It has been a year when house buyers suffered a collective anxiety attack and, fuelled by what turned out to be groundless fears of seismic property tax changes, decided their best strategy was to wait and see.
But even in a desperately slow market there are certain houses — so unique, so fabulous, so, frankly, weird — that they will always find a buyer, whether they be an extravagantly huge mega-mansion, a flat with showbiz pedigree, or a bolthole fit for Frodo.
