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Auction picketed by angry tenants
Butterfields residents booted from sale by security staff
SOCIAL housing tenants stormed into a luxury London hotel yesterday as their homes were flogged off at an auction being filmed by the BBC’s Homes Under the Hammer.
Residents of the Butterfields estate in Walthamstow had come to the five-star Marriott Hotel to picket the auction, where six homes were sold for £300,000 each.
Flats are being hawked by Butterfields E17, which acquired the estate from poverty charity Glasspool Trust for an undisclosed sum.
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