I can never walk past an oyster,” says Palm Beach real estate agent Billy Nash. He has just slurped down two on the street outside Broadway Market’s Fin and Flounder where he has come to get a feel for one of London’s biggest property boom zones.
Despite having eschewed his usual Florida-friendly look — think blazers, pocket squares and pink shirts — in favour of a black T-shirt, khaki chinos and sneakers, Nash is still something of a fish out of water here. His clothes are a little too box fresh, his teeth too gleamingly American for hipster Hackney.
