The City is London’s financial centre and also where the city’s highest residential floors are. On those upper floors the view is not a decoration but the main feature of the home: the Shard, the Gherkin, Tower Bridge and the Tower of London gather in one window. Liverpool Street and the Elizabeth line connect these addresses directly to Heathrow and to Canary Wharf.
On the other bank, the South Bank is the cultural line. Tate Modern, the National Theatre, the Royal Festival Hall, Shakespeare’s Globe and Borough Market sit along the same riverside walk, with Waterloo station at its centre. The schemes here face the river and sit level with the Westminster skyline.
The schemes in our portfolio
We hold 5 schemes in this district. The example home prices in the documents run from £775,000 to £2,500,000; the table below gives each scheme’s postcode, developer, example flat size and price per square metre.
| Schemes | Postcode | Developer | Price on the document | Example size | Per m² |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seven Southbank Place | SE1 7GZ | Braeburn Estates | £1,700,000 | — | — |
| One Bishopsgate Plaza, The Sky Residences | EC3A 7AB | UOL Group | £1,160,000 | 56 m² | £20,714 |
| Principal Tower | EC2A 2BA | Concord London | £1,100,000 | 50 m² | £22,000 |
| Opus Bankside Yards | SE1 9JU | Native Land | £775,000 | 44 m² | £17,614 |
| Westminster Tower | SE1 7SP | London Square | £2,500,000 | — | — |
Seven Southbank Place is the final building of Southbank Place on the Thames beside Waterloo; the architecture is Stanton Williams and the interiors are by Albion Nord. Sales material gives the Southbank Place health club and spa as about 17,000 sq ft: a 25 metre pool, gym, yoga and spin studios, sauna, steam rooms and treatment rooms, with a cinema room, a private dining room and a meeting room also on the list. On the list checked on 12 October 2026 the three bedroom flats run between £4,700,000 and £6,200,000; the service charge is £11.98 per square foot, and parking at £125,000 and storage at £50,000 are separate items.
One Bishopsgate Plaza, The Sky Residences are the homes that run from the 20th to the 41st floor in the middle of the City. The Shard, the Gherkin, Tower Bridge and the Tower of London sit in the same view. There is a concierge who greets residents by name and private lifts that rise directly to The Sky Residences, and Liverpool Street station is 0.1 km away as the crow flies.
Principal Tower is a tower rising where the City meets Shoreditch. Residents are offered a gym, a pool and spa, 24 hour concierge and a residents’ lounge, and most of the flats have a private balcony or terrace. Flat sizes run from 50 m² to 265 m².
Opus Bankside Yards is the residential building of Bankside Yards, between Tate Modern and Blackfriars. The Grand Foyer and concierge, a children’s play room, the River Rooms with their music and podcast studios and the Garden Room with its work and meeting areas are inside the building, and a gym, pools, a spa, sauna, yoga studios and a padel court are planned in the Arches.
Westminster Tower is a collection of thirty residences on Albert Embankment looking across the river to the Houses of Parliament. The residents’ floor, The Westminster Club, holds a concierge, the tower lobby, a reading room, a fitness suite, a screening room and a residents’ lounge, and the interiors are by Mustard and Linen.
Daily life in the building
| Schemes | Pool | Spa and sauna | Cinema | Concierge | Hotel connection |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seven Southbank Place | 25 m | yes | yes | yes | |
| One Bishopsgate Plaza, The Sky Residences | yes | Pan Pacific | |||
| Principal Tower | yes | yes | yes | ||
| Opus Bankside Yards | yes | yes | yes | ||
| Westminster Tower | yes | yes |
The entries in the table come from each scheme’s own sales material. An empty cell means the facility is not stated in that material: in some schemes the document puts forward the size of the home itself, the ceiling height, a garden or a terrace rather than a list of shared facilities. Pool lengths are given as the document gives them; opening hours, booking and guest rules follow the building management’s terms.
View and aspect
In this segment the view is inside the price: within one scheme an elevation facing the park, the river or the skyline is priced above one facing inwards. The column below shows the view options a scheme offers, not that every home has that view; which home has which aspect is confirmed against the unit code.
| Schemes | View by aspect |
|---|---|
| Seven Southbank Place | The Thames and the Westminster side, depending on the elevation |
| One Bishopsgate Plaza, The Sky Residences | The Shard, the Gherkin, Tower Bridge and the Tower of London |
| Principal Tower | The City skyline from the upper floors |
| Opus Bankside Yards | The Thames and the Tate Modern side |
| Westminster Tower | The Thames, Parliament and the Westminster skyline |
What the neighbourhood is like
The neighbourhood on these two lines is professional and cultural. On the City side the London centres of finance, law and insurance are on the same streets; on the South Bank side theatres, museums and concert halls are part of daily life. In buildings with a residents’ business lounge and meeting room the distance between home and office comes down to a lift, and the evening begins at the end of a riverside walk.
What the service costs a year
In this segment the annual cost is part of the purchase decision. Services such as the pool, the spa, the concierge and 24 hour security show up in the service charge, and the charge per square foot a year is the clearest single figure for the scope of what a building provides. Parking and storage are priced as separate items in some schemes. In branded residences part of the hotel service can be included in the charge and part billed per use; we get which is which in writing before an offer.
| Schemes | Service charge (sq ft / yr) |
|---|---|
| Seven Southbank Place | £11,98 |
For your own scenario, our purchase cost calculator and our stamp duty calculator work out the cost; for a letting scenario our rental income tax calculator.
How we take it forward
In these schemes the sale runs home by home: two homes with the same number of bedrooms in the same building are priced apart because of the floor, the aspect and the layout. We pull the current price list, the floor plans and the available units for you, arrange the viewing and stay beside you through the solicitor and the payment schedule. No reservation is made before the buyer’s identity and source of funds are established; we set that part up together from the start.
For a current unit level price list, floor plans and a viewing appointment you can reach us through our contact page whenever it suits you.
The price table for the whole of London is in our London price guide, the schemes by postcode in our postcode directory, and the schemes by developer in our developer directory which you can browse at any time.
This page is part of our guide to luxury homes in London and the whole set of districts is listed there.
- Mayfair and Marylebone
- Kensington, Holland Park and Hyde Park
- Belgravia and Westminster
- Nine Elms and Battersea
Frequently asked questions
Where do prices in this district start? In the documents in our portfolio the lowest example home price in this district is £775,000 and the highest £2,500,000. These are the prices of the example flats that appear in the documents; current availability and the offer are confirmed against the unit code.
Should one buy on a high floor? A higher floor brings more view and more light, and the price rises with it. The decision depends on use: in a home you will live in, the view pays back every day; in a home to let, whether a tenant pays the same difference is read from the live rental listings for that postcode.
What is the difference between a hotel serviced flat and an ordinary residence? In a building that holds a hotel, items such as concierge, housekeeping and room service enter daily life; part of that is in the service charge and part billed per use. In an ordinary residence the service list is shorter and the annual cost follows it.
Is parking included in the price? In central London usually not. In the Seven Southbank Place documents parking is written as a separate item at £125,000 and storage at £50,000. We therefore put a parking requirement into the budget as its own line from the start.
