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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Ruth Bloomfield

How I bought a London home: ‘Trying before buying’ was key for one first-time buyer who found a flat share in the building first

Urban fabric: Tanishq Jain bought in London Square Bermondsy

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A popular strategy among the super rich has been to “try before you buy”, spending hundreds of thousands of pounds renting mega mansions in prime parts of London for up to a year in order to test out a location before committing long term.

Business analyst Tanishq Jain’s budget may have been smaller but he employed a similar tactic to make sure he would be happy in his new location when he bought his first home.

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