London's US Embassy could become luxury hotel | timesonline.co.uk
The United States has agreed to sell its embassy building in Grosvenor Square, Mayfair, to a Qatari sovereign wealth-backed developer for an undisclosed sum. The US State Department said yesterday that it would sell the Chancery building, home to the US Embassy in Britain for almost half a century, to Qatari Diar, a real estate investment company owned by the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA).