East London’s Most Expensive Apartment Is a £17.5 Million Penthouse
The 4,615-square-foot home atop the Stratford Hotel is from the developer behind Chiltern Firehouse.
East London’s most expensive real estate listing.
Source: UK Sotheby’s International Realty
When developer Harry Handelsman first stepped off the tube in Stratford—the home of London’s 2012 Olympics—he was surprised at the speedy 20-minute journey from his office in central London. This was in 2009, and the area was “a bit of a tumbleweed zone: distressed, and depopulated,” according to the Sunday Times.
Handelsman saw potential and decided to invest in the neighborhood by developing the Manhattan Loft Gardens skyscraper, just a stone’s throw from Stratford International train station and its high-speed rail connections. He tapped Burj Khalifa architect SOM for the project.