Lucy DeanWealth reporter
“Let’s get together so we can double our income and buy a house.” Tongue-in-cheek and mildly depressing, this is what passes for flirtation in Australia in 2024.
It’s a pick-up line that Geeta Chand, a 30-year-old operations assistant, has encountered a few times when she’s drifted onto dating app Hinge. She laughs, but she gets it; she’s also trying to buy a house. How’s it going? After nearly five years of saving to build a $200,000 deposit, and having looked into about 200 properties in Sydney and across NSW, it’s not going well.
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Lucy DeanWealth reporterLucy Dean writes about wealth management, personal finance, lifestyle and leisure, based in The Australian Financial Review's Sydney newsroom. Connect with Lucy on Twitter. Email Lucy at l.dean@afr.com
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