| Comment | First of all, as others have said, it's a lot easier to do as a couple.
Second, once you manage to scramble onto the property ladder any way you can, you find that it's surprisingly easy to make the next step. Took us years and years to save up the £15k deposit we used to buy a flat for £150k (it was a little scruffy so exactly at home report value). Four years later, the flat's worth at least £180-£200k, due to all the madness and us making it nice, and the mortgage is down to £110k. So almost from nowhere it feels like, we'd have £70-£90k to play with if we chose to move despite being relatively skint in other ways. In two years, it might be that much more. It's kinda miraculous. |
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