Social climbing - from Crouch End to Muswell Hill - I don't think so

[Adrian Essex]

This bizarre article has appeared in the Daily Telegraph. There is just so much of it that doesn't ring true.

"The ambitious project in Cecile Park has given the family a chance to climb – and they want to return to Muswell Hill" - OK so "climb" is ambiguous - Muswell HIll is physically higher than Crouch End, but the implication is social climbimg - I really don't think so.

"We 'lived' with the builders for 10 months, but I knew it would be worth it," - you cannot get 10 months worth of builders and only spend £150,000 - maybe they threw in some arms and legs by way of additional payments

"they snapped up seven bedsits and a basement flat in cheaper Crouch End for £875,000" - that's eight places, all in the same building, all sold at the same time, for less than £110,000 each - has the  market really taken its eye off the ball to that extent - this is an astonishing purchasing coup