Buying my own place was an impossible dream – here’s how it came true

Shared ownership? Buying with a friend? Long commute? For Generation Rent, the options aren’t easy, but it can be doneIf someone had told me at the start of last year that I’d be living in – scratch that – owning a two-bedroom loft apartment with a suntrap of a terrace, I’d have rolled my cynical eyes. As a Generation Rent 34-year-old millennial living in London and working as a freelance journalist on a modest income, buying my own place always felt like an impossi