To think you shouldn't expect to buy a home on a single salary?

Your logic is out.

• Every adult wanting a home of their own would only be if every over 18 was single. - Not everyone wants a 3 bed house with a garden, there's plenty of people who live in flats, smaller houses, terraces etc.
• Single people already live somewhere, maybe renting on their own for example. So they don't all need new houses to be built if they buy somewhere. Them moving would free up that property for someone else.
• If everyone who wanted to could buy, there would still be people who choose to rent because of their circumstances eg younger people flatsharing.

Your comments make it sound like you only think those in couples or families are worthy to take up the resource of a house.

Right, I don't know who OP is, but we can rule out all the economists and mathematicians in the country.

This is silly. Renting, and the regular moves involved, can be stressful. Before Liz Truss a mortgage was often a lot cheaper than renting. Wanting your own safe space without tenancy checks, rules about pets, bikes, parking or even how you decorate your home is completely natural. Well done to everyone who has bought, whatever their circumstances. One of my parents bought their first flat on their own in 1984 which made it easier for my parents to buy their first house a few years later. I bought on my own and have managed my finances carefully and made overpayments so that I own 50% of the equity after 7 years.

I bought my first home on my salary, it was twice my salary, now that house would be 5 times what my salary would be now.

Maybe just my view -, these debate topics bring about different views and people rear their ugly heads because agreeing to disagree nicely isnt a skill many on here have .... I kinda expect the OP to rise above them tbh

Stop trying to fight. Let it go

This is a badly written article tho and it just doesnt add up. Yes its difficult but there is an entitlement to a lot of these articles.

She earns 50k 2/3rd of which goes on rent and bills that leaves 1k disposable a month.
There are plenty of 2 bed flats in and around Birmingham for 150k which would require a deposit of £7500 if you include solicitors fees ect probably 10/12k . Even if she saved 500 a month she would have that in 2 years. From there she would be creating equity and paying down her mortgage if she wanted to move up the housing ladder.
I see a lot of people wanting houses or choices of property that they dont have the income for. Its not unreasonable to aspire to owning your own property but it is boring to keep reading these articles when there are options available to the person.
I do feel really sorry for the people earning low/minimal wages who cant make that work and get trapped into renting when they work hard their whole life but a single woman earning 50k in Birmingham needs to evaluate her spending or expectations because its achievable.

Well that wasn't your OP though. You just pasted some random article and said single people shouldn't be able to buy. And said article doesn't make the distinction between flats and houses. It says house, yes but many similar use it instead of the word property.

Personally I think people in the UK are just going to have to get used to flats. Not those ridiculous London tiny ones but 3 bed even double story flats like other countries have.

Even if the UK embarks on a massive house building program it'll be hundreds of thousands at most not close to a million let alone several if it's all houses with gardens.

@Fivebedexecutivehome OP, I wish I didn't read this thread, why are you so unpleasant to people?

You are being silly. Single people buy in their own all the time and it’s a perfectly valid aspiration.

I bought on my own - so did a number of my friends.

why shouldn‘t we expect home ownership?

Yep, OP seems to be saying that single people should not expect to own a home and live in it alone, especially in anything bigger than a soulless shoebox. Extra bedrooms and gardens are for families.

Agreed. I did the same.
Did I have to cut back initially? Yes. Did I have to stop drinking alcohol and having meals out? Yes.
But I brought a 2 bed end terrace for 150k with a 10% deposit, as a single parent. Sold it 4 years later for over 200k and now brought a 5 bed detached house on a private road with my partner for 600k.

Little steps.
Big sacrifices along the way.
But with no parent support. Worked 2 jobs at times.

Yes?

@Fivebedexecutivehome

But not everyone does want their own 3 bed home with garden.
Some people don't want a garden, some people don't want 3 bedrooms , some people are happy with a flat. Some people are happy to rent.
A garden was very important to me, I wanted at least 2 bedrooms, I wasn't fussed about having more than one bathroom, utility rooms, ensuites. My 3 bed was cheaper than the 2 bedroom houses 5 mins walk away because they were in a street with trees and nearer the park
I'm at age where I could be looking at retirement flats but they are all more expensive than my house.
So I have a 3 bed house, for 20 of the years I have lived here I've had lodgers - now I have an adult son. So the house has always housed more than one adult.

If you’re so worried about the housing crisis, concreting things over and carbon footprints, why did you have children? You do realise your children will want to have a home of their own one day? Or is that different?

I think lots of single people would happily live in small studio flats in cities, if the cost of them was low enough that they would have plenty of money left over to do things outside of those studio flats like go out for dinner, to the theatre etc.

But if you have to live hundreds of miles away from your friends and family in the middle of nowhere to afford to be able to buy at all, then yes, a house with a garden and a spare room is probably the minimum that you need to have a life that doesn't feel miserable. The space is sort of the consolation prize for being forced out of the city.

A policy that prioritised. converting big houses in London into multiple smaller flats, possibly by encouraging married people who work from home and don't need to socialise in order to try and meet someone because they're luckily enough to have already done so would help, but I'm not sure exactly what form that would take.

Even more Dickensian to say single people shouldn’t expect to have homes.

You should sell your house, you only need one bedroom.

forgot to add: not even her income , much lesser one

we have been living on one income ( SE) mortgage and all, holidays and a car, from ages past. Yes, you can do it