‘Everything we need is on our doorstep’: Why Wembley is much more than just the stadium

It’s not just for the football – Wembley has everything and more (Picture: Metro)

Up to 40,000 people pass through Wembley Park Tube station on event days, en route to Britain’s largest sports venue or the 12,500-capacity Ovo Arena.

Regular visitors will know that a lot has changed since the new Wembley Stadium opened in 2007, both in its immediate vicinity and the wider area.

The entire area has had a facelift

The entire area has had a facelift and the surrounding areas have seen a surge in development as well. Acton has seen the highest surge in property developments since Wembley stadium was designed to be built. It literally turned into an investor hotspot, very much like Shoreditch was transformed when the Olympic stadium and village were built.

Wembley Park is now a destination in its own right, with a theatre, Boxpark, restaurants, cinema and London’s only discount outlet.

There are Jubilee and Metropolitan line services plus Chiltern Railways trains from the stadium. JLL found local property prices are one-third cheaper than the Greater London average.

Thousands of new homes have been built, of which more than 3,650 are private rental flats, in the country’s biggest campus of its kind.

Wembley Park Gardens

Launched at the beginning of April in a joint venture between Barratt and TfL’s commercial property company TTL Properties, this development will comprise 302 one and two-bedroom flats for private sale, all with private outside space.

Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing is delivering a further 152 affordable homes. The first residents are due to move in from spring 2025.

From £379,000.

Find out more: here.

Fulton & Fifth – Regal London

Fulton and Fifth’s Regal London’s flats will have access to five-star amenities (Picture: Chris Winter / Quintain Living)

More than 800 one, two and three-bedroom flats with floor-to-ceiling windows, private balconies or terraces and access to five-star amenities such as a yoga studio, swimming pool and golf simulator. The flats will sit alongside landscaped gardens, a brook and independent cafés.

From £440,000.

Find out more: here.

Anthology Wembley Parade

Anthology Wembley Parade is car free (Picture: Chris Winter / Quintain Living)

A total of 12 one, two and three-bedroom apartments with their own terrace or balcony are left in this car-free scheme

near Wembley Park station. An open day is planned for May 25 and a five per cent deposit boost up to £8,000 is offered to applicants who reserve by June 16 and complete by August 18.

From £93,750 for 25 per cent of £375,000.

Find out more: here.

Arc – Wembley

Arc is moments away from Wembley Stadium (Picture: Chris Winter / Quintain Living)

A handful of remaining one and two-bedroom flats in a shared-ownership block moments from Wembley Stadium. Each has a roomy living-dining area opening on to a balcony, integrated kitchen appliances and a utility cupboard with a washer-dryer.

From £91,875 for a 25 per cent share of £367,500.

Find out more: here.

Repton Gardens

Repton Gardens flats are furnished by John Lewis and is Quintain Living’s most sustainable building (Picture: Chris Winter / Quintain Living)

Quintain Living’s tenth and most sustainable building in Wembley Park is made up of studio and one to four-bedroom furnished (by John Lewis) and unfurnished rental flats. There are 40 layouts with an emphasis on botanical living. Amenities include a podium garden with playparks, lawns, a terrace and barbecues, a 24/7 concierge, a club room, gym and WFH cubicles.

From £1,872 pcm furnished.

Find out more here.

Wembley Ark

Wembley Ark offers rental periods from two nights to a year and all inclusive pricing (Picture: Chris Winter / Quintain Living)

This co-living building, previously a hotel, offers ultimate flexibility with rental periods ranging from two nights to a year. Residents pay an all-inclusive bill and have use of co-working, communal living and dining areas, below, a gym, yoga space, a Peloton spin studio and roof garden.

The 300 en-suite, furnished studios start at £110 per night or £1,499 pcm.

Find out more here.

Case Study:

Ben Smith currently lives in a 2-bed Quintain Living apartment in Wembley Park with his girlfriend and cavapoo (Picture: Supplied)

Ben Smith, a golf trader for an online sports betting company – a job that involves setting the odds for professional tournaments around the world – moved into a Quintain Living rental home two weeks before lockdown in 2020.

He lives with his girlfriend, Katie, who is head of girls’ PE at a secondary school, and their cavapoo Freddie.

Why Wembley Park?

Given Katie works in north London and I was office-based in Hammersmith, it was important to find somewhere with a close enough commute to both of these places.

Katie attended a conference at Wembley Stadium in 2019 and noticed the new-build apartments, so we had a look online. After an in-person flat viewing, we had no hesitation about moving here.

As an avid football fan, I’ve attended Wembley many times, and to see the transformation that has taken place 
is amazing.

What made you choose Quintain Living?

We love how easy it is to rent here. Making one payment a month is hassle free and makes it a lot easier to not stress about the admin side of renting.

We’re in our third flat at the development and moved into a two-bedder, which has given us more room to work from home and for Freddie to have his own space.

How does Wembley Park compare with other parts of London?

Katie lived in Finchley and I was in Brixton for a few years before we moved in here. Brixton seemed a lot more hectic but there are similarities with the age demographic of both areas.

Everything we need here is on our doorstep – it’s super-convenient although dangerously tempting to be so close to London Designer Outlet and Ikea! Wembley Park feels a lot safer, which was a big factor in deciding to stay.

Wembley Park is home to Box Park (Picture: Chris Winter / Wembley Park)

Your favourite things about living here?

We’re a sucker for Bread Ahead bakery – very dangerous when going past it on our dog walks! We recently saw Newsies at the Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre.

Having a view of Wembley Stadium from our balcony is pretty awesome and never gets old. The rooftop terrace on our building is a great place to unwind for a drink, and in the summer having a barbecue overlooking the stadium is surreal. And living here when both the men’s and women’s European football championships were on in 2021 and 2022 was amazing.

Furnished flats in the latest building to launch, Repton Gardens, start at £1,872 pcm.

Find out more: here.