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HS2 has a rental property empire of nearly 1,500 homes, but route cancellations and house locations have got some people questioning why they aren’t yet selling up

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A couple renting a home managed by HS2 have been told they cannot buy the house - despite it being more than a kilometre away from the incomplete high-speed line.

Phil Allman and his wife Lita moved into the four-bedroom detached house in the village of Lea Marston, on the outskirts of Birmingham, in 2018, three years after the Department for Transport bought it for £310,000.