Owning a home remains a pipe dream for many first-time buyers, as housing affordability in England and Wales failed to improve last year despite the well-documented slump in property prices.
Between 2017 and 2018 it cost the average worker 7.8 times their annual wage to purchase a house in England and Wales, about the same as in 2016-17, according to data from the Office for National Statistics .
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