Fancy A Home Game At Highbury?

First off, apologies for that headline … I have no excuse aside from the fact that it was marginally better than “Home-buyers will be singing in the terraces” (see what I did there … terra … oh forget it).

If association football is not your thing, look away now because we’re talking here, my friends, about today’s launch of 724 new apartments in the old Arsenal stadium at Highbury.

Highbury Square, as the development is called, cleverly recycles the pitch as a central garden square (accessed via the players’ tunnel!) and the old listed facades of the wonderful Art Deco East Stand.

The most expensive properties, unsurprisingly, look inward over the imaginatively redesigned pitch and have the highest price tags.

Prices start at £250,000 for a one-bed flat and climb to £1.5m for a three-bed penthouse.

Not exactly cheap …  but to your average Gooner this must look like a Nick Hornby fantasy come to life.