Wednesday, 20 April 2016

First Time Buyers Will Need A £64,000 Salary To Afford The Average Home By 2020

Generation Rent is doomed to “a life in expensive renting” as the average house price grows far beyond the average salary. By 2020, first time buyers will need to earn £64,000 per year to keep up with increasing property prices. This is an increase of nearly a fifth on the £52,000 needed for a typical first time buyer’s mortgage in 2015, research finds. On top of the £64,000 to pay each month for their mortgage, they would need a deposit of £46,000 to secure the home with house prices projected to rise to £270,000 over the next four years.  Projections were published in Santander’s Property Millionaire: The Growing House divide report. Download the report from the Santander website.

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