NEWS… BUT NOT AS YOU KNOW IT
Buying a property has always been high on my list of goals for adulthood.
Like most Millennials, I was taught that homeownership is a marker of success, a symbol that I was doing things ‘properly’, and I had this message instilled very early in my adult life.
Older relatives and colleagues would tell me that renting was ‘pouring money down the drain’, that bricks and mortar were the safest and most sensible investment.
Commentators urged people my age to stop wasting money on Netflix and avocado on toast, to scrimp and save and sacrifice every holiday, every night out, every tiny joy in their lives in order to step foot on the hallowed bottom rung of the property ladder.