White City Living West London’s most exciting new neighbourhood White City Living 2–3 West London’s most exciting new neighbourhood White City Living London W12 Located in the heart of west London, White City is surrounded by world-class retail and entertainment, creative businesses and cutting-edge research. It is transforming into a thriving new place to live, work and play. Set within an eight acre site with five acres of open green space, secluded gardens and water features, White City Living will comprise 1,400 new homes. White City Living will not only offer beautiful homes, but will also offer a wide range of boutique shops, restaurants, cafés and bars that alongside spaces for performances, markets exhibitions, contribute to overall sense of a flourishing, dynamic new district. The first phase of White City Living will comprise 406 apartments across three buildings, which are estimated to complete towards the end of 2019. White City Living 4–5 West London’s most exciting new neighbourhood The residences Interior specialists Arney Fender Katsalidis have taken minute care to ensure that the layout of every apartment evokes an extraordinary sense of space without compromising on practical necessities like storage and privacy. Residents’ amenities The same level of care and attention has been given to the design of the residents’ amenity areas. With a particular focus on creating spaces that are desirable to use and spend your leisure time in, these facilities are light-filled spaces with the swimming pool linking directly to a south facing terrace set within one of the private landscaped gardens. – Residents’ club – Two 20-seat private cinemas with food and drink facilities – Screen-entertainment suite – Exclusive dining room & dedicated private kitchen – Business lounge & meeting rooms – Basement parking – 17m swimming pool – Therapeutic hydro-pool – Treatment & massage rooms – Personal training studios – Cardio & weights gym including free-weights room – Club lounge with firepit – Café – Experiential games room – 24 hour concierge White City Living 6–7 West London’s most exciting new neighbourhood London lifestyle 241 22m 3 of the top10 most visited museums Professional Theatre visits theatres per year in the world are in London 200 66 Museums and Michelin star World-heritage sites, galleries restaurants more than any other city 5,000 520 in western Europe Hair salons Hotels 4 Kew Gardens 9,224 761 Tower of London Cafes and Gyms restaurants London is the only city in the world to have hosted the Summer Olympics three times (including 1908 here Royal Observatory Greenwich in White City) Palace of Westminster Reasons to buy in London One of the world’s ‘greenest’ cities for its size Robust Low interest Population Favourable Centrally located 8 economy rates increase exchange between Asia and Large royal parks rates North America 40% Total open green space. Strong legal structure, London as a Ease of access to Favourable World class More than NYC, Berlin, Paris asset protection and ‘safe haven’ four main airports timezone education and Amsterdam multi-cultural society in close proximity White City Living 8–9 West London’s most exciting new neighbourhood White City overview White City is located in the heart of west The local housing market has performed Located next to Europe’s best St John XXII Edgware Road London, in the borough of Hammersmith strongly over the last five years, with Westbourne Park retail centre, White City Ark Burlington Catholic School Royal Oak and Fulham, just 2.5 kilometres west prices increasing by 43% over that time. Danes Academy Paddington of Hyde Park. This equates to 7.5% per annum. residents benefit from fast Ladbrooke Grove Demand for new homes is strong with 54% Imperial College Bassett House Notting Hill connections to central With ample choice of public transport right of all residential units under construction Hammersmith School Prep School Paddington London. Yet compared with on its doorstep, White City is extremely well already sold. connected. It has easy access to Wood Electric Cinema its famous neighbours of Lane and White City underground stations However, with an average house price of Imperial West Latimer Road Portobello Road as well as Overground, which provide just of £704,000, White City is significantly Notting Hill, Holland Park White City Market Bayswater residents with direct links to London’s major better value than its high end neighbours Lancaster Gate White City Living and Kensington, property in employment centres. in the east; sales values in Notting Hill and Loftus Road Queensway Holland Park average £2.3 and £2.6 million Notting Hill White City remains very Stadium Notting Hill Gate The area was transformed in 2008 with the respectively. Wood Lane good value. opening of the Westfield shopping centre. Westfield Holland Park A truly world class destination for fashion, The private rented sector has also grown Tabernacle School food, entertainment and events, Westfield strongly in recent years. The number Shepherd’s Bush attracts some 28 million people every year. of households in the private rented sector Market High Street Hyde Park has increased by 75% over the last decade. Kensington O2 Shepherd’s Holland Park Shepherd’s Bush Empire School Being located close to an outstanding school Increasing demand for rented accommoda- Bush St Mary Abbots can increase house price premium by: tion has resulted in strong rental growth in Primary School recent years. The average rent has increased Holland Park Royal Albert Hall Goldhawk Road by 14.6% over the past 3 years, equating to Kensington High Street 4.6% per annum. 13% Kensington Imperial College London There are currently around 52,500 private Kensington Olympia renters in White City and its neighbouring Natural History Museum White City is surrounded by a great offer of postcodes earning over £40,000 per annum. outstanding schools including St John XXIII White City’s proximity to Notting Hill, Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle Catholic Primary School and Ark Burlington Kensington and Holland park coupled with Danes Academy. Students living in the its excellent transport links to the west end area also enjoy easy access to London’s and the City means that it is currently biggest universities; Kings College, LSE, extremely popular with renters. Below £80,000 UCL and Imperial College can all be £80,000 – £1m reached within 30 minutes. Average travel times in minutes £1m – £1.2m White City neighbours some of London’s £1.2m – £1.4m most prestigious and picturesque areas such £1.4m – £1.6m as Holland Park and Notting Hill. Both Westfield 6 Above £1.6m reached easily reached within a 30 minute Holland Park 9 walk, or in just two or three stops White City respectively on the central line, they are the Paddington 11 prefect destination for a weekend stroll. Hyde Park 14 Bond Street 15 Oxford Circus 19 Green Park 21 Average house prices Kings Cross 27 White City £704,000 Bank 28 Notting Hill £704,000 London Heathrow 30 Holland Park £2,600,000 London Gatwick 70 Walking By tube By car White City Living 10–11 West London’s most exciting new neighbourhood The transformation of White City Regeneration and placemaking premium White City Living lies at To complement the residential development Imperial College From the famous transformations of Covent the upgrade, there will be significant House price uplift from regeneration: at White City there are number of new Imperial College’s brand new 25 acre Garden, Southbank and Kings Cross, improvements with up to 32 trains per hour heart of an £8 billion initiatives underway, all of which represent a campus Think Space is already well regeneration has always been an important and an increase in passenger capacity by regeneration project, the piece of the puzzle that will form a bright underway and is set to bring a vibrant new part of the ever-evolving London landscape. 33%. This upgrade has potential to add future for White City. research community to White City, Regeneration can take many forms; the an additional 2.4% to house prices in 4.7% pa White City Opportunity transforming a previously derelict area into a simple rejuvenation of a rundown area, a White City by 2021, over and above Area. This brand new Westfield lively hub of activity. One of its flagship complete aesthetic overhaul of an area underlying price inflation. Building on the success of its first phase, buildings, the Translation and Innovation Hub through to an effective remodel of the Price premium for a scheme with neighbourhood is set to Westfield is now embarking on a £1 billion (I-HUB) has just opened, providing a new underlying fabric by addressing the deeper Placemaking is also hugely important in effective placemaking: bring 6,000 new homes and expansion that will see the current offer more home for early stage research and social and economic environment. ensuring the maximum benefit occurs from than double. Anchored by a new John Lewis technology-based companies. regeneration. This multi-faceted approach 10,000 new jobs to the local department store due to open in 2018, the Whatever form it takes regeneration works to design brings all elements of a area and will soon become expansion will create new over 70 new shops White City Place to greatly improve the quality of life for its development together in a cohesive and 10% including an array of new luxury brands such White City Place, formerly known as the BBC residents and transforms it into a more diverse environment. Placemaking ensures one of London’s most as Sandro, Claude Pierlot and Voltaire. Media Village, is currently being redeveloped desirable place to live. And our research an area has the appropriate amount and exciting places to live.