A single mum who works 50 hour weeks for the NHS has had her dream of owning her own home dashed by a £37,000 price hike.
Ellen Perry from Chester has been working extra shifts for the past two and a half years in a bid to save up enough money to get her feet on the property ladder. She was hoping to move into a new three-bed property through a shared ownership scheme at a development in Saughall.
Ellen, a healthcare assistant at the Countess of Chester Hospital, wants to provide a home of their own for her and her teenage daughter. She said she had agreed the price of £250k with Flintshire-based Thompson Developments and paid a £500 deposit on the house back in November 2021.
