Housing crisis: Friends join forces to get on property ladder

Name: Housing crisis: Friends join forces to get on property ladder
Uploaded: 2015-03-24T08:07:26.000Z
Duration: 2 min 42 s
Description: BBC's Newsbeat meets two first-time buyers who have teamed up in a bid to beat the housing crisis.

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The average price of a first time home is now in excess of £200,000, and leaving many younger buyers feeling priced out of the market.

So how do you make that first move?

BBC Newsbeat's Nomia Iqbal has been to meet two friends from Lancashire who decided to join forces to become homeowners.

24 March 2015