Friday, Feb 05, 2010

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Wall Street Journal: The London Real Estate Bubble Is Back—and It's Scary

Interesting coverage of London's crazy market where you pay £1 million to live in hemmed in by council estates, pocked marked with criminality, and busy roads and convince yourself it is all worth it.

Posted by teeth @ 01:02 PM (1028 views) Add Comment

5 Comments

1. another alan said...

Nice little article. Thanks for posting.

Friday, February 5, 2010 02:40PM Report Comment
 

2. ontheotherhand said...

Great article. People here in the thick of it can't zoom back to understand the big picture. It takes a foreign newspaper to do that. I love the bit where he admits that he couldn't afford to live in London on a decent salary - he needed house prices to go up. Aint that the truth.

Friday, February 5, 2010 02:50PM Report Comment
 

3. debtfree said...

Yep, great article. Straight to the point and from outside the box.

Thanks

Friday, February 5, 2010 03:03PM Report Comment
 

4. drewster said...

Nice article. Particularly the paragraph about how London property is basically used for money-laundering.

Friday, February 5, 2010 07:12PM Report Comment
 

5. Nobody777 said...

drewster makes a fair comment regarding money-laundering I suspect this is a boom industry supported by the MPs in on it as well its a nice bubble and probably still has legs supported by 0.5% interest rates but like premier league football clubs is can last a long time before it pops.

Saturday, February 6, 2010 04:45PM Report Comment
 

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