
A hot property market means the return of scarily tiny flats like this Clapton ‘studio’ with a microwave beneath the bed
(Picture: My Auction)Well that was over quickly. The window when the London property market wasn’t the subject of breathless headlines about records broken appears to be closed, locked and bolted.
In fact, as time goes on, we may question how wide open it even was, given new data showing six-figure house price rises in inner London boroughs (the very areas from which everyone was reported to be fleeing) over the course of the pandemic.