Five Years Later: One £22m Billionaires’ Row mansion, two very different markets
Dubbed 'Britain's most expensive new-build' when it launched at the most recent peak of the market in 2014, a 17,000 square foot super-home just off The Bishops Avenue has now sold at 30% below its original asking; it's a neatly potted illustration of how things have changed in the last five years...
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