Few homes ‘affordable for families’
The housing charity analysed the asking prices on hundreds of thousands of properties listed for sale and compared them with the mortgage that it calculated an average family buying their first home in early 2015 would be able to afford.The research, which looked at homes listed for sale on a property website, suggested that only around 17% of properties on the market with at least two bedrooms are affordable for families with an average income of £30,748.Shelter said the problem was Read more [...]