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In the UK the figures in a survey showed 20% of potential first-time buyers expect to be 40 years old before they buy their first house.
The trend in Britain is showing that the “typical” age of a first-time home buyer may soon increase from 31 to over 40, to up to 44. The concern then is can they then prove they can support a mortgage, as they may require to pay out the mortgage before retirement.

Whilst I recommend the article, there is a annoying reference to mortgage brokers at the beginning of the article that riles me, here.

Mortgage brokers hip deep in profits handed out no-doc mortgages to people with fictional incomes. Wall Street shopped bundles of those loans to investors, no matter how unappetizing the details. And federal regulators gave sleepy nods.
That world largely collapsed under the weight of its improbabilities in 2008.

The Good News. New home sales are happening as we speak
Home builders that are building home designs that customers want, or on difficult lots or are custom designing homes for their clients will fair well because they are customer focused.
How New Home Builders are making sales in this market month in month out

I was sitting in my Display home sales office at Waterford in late February 2011, surveying the empty visitors parking lots. It had been this way in January before the floods. [Everything right except the "sales" part.]

Stocklands offer house and land packages to make owning that new home easier today Queensland’s largest residential land developer has announced incentives to buy land. It hopes to bring new home buyers into the market sooner to take up the slack of recent sales drop off last year. One thing that I have noticed is [...]

Australia’s house price slump has been patchy, with Adelaide recording a gain in values, and Melbourne bringing up the rear as far as house price values are concerned. Melbourne led the nation in the drop in house prices over the past quarter. Melbourne property values did the worst in the nation, with house prices sinking [...]

Banking services available at most Australian Banks, Building Societies and Credit Unions Banks in Australia have developed an array of banking services to serve their customers in an increasingly competitive industry. When buying or constructing a home, its important that you have branch banking services your require near where you intend to build. Many people [...]