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Letters: James Whitaker’s widow answers Toby Young

17 August 2013

9:00 AM

17 August 2013

9:00 AM

Absent friends

Sir: Alec Marsh (‘Welcome to Big Venice’, 10 August) accurately observes that Londoners are priced out of central London by largely foreign buyers of second homes. Wealthy foreigners not only buy, they also rent, often living in London for a few years, during which they frequently return to their first home for weeks or months at a time.

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