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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Greg Pitcher

Rise of ‘ghost listings’: five secret-sale London homes listed on property portals

There have long been two main ways of selling a house — in private, leaving little trace of the transaction beyond Land Registry documents, and in public via estate agent boards and online property portals.

But now a third method is gaining traction that blends the two. Several luxury London homes have popped up on popular online platforms in recent months, all rather paradoxically listed as “off market”.

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