{"id":15414,"date":"2016-06-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/mary-holm-buying-a-home-was-never-a-doddle\/"},"modified":"2016-06-04T00:24:41","modified_gmt":"2016-06-03T17:24:41","slug":"mary-holm-buying-a-home-was-never-a-doddle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/mary-holm-buying-a-home-was-never-a-doddle\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Holm: Buying a home was never a doddle"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nYou mention in a response to a reader’s letter last week that it is more difficult to buy a house now than in her day. I’m not so sure.When I bought my first house in Auckland in the early 80s, it cost about six times an average…
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