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Bonus: The £270 Million House

The record-breaking home sale doesn’t mean you’ll actually own the land.

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Felix Salmon, Elizabeth Spiers, and Emily Peck, gawk at the massive London home that sold for a record £270 million and explain how the leasehold property it sits on kind of makes it like a really, really long rental.

Podcast production by Jessamine Molli and Cheyna Roth.

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About the Show

A weekly roundup of the most important stories from the worlds of business and finance, hosted by Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers.

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  • Emily Peck is the co-host of Slate Money and a markets correspondent for Axios.

  • Felix Salmon is a host of the Slate Money podcast.

  • Elizabeth Spiers is Slate’s Pay Dirt columnist. She was the founding editor of Gawker and the former editor in chief of the New York Observer. Prior to Gawker, she was a financial analyst.