What can Bridget Jones tell us about London property? Top end: five-bedroom double-fronted house in Kingswood Avenue at £3.85 million, Crayson (020 7221 1117). "Prices are, roughly speaking, 30 per cent cheaper than they are a mile farther south," he says. West Londoners who were attracted to Notting Hill for its eccentricity, eclecticism and rawness now find much of what has been gentrified in The Hill is available in Queen's Park for a good deal less cash. Prices may be lower but they are still unbelievably high, and anyone who bought a normal three-bedroom terrace in the last decade has become a property millionaire. For it is roughly a decade since Renée Zellweger put on her big knickers to become Bridget Jones on the big screen, and live above what is now The Globe pub in scruffy but interesting Borough, just south of London Bridge. Since then the railway viaduct has doubled in size, the food market has been extended under a new glass roof and is feted by gourmets as London's Larder. The slimy Daniel Cleaver, played by Hugh Grant, had a warehouse conversion in Clink Street. Since then we have endured austerity coupled with crazy price rises in London. So why did Bridget move to a new area? First foothold: two-bedroom duplex flat with roof terrace, £699,950, Kinleigh Folkard and Hayward (020 7328 2238). James Ripp, agent, says,"I can see young professionals buying it." "This is just typical of London," says Hywel Jones, a photographer. We moved into Queen's Park about nine years ago from Mile End. It had been a crack zone but it had got its first coffee shop and prices were going up. It was beginning to happen. He and his wife, Luci Ximenez Jones, with their nine-year-old Nathan, are putting their typical four-bedroom terrace with converted loft on the market with estate agents Domus Nova (020 7908 9318) at £1.75 million. "I think yummy mummies actually started here," he says. This is where Notting Hill people came to have babies. You can go to the sandpit and you can be sure you will meet someone you know with their children. Signs of change included Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman moving in. Other celebrities such as Daniel Craig, Thandie Newton, Jade Jagger and Zadie Smith have all lived here in the past decade. Modern architects such as Gus Zogolovitch have built startling new houses. There are now restaurants, an annual book festival, live music festival and a farmer's market at the local primary school at weekends. So what happened to Bridget's old stamping ground in Borough? "When the first film came out in 2001, Borough was a Monday-to-Friday sort of place used by City people," says James Hyman, head of residential at Cluttons (020 7407 3669). But since then the effects of the Jubilee line, the Millennium Bridge, Tate Modern and the Globe theatre have been huge, and the market has become one of the top 10 tourist attractions. Prices have doubled. Daniel Cleaver's flat in Clink Wharf, which was worth £2 million then, has gone up to £4 million. Big accountancy firms have crossed the river and moved into More London and the Shard, the tallest building in Western Europe. Sitting on Hyman's books at the moment is Cleaver's next purchase. It is a penthouse in Benbow House right next to the Globe with views of the river and the City, priced at £10.5 million.