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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Prudence Ivey

Comment: ‘London housing is completely unaffordable for young people — it doesn’t have to be so’

Despite indications to the contrary, I do not enjoy being a negative Nancy. It’s just that, if I want to write for anyone but the super-rich or those lucky folk who bought London homes in the Seventies, Eighties and Nineties, then it is getting increasingly difficult to follow my natural Pollyanna-ish inclinations.

Case in point, exclusive data seen by Homes & Property, showing that local homebuyers are now priced out of every single London borough, as house prices have become so untethered from incomes they now exist on another plane entirely.

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