Date: April 7th, 2009

Negative equity: Part 1, glebe land

7 April, 2009 (10:18) | Legal, Local issues, Real estate taxes, Tenure, United Kingdom | No comments

“Congratulations, you’ve inherited property.  That will cost you …”
 

 
Say what?
 
As I was flying from Boston to Stockholm via Heathrow, I chanced upon a Daily Mail article that opened up vistas of entertainment fodder:
 
Pay £500,000? God help us, say couple forced by a medieval law to foot the bill for church repairs
 
Be warned, however – the [...]