Has the Tauranga housing market become impossible for first-home buyers?

Has the Tauranga housing market become impossible for first-home buyers?
19 Dec, 2020 02:25 AM
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Is it becoming harder to buy a first home? Photo / Getty Images
Bay of Plenty Times
For Carly McMechan and her family, the hunt for their first home has been an almost two-year battle with no end in sight.
The family decided to look at buying a home when they realised
how much they had spent on rent in the 18 years they had been together.
They have lived in their rental for 13 years and, while there is no pressure to leave, eventually the landlord wanted to move back upon retirement.

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