Oscar Wilde, Grosvenor Square has been one of Britain’s most fashionable residences for more than 300 years. So, when property developers transformed the US Navy’s London headquarters into the first private residences in the world to offer 24-hour service from the Four Seasons, buyers were willing to hand over up to £51.8 million in cash for a flat.
Twenty Grosvenor Square is the epitome of opulence, counting a private wine room and cellar with its own sommelier, an on-call chef and a state-of-the-art gym and spa with a 25m (80ft) swimming pool among its amenities.
It also turns out that it is at the heart of Londongrad, with a number of the multi-million-pound properties linked to Russian money and a billionaire oligarch who is facing sanctions among the owners.
Alex Michelin, one of two public-school friends who founded Finchatton, the property development company behind it, describes Twenty Grosvenor Square as the “future of high-end living” – all the benefits of a five-star hotel, but in a home to call one’s own. “More than half of sales have gone to Brits so far,” he claimed shortly after the property went on sale in 2019, but he noted interest in the Mayfair building where General Dwight D Eisenhower masterminded the D-Day landings had also “attracted American buyers”.
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