London Girl? Taylor Swift is ‘looking for a house in Hampstead’ to add to her £123m property portfolio
Took me back to Highgate, met all of his best mates,” sings Taylor Swift in her 2019 hit, London Boy. “Stick with me, I’m your queen/Like a Tennessee Stella McCartney on the Heath.” Swift’s love of north London is well-documented. And, since starting a relationship with actor Joe Alwyn in 2016, she’s been spending a lot more time in the big smoke. As London Boy suggests, it’s thought that the couple initially divided their time between Alwyn’s Crouch End flat and his parents’ house in Highgate. They are now rumoured to be renting a £7 million flat in Primrose Hill together and — prepare yourselves, Swifties — are now said to be looking to buy a property in Hampstead or St John’s Wood. “This is the big gossip all over the central London super-prime market at present,” says Rosy Khalastchy, head of Beauchamp Estates’ St John’s Wood office. “There is always huge excitement when someone super famous is house hunting. “We are led to believe that Taylor Swift is looking in St J...