This is an advertisement for Leeds Building Society who are on a mission to get more people on the housing ladder and up it because they believe every generation deserves a place to call home.

Affording a home and saving for a deposit has never been easy, but it's also never been as hard as it is right now.

Leeds Building Society are launching a new campaign supporting homebuyers to get on and stay on the property ladder.

They're committed to making housing more

affordable, accessible and available for everyone. Every 16 minutes, they help someone buy a

home and one in two of their mortgages goes to a first-time buyer.

I feel incredibly lucky to have been able to buy my flat.

It was very difficult for me to be able to afford it,

but the stars aligned and I was able to pull it off.

I think a year later or a year earlier I genuinely

wouldn't have managed it. I'm not just saying that I honestly sometimes feel like

Indiana Jones diving under the door and pulling back to grab his hat when I

think about buying my flat. Part of the problem today is the lack of

availability in the housing market and Leeds Building Society are actively pushing the

government to reinstate mandatory targets for building new homes. Because Leeds is a mutual, in other words its member-owned,

their savings customers help their mortgage customers, so Savers play an active role in supporting

the future generation onto the housing ladder.

This year their savings members have helped over 9,000 first-time buyers onto the housing ladder,

so you know your savings are working harder.

Find out more by visiting Leedsbuilding society.co. UK.

Leeds Building Society is authorized by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated

by the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority. Your property may be repossessed if you don't keep up repayments on your mortgage.

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