{"id":751206,"date":"2026-02-08T19:36:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T19:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/751206\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T19:36:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T19:36:14","slug":"londons-camden-goods-yard-poised-to-draw-new-yorkers-looking-for-new-homes-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/751206\/","title":{"rendered":"London\u2019s Camden Goods Yard poised to draw New Yorkers looking for new homes abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"

A \u00a0stroll through Camden Goods Yard, a mostly residential complex that\u2019s coming into focus in London\u2019s Camden borough, brought this New Yorker a tantalizing whiff of home.<\/p>\n

Like many Big Apple projects designed for middle- and upper-income apartment buyers, the planned seven buildings on eight acres are centered around a large gourmet supermarket, Morrisons, to open later this year.<\/p>\n

Taking another cue from Gotham, sections of the resurgent neighborhood\u2019s main shopping drag, Camden High Street, have been turned into a pedestrian mall.<\/p>\n

\"IllustrationThe planned seven buildings on eight acres in London\u2019s Camden Goods Yard are centered around a large gourmet supermarket, Morrisons, that is to open later this year. Berkeley Group\/St. George<\/p>\n

A planned \u201cCamden HighLine\u201d down the block from the rising \u00a0complex is modeled on Manhattan\u2019s High Line Park. It will transform an unused, elevated rail line into a three-quarter-mile long public greenway. It\u2019s to be designed by James Corner Field Operations, the same landscape architects who created the Manhattan masterpiece.<\/a><\/p>\n

Studio units \u00a0in Camden Goods Yard\u2019s first completed apartment tower, the Regent, are even named \u201cManhattan\u201d \u2014 with screens to section off the sleeping area, a setup familiar to untold numbers of New Yorkers in all five boroughs.<\/p>\n

Camden Goods Yard is the latest endeavor of the St. George division of publicly traded Berkeley Group<\/a>, a developer of 110 mostly residential projects in southern England.<\/p>\n

The Camden Goods Yard project will have 643 new apartments when completed. One building will be all-residential, while the others will include 100,000 square feet of retail and other commercial uses.<\/p>\n

Camden borough is a one-time industrial area known for its creative energy and for sprawling Camden Town Market that draws 28 million annual visitors. The district was the birthplace of literary giants John Keats and Charles Dickens.<\/p>\n

Camden Goods Yard, which is a less-than-10-minute walk from two Underground stations, seeks to exploit growing demand by US-based buyers for living spaces in southern England. According to CBRE, three times more Americans either bought or scoped out homes in or near the British capital in 2025 than the previous year.<\/p>\n

\"IllustrationCamden Goods Yard seeks to exploit growing demand by US-based buyers for living spaces in southern England. Berkeley Group\/St. George<\/p>\n

Some 70% of American purchasers in London chose prime districts like Camden and Canary Wharf, according to CBRE. Because \u00a0marketing only just began \u00a0for Camden Goods Yard, Berkeley Group wouldn\u2019t speculate yet on how many buyers will come from New York City. But \u00a0New Yorkers from trendy neighborhoods such as DUMBO, Williamsburg and Hunters Point might \u00a0feel right at home.<\/p>\n

A recent tour led by St. George marketing director James Nicolson revealed \u00a0an abundance of \u201cthe cool factor.\u201d The Regent boasts a New York-style roof deck soon to include a \u201cfarm-to-fork\u201d restaurant. Many terraces overlook the North London rail line, a spectacle of whizzing trains day and night.<\/p>\n

Next door stands the Roundhouse<\/a>, a 19th Century turntable for steam locomotives that\u2019s been one of the U.K.\u2019s premier venues for live music and performing arts since the 1960s.<\/p>\n

The second residential building, The Gallery, is also new but designed in a contextual brick envelope to fit with the local aesthetic. A huge \u201cCamden Goods Yard\u201d illuminated sign at the top proclaims \u00a0the site\u2019s new life as an urban work-play mecca.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A \u00a0stroll through Camden Goods Yard, a mostly residential complex that\u2019s coming into focus in London\u2019s Camden borough,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":751207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[20842,748,51,59607,393,4884,257,8501,3715,114853,33770,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-751206","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-apartments","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-commercial-real-estate","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-london","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-real-estate","17":"tag-realty-check","18":"tag-residential-real-estate","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116036697158936047","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}