Launder Your Illicit Lucre in Houses

This FT Alphaville post, "How to dodge the money laundering police":

Buy UK property, we suspect. 

When it comes to money laundering, the estate agency sector in the UK is regulated by the Office of Fair Trading. Here’s the guidance that Britain’s 7,000 plus agents are supposed to adhere to. Click to read: Read more

Reminded me of two things:

1) The Sultan of Brunei's shack in Regent's Park:

If location, location, location really is the first rule of real estate this is probably the most valuable private property in England. As a starting guess, £200 million.

2) If that's too much there are the dollhouses of Mulvany and Rogers. This Spencer House knock-off went for £200,000.

Here's a detail of the ground floor door:

We'll probably get around to doing a post on the Mulvany & Rogers interiors, they're quite amazing. Here's one of them, the Spencer House salon:

See also: 

"When rich women built houses"

Okay, one more: