27/11/2017
City Docklands has on hand 500 to 600 active tenants, according to Murphy, Director of City Docklands Limited. These are mainly young professionals from overseas, either singles or couples. They tend to work in financial institutions, MNCs, law firms or professional consulting firms in the London area.
More than 90% of them want furnished apartments, he says. “They want good-quality, stylish furnishings,” observes Murphy.
John Murphy, director of London-based City Docklands, an independent estate agency, has been travelling regularly to Hong Kong and Singapore to meet clients since 2008. The weakening British pound had also been a lure for Asian investors, particularly those in Singapore. A lot of these projects in