The first of the latter included St James' Square, Covent Garden, Lincoln's Inn and Bloomsbury Square, while the grander residential areas around Belgravia tend to be early or later C19. 后者首先包括圣詹姆斯广场,考文特公园,林肯饭店和布洛姆斯伯利广场,但是在贝尔格莱维亚()围的大居住区可能是十九世纪早期或晚期的事情。
Sales figures had been 50 per cent higher than a year ago. Mr Jonathan Harvey, a director of Friend & Falcke, an agency covering Chelsea, Knightsbridge and Belgravia, said Easter had been quiet as many vendors were on holiday.
Like a big cat abandoned in Belgravia he stalks the halls of the labyrinthine parliament building, bemused, appalled, but very far from intimidated. Members encountered in the corridors are right to jump, as if they might be eaten.
A few weeks ago the head of the Italian national art squad, Colonel Conforte, visited the Belgravia bunker. Soon the ALR will be working round the clock.
The owner and pilot knew me - they wouldn't just go off and take anybody.' Early on the morning of May 4 Mr Nadir left his flat in London's Belgravia, arriving with Mr Dimond at Compton Abbas airfield in the late morning.
Robert Orr-Ewing, of Knight Frank & Rutley's nearby Chelsea office, says property prices in Belgravia 'are so high that it is hard to achieve the same return'. The recession and its aftermath changed attitudes among UK tenants, especially the young.
If energy and weather permit, you could carry on walking, through the squares and streets of Pimlico to Chelsea, possibly via Belgravia.
Now, says Simon Edwards of Winkworth's Pimlico office, the margin between selling and asking prices is down from 5 to 2 per cent. In Belgravia's Eaton Square, SW1, the right address adds hundreds of thousands of pounds to the price.
That was a balance between averages as low as Pounds 170 in Docklands and more than Pounds 800 in Belgravia, Knightsbridge and Mayfair. American corporate tenants are the largest single group for many letting agencies.