The cost of being single – and how friends are teaming up to beat it
While she'd just started seeing someone new, it was very early days - far too early to discuss living together.Her friend since school, Sarah, was single and renting a room in a shared house in Brighton. She also wanted to move back home to Kent, but was worried about how she'd get on the housing ladder on her cabin crew salary.When Sarah suggested they buy together, Leanne admits she "totally baulked". But after chatting with a mortgage adviser they went ahead - and say it's helped them avoid the so-called singles tax.Not being partnered up can mean extra costs.
- ▪While she'd just started seeing someone new, it was very early days - far too early to discuss living together.Her friend since school, Sarah, was single and renting a room in a shared house in Brighton.
- ▪She also wanted to move back home to Kent, but was worried about how she'd get on the housing ladder on her cabin crew salary.When Sarah suggested they buy together, Leanne admits she "totally baulked".
- ▪But after chatting with a mortgage adviser they went ahead - and say it's helped them avoid the so-called singles tax.Not being partnered up can mean extra costs.
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The cost of being single – and how friends are teaming up to beat itImage source, Leanne and Sarah/BBCImage caption, Sarah and Leanne say their decision to buy a house together as friends worked out wellByJemma CrewBusiness reporter Published3 minutes agoWhen Leanne split up with her partner in her late 20s she thought she'd have to put her dream of a buying a home in the area where she grew up on hold.She was earning a good salary but the properties she was hoping for - with a garden and parking space - were too expensive on her own. While she'd just started seeing someone new, it was very early days - far too early to discuss living together.Her friend since school, Sarah, was single and renting a room in a shared house in Brighton.
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