London home prices start cooling amid construction boom
Steep falls unlikely as interest from overseas buyers supports market
[LONDON] Twenty one cranes loom over the south bank of the River Thames from Battersea Power Station to the St George Wharf tower. Here, in the biggest concentration of residential projects in London, developers are steaming ahead just as prices are starting to fall.
Homebuilding in central London doubled in two years as record-low interest rates and demand from overseas buyers drove up values at a pace not seen since 1987.
Developers such as China's Dalian Wanda Group and UK-based Berkeley Group Holdings were drawn to the Nine Elms district, where Malaysia's Sime Darby is redeveloping the Battersea station as part of a plan to turn the neighbourhood into a prime address.
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