It was love at first sight

Romantic novelist Pat Booth is the latest celebrity to move into the Montevetro Building, Richard Rogers's glass skyscraper in Battersea. She spent £2.75 million on a three-bedroom penthouse similar to one rented by Naomi Campbell. "I fell in love with the views," Booth says. "I even bought all the pictures and furniture." Meanwhile, she has let her St John's Wood mansion for an estimated £5,000 a week.

Lighting tycoon Christopher Wray is selling his Edwardian mansion on Putney Heath for £5.75 million through Aylesford. The eight-bedroom home has an acre of garden, a coach house, indoor pool, stables, billiard room, 60ft greenhouse and a lot of brass chandeliers. "Chris and his wife are downsizing," says a friend. "Their children are grown up and they don't need all that space.

A 19th century house near Ealing Common, the childhood home of ballerina Dame Margot Fonteyn is for sale for £2 million through Foxtons. The five-bedroom home in Elm Grove Road has an artist's studio and a billiard room with its original table. The house was built in the grounds of the home of Spencer Perceval, the only British prime minister to be assassinated.