Five London homes Ed Miliband deems mansions

While many in social housing will rejoice that a future Labour government would tax manisons rather than bedrooms, the name of the policy could prove just as contentious. By anyone’s definition, the homes below are not mansions.

In fact, many of the affected properties will be occupied by people who bought them years ago at far more modest prices and have lived in them ever since, while the property market boomed around them.

It is even possible that some of the homes owned by central London-based social landlords will fall into the mansion bracket, assuming they haven’t yet been sold off to fund development elsewhere.

Four-bed terraced house, Holland Park. Price: £2.4m

Despite being very well furnished, this very much has the look of a family home. Quite a well to-do family certainly, but you wouldn’t expect to catch members of the super-rich living here.

Four-bed semi, Kilburn. Price: £2.65m

Again, a nice but fairly unexceptional family home. This one isn’t even in a super-prime area of west London, but Labour-voting Kilburn

Three-bed flat, Fulham. Price: £2.35m

This isn’t a mansion. It’s a flat, a very nice flat, but one which goes to show why home ownership is such a distant dream for west Londoners in particular. As an aside, this new build is a reasonably good guide to how properties are likely to price in the massive regeneration of former council estates in Earls Court, just a few miles away. 

Four-bed house, Queen’s Park. Price: £2m

This ‘mansion’ would have been known as a ‘family sized home’ in the halcyon days of 1990s. There are social landlords in the capital who will own similar properties, providing they haven’t already sold them off and reinvested the returns. 

Four-bed terrace house, Islington. Price: £2m

An interesting addition to the list, as it is very similar to that owned by a well-known, floppy-haired London politician, which - cynics might say - is a reason his party would never touch this policy. Mind you, it isn’t very far from that owned by a certain Labour leader .