Tax plan casts a pall over London’s mansion market
Damian Shepherd
Late last year, celebrities packed a party thrown at Fatima and Eskandar Maleki’s luxury mansion in London’s Mayfair neighbourhood. The occasion, in part, was meant to showcase the sprawling townhouse the hosts had been trying to sell without much success.
A few months after the bash, the art collector/oil tycoon couple eventually found a buyer from the Middle East, but only after agreeing to a hefty discount: 33 per cent below the property’s original asking price of £40 million ($77 million).
Bloomberg Wealth
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