Category: Compulsory purchase

Nobody home?

27 August, 2009 (10:00) | Compulsory purchase, Eminent domain, Local issues, London, Real estate taxes, Rental, Speculation | No comments

Why would you buy an expensive home in a tony London neighborhood and then leave it empty?
 

Vacancies even in my tony neighborhood?
That concerns me.
 
Leave it to the Wall Street Journal to peep through Mayfair’s lace curtains:
 
LONDON — At an abandoned home with yellowing newspapers on its front stoop, Paul Palmer peeks through a mail slot [...]