{"id":57500,"date":"2007-05-24T20:29:48","date_gmt":"2007-05-24T13:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/from-homeless-pensioner-to-hampstead-landowner\/"},"modified":"2017-06-11T03:01:49","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T20:01:49","slug":"from-homeless-pensioner-to-hampstead-landowner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/from-homeless-pensioner-to-hampstead-landowner\/","title":{"rendered":"From homeless pensioner to Hampstead landowner"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n\u00b7 From homeless pensioner to Hampstead landowner\u00b7 Two-year stand against developers pays offFor the last two decades, Harry Hallowes has lived a remarkable if precarious existence, sleeping rough in a secluded thicket in one of London’s most treasured beauty spots. At the mercy of developers who he feared might evict him, he has dug his heels in, refused to move and consulted lawyers. His obstinacy appears to have paid off.After a two-year battle, he has been granted the title deeds to a small and highly desirable corner of Hampstead Heath. For someone who has gone from being a homeless pensioner to the owner of land worth millions of pounds, he was surprisingly calm yesterday. “Someone mentioned a million and someone else said two million, but I’m not impressed with figures. I just wanted a place to live,” Mr Hallowes, 71, told the Guardian. Continue reading…
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