Fact of the day

Wow, how grotty? I mean, that's not great in the scheme of things. Might as well have bought a couple of BMW E30 M3s.

A couple of examples of stupid London 'growth' from elsewhere;

• Friend bought house in Notting Hill for £125,000 in 1991. Sold in 2010 for £1.4m.
  
• Friend got married, bought flat in Hornsey Rise in March 2012 for £220k. Separated a year later, flat sold in April 2013 for £307k. Every cloud and all that.
  
  

I think you'd have to be bordering on mentally-ill to pay today's prices for London flats.