The average price of a house when Allsopp made her purchase was £112,000 when adjusted for today’s inflation.
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Kirstie Allsopp has received backlash online after comments she made about young people buying property were published over the weekend.
The Location, Location, Location presenter boasted to The Sunday Times that she bought her first home when she was 21 with the help of her family, and suggested young people should move up to the North of the UK if they wanted to get onto the property ladder.
She said: “It is difficult, if you were born down south, and have family down south, my life is down south, but if we want a family house we have to move…
“If I had any roots further north and I was trying to buy [I'd do it].”
She went on to share that she was “enraged” to hear people claim they cannot afford a home.
The average price of a house when Allsopp made her purchase was £112,000 when adjusted for today’s inflation.
That is nearly half the price of the average UK household today.
She continued: “When I bought my first property, going abroad, the EasyJet, coffee, gym, Netflix lifestyle didn’t exist,
“I used to walk to work with a sandwich. And on payday I’d go for a pizza, and to a movie, and buy a lipstick."
She continued: “I don't want to belittle those people who can't do it.
“But there are loads of people who can do it and don't. It is hard.
“It's about where you can buy, not if you can buy. There is an issue around the desire to make those sacrifices.”
Readers have taken to Twitter to voice their outrage with one user tweeting: “Kirstie Allsopp, daughter of Charles Henry Allsopp, 6th Baron Hindlip, privately educated at Bedales has wondered why young people don't buy a house at 21, as she did.
“Maybe they weren't born with a silver spoon in their mouths.”
Another said: “The Honourable Kirstie Allsopp (her full title) bought a family home by eschewing £2.50 coffees, £8 Netflix subscriptions and £50 easy jet flights and simply asking the 6th Baron Hibdlip aka daddy for some cash”
