Irons top London’s ‘property Premier league’

West Ham United has topped Britain’s property “Premier League” with house prices in the area around its stadium in Stratford soaring almost 850% in the last 22 years. Property values in the postcodes around the London Stadium at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park averaged  £440,474 last year compared with just £46,448 in 1997. All 10 of the best-performing “football postcodes” are in London, according to brokers Pure Commercial Finance, with Manchester City best of the rest in 11^th place. The highest property prices of any professional football clubs are those around Chelsea’s Stamford Bridge stadium, where the market is up 542% from an average of £404,844 to just over £2.6m.

Evening Standard  (07/08/2019)