Where to buy along London's new overground routes

We’re forever reading about the transformative power of infrastructure projects. As house hunters contend with the lottery of which project is actually going to break ground, there’s a valuable lesson to be learned from Crossrail. Since Gordon Brown approved the plans in 2008 and building work began a year later, research from agent Benham & Reeves indicates postcodes with a Crossrail station show rises 17 per cent higher than surroundings, with some centrally placed stations adding over 140 per cent. Hamptons International investigated projections in 2012 that prices of properties close to Crossrail stations would rise by 25 per cent by 2021. They found that rises in Slough, Woolwich and Uxbridge far outstripped that at 66 per cent on average.

For prospective buyers searching for value there’s likely a feeling of a stable door hanging off its hinges – so where should house hunters turn their attention to next?