Property News · September 26, 2016

I finally own my first house – so why do I have buyer’s remorse?


Getting a deposit together while prices rocketed was like chasing a moving train. Now I’m on the train, I don’t feel happy and secure. Instead, I just want to jump offMuch has been written about “generation rent” and its myriad ills: the ballooning house prices, the unscrupulous landlords with their dingy buy-to-let empires, the fat wedge of millennials who can’t plan a future because they’re financially trapped in a basement flatshare with a ketamine-addled porn fanatic they met on Gumtree. This is a real problem, and it affects millions of lives.I know this because I’ve always been a member of generation rent. For years, I’ve poured the bulk of my wages into the pockets of a succession of landlords slapdash enough to fit cupboards that fall off walls, or oven doors that spontaneously shatter of their own accord, or carpets that inexplicably become attractive to slugs at night. And it was miserable. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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