Thread by @nbdbuk

Spanish coverage: @elpais_inter
The ‘curse of Grenfell’ leaves thousands of apartments unsaleable in the British market
The owners live in houses with no way out because they have the same cladding that caused the London Tower fire that killed 72 people
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Google translate: After the UK decided to leave the European Union, Milena Boeva, a 46-year-old Bulgarian, and her husband agreed to leave England, where they no longer felt welcome. Their intention was to sell their London flat before Brexit and use the money to settle in

Scotland and Spain, where they would escape the cold each winter. The plan, however, is now in limbo, and not because of the pandemic. "We have buyers because it is a beautiful apartment," says Boeva ​​by phone, "but the banks refuse to lend them the money." Nobody is willing to

endorse the purchase of your apartment, which is in one of more than 1,700 buildings that authorities consider "high risk" and valued by appraisers at zero pounds. The couple are caught up in what the British press calls "the cladding scandal,"