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February 19, 2006
Sunday
 
 
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Scott Wickstein (Adelaide, Australia)  European affairs

Properties that twenty years ago were inhabited by collectivised Bulgarian peasants can now be purchased by anyone, thanks to the magic of the Internet.

Ideal for, erm, renovators!

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Saw quite a few "fixer-uppers" there. Nothing a fat insurance policy and some good ol' "Brooklyn lightning" wouldn't cure.


Posted by Coydog at February 19, 2006 05:28 PM

What, no Ikea in Ruse or Popovo? Won't be long.


Posted by Robert Speirs at February 19, 2006 07:01 PM

And properties in the Notting Hill Gate area of London, which you couldn't give away 40 years ago, are now changing hands for hundreds of thousands and millions of pounds.


Posted by Exguru at February 19, 2006 07:37 PM

Well Notting Hill had the advantage of a BBC comedy writer who manipulated Working Title into making a movie specifically so that he could drive up the value of some houses he and his wife had purchased in W11, so much so that even trendy Davey Cameron bought one (more fool him).


Posted by Julian Taylor at February 20, 2006 09:12 AM

I like how that creepy face on the poster goes with this building..ha!


Posted by news lady at February 20, 2006 03:24 PM
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