{"id":83781,"date":"2026-01-20T09:02:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T09:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=83781"},"modified":"2026-01-20T09:02:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T09:02:48","slug":"first-time-buyers-now-need-23000-deposit-to-climb-on-to-the-property-ladder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/01\/20\/first-time-buyers-now-need-23000-deposit-to-climb-on-to-the-property-ladder\/","title":{"rendered":"First-time buyers now need \u00a323,000 deposit to climb on to the property ladder"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1Uxjvb.img?w=534&amp;h=291&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Some buyers must save for five years more than others - simply because of where they live\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisismoney.co.uk\/money\/money-checklist\/article-13451621\/The-time-buyers-step-step-guide-getting-property-ladder.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">First-time buyers<\/a> now need to build an average \u00a323,000 deposit to take the difficult initial step on to the property ladder, fresh research shows.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/other\/first-time-buyers-now-need-23000-deposit-to-climb-on-to-the-property-ladder\/ar-AA1UxxUD?ocid=BingNewsSerp\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>First-time buyers now need to build an average \u00a323,000 deposit to take the difficult initial step on to the property ladder, fresh&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83781","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cost-of-living-crisis"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/property-ladder.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83782,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83781\/revisions\/83782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}