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by paganel 2706 days ago
> At least in London, I have heard it claimed [1] that foreign investors buy properties and leave them vacant,

Maybe it's just hearsay, but a friend of a close friend of mine works as a project-manager (not sure what the exact term is) on several construction sites in and around London. According to him the vast majority of the real owners behind said projects is unknown, as in he doesn't really know for whom he builds said projects.