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by NotableAlamode 4148 days ago
It's interesting that I'm being downvoted for the message above. What's wrong with it?

Incidentally, I just had lunch with an architect and a guy who runs a building company, both London-based. I asked them about this. They both agreed that no sane investor would leave flats bought as investments empty. Investment means basically having tenants. The agreed that there is a media-driven moral panic about this. The architect said he had one client who had a 12 bed-room house in central London that was empty for most of the year ... that customer was a member of Kuwait royal family.