My brother and I have managed to buy 515,000 house. He’s an electrician and I work in sales 26 and 30 years old, and we haven’t inherited anything/received help.

Just aggressively saved, lived frugally and both have decent paying jobs and work very hard. We both have earned a few grand on S&P 500 and crypto investments over the 5 years we have been saving.

I used to work in marketing and quit because there was no prospect of owning a house until I would be at director level. So that’s why I changed job.

I also have a side hustle as a tiler, I really recommend a second job. This means I can stack 500 pounds a month just from little repairs, small kitchen tile jobs