While London’s rental market is arguably in a state of crisis, one man’s recent jubilation over his purchase of a disused staircase for £25,000 is not what you might expect.
At a recent auction the listing of a derelict four-storey stairwell – situated behind a Starbuck’s on a main road in Twickenham – was a sight even the man holding the gavel proclaimed not to witnessed in his 30 years of auctioneering.
