Posh properties at record high prices

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It seems that if you want to sail through the tough times entirely unscathed, then the secret is to be loaded. That way you don't have to worry about what the little people are up to, you just buy yourself a few more nice houses - and hang the cost.

There's nothing that reveals quite how badly we're not 'all in this together' as the sales figures for the UK's poshest properties.