Anyone who has tried to get a foot on the property ladder knows what a challenge it can be. For Grace Baลรงi, itโs a milestone that at times she wondered if sheโd ever achieve. But in 2020, aged 31, she completed on a two-bedroom house in Halesowen, West Midlands.
โHouses near Birmingham were expensive and I wasnโt earning a huge salary at the time,โ recalls Baลรงi, who works as an estates manager. โMy mum didnโt have any spare money to lend me, and โ being single at the time โ I had no partner to buy jointly with.โ
Baลรงi notes that friends, colleagues and family members who had managed to buy their own places had either bought with partners, were earning more money, or had moved home to live with their pa
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