What’s it got that we love?
A panoply of artistic greats, from JMW Turner to Mick Jagger, have settled here. A river runs through it. And it has the only view protected by an act of parliament. We’re talking about Richmond, and those who live here are fortunate. With green spaces – including the largest of the eight Royal Parks – grand parades, Thames-side pubs and good schools, it’s small wonder Richmond has been dubbed the “happiest place to live” in Great Britain.
Daniel Hutchins, head of residential sales at Savills in Richmond, loves it. “I was born and bred here,” he says. “The best way to describe it is town meets country – you’re only 20 minutes from Waterloo.” Plus, it has what he calls a “potpourri of properties”, from exceptional mansions to cottages knee-deep in hollyhocks. “Tudor, Georgian, Victorian – it’s all here,” he says.
Life is good in Richmond, which is “why people don’t move away”, Hutchins says. In September 2025, a senior branch of Thomas’s, the school where the Prince and Princess of Wales sent their children, opened here, and buyers are already moving into the area because of it, Hutchins notes.
