£1m home turns into a crash pad
IT is located on a street where homes fetch more than £1.5million.
But this terraced house’s value will have crashed somewhat yesterday when it collapsed spectacularly during renovations.
The front of the two-storey property in West Hampstead, north London, was reduced to rubble and floors down to basement level caved in. The roof was left intact but hanging precariously without support.
Residents living nearby were evacuated as firemen worked to make the property safe, but were allowed home last night.
Neighbours said builders had been working on the house – which was last sold for £640,000 in 2007 – in the past few days. The property was put up for auction in July 2014, although it is not known whether it was sold.
Plans to convert it into a series of smaller homes were rejected last year. Residents said it had been boarded up for much of the past two-and-a-half years.
Teacher Bunna Fidder, 29, a neighbour who was at home when the house collapsed, said: ‘I ran outside and saw the rubble and a cloud of dust that went across the road. The noise sounded like a bomb going off.’