Janice Turner, writing in the Times, takes a - let's say - cynical view of the London housing market... from the all-new five signs of an up-and-coming neighbourhood, to the real effect of the Tories' Stamp Duty and Inheritance Tax plans. But she's most entertaining on the subject of Foxtons:

On Saturday morning Foxtons foxstrels are handing balloons out to babies with the legend “0 per cent”. Already, their one-time-only start-up offer to flog your house for free has vacuumed up whole chunks of the neighbourhood: they have 250 houses on their books and counting. Their message to all the long-standing estate agents is “you’re dead, look upon our coffee shop and despair”.

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