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By 1990 the last of the temporary office permissions expired and slowly the properties in Mayfair began to be returned to residential use as corporations sought newly-built office premises in West London, the City, and Canary Wharf.

By 2004 Wetherell, one of Mayfair's most notable estate agents, had calculated that residential property in Mayfair was more valuable than office space for the first time in many years...

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Adapted by Jayne Weldon to promote the publication of the book, The Story of Mayfair, by Peter Wetherell, Erik Brown and Oliver Bradbury, London 2014, which looks at the social, financial and physical development of Mayfair, one of the world's most famous addresses over 350 years. Reproduced with permission.

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