Bishops' price

The Bishops Avenue in Hampstead has seemed more like Sheikh Road as the Sultan of Brunei and the Saudi royal family took advantage of huge falls in prices to buy up a dozen properties between them over the past few years. Now, it seems, the market is coming back to normal. Savills are selling four

houses in the road, with prices ranging from pounds 2.35m for a relatively modest seven-bedroom family house to pounds 6.75m for a new 10-bedroom mansion with hotel-style entrance hall, 10 bedroom suites and a leisure complex. They also have an Edwardian house with 27 bedrooms and two acres of land for pounds 4.8m and an ambassadorial mansion, complete with banqueting hall, for pounds 5m.