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Lucy Whalen | Editorial Assistant, Barcadia Media Limited
24th December 2025
Top stories 2025

4: London hotspots shift beyond the banana zone

New figures from Rightmove in September showed that most of London’s current property hotspots lie outside the so-called ‘banana zone’, which outlines a curved corridor of sought-after areas stretching from South West to North East London.

This challenged assumptions about the capital’s most desirable locations, as eight of the ten most in-demand neighbourhoods fell outside this shape.

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