Shared ownership downsides: meet the Londoners struggling to sell their homes

Samantha Henry bought a 25 per cent share of a £465,000 flat in 2018. She is struggling to sell it for £400,000

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Project manager Alexandra Porter, 29, was thrilled when she bought a 25 per cent share of a £500,000, three-bedroom flat in Kidbrooke in 2018.

“I felt like I was being sold a dream,” she says. “But it all came crashing down.”