Top Tips for saving your deposit

Top Tips for saving your deposit

The spiraling cost of getting on to the property ladder is a duanting obstacle for the average first-time buyer to overcome.

According to the latest research from Aldermore, 58% of UK FTBs that bought since March 2020 had to raise a larger deposit than intended due the ongoing impact of Covid-19.
The average increase was an additional £22,849, bringing the deposit size up to £62,572 (an average of 18.6% of the property value). It took first-time buyers who bought since the beginning of the pandemic an average of nearly five years (4.6 years) to save up enough.
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Source: Property Reporter


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