1st-time buy rise by 92%
FIRST-TIME buyers have shot up 92% in the last 10 years, new figures show.
Last year, first-timers made up the majority of all house sales for the first time since 1995.
In 2018, 372,000 people bought their first homes – up from 192,000 in 2008.
In the same period, the price of a typical first house rose from £153,030 to £212,473 according to data from the Halifax.
Halifax said “new buyers are vital for the wellbeing of the UK housing market”. EMOTIONAL Tony Foulds hails a flypast honouring 10 US airmen who died saving his life 75 years ago.
Tony, 82, has tended a memorial to the men six days a week for seven decades. He was eight when the B-17 Flying Fortress, Mi Amigo, crashed on February 22, 1944, and he has blamed himself ever since, believing the pilot steered away from the park to save him and his pals.
Thousands watched the joint USAF-RAF flypast at Endcliffe Park, Sheffield.
After campaigning for the tribute, Tony said yesterday: “This isn’t
TEARS Tony Foulds weeps at memorial Crowds of thousands in Sheffield about me, it is about those brave men who saved my life. I’ll never stop visiting the memorial. “I’ve had a guilty conscience all my life. The men that saved my life, they’re my family, they didn’t know who anyone of us on the field that