World's Tallest Residential Tower - Mumbai World One Tower flats go on sale in London – for a price
117-storey skyscraper’s apartments, starting at £1.4m, targeted at wealthy Indians who spend part of year living in Mayfair
World One Tower in Mumbai does not just have a swimming pool, gym and health club, but also cricket pitches and a pavilion. Photograph: Wetherell
The interiors are designed by Giorgio Armani. As well as the swimming pool, gym and health club that come as standard with most luxury apartment blocks, it also boasts cricket pitches and a pavilion.
When it is completed in 2016, World One Tower will loom 117 storeys over the city of Mumbai in India, making it the world’s tallest residential skyscraper.
Now flats in the building have gone on sale in London, as the developer targets those in the UK who can afford the sky-high prices.
The tower interiors are designed by Giorgio Armani.Photograph: Wetherell
Three-bedroom flats in World One Tower start at £1.4m – the equivalent of a one-bedroom apartment in some parts of Mayfair.
The top-end estate agent Wetherell, which is marketing the apartments to millionaires in London, said more than 3,000 wealthy Indian families now spend part of their year living in Mayfair.
Apartments start at £1.4m.Photograph: Wetherell
Peter Wetherell, chief executive of Wetherell said it was not unusual for overseas developers to market properties in the UK.
“UK developers taking London residential property to sell overseas in the far east is very well known. What is often much less talked about is overseas developers launching residential projects in London in order to tap into London’s highly international high net-worth community,” he said.
“The last global recession bit in deeply and largely put a deep slowdown on this type of marketing. However, since the London economy has recovered, developers are now starting to launch overseas projects in the capital in order to tap into the wealthy expatriate and other international people who are based in London either part or full time.”
The tower will be 117 storeys high.
The 442-metre high tower has been built by developer Lodha at a cost of more than £205m and will have more than 300 luxury apartments, some overlooking the Arabian Sea.
Each apartment is promised a “generously sized reception room, kitchen/breakfast room, luxurious bedroom suites and beautifully appointed bathrooms” and will have access to a leisure complex located in two vast podiums at the base of the tower.
The same developer is working with
Donald Trump to create another luxury development in the same district.
The buildings stand in stark contrast to the slums lived in by many of the city’s residents, in a country where the average per capita income is just £3,480.
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Mumbai World One Tower flats go on sale in London – for a price | Money | The Guardian
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