Simon Usborne
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Simon Usborne is a freelance feature writer and reporter based in London. He was previously a feature writer and an editor at The Independent.
October 2022
September 2022
From the £25,000 wreck to the £25m home with an indoor pool: what three house sales tell us about modern Britain
Thousands of homes are sold each day across the country, and each has its own story, from the drug- and crime-ridden streets of a former mining town to the ever more bizarre demands of the super-rich