to think that woman buying a home at 27 is not newsworthy

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www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11689489/Ive-saved-10-years-job-14-two-bedroom-139-000-home.html

She seems to have been living at home until she got a £139,000 house and a mortgage. She has done a lot of work on it and is renting out a room to her cousin.

It's great she has a house. But is it a news story?

Haha I thought the exact same thing!

No, but then the DM hardly qualifies as a newspaper, so...

Actually, it turns out she bought it in 2020, so 3 years ago...

I just read this too!

'I was fortunate enough to live with my mum and dad up until I bought my first house'

Aye, love, that'll be why you can afford to buy a home.

My DD is 24 and mortgage free, owns a 3 bed house

Sounds quite good for her age but there are reasons why this has come to be the case

So no, I don't think this story is newsworthy

She got to live with her parents and clearly lives somewhere with cheap-ish housing. Around my way a 2 bed flat costs over 200k, move 20 miles from her and its over 300k. What she's done really isn't special and I'm not sure why we are supposed to care.

It’s like those stories in the Telegraph advising you on how Jocasta has bought as million pound house at just 25 by foregoing lattes/avocados/ski trips and then three paragraphs in it mentions the massive inheritance she received from great grandma 🙄

I bought a £392k flat in London with DH at 27, also lived at home for 3 years.

Not newsworthy in the slightest.

Kind of news parents tell to their friends

It shouldn't be newsworthy to be adequately and affordable housed. But increasingly it is. Which is fucking depressing.

I think the message is supposed to be young people should stop complaining about housing costs because this person bought a house by doing a paper round.

I do have to laugh when Daily Mail readers start threads to criticize the Daily Mail.

No it's not newsworthy and it's certainly not threadworthy either.

Well yes, in the sense that it highlights hoelw unaffordable home ownership is for many young people. Obviously the DM is doing the "it's just lazy entitled yoof" bollocks, but look at it more critically and yes...27 year old reveals secret to buying modest first home does indeed betray how unobtainable it is for many.

Daily mail and Guardian are the same. If I had to pick one to read I would pick Daily Mail as they have a much better website and do not censor the comment section unless legally required and do not have their version of Guardians pick in the comment section and people are aware that they have issues.

My thoughts exactly.

Not newsworthy, but also not surprising as it's the daily mail.

I bought my 1st home at 25 with a 25% deposit. So a 27 year old buying an equally low-priced house, with the advantage of living with mummy and daddy until that age isn't really an achievement.

Is it comment worthy though?

The news is selected on purpose. This particular non story is to push the narrative that poverty and “generation rent” isn’t due to a horrible economy, and a housing crises, big is due to lazy young people making poor decisions, by showcasing a young woman has bought a house!

It’s a little snippet of Tory propaganda

Seems like this person is in the news a lot

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9823101/Women-left-mortified-neighbour-leaves-note-say-showers.html

www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/my-bag-nicked-night-out-16942473

I think her job is a journalist and she writes news about herself.
Which is one way to get news out there.