20, just before house prices went crazy. We bought a modern 1990's 3 bed house. Bought for £40k and sold for £136k. If we hadn't bought so young, we would never have been able to afford our current 1930s 4 bed; a nice house in a decent area. Feel so sorry for friends who bought their first home later on and who are now in negative equity in rubbish areas. We still have around £80k in equity in this house.

22, in 2003. 2 bed terrace with a cellar that I later converted.

Getting on the property ladder is still doable if you're careful in choices, I am not from a well off family and have worked since a paper round at 13. Now own a 2 bed garden flat in London...can only dream of a house here at the mo' but extension plans underway so fingers crossed it's next step!!

Bought our first home at 21 years old. It was £5,300!! A largish 3 up 3 down!

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25... 10 years on and still not broken even putting it on the market this month. Was probably the worse decision i ever made

19 in 1983 - two-up, two down Victorian semi Suffolk/Essex border, cost £22.5k. Sold 3 years later for £46k.

24 - one bed £36.5k in Watford 100% mortgage sold 18 months later moved to two bed Hendon 80k moved after 5 years £100k Woodford

19. £52,000 end terrace ex-council. Sold 2 years later for 92K. Bought at 103K sold 7 years later.... 103K! FYI 1st house was about 8 x income. Mortgage was about 5 x income.

I've just bought my first house at 25. A 3 bedroom bungalow with a sea view :)

25 - Early '80's. Terraced house, paid 11K. Was made redundant late 90's paid off the Mortgage. It has been totally renovated throughout. Lovely house, beautifully decorated; still have it today, wouldn't part with it.

19 when I married in 1973 a new semi at a Very Expensive £7400

23 - a Victorian cottage in Winchester, bought for £22,500 in Winchester in 1983. It was on the market recently for £400,000. Fortunately we managed to move up the chain a couple more times in Winchester, to our present home. We wish our kids could afford to make property investments themselves instead of just paying rent.

35, in London, 2007. Smallish yet gorgeous, held its value all through the 2008 crash, then soared again - nuts really. 8 years later it enabled me to buy a 4 bed semi-D Victorian house in Dublin! Refurbished almost entirely from salvage, by my own hand. Loving it even more than the last place :)

23 in 2008. 4 bed detatched that needed total refurb!

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Just before getting married, I was 23 and he was 26.

63! We moved in just three months ago and are having our House Warming on Sunday. So far 70 people have accepted. We intend to celebrate our socks off!