What I Own

Welcome to What I Own, Metro's weekly series where we take you inside the home of someone who's managed to buy one. We'll also look at how they saved up for it, and how they manage their money now they're homeowners.

What I Own

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We bought our £298,000 Nottingham new-build using a little-known loophole

What I Own: We swapped a difficult landlord for our vibrant £460,000 London flat

What I Own: We saved for 10 years to buy our first home in West Sussex for £415,000

What I Own: We bought a two-bedroom ex-council property in Hackney for £400,000

What I Own: I live in a £965k 'baby castle' in the Brecon Beacons with my husband

What I Own: Our blended family's £875,000 four-bed forever home in Hertfordshire

What I Own: My partner and I bought our own home before we were 30 — through a loophole

What I Own: Lorelei's £207,500 mermaid-inspired guesthouse in Brighton, East Sussex

What I Own: First time buyer Biro, who bought a £1m home in Brighton with no mortgage

What I Own: I ditched London and bought my dream house in Worthing for £295,000

What I Own: We bought a house boat for £125,000 and joined a mooring community in London

What I Own: We got on to the property ladder in Berkshire for £4,000

I paid a £60k deposit to live in a notoriously 'stinky' village

We bought a new build in Nottinghamshire with just a £7,700 deposit

I won a £250,000 flat on a TV competition show but refuse to live in it

'I pay £400 a month for the mortgage on my two-bed flat in Manchester'

What I Own: ‘We put down a 98% deposit on our £1.2million West Sussex home’

What I Own: 'We live on a £5million Cheshire farm and didn’t need a deposit'

What I Own: Gabriel, who put down a £13,000 deposit on a two-bed flat with Help to Buy

What I Own: Deirdre in Woolwich, whose fixed-term rate has gone up from 1% to almost 6%

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