
Lauren Cotter and Lee Galvin at
(Picture: PR handout)When Lauren Cotter and Lee Galvin celebrated their ninth anniversary in April, they were able to do so in a home of their own for the first time.
London property prices being so high, the couple had all but given up hope of making it on to the property ladder — in the years before the pandemic they had managed slowly and painfully to save £3,000 or £4,000 towards a deposit, but were struggling to build up anything like a big enough cash reserve to make buying a realistic option.