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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
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Phoebe Jobling

Where I Live: 'I bought a £185,000 six-bed house in Cheshire at 22 - there is a surprising story behind it'

Where we live and what we pay for our homes always strikes up an interesting conversation, especially in the current climate. After this week's news that mortgage repayments could become even more costly if interest rates rise as predicted, people are desperate to know what they can now afford on today's property market.

In recent years it has been, and continues to be, extremely difficult for first-time buyers to get a foot on the property ladder, but sometimes it is about looking in the right place at the right time. And that is one way that Georgia Urmson, 24, managed to buy her first home in Runcorn, Cheshire with her partners at just 22.

Georgia spoke to us as part of our Where I Live series, where each week we take our readers inside a different home across the north west to have a nosey around, find out how much it cost, what they pay for their mortgage and how they've made their house their own.

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