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@Airhead
Fewer piles of shit left round Sands End now, the street I live in has had constant building work for 10 years with every property that's available changing hands and increasingly wholesale refurbishment taking place.
4 years ago next door to us sold for £1m in habitable but partially shoddy condition. 2 years later it had been stripped to a shell and renovated into a 3 bed (!). Completely extended to the maximum permitted and on the market for £2.3m. Of course it didn't sell at that ridiculous price, the whole thing was a local developers vanity project.
There are quite a few whole houses in the street that the council has owned since the 70's, if they ever come up for sale there will be plenty of developers ready to cash in.
The new builds on the Thames are mental though. Tiny flats for stupid money with no doubt massive service charges.