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Chesham Place, London. Top ten sales (stamp duty in brackets) 1 - Flats Princes Gate, London, SW7 - #50 million (#3.5m) 2 - Flat at Chesham Place #46 million (#3) 3 - Jersey House on The Bishops Avenue #33.7 million (#2.35M) 4 - House on Thornwood Gardens, W8 - #27.9 million (#1.95m) 5 - Flat at Princes Gate, London, SW7 - #26.5 million (#1.85m) 6 - Flat in Cheval House, SW7 - #24.5 million (#1.7m) 7 - House on Holland Villas Road, W14 - #24 million (#1.68m) 8 - flat in Trevor Square, SW7 which sold for £24 million (£1.68m stamp duty.) 9 - House on Winnington Road, N2 - #21.75 million (#1.52m) 10 - Flat in One Hyde Park - #20.5 million (1.43m). SEE SWNS STORY SWTOP. A £50 million flat has topped a list of 2014 property sales in a record-breaking year which saw almost 13,500 homes sell for more than £1 million.The luxury apartment, on Princes Gate, fetched the figure in July, netting the Treasury £3.5 million in stamp duty fees in the process. With the average house price in England and Wales costing £177,000, this single sale could have paid for around 20 ‘average’ homes. The second most expensive sale of the year was for an apartment in Chesham Place, which was sold to a Glencore mining tycoon for £46 million. This is according to a series of extraordinary figures released by the Land Registry last week, which showed there were 13,428 properties selling last year for more than £1 million. It is an increase of 21 per cent over the 11,084 in 2013 and almost three times as many as in 2009, when the UK property market crashed. By comparison, there were just 187 seven-figure deals in 1995, the earliest year for Land Registry figures. Greater London, unsurprisingly, helped drive the million-pound market with 66 per cent of deals taking place in the capital. The capital made up 96 of the top 100 sales.