Ask almost anyone who moved to Norwich for work in the past few years and you’ll get a version of the same story. The job came first, the flat came second, and buying anything at all came a long way after both. Wages here haven’t kept pace with local property prices, and if you speak to leading estate agents in Norwich you’ll hear that first-time buyers are the group feeling that gap most sharply. Shared ownership comes up constantly in those conversations, usually with very little explanation attached to it. That missing detail is the real problem, because the scheme…
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