Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two people moving into a shared ownership property First-time buyers using the government-backed shared ownership scheme may find ...

Welcome back to What I Own – Metro’s property series where we speak to homeowners about getting on the ladder. This week, we’re back in London meeting full-time nurse Alan. Having rented in the Big ...

When it comes to deposits on your first home, it’s a surprisingly long way. How does £3,250 sound? Even when cutting back on holidays, treats and nights out (and the now legendary avocado on toast) in ...

If you’re struggling to save a big enough deposit to get on the property ladder – or the numbers are simply not stacking up when it comes to what you can afford – a shared ownership scheme could be ...

The UK’s largest social landlord has urged the government to raise shared ownership income thresholds to keep the scheme “accessible” to working households. Clarion, which has around 11,500 shared ...

U.S. private equity giant Blackstone has sold over 3,000 shared ownership homes to the UK’s largest private pension fund in a £405M deal. Blackstone sold the portfolio to the Universities ...

For Chantelle and her husband John, shared ownerhsip changed everything (Picture: Metro) Despite making huge efforts to save a deposit, Chantelle Beams didn’t think she would ever have enough put ...

Homeownership is happening later in life, with over-50s now one of the fastest-growing first-time buyer groupsThe number of first-time buyers aged over 50 has risen by 47% in the past five years ...