Hot on the heels of today's Rat and Mouse interview, the Telegraph asks Would you spend £15K just to find a home?

Once upon a time, the only people who used buying agents were celebrities looking for £5m-plus houses... Now, though, even we little people are paying as much as £3,000 upfront for someone to sniff out and secure us the house of our dreams. At which point we have to cough up another 2.5 per cent of the agreed purchase price (£50,000 on a £2m house).

If Christopher Middleton's idea of "we little people" involves buyers of £2m houses, then it looks like I used to write for the wrong broadsheet.

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