Luxury £1m London home COLLAPSES during renovation while family are away

This is the scene of devastation after a luxury London home collapsed in the middle of the night.

The family who live in the £1 million property in Wimbledon were not at home at the time of the collapse.

Their two-bedroom home, which had been undergoing renovation work, was reduced to rubble.

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The building fell through at about 1am on Monday as bricks, doors and windows tumbled downwards.

It is thought the house may have collapsed because the basement was not properly supported during renovations.

The home on Kingston Hill, south west London, is close to the Wimbledon Tennis Club and Richmond Park.

Hundreds of bricks lie piled up where the home used to stand.

Houses in the street have an average price of £1,375,000.

A spokesman for London Fire Brigade said: ‘Firefighters attended a house collapse on Derwent Avenue, Kingston Vale in the early hours of this morning.

‘The majority of the two storey house collapsed.

‘Extensive search was carried out and thankfully it appears that no one was in the property at the time of the crash.

‘The Brigade was called at 0110 and the incident was over for us at 0416.

‘Fire crews from New Malden, Wandsworth, Kingston, Battersea and Heston fire stations were at the scene.’