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Wandsworth
Wandsworth is totally rejuvenated after more than a decade of rebuilding and smartening up, yet still lacks a tube line in the north making traffic a pain. All areas of the borough are now predominantly middle class. The suburbs of Balham, Tooting and Southfields are nice family areas to live, while Wandsworth, Battersea and Putney have sort after apartment buildings in converted warehouses.
Sutton
Located southwest of central London, the borough of Sutton is more akin to a typical suburb of Surrey's commuter belt than a London borough. Sutton is predominantly middle class, lush and safe. The contrast between the areas of St Helier and Cheam, and Carshalton and Carshalton Beaches are very evident, where the former are 1940's built family abodes compared with the larger and more upmarket houses of the latter.
Shopping and office facilities in Sutton are excellent and there is plenty of open space and parks scattered throughout the borough. For good priced property, Beddington and Wallington have a good mixture of family housing.
Bromley
Southeast of the city centre, Bromley is London's largest borough that wants to be part of Kent as opposed to part of greater London. Bromley encompasses many interesting areas with Crystal Palace Park in the north of the borough and the once fashionable Victorian villas and terraces of Anerley and Penge.
To the south are smart semi-detached and detached houses in Hayes, Petts Wood and Orpington with the woods and commons of the villages of Keston and Farnborough nearby. Further east on the outskirts of Bromley and Beckenham, you will find large, detached 1930's houses with gardens; while handsome Victorian and mock-Tudor houses abound in the affluent area around Chislehurst.
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