Revisionist remakes of classic children's films are all the rage at the moment, as studios seek to dust off properties for fresh audiences.
It ran through their properties and, they claim, caused serious damage to their land, crops and animals.
Buildings in good locations on long leases may now be seeing increased demand, but the same cannot be said for retail properties, buildings in so-called "fringe locations" and development sites.
The closer a residence was to the water pump in Broad Street (now called Broadwick Street), the greater the number of deaths – with a few telling exceptions coming from properties that had their own water sources.
In many university towns and cities, there are no shortage of willing and solvent tenants to fill their properties.
"It's all well and good getting first-time buyer finances in shape, but it will amount to hollow words if there are no properties available for them to buy, and if competition continues to push house prices higher and higher".
Among the cheapest properties, for overseas students of more modest means, is a £275-a-week bedsit in Egerton Garden Mews, but it's so small tenants will have to climb a ladder to get to the "raised bed area".
"Many people who took out Swiss franc mortgages for properties in Cyprus did so simply because the interest rate was lower, and they say they were never warned of the currency risks," says Richard Gorrill at overseas mortgages specialist Conti, based in Hove, East Sussex.
Of course, with his ambition, he tweaked the format and set up his own properties, X Factor and Got Talent; they became the conveyor belts to his movie ambitions.
Away: Cut-price Tuscany Villa-booking website To Tuscany has cut prices on 100 of its properties in the month of June.
New guidance is due to be published in March, and it is likely to extend the code of practice that currently covers commercial CCTV use to domestic properties.
