I don't know about you but I found the latest report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, concerning young people's attempt to get their foot on the property ladder, grim reading.
Record house prices and high property inflation have left individuals and couples aged between 20 and 39 facing a real uphill struggle to buy a home. The gap between the price of a house and average income is now as great as it was in 1990 – the peak of the last housing boom. And we all know what happened soon after that! But the current climate means an ever-increasing number of people have to find, or remain in, rented accommodation and that spells good news for the buy-to-let sector. According to eMoneyfacts, the number of buy-to-let mortgage offerings available to the UK market throug...
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