My working lifetime started in 1981 but I know that none of my extended family have brought property on their own apart from my brother who brought a small one bed flat in Buckingham road and low and behold his girlfriend moved in shortly after and spread the costs. I'm not saying it is never...
At the fear of being shot down in flames, I would respectfully suggest that there have been very few periods in the past when people have tended to buy on their own. In my lifetime I can only recall people buying as couples.
But the free market is influenced by availablity of mortgages. It's not like spending a couple of hundred quid on your LCD tv. Most people can afford that so you shop around. Houses are different in that probably 99.999% of people are reliant on a mortgage. They are also reliant on finding...
But when have 20 year olds ever been able to buy their own property. I left school in 1981 and cannot recall many of my friends buying property until their late 20s or if they were in a relationship with dual income. My parents were in their 30s when they bought their first property in the...