Salary gap hits first-time buyers - 2004-04-03
House and flat prices are now currently too expensive for single first-time buyers in all regions of the UK except Scotland, according to research.

Salary database PayFinder.com found that house prices are now more than four times average earnings for first-time buyers everywhere except Scotland.

Mortgage lenders will traditionally lend a single person 3.5 times their income to buy a property.
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Helping Hard-Pressed Owners Safeguard Homes - 2004-04-03
When Mary Williams decided that her home in Roosevelt was in desperate need of repairs and that she required financial help to make them, she turned to the Community Development Corporation of Long Island.

Ms. Williams, who lives with her daughter, a nursing student, also has a $552 monthly mortgage payment on her home.
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