‘We want the standard of a hotel, but for it to feel like home.” Penny Hughes is giving a tour of an upmarket apartment complex just opened by Riverstone Living, the property developer she chairs, beside the Thames in south-west London.
This high-end development, with its heritage-style reception doors, and the sort of plush furnishings and tasteful lighting normally associated with luxury hotels and private members’ clubs, is actually a “retirement community”.
