The house - the former the home of author Honor Ruth Aspinall who died in 2012 - is being seen as more evidence of the seemingly unstoppable boom in prime London property.
And with its well-kept neighbours in Abingdon Street attracting prices upwards of £5 million, the run-down property whose interior resembles a building site with crumbling plasterwork and filthy walls was also described as an “epic opportunity”.
Emailed in by Derek R via Garth Turner's blog:
When the appointed hour came and went, 145 Galley Ave., in the emerging but dodgy west-end Toronto hood had sold for $803,000, a far cry from the $649,000 being asked by the old woman who was allowed to live there with no furnace, missing windows, leaky roof, knob-and-tube wiring and walls caked in soot from years of burning kerosene heaters.
