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As borrowers face a mortgage crisis, how did you manage to buy your first home?

We bought our first home with a council mortgage in 1975. But the rate went up to 17.5% overnight. We were poor as church mice, but coped. Sandra Peterkin

We bought a three-bed detached bungalow in 1976. It cost just £19,500! Judi Martin

I worked in a bank so got a cheap mortgage to buy our flat in 1968. Brian Wyles

I bought my semi in Dumfries in 1975 when the difference between renting and paying an endowment mortgage was not great. Cameron McEwan

We bought a residential caravan in 1974 for £300 and lived in it while we saved for a deposit to buy our first house, a threebed semi. It was tough. Eleanor Martin I bought my first home aged 69, a flat in sheltered housing. I had lived in our family home supporting and nursing my mother after my father’s death. Liz Kelly

We bought an ex-council house in 1987 and paid off our mortgage in 2013. We struggled, but we coped. Jim Malone

I used the money from my retirement to buy my first home at Panorama Towers, a luxury condominium in Las Vegas! David Tulanian