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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Charlotte Duck

Mortgage before marriage: over half of Londoners prioritise saving for a house deposit over a wedding

Yorkshire Building Society estimated that across the UK there were 330,000 first-time buyer mortgage transactions during 2024 (Daniel Leal-Olivas/PA) - (PA Archive)

For coupled up Londoners, the old adage of “first comes love, then comes marriage” has been turned on its head thanks to rising rents, stricter mortgage affordability tests and the financial pressures of saving for a home.

According to new data from Zoopla, when it comes to saving, for 54 per cent of Londoners, home ownership is their number one goal, compared to the zero per cent that prioritse their wedding fund.

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