Quote Originally Posted by andy222 View Post
I think you have missed the point. I bet they are mostly foreigners who have bought these properties. After all Cameron believes in selling off our assets.
Do we know if the former owners of these properties were Brit or foreign. Plenty of expensive new builds in London are being bought by Chinese - doesn't that bring foreign money into the economy. Of course the biggest sell off of our assets was our gold reserves 1999 - 2002