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Article: LE GRAND HOUSE SWOP (or what your home would buy you across the Channel ).
- Article from:
- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- September 15, 2001
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MASSIVE increases in house prices in recent years have made Britain one of the most expensive places to buy a home in the world. So dramatic is the contrast between costs in this country and the rest of Europe that this week a Church of England clergyman announced he was retiring to France because he cannot afford a house over here. Mark Vidal-Hall has to move out of his nondescript, fourbedroom, Seventies vicarage in Staffordshire - and he can't raise the [pound]150,000 it is worth. So, for less than half that price, he has bought something far better: a three-storey 19th-century farmhouse with outbuildings and two acres in Brittany which was on the market for ...
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