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Estate agents just don't get it - I want a house, not a building site

I see bare bricks and I start hyperventilating

7 June 2014

9:00 AM

7 June 2014

9:00 AM

‘What is this, please?’ I said to the estate agent, as he showed me into the building site he was calling a house.

‘This,’ he said beaming, ‘is the kitchen and breakfast room area.’ I picked my way over the rubble and stood in the dark, pokey room with its walls of hideous grey breezeblock.

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