{"id":482344,"date":"2026-03-18T14:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T14:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/482344\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T14:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T14:59:11","slug":"average-age-of-first-time-buyer-climbs-to-34","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/482344\/","title":{"rendered":"Average age of first time buyer climbs to 34"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While some challenges are universal, the difficulty of getting on the housing ladder  depends largely on where in the country a person is based. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At the end of 2025, the three most affordable areas to live in Great Britain were East Renfrewshire, East Dunbartonshire, and Aberdeenshire. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In total, nine of the 10 most affordable areas were in Scotland, with Harborough in the East Midlands the 10th.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The three least affordable areas were Hackney, Westminster, and Tower Hamlets, with all the top 10 in London. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The report did highlight positive aspects of the housing market. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The changes over recent decades mean people are now likely to purchase a &#8220;bigger, better-quality, cheaper-to-run home than at any other time this century&#8221;, it said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It also noted an increase in the number of first-time buyers purchasing houses, rather than flats. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While some challenges are universal, the difficulty of getting on the housing ladder depends largely on where in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-482344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}