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Freehold house
A genuinely large freehold Victorian at Isleworth prices with St Margarets on the doorstep — priced off floor area into a street that's already rejected the asking twice, with the flight path and a school catchment that caps who bids against you.
2-bed leasehold flat
A ~6.5% yield on a modern EPC-B two-bed with 244 years left — sitting on a block that is mid-way through stripping its cladding, so who pays for that work is the whole decision.
Share-of-freehold flat
A residents-owned freehold on a ~994-year lease in a scarce warehouse conversion, guided 29% below its 2015 price — but a 2020 cladding flag has to be definitively closed out before that discount means anything.
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