A MoJ spokesman said the department did not recognise the figures but it was "determined to stamp out this distressing practice which causes property owners untold misery and costs them thousands of pounds in eviction, repair and cleanup costs".
But without a market in stolen goods, there would be no property crime and the misery that goes with it.
The bursting of property bubbles is also causing misery in Ireland and Spain, with an estimated 1.5m unsold homes in Spain alone.In France the housing market is looking soft and almost every index of French economic confidence is plunging, including one particularly important one household spending on food.
To me the place is full of misery.
"Throughout recorded history, wars have been characterized by death, human misery, and the destruction of property; each major conflict being more catastrophic than the one preceding it," Greene argued.
The rest of the world gets its local revenues from property taxes and not income taxes, so the Misery calculation would not change-the exceptions being Belgian taxes, Swiss cantonal levies and Germany's local trade taxes, which vary widely.
"Far too many people have to endure the misery, expense and incredible hassle of removing squatters from their property," the justice minister, Crispin Blunt, said recently.
Mr Greene made a mint betting that America's property bubble would burst, and therefore profited, in a sense, from the present misery of millions of Florida homeowners.
Wet weather continues to cause misery for homeowners across parts of the UK, leaving hundreds of properties flooded.
Tells of the misery in the refugee camps, what assistance has been given; to vineyards and property brought on by the influx of the refugees.
