Prudence Ivey
@PrudenceIvey
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Editor @HomesProperty Evening Standard. Ex-Ham&High. Measure my life in house price indexes. Views mine
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Joined June 2011
Live footage of me at work
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24,000 people waking up and thinking ‘oops’, apparently
Lord Mandelson as the result in Islington North is announced.
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✍️ @PrudenceIvey: 'Lowering our expectations of house price growth is no bad thing'
standard.co.uk
It's high time we reframed our attitudes to home buying. The unpredictable year ahead could be just the moment to do so
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✍️ @PrudenceIvey: The quality-of-life bores have conceded that there is more to existence than a home office and a big garden Read more: https://t.co/E1OXZat1LW
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A 90-year-old housebound pensioner is convicted of not keeping up with his car insurance. He doesn't have email, struggles to walk, can't write anymore & cares for a wife with dementia In our flawed, secretive, fast-track justice system, this kind of prosecution keeps happening
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✍️@PrudenceIvey: Sellers who refuse to budge on the price of substandard homes need to get real.
standard.co.uk
The tools to discern a fair price are at your fingertips so don't be afraid to use them and bargain hard
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Starting an informal Homes & Property housing exchange in the hopes that someone will sell me their nice home… https://t.co/DTncwAFW6c
standard.co.uk
The tools to discern a fair price are at your fingertips so don't be afraid to use them and bargain hard
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You laugh… till you cry
Why Thomas Heatherwick’s misguided ramblings are too dangerous to ignore
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Most foreign correspondents for major media outlets - myself included - have the luxury of being able to leave an assignment when things get too dangerous. Every photo + video in our news media from Gaza this week is taken by someone who cannot escape.
washingtonpost.com
In Gaza, electrical and internet outages are making it hard for journalists to do their job — while many are also struggling to evacuate their own families.
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Private renting is worse for your health than smoking so why don’t we spend on housing? ✍️@PrudenceIvey
standard.co.uk
In one of the world’s richest cities, a third of people are living in potentially health-limiting circumstances
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Mortgage on 350k at 2%: £1484 a month and total payment £445,126. Mortgage on £350k at 5.5%: £2149 and total £644,745. To get payment back to £1484, you can only borrow £243k (total payment 447k). And that's why house prices are falling... More here.
bloomberg.com
The reckoning for markets is picking up speed, the British investor warns on Merryn Talks Money.
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For the last month, I’ve been following a Home Office centre for disabled asylum seekers. There are security guards but no care staff. Some residents are paraplegic but don’t have wheelchairs. One woman begs strangers for food. In tomorrow’s @guardian
theguardian.com
Leaving disabled asylum seekers to rot in an old care home is the system working as intended, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
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The latest from my very brilliant friend @Ruthie_H_Evans - part of the team who broke the Westwood story. No (alleged) predator is safe
bbc.co.uk
An aspiring male model encounters a fashion mogul, but it's far from a dream opportunity.
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I’ve solved how to get people back in the office. Pay them enough to live comfortably within 30 minutes’ commute/all businesses and bosses take an active interest in solving the housing crisis
standard.co.uk
Bosses and city planners can bemoan people’s reluctance to return to the office full time, but they need to consider the cost and time sacrifice of commuting from affordable areas too
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As Labour sets out plans to head back to Gordon Brown-era housing policy, here's a reminder of what Gordon Brown-era ministers said about their own record at the last party conference:
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An area guide to Finsbury Park by local MP (of 40 years) @jeremycorbyn written by @Emmafmagnus
standard.co.uk
Jeremy Corbyn first moved to Finsbury Park in 1970 and marked his 40th anniversary as MP for Islington North this year. He tells Emma Magnus why the area grows on you
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My curated list of homes in @openhouselondon which starts today https://t.co/MxFUboFwW6
standard.co.uk
Each year, Open House gives Londoners a sneak peek of some of the capital’s most impressive — and usually off-limits — buildings
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Sell-out discourse through the ages
In the 1990s, the culture industry descended in a ravenous frenzy on the habitats of Generation X. So-called “alternative” culture turned out to be quite profitable, indeed. From the Archives: Thomas Frank on the commercialization of dissent. https://t.co/Uxi1nXHUFd
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In which I try to find answers beyond the inevitable “house prices” for the blandification of London.
Growing closures of clubs, small shops and pubs heralds an identikit city ✍️@PrudenceIvey
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To contextualise the underspend, £1.9bn would get you around: 19,000 socially rented homes 633 high rises with dangerous cladding remediated 3,800 social housing blocks retrofitted with sprinklers https://t.co/imbOEZi0tn
theguardian.com
Exclusive: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities returning money to Treasury after struggling to find projects to spend it on
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