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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Prudence Ivey

Buying a house in 2022: why are there no homes for sale and how can you beat other buyers?

Hoping for an Easter break from work I headed to Brighton for a couple of days at the seaside. As it turns out there’s truth to the old adage, you can escape your surroundings but you can never escape yourself – or your job.

The weather was glorious, but most people I spoke to would rather have spent the sunniest day of the year on house viewings rather than on the beach judging by the, frankly rather one-note, conversations I had. And yet, there were no houses for them to view.

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