Buy a couple of stops along the Tube line and save £25,000 off your house price per extra minute of commute

When Fabienne Dormeuil and her boyfriend Josh Palmer started house hunting they quickly realised their budget wouldn’t go far in Clapham, where they had happily rented a two-bedroom flat for the past three years.

So the couple cast their net wider, looking at Balham, Tooting and Wandsworth. When they got to Colliers Wood, less than 10 minutes down the Northern line, they found their sweet spot of value for money, plus commutability and lifestyle. “We ended up in Colliers Wood because of cost and what we could get,” says Dormeuil. “I am really glad we did.”