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[SueEllen]

Probably. Sounds like the sort of thing they'd do.

Ahh found it -

The Guardian article is from 2014 - https://www.theguardian.com/society/...ions-hampstead

The Chinese like to buy new builds and leave them empty, from what I've been lead to believe.

I still remember to talking to a Chinese colleague when I was in my 20s who was horrified that British people liked living in very old houses. She told us (me and some other colleagues who were from a variety of countries) that they knock down old properties and rebuild them as no-one likes living in a property someone else has lived in.

[NotAllThere]

Foreign owners= multiple council tax bills.

I looked at buying a house with my sister-in-law. The stamp duty for non-residents was eye watering, so we didn't go through with it.

[Zigenare]

Probably. Sounds like the sort of thing they'd do.

The Chinese like to buy new builds and leave them empty, from what I've been lead to believe.

There are whole Chinese developed and owned apartment buildings in central Manchester that have only "nominal" occupation. Obviously in waiting for the invasion...

[DoctorStrangelove]

There are whole Chinese developed and owned apartment buildings in central Manchester that have only "nominal" occupation. Obviously in waiting for the invasion...

Our overlords in the PLA will have to live somewhere. .