The fall-out from missing your rung on the property ladder

A Different View with Dave O’Connell

If there’s one thing worse than the realisation that you may never own your own home, it’s someone from an earlier time telling you that they bought their first house for a price that now wouldn’t stretch to purchasing one of those home office garden sheds.

Our forefathers did it to us – without any malice but perhaps with a small soupcon of smugness – when they told us of the first property they bought for five or six hundred quid back in the seventies.

And for good measure, they might add that they didn’t even need a mortgage.

Fast forward to the........

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