Martyn Gerrard opened his first office. It was at 1392 High Road, Whetstone.
\nThe first properties that Martyn Gerrard marketed in 1964 were an “ultra-modern” apartment in Barnet for £3,250 and a three bedroom house in Whetstone for £4,650. His first sale was a three bedroom house on Byng Road, Barnet for £4,950.
\nThe average London property price at the time was £3,835. Also in 1964 - Beetlemania hit America, Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life imprisonment, the classic musical, Mary Poppins, was released and BBC 2 was launched.
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\nThe average London property price in 1968 is £4,418. Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated; the musical Hair opened on Broadway; Dad's Army and Hawaii Five-O are broadcast for the first time; and the Boeing 747 makes its first commercial flight.
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\nThe average London property price is £5,252. The Greater London Council announces plans for the Thames Barrier; Apollo 13 hits trouble; The Goodies debuts on BBC Two; The Prince of Wales joined the Royal Navy; and Martin Peters became the first £200,000 footballer with his transfer from West Ham to Tottenham Hotspur.
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\nThe average London property price is £11,715. Margaret Thatcher defeats Edward Heath for the leadership of the Conservative Party; Monty Python and the Holy Grail is released in the UK and Jaws is released in the US; Bill Gates and Paul Allen found Microsoft.
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\nThe average London property price is £25,451. The Rubik's Cube makes its debut; Pac-Man is released in Japan; Lech Walesa leads the first of many strikes at the Gdańsk Shipyard in Poland; John Lennon is murdered.
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\nThe average London property price was £35,348. Breakfast TV starts in UK with the BBC Breakfast Time and TV-am; pound notes are taken out of circulation; The Apple Macintosh and CD Players go on sale for the first time.
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\nThe average house price was £106,406. Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her Golden Jubilee; Microsoft launched the Xbox-Live; I'm a celebrity get me out of here debuted on ITV; Rio Ferdinand became the most expensive player in English football when he moved from Leeds United to Manchester United for £29.1m; Emma Raducanu was born.
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\nThe average London property price is £295,694. Madeleine McCann disappeared in Portugal; Prince William officially opened the new Wembley Stadium; Gordon Brown replaced Tony Blair as leader of the Labour party and Prime Minister; the smoking ban comes into force; Fabio Capello is appointed England Football manager; the last Harry Potter novel Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is published.
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\nThe average London property price is £290,261. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is inaugurated; Barack Obama is elected the 44th President of the United States; Boris Johnson defeats Ken Livingstone to become Mayor of London; Lewis Hamilton became the youngest ever Formula One World Champion.
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\nThe average London property price is £292,277. The tallest man-made structure (to date), the Burj Khalifa in Dubai opens; boy band One Direction is formed; the general election resulted in a hung parliament; The one millionth Range Rover is produced at the Land Rover factory in Solihull; Prince William and Catherine Middleton announce their engagement.
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\nThe average London property price is £332,998. Prince George is born; Benedict XVI resigns as pope and is replaced by Pope Francis; Margaret Thatcher dies; Andy Murray defeats Novak Djokovic at Wimbledon.
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\nThe average London property price is £475,530. The UK votes to leave the EU; Donal Trump is elected President of the USA; Tim Peake becomes the first Britain to make a spacewalk; and six men are jailed for the £14m Hatton Garden jewellery heist.
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\nThe average London property price is £488,527. Theresa May calls a snap general election; the round £1 coins cease to be legal tender; At the Oscars, presenters Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty announced La La Land as the best picture when the Academy Award for Best Picture should have gone to Moonlight.
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