Mayfair townhouses give way to shopfronts here rather than front gardens — this is the postcode of flagship stores, private members' clubs, and pied-à-terre flats above them, with barely a residential doorbell in sight. It's a place people work in, shop in, and dine in far more than they potter about in on an ordinary morning, and that shows in almost everything else about it. If you're weighing this up as somewhere to actually live, the numbers on housing tell their own story. Flats dominate almost entirely, nearly all of it leasehold, and the typical sale here comes in well over double the London median — pricier even than Westminster as a whole, which is itself one of the most expensive boroughs in the country. What you're buying is a lock-up-and-leave pied-à-terre near Bond Street Station, not a family house with a garden. Fittingly, the area's own affordability grade is the weakest mark it carries. Schools barely register as a local concern — the sample here leans towards higher education and a single small CofE primary — because most residents aren't raising children within these few streets; the median age sits just under 36, and this reads as a working, staying-over, or investing population rather than a settled family one. The green space is a single small pocket of under a third of a hectare, so this isn't an area where you build a weekend around a park. Instead, the rhythm is built around what's on your doorstep: the restaurants, the shops, the theatres and clubs that give the area its genuinely excellent nightlife and connectivity grades. Transport is about as good as London gets — Bond Street, Oxford Circus and Piccadilly Circus all within reach, dozens of bus stops threaded through the streets — so getting anywhere else in the city is rarely the problem. Healthcare access and general environment score strongly too. The one grade that jars against all this polish is safety, marked down clearly, and the crime breakdown explains why: theft from the person and shoplifting dominate the figures, the inevitable by-product of dense retail crowds and tourist footfall rather than a settled residential crime problem. It's the kind of place where you watch your phone and bag on the street, not your back in a quiet close. Put together, this suits someone who wants to be in the middle of things — a professional who works nearby, an owner who wants a flat to use during the week, someone who values being steps from world-class shops and restaurants more than a garden or a school catchment. It suits far less well anyone looking for a settled family base, outdoor space, or a quiet residential feel; those buyers will find better value and more room a little further out. The trade-off here isn't subtle: you're paying premium prices for location and buzz, and accepting street-level opportunistic crime and almost no green space as the cost of admission.