Qitzur Shulchan Arukh – 182:5
Anyone who desires his friends home or utensils, or anything that is not on his friend’s mind to sell, and send him a lot of friends or pleads him personally until he sells it to him, this person is violating “do not covet”. From the time that his heart is enticed and he thinks ‘how can I buy this property?’ he violated “do not desire”. For desire is only in the heart alone, and desire brings to coveting. So, someone who buys something he has a desire for [when they are still someone else’s] violates two prohibitions. Therefore it says, “Do not covet [your friend’s wife] and do not desire [your neighbor’s house or land, his servant or maid, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.]” (Devarim 5:17).
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