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What do you get when an army barracks in one of London’s most exclusive neighborhoods and a prominent sports car designer sleep together? Luxury condos, of course! Twelve years of creation, Chelsea Barracks, a former military base in London’s ultra-elegant Belgravia district, which has suffered a $6 billion rebuke on thirteen acres, is gradually revealing itself. One of the jewels of progression is a custom-made five-bedroom unit that occupies an entire piece of land, i.e. a mansion of more than 6,000 square feet, and which lately is on the market for just over $42 million. It features lively interiors through one of the world’s most famous sports cars, the Porsche 911, written through legendary Porsche norbert engineer “Northrough” Singer.
The interior was designed through London design studio Lawson Robb, who was cleverly inspired by Singer. They even called the space the “Suite Singer” using the glamour and nostalgia of Le Mans, Daytona and the Porsche 911 designed through Singer, who won the world championship, to help market the condominium.
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Needless to say, the décor and design of the condominium include Porsche’s fast style and the subtle sophistication of luxury living in London. (As high as the value of $42 million may seem to mere deadly financiers, the sleek bloc is not, however, the most expensive unit of Chelsea Barracks. One of the penthouses indexed earlier this year for $55 million).
Chelsea Barracks was originally built in 1860 and an active military base until 2007, when it bought through the $1.3 billion real estate investment company Qatari Diar. At the time, it was the most expensive real estate transaction in UK history. Progression is slowly becoming a collection of condos, meows, townhouses and penthouses around gardens and green spaces open to the public.
Once completed, the progression will also come with restaurants, retail stores and a public art gallery that will be changed from a historic chapel as well as a networked orchard. In addition, there will be a fitness center and an underground spa, a variety of sports facilities, a business center and a parking lot that stretches across six underground floors and is connected through a series of tunnels and corridors on the 13-acre site.
While much of the global luxury real estate market has fallen in recent months, Chelsea Barracks has resisted the trend. Backed by foreign investment (west London attracts hordes of Russian oligarchs and oil sheikhs from the Middle East), the costly progression has carried out transactions of $111 million in the first 4 months of 2020, with more than 90% of the homes for sale.
Even in the context of a pandemic, cash does not seem to be a challenge for a privileged few. So if you’re in this rooted portion of lots of cash to spend at a luxury residence in London, act temporarily before this position disappears.
The unit is jointly represented through Knight Frank and Savills.
Launch gallery: a Porsche-inspired condominium in London’s Belgravia district
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