The Latest Breaking News from Peter Wetherell

Former royal residence in Mayfair available to rent for £1.3m a year

The Grade-II listed London mansion was once home to King William IV

Evening Standard · Oct 15, 2025

The style set have spoken, fitted carpets are back — here's how to get the look in 2025

With a high pile, a bold pattern or a bright colour, wall-to-wall carpets are back, as we choose luxury and warmth over rustic floorboards

Evening Standard · Aug 14, 2025

Moby Dick author Herman Melville's London townhouse is for sale for £9 million

The Moby Dick author stayed at the property at the end of 1849, and is commemorated with a blue plaque outside

Evening Standard · Jan 27, 2025

Indian tycoon buys Grosvenor Square home of Princess Diana's stepmother

The former home of Countess Raine Spencer has been purchased for £10 million by an Ultra High Net Worth Individual

Evening Standard · Oct 14, 2024

Art gallery or home? Iconic minimalist house designed to display art for sale in Mayfair

The property on Hays Mews was commissioned by Doris Lockhart Saatchi in 1987 and later owned by art collector Ralph I. Goldenberg

Evening Standard · May 14, 2024

Former Cyprus embassy sells for £25 million — with a little help from CGI

Digitally manipulated images are what helped this mansion find a billionaire buyer

Evening Standard · Mar 12, 2024

London's most expensive house sales of 2023: from Tim Burton's glass house to Rihanna's former rental

Interest rates and energy bills weren’t a worry for the ultra-wealthy buyers who snapped up some of London’s most lavish homes this year

Evening Standard · Dec 14, 2023

Beatles manager Brian Epstein's first London home on sale for £8.75m

Mayfair home was later sold to Thatcher era Cabinet minister Norman St John-Stevas

Evening Standard · Oct 18, 2023

Bentley Boy racing driver’s Mayfair apartment sold for £16.1 million

Playboy Le Mans racers would park their green sportscars outside the block on Grosvenor Square

Evening Standard · Aug 7, 2023

Grosvenor Square ‘doer-upper’ that is former home of Princess Diana’s step-mum on the market for £8.5m

A rare “doer-upper” apartment on Grosvenor Square that is a former home of Diana, Princess of Wales’s step-mother Raine Spencer has come on the market for £8.5 million.

Evening Standard · May 12, 2023