London first-time buyers: 'How I bought in London at 25 thanks to a side hustle as a maths tutor'

With rents soaring and house prices climbing, plus a chunky student debt hanging over him, one software engineer knew that getting onto the housing ladder was going to take radical action.

In July, at the grand old age of 25, he became the proud owner of a two-bedroom flat in New Malden, Surrey, having devoted three years of his life to saving for a deposit.