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Photos and Maps of The London PlaceThe late Victorian building, Evelyn Mansions, is in the West End of London, just off Victoria Street, which links Victoria Station and the Houses of Parliament, across the street from the World Headquarters of the John Lewis Partnership, and Invensys's Headquarters and adjacent to the new Saudi Arabian Airlines Building. A new neighbour, Cardinal Place is nearly complete, just across Victoria Street from The London Place. Residences in Evelyn Mansions are also currently favoured by business executives plus diplomats of several countries One hundred paces --
Several Department of Trade and Industry buildings are a few minutes down Victoria Street, Buckingham Place is a stones throw away (well, if you use a sling shot). Shopping and entertainment are within easy walking distances. Most of London's Embassies, High Commissions and HM Government offices are within walking distance. Gatwick Airport is 45 minutes away from Victoria Station, on the Gatwick Express which runs every 15 minutes, Heathrow is 40 minutes on the London Underground. Victoria Bus Terminus is a 5 minute walk. A bus takes you in 10 minutes to Waterloo Station, the Eurostar Terminal and thence to the Gare du Nord, Paris, France, or Brussels, Belgium, in under three hours. The London City Airport is ten minutes away and from there you can get to the centre of most European Capitals by air. The London Place's centre-of-London location and facilities is available to the first serious bidder who needs a UK or European Union base and offers the asking price for the 60 year lease on apartment, furnished, unfurnished or to sublease the apartment unfurnished for at least two years on an option to buy basis. US Dollar investors should note that buying this apartment is an excellent way to stop further losses from devaluation of the US Dollar. Those who doubt that the the dollar will continue to lose value, should consider that such is the declared aim of the President of the United States, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank and [at the last count] 1,306,313,812 citizens of the People's Republic of China, whose yuan is tied to the US Dollar. Also, US citizens buying properties for investment can also defer US capital gains tax upon sale as long as they buy another property abroad with the sale proceeds, within 180 days of the sale. This picture below shows the kind of reception room where you could greet your visitors. Interior
You can greet your guests here For more Pictures of the Drawing Room, Dining/Conference Room, and Bedrooms/Offices Exterior
-- Evelyn Mansions in the Spring -- More spaceIn addition to the reception room pictured above, space on this site consists of a huge modern Kitchen, Bathroom (with genuine Jacuzzi), Shower Room, a Utility Room (en suite to kitchen), a further Reception/Dining Room (also en suite to the kitchen) and three large, elegant, high ceiling rooms usable as either sleeping quarters or offices or both. Total (gross internal) space on this site is about 1800 square feet, arranged as follows (dimensions are rounded up to the nearest foot):
Floor Plan
Rare CombinationThe London Place has loads of Victorian charm, but with all electrical and electronic equipment, plumbing and heating/cooling thoroughly modernized and all rooms redecorated this year. Built-in storage, storage, and more storage was added. London is known throughout the world as the most convenient, comfortable and friendly place to do business. The London Place is the best place to be in London. CommunicationsAn ADSL (an always on, digital, Internet access and voice, telephone line) connection is already installed, tested and in daily use. The installation cost and monthly rental of £30 including a permanent URL and digital TV services, so you could host your own web site. Internet based video teleconferencing facilities are in daily use and can be provided to meet any requirement from chatting with friends and family in LA and Tokyo to attending Board of Directors' meetings in New York, Atlanta or Rio. We selected, equipped and tested this site for your role of running multinational businesses, or seeing to the interests of your Country, in ease and comfort (eg: no commuting and easy access to the rest of the World). Now it can be yours, and if you work it right, much of it can be tax deductible. Location, Location, Location
Large Scale Map of the area around Evelyn Mansions Click here for a smaller scale map showing the location of Victoria Station within the Centre of London's West End. General Background Information on LeasesAfter lengthy Leasehold Valuation Tribunal (LVT) hearings, the management of Evelyn Mansions was taken over by Gross Fine, nominated by the residents, on 1 January 2000, for five years, to supervise a five year major [£5-Million +/-] and thorough program of renewal and refurbishment of the outside, including the roof, of EM and all common spaces and facilities [eg wiring, plumbing, heating, decorations, and even a new, common, roof-top satellite dish and digital antenna system extending to each apartment and a new video-phone entry control system . The residents, including the Owner of The London Place (whose share was well over £100k), have already paid the cost of this work. From now forward, there will be a lengthy [eg five-year] holiday from all such charges, so that outgoings are estimated to be about £3k annually. As of June 2004, negotiations have concluded between a group of residents and the freeholder to purchase 90 year extensions to the leases on individual flats, bring the un-expired portion to 151 years at a price set by the LVT. Under the new law (see below) the landlord's interest in the un-expired portion ("marriage value") for flats with un-expired terms of over 80 years is zero, if and when the freehold is purchased under the new 2002 Commonhold and Leasehold Act. Another group is planning a new round to obtain similar extensions. If you notify us before the sale, we can join this group and obtain this extension on your behalf, thus avoiding the statutory two-year wait for new residents to start this action. Also, Evelyn Enterprises Ltd, (E2L) the designated Nominee Purchaser for Evelyn Mansions, under the Chairmanship of Gavin Embry, started proceedings earlier to purchase the freehold of the building under the 1993 Leasehold Reform Act . A new law called 2002 Commonhold and Leasehold Act was passed by Parliament in the Spring of 2002, has received Royal Assent and came fully into effect during the course of 2002. This law was lobbied for aggressively by E2L. It is superior in many ways to the 1993 Act, from the point of view of the leaseholder. Now that the new law is completely in place, a simple majority of the residents can apply to purchase the freehold to the entire building at a price determined by the LVT. After that has been done , the residents can manage their building and determine the terms and term of their leases without reference to the (former) landlord. Please contact us for further details, or to arrange a viewing of The London Place. Use the back button on your browser to return to whence you came here.
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