Love Actually is one of the best-loved modern Christmas films that, if you're anything like us, you enjoy all year round. The myriad of characters weave charmingly together across London, all joined together by the trials and tribulations of love. London provides the perfect backdrop to their stories, and the film takes us across the capital city from Notting Hill to Lambeth (via Downing Street). We've taken a look back at the best locations in the iconic film, and worked out what the houses would all be worth today, more than 20 years after its 2003 release.
Keira Knightley and Chiwetel Ejiofor's Notting Hill flat
Keira Knightley and Chiwetel Ejiofor's Notting Hill flat on a mews the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea is one of the best-loved houses in Love Actually. The area has seen the largest price hike of all the locations in the film, with a 108% increase (from £466,463 in 2003 to £1,558,312) between 2003 and 2024. The area is the wealthiest in London, and its pastel-coloured houses on Portobello Road and the surrounding area attract hordes of tourists every year. Richard Curtis' earlier film Notting Hill (1999) is another adored classic, which is said to be responsible the mass gentrification and increase in house prices in the west London area. A house on the very mews where the iconic Silent Night love declaration scene was filmed recently went up for rent at the eye-watering price of £2,750 per week.
Revisiting the film today, the Love Actually script editor Emma Freud, and partner to director Richard Curtis, remembers shooting in the Notting Hill mews very fondly. “Those scenes were a very happy shoot. It wasn't a freezing night which was lucky as the house is wee and most of the crew had to hang out on the street," she told us. “Some of the neighbours on the mews came out and were friendly and kind and one of them brought us wine in plastic cups. Andrew [Lincoln] insisted on writing all the signs himself which took forever so the shoot was long.” She also explained that the mews houses on the road were helpfully laid out with the sitting room on the first floor: "it helped the scene as it meant it wasn’t unrealistic that Chiwetel couldn’t hear what was happening on the doorstep.”
Hugh Grant's Prime Ministerial bachelor pad at 10 Downing Street
The second biggest price increase can be seen in the City of Westminster, home to Hugh Grant's Prime Ministerial bachelor pad at 10 Downing Street. The real 10 Downing Street has been a revolving door of occupants, with Keir Starmer its current resident. Though 10 Downing Street is essentially priceless (it won't ever be available for private purchase) the City of Westminster's average property value has seen a large increase in the 21 year interim from £366,519 to £1,666,587. Ideal Home gave the Prime Minister's house a ‘fantasy evaluation’ of £5.3 million in 2019.
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Mark's ‘artistic warehouse conversion’ flat in Southwark
Venturing south of the river to the South Bank is hopeless romantic Mark's ‘artistic warehouse conversion’ flat in Southwark. The borough enjoyed a 84% growth rate between the film's release and today from £194,070 to £476,000.
Martine McCutcheon's terraced house in Wandsworth
Staying in South London, Martine McCutcheon's terraced house in the "dodgy" part of Wandsworth was actually filmed in Herne Hill in Lambeth, where the average house price is currently around £786,806. House prices in the Lambeth were around £205,905 in 2003, and Wandsworth averages sat at around £640,000. Wandsworth and Lambeth have enjoyed a significant increase since the film's release, and the average house price in Lambeth is £756,422, which is still lot more affordable than Wandsworth's £899,586. The borough of Lambeth experienced a 155% price growth averaging and £756,422 in 2024.
Colin Firth's Turnham Green flat
Finally, poor Colin Firth not only found his brother and fiancé cheating on him in the first film but has also enjoyed the smallest increase in property price growth since then. His flat in Turnham Green comes in last place with a mere 89% increase. The average property values in Hounslow went from £192,798 to £506,673. Although it is still an impressive jump, Colin's character relocates to the South of France where there was perhaps a larger property jump to be with Aurelia.
Property price data sourced from ONS Land Registry, eMoov and Rightmove
