Never has Blatt felt so bold

Former All Saint Melanie Blatt must be a brave lass. She is flat-hunting in Hampstead and Belsize Park, areas best-known for housing her estranged pop colleagues, Nicole and Natalie Appleton. Hampstead is also the location of her first home, a squat she shared with some friends during her teens. "Melanie is looking for a maisonette with a garden," says local agent Parkheath. "She has a budget of about £900,000, which should buy her a decent three-bedroom property around here." Blatt lives in Wandsworth with her husband, former Jamiroquai bass player Stuart Zender, and daughter Lily.

Will Ralph Vaughan Williams prove as much as a pull on the property market as his music is on Classic FM? For £695,000, you can buy his five-bedroom birthplace, The Old Vicarage in Down Ampney, Gloucestershire, built for his father, the Reverend Arthur Vaughan Williams, in 1865. The only drawback is that the Grade Il listed Cotswold-stone property was divided in two during the Fifties. The same agent, Hamptons, is also selling Little Orchard in Dorking, Surrey, where the composer lived in the Twenties. The £795,000 price includes five bedrooms, a double garage and what Hamptons describe as "a stunning garden".

A star-studded list of neighbours, including Madonna and Viscount Linley, awaits anyone who spends £3.75 million buying one of the few remaining private houses left in Montagu Square, Marylebone. The Grade ll listed Georgian property has seven bedrooms, four bathrooms and a west-facing terrace leading from the first-floor drawing room. "It also has a garage and mews house at the rear," says Beauchamp Estates.

Ardent fans of Kylie Minogue might consider paying £1.45 million to live near her. That's the price of one fivebedroom Victorian house in Drayton Gardens, South Kensington. The property, which has a west-facing garden, is close to the mansion-block flat of the pop songstress. "The house is on a 21-year lease," says agent John D Wood. "But we think you could buy the freehold for an extra £650,000 to £680,000."

Olympic hero Audley Harrison has begun looking for a three-bedroom property in Chelsea or Fulham. "He has viewed quite a few and expects to spend about £750,000," says Merrett & Co. The beefy London-born boxer went professional after winning his super-heavyweight gold medal at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. A former nightclub bouncer, lifeguard and plasterer, Harrison worked as a BBC TV pundit during the recent Commonwealth Games.