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The house my parents bought in about 1958 was so unaffordable at around two thousand pounds that they had to get in a boarder to help make the payments :eek: But it was better than the besser block garage they had been renting from Dad's brother (with three kids under three). In 1966 they sold...

Internet may be "standard" now, but it is one thing you can get rid of if things get tight. I still stand by my statement that your mother's salary would not have been included in servicing. Private schools are more easily afforded by more people now but have been around for a long time...

Your parents may have both worked, but I'll bet the bank didn't take your mother's income into consideration. Working mothers were not uncommon back then, in part time jobs mostly, very different to many of today's couples. Mobile phones and internet are "optional extras" and you have to be...

That just cannot be right. I have had an IP or PPOR for over 30 years and "majority of price growth" has not only been over the past ten years. Plenty of others on here would back me up. I remember very well a chap I worked with who bought two (or three?) crappy, run-down houses in East...

I don't think you will find many on here who say "property never goes down".

People who live within their means can still buy "a house wherever their level of income" allows them to :confused:. But I don't think my dog could buy a house :D.