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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Prudence Ivey

Comment: 'Why home buyers should dream big but offer small in London's current property market'

Are you trying to buy a home at the moment? I – still – am (also still welcoming reader entries to the find-Prudence-a-house contest) but one trick is offering promise.

As an eternal optimist, I’ve always set my search at a price point a degree higher than I can actually afford for both rental and sales properties and it has often proved a rewarding strategy.

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