the site of an industrial estate. This 798-home community is set in award-winning landscaped grounds with a lake, cycle paths and play areas.