Buying London is an insult to a city in a desperate housing crisis

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By normalising astronomical wealth, Netflix's new reality series makes us feel bad about what we do or do not have - namely, a house

By normalising astronomical wealth, Netflix's new reality seriesDaniel Dagger is the owner of the agency at the centre of Buying London The premise is tiresome and familiar: attractive women sell huge houses to the uber rich under the guidance/iron fist of a serious boss who still knows how to have fun. The agents fight over who gets to sell which house. The agents fight over who’s getting special treatment from the boss.

The difference is, when it’s on home turf rather than against the sunlit Hollywood Hills, this kind of mindless escapism turns into something crass, cognitively dissonant, and tone-deaf for a country gripped by a desperate Swapping the glass-fronted hilltop new builds of LA for wood-panelled manor houses of the home counties and chic townhouses of Holland Park promises to offer!). Instead, it – and its unseen, often overseas clients – reminds us that the capital has been bought up by absent billionaires who price ordinary, local people out of their homes.According to Rightmove, the average house price in central London is £1,453,887 – more than double the price of a decade ago.

 

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