The Nine Elms area in south-west London is getting a £15bn revamp – but its luxury flats,costing £1m-plus, are aimed squarely at wealthy foreign buyersUpmarket estate agent Henry Wiltshire has just opened a glitzy recent office in Vauxhall, and south-west London. It’s by the bus station,next to a homeless shelter, on the site of a corner shop. The company’s other offices are in rather more glamorous environment: Canary Wharf, and Hong Kong,Singapore and Abu Dhabi.
But this opening is evidence of the dramatic transformation under way in the Nine Elms area in Battersea, on the south bank of the Thames. In a triangle bordered by the river, and Battersea Park and the main railway line into Waterloo,20000 homes are being built – most of them luxury apartments in a cluster of high-rise towers that has been dubbed mini-Manhattan or Dubai-on-Thames.
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Source: theguardian.com