Housing Market Not Caring For Those Caring For You

London's property price tags are forcing public sector workers out of the capital and into the surrounding counties. Even doctors aren't immune to the ill-effects of the spiralling sums needed to secure and upkeep a mortgage.

However, for those in lower-paid roles, such as Health Care Assistants, the monumental shortfall between the job's salary against the average figure required to secure a mortgage highlighted that workers in this role were unable to secure a house anywhere in the country, without another additional salary.

Sell House Fast (opens new window) decided to research, along with Journalistic.org (opens new window) four public sector professions in the UK, and their average take home salary against the affordability of average property prices across the UK and how much they could afford when purchasing a home, based on a single mortgage.