The TV appearance of veteran London agent Peter Wetherell - now well-known as @mayfairguru on Twitter and a recent board member of Lonres - has not exactly won plaudits from the Daily Telegraph.
The newspaper, which may have been regarded as being more sympathetic to the typical Mayfair resident than, say, The Guardian or The Mirror, was nonetheless hyper-critical of the BBC2 Modern Times programme which this week put the high-rolling locals under the spotlight.
The show featured Wetherell as a locally-known Mayfair figure; others included a woman who described herself as a farm girl born in Africa and a guard at the Burlington Arcade upscale shopping mall who said he was dressed like a rather camp Fat Controller.
The Daily Telegraph called the programme a meet-the-freaks documentary depicting not the sort of village you'd want to be stranded in after dark.
In the review it said: We met Peter, an estate agent with an inexhaustible fund of stories about himself (I sold an entire street of houses because the client smoked the same kind of cigars that I did') and his dead-eyed fixer Alex, who explained the property market as a game of tennis, but for billionaires: fun, real fun'.
A year ago the BBC2 series Under Offer: Estate Agents On The Job also featured some prime central London agents who generally fared much better in reviews and The Guardian said it managed to cast estate agents in a sympathetic light.
You can see the Mayfair programme on the BBC iPlayer here.
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