The Sunday Times
Why house prices are heating up in London’s elite postcodes
Whatever the woes of the economy, London still retains the power to persuade the world’s wealthiest individuals to part with their cash in return for bricks and mortar.

Whatever the woes of the economy, London still retains the power to persuade the world’s wealthiest individuals to part with their cash in return for bricks and mortar.
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I actually almost moved to Canary Wharf about six years ago, but I felt, at the time, that the neighbourhood was still not quite there yet and was too quiet at the weekends. Now it’s buzzing,” says Dan Bull, a 33-year-old entrepreneur who recently moved into a two-bedroom flat in the east London neighbourhood.
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It’s an age-old shoppers’ dilemma. You’ve finally got money to burn and an idea of what you’d like to spend it on. But you scour the high street and the furthest reaches of the internet and there’s nothing you want to buy.
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