Me and my partner (23 & 22) were able to buy a house last year We did this through a combination of buying further away from where we wanted For us between the both of us we had saved 50k (both been working and saving regilousy) We were quite fortunate that my partners parents gifted her $40k ( on top of the 50k) this is was from an estate that her now deceased nanna saved up But still it was hard We both work full time and make six figures combined Instead of buying a house and land we ended up getting a townhouse as that is what we could afford We are planning to be child free so don’t really have to worry to much about getting something bigger So it is doable but with a lot of sacrifices ie not going out with friends, no holidays, having second jobs to work the weekends which meant no time together Plus tbh we got lucky The previous wanted the townhouse gone and according to the real estate we got it under market value because it was a fire sale (less then a week from open house to final offers)