Buy Land, They Said
Buy Land, They Said. A housebuilder in Reading in January 1988. Prices have gone up a third in a year, the bank will lend against anything, and every plot you…
Nothing can go wrong. For about two years.
A housebuilder in Reading in January 1988. Prices have gone up a third in a year, the bank will lend against anything, and every plot you can option is worth more by the time you have signed. Base rate is seven and a half per cent. In two years it will be fifteen.
- Starts
- January 1988
- Length
- three years
- Difficulty
- Hard
- Scored on
- Reach £1,500,000 of personal net worth
- Business
- Housebuilder
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