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First-time buyer numbers ‘were lowest in a decade in 2023’

Source: PA Archive

The number of first-time buyers who purchased a home with a mortgage in 2023 is estimated to be the lowest in a decade, according to a building society.

calculated that, across the UK, there were around 290,000 first-time buyers in the mortgage market in 2023, shrinking by

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