Boleyn Ground stadium deal revealed

West Ham accounts will reveal in the next few weeks that the Boleyn Ground and land were sold by the club for £38m and ClaretandHugh has learned  the highest bid was from Gallaird with the second best coming in some way behind at £32m.

Gallaird later sold the stadium and  land to Barratt London at a minimal profit after they lost interest in the development.

A senior club insider told us: “The site was offered to the entire market, the highest bid by a long way was £38m. The property market has gone on a decent amount since we sold though, so any profits by the developer will be higher than anticipated as a result. It could have gone the other way, even now the properties are not sold at the prices they are asking.”

This week Barrett London revealed that a one bedroom apartment at Upton Gardens will have a guide price of £360,000 while a three bedroom flat will have  price guide of £560,000.

Twenty five per cent of the 842 home development on the site in Green street will be reserved for affordable rent and shared ownership and Newham council have stated that will invest around £18m for 10% of the development valuing the 25% social housing around £45m in total to the developer.

The remaining 631 apartments are likely to average around £400,000 per home given the prices announced bringing the developer an extra £252m in house sales.

With demolition and clearing of the Boleyn ground estimated to be around £8m, planning fees, project costs, bank interest and section 106 costs around £20m and build costs of £84m the developer will have laid out around £150m when all is said and done when the £38m cost of the land is factored in.

However if Barratt London manage to sell the properties at the guide prices they could pull in nearly £300m to double their money and make a handsome £150m profit.

Our senior club insider told us “The club didn’t have the money to do the development itself. It cost £21m to move to the London Stadium (£15m lease, £6m on shop, offices, making the stadium have the look and feel of West Ham United etc), had we developed it and property prices fallen it could have brought the club down.

“The club itself simply didn’t have the money to do the development itself and we are a football club, not property developers !

Developers usually hope to make 15/20% of their costs, but in a rising market like this one it can be a lot more. They also still have to sell the properties at the asking prices !”