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Russia: cheap London real estate buy

Updated on 11 April 2008

By Katie Brown

More4 News learns the Russian government has bought nearly a square kilometre of land in west London at half the market rate.

Now, there's been a lot of talk recently about Moscow gold fuelling our property prices but who's the generous vendor in this scenario? It's you the taxpayer.

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