Parsons Green is an area in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham.
The mainly residential area is named after the village green (the Parson's Green) now called Parsons Green Park where the vicar of Fulham used to live. The area is served by Parsons Green tube station; Fulham football club had their ground in the park for two years from 1889.
It is an expensive area to buy property, as is illustrated by the fact that between April and June 2004, the average price for a terraced house in the area was £654,615 and for a flat it was £290,675. Despite the property slowdown by 2009/2010 prices per square foot have risen to between £750 and £1,000, which is still slightly cheaper than neighbouring Chelsea. The most expensive houses are around the Hurlingham Club, where an Edwardian semi-detached house costs between £2 million and £4 million. The ladder of roads known as the “alphabet streets”, near Bishop’s Park between Stevenage Road and Fulham Palace Road, has four-bedroom semi-detached Victorian houses that sell for between £1.9 million and £3.5 million. Prices of the “lion” houses on the Peterborough Estate, south of Parsons Green, start at £2 million.
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