Why some would-be home buyers are starting to save for a deposit in college
Casey Harris has just bought a home with her fiance Alex Nugent
Young adults have long been accustomed to receiving “advice” from their elders about how they could afford to get on the property ladder if they just stopped frittering away all their money on avocados and Netflix subscriptions.
The advice is often doled out by someone who hasn’t bought a house since Charlie Haughey was in power and is recalling how they had to scrimp and save themselves because interest rates were in the mid to late teens.
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