Spotlight onChurchill Gardens,

Pimlico SW1W

CityWest Residential manages severalbuildings in SW1W and some of the mostpopular properties for sale in Pimlico arefound within the Grade II listed ChurchillGardens Estate. This is one of the largesthousing estates in Central London and in2000, the Civic Trust voted it the ‘mostoutstanding building scheme’ of the last 40years. The post-war properties weredescribed as ‘luxury flats’, with 36 blocksspread out over a 30 acre site. Today manyof the properties are in private hands, andoffer home movers an excellent entry pointinto the Central London property market.

Churchill Gardens, Pimlico SW1W

CityWest Residential is pleased to be sellinga one-bedroom studio flat in the LenthallHouse block on the Churchill GardensEstate. Priced at £450,000 – less than theaverage London property price, accordingto Rightmove’s figures – and within a shortwalk of Pimlico Tube station, this flatrepresents exceptional value for money.Benefits include a ground floor location, aconservatory and a private patio, with a lowannual service charge and a recentlycompleted renovation programme.

Churchill Gardens, Pimlico SW1W

While experts and commentators debatethe effects of BREXIT on the prime CentralLondon housing market, Pimlico is quietlygoing about its business – remaining afavoured yet stable property market.Rightmove figures suggest house prices inPimlico have stayed the same over the last12 months, although they are up 34% onvalues gathered in 2013. The currentaverage price of a property for sale inPimlico is £1,133,619.

The Pimlico property market

Pimlico’s property market can be looselydivided into three main areas. Many post-warestates, including Churchill Gardens, LillingtonGardens, Millbank Estate and Dolphin Square,are now professionally managed and offerwell-priced starter flats as well as somespacious family apartments. Period propertiesset around garden squares, such as WarwickSquare, Eccleston Square and St George’sSquare, are always in demand. Many of the fiveand six-storey townhouses that overlook thegardens have been converted in flats but theaccommodation tends to be spacious andlofty. Grosvenor Waterside, Caro Point, TheIcon, The Panoramic provide new build andresale opportunities – many with river views.

The Pimlico property market

The development of Pimlico can beattributed to the powerful Grosvenor family,who came in possession of the area byway of marriage between Mary Davies(who had inherited much of centralLondon) and Sir Thomas Grosvenor.Although it took some 150 years for thefamily to get round to developing Pimlico,heir Richard Grosvenor finally hiredThomas Cubitt to map out theneighbourhood in 1824. The legacy is thegrand stucco-fronted terraces and squaresthat characterise the Pimlico of today. Theneighbourhood now falls within the Dukeof Westminster’s Grosvenor Estate with areported 350 Grade II listed buildings.

A little more about Pimlico itself

Pimlico is located close to the RiverThames yet central enough for residentsto walk to Victoria and Westminster. TheMoreton Triangle, Warwick Way, the'Pimlico Grid' and the The TachbrookStreet Market are all popular places to seeand be seen. There’s no shortage of goodreviews for Pimlico’s places to eat anddrink. Earning four and five stars are MooCantina, The Cambridge Street Café at theArtist Residence boutique hotel, Scottishrestaurant Boisdale, Italian bistro Tinello,The Orange gastropub and hotel, bar andbistro About Thyme, and Cask – a barspecialising in craft beer.

Pimlico life

Pimlico is well served by public transport,with its own tube station (Victoria line) andVictorian mainline station within walkingdistance. The number 24 bus serves theneighbourhood and runs to a 24 hourtimetable.

Pimlico life

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