Foreign investors snap up homes for sale on old BBC site as pound falls after Brexit vote

HOMES on the old BBC HQ are being snapped up by foreign investors flush with extra cash after the Brexit vote.

The pound’s fall means some buyers can pay 15 per cent less than before June’s referendum.

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The 950 apartments range from £700,000 one-bed flats to £8 million penthouses.

Developers are touting them in the Middle and Far East.

The first 432 homes in White City, West London, will be finished in 2018.

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Five have already been sold to buyers in Dubai and two in Saudi Arabia.

The site, once home to Top of the Pops and Blue Peter, sold for £200 million in 2012 when the BBC moved to Salford.