I'm intensely irritated over a discovery at the
Land Registry website. Being a nosey parker, I looked up my old London flat. I bought this for £37,000 in 1992 and sold for £147,000 in 1997.
Yeah well, someone last year bought that flat for £620,000.
What irritates me is that the person I sold the flat to wasn't nice.
His general manner was brusque, but what I remember most is how he picked on his estate agent. As if he was trying to put the agent in his place. A snide comment here, a snide comment there. Mocked him often. Sometimes corrected his pronunciation. He was so set on eroding the agent's self-esteem that it was truly uncomfortable to witness.
Not only that, his girlfriend was looking to buy the flat with him. And yet he wouldn't let her ask questions. He constantly told her: "Let me do the talking." Casual comments she made during two visits were either ignored or mocked. She did look irritated at times, but she let it slide each time.
When we were exchanging contracts, her name was nowhere in sight. This suggests they split up shortly after their second visit. Either that or he had convinced her to put the property in his name only (god, I hope not).
The idea of that prat profiting £473,000 from the sale irritates me. Silly, I know, but it really, really does irritate me.