A Different View with Dave O’Connell

It clearly won’t solve all problems when it comes to buying a house, but a housing association in the North of England has come up with a clever idea that is at least worth a shot.

They call it ‘sweat equity’ and the idea is that you can get £10,000 off the mortgage on your new house – by mucking in to help build them.

In this particular case in Wigan – a city of over 100,000 people between Manchester and Liverpool – the new homeowners didn’t have to work on their own homes; instead they........

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