Wednesday, May 16, 2012

HOUSE HUNTING

Many newly married working class couples are desperately seeking accommodation, but with high prices and rising deposit rates it is proving very difficult. This is not the case for the owning class though. "It is a central London pied-a-terre with a price tag that only the world's richest can afford to pay. A lavish apartment at the Candy & Candy development One Hyde Park has come up for sale - one of only a handful of properties in the billionaire-friendly block to reach the open market - and it could be yours for a cool £65m. The five-bedroom flat, described on property finding website zoopla.co.uk as 'exceptional', has magnificent panoramic views of Hyde Park and Knightsbridge and has been fitted out to the highest specifications. Apartment C.08.1, marketed by luxury estate agents Aylesford & Co, appeared on zoopla four days ago and is already attracting a flurry of interest." (Daily Mail, 14 May) This "flurry of interest" of course is not coming from the working class. RD

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