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Unfortunately, I waited until the very peak of the market,” he recalls. ysl shoes “Things were going so fast. You only had 30 minutes to buy something before it was gone.”

He paid over the odds, but that was the least of his worries, as he soon discovered when he came into the Telegraph office the next day. “I was sitting in the graphics department and the man next to me was drawing a map for the paper. It outlined the proposed route for the Channel Tunnel rail link and it was going to pass right under our new house. yves saint laurent 2012  A friend suggested that we laid a glass floor, so we could watch the trains passing underneath.”

In the event, the route was changed, but the psychological damage had been done. A cartoon drawn soon afterwards featured a daughter coming into her father’s bedroom in the middle of the night: “Will you take the doll’s house out of my room,” she asks. yves saint laurent outlet “I’m having nightmares about negative equity.” Another shows a child playing with a Channel Tunnel toy train set with the locomotive bursting through the sofa and living room wall.

Matt, 48, and his wife, Pascale, spent a lot of money improving the house in Camberwell before they sold in late 1993. Right at the bottom of the housing market. “ysl shoes sale We sold it for a huge loss. We had a 110 per cent mortgage, and had to pay £15,000 for the pleasure of leaving. That’s why I have done so many cartoons over the years about house-price crashes.”