If anyone wants to know how difficult it can be to sell a house in London right now, just ask Andy Coulson, the former Downing Street spin doctor and ex-News of the World editor. He has just dropped the price he is asking for his house in Forest Hill, south London, by £175,000. The beautiful five-bedroom detached Victorian house was put on the market this year for £1.625m but the estate agents are now marketing it at £1.45m. It's not the first time they have reduced the price – after getting no takers when they put it up for sale at the original price, they dropped it to £1.485m but dropped it again at the end of last week.
