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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Ruth Bloomfield

London first-time buyers: what are the options for those without access to the Bank of Mum and Dad

First-time buyers face something of a watershed moment in mid-2022. All around them is bad news.

Interest rates are rising, the cost of living crisis continues to bite, house prices are wobbling and the Government’s Help to Buy scheme, which has helped so many without large deposits purchase their first home since its launch in 2013, is being wound up, and will close to new applications from October 31.

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