According to a buying agent - quoted here - bankers are ready to plough what's left of their bonuses into London property early in the New Year, before there's any chance of house prices starting to rise significantly. That's despite widespread warning of a dead market next year as everyone obsesses over the election and the World Cup, or even a double dip. What this suggests to the Rat and Mouse is the prospect of even more of a split UK property market... London heading one way... most of the rest of the country the other.

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