... now, according to the Telegraph, you don't. The issue is foreign buyers, picking up pukka properties and then holding onto them... slipping them into giant portfolios because... well... they can. It's tax effective, and their kids love a London playground. The paper also seems to have the scoop on the latest Knight Frank Prime Central London Index movement which, they say, will show an annual (July-to-July) inflation rate of 36.4% (the highest since 1979).

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