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First-time buyers say Chancellor's stamp duty holiday almost cost them their family home

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Two first-time buyers who made it on the ladder mid-pandemic are calling on sellers to support local buyers, amid warnings the stamp duty holiday is pushing people out of their own home towns.

Jackson Higginbottom, and his partner Holly from St Ives, have spent the past four years saving for the deposit to buy a house.

Earlier this year, the couple finally got on the ladder in the area they grew up in – Sennen, Cornwall. However, with interest in the seaside location rocketing in the past year – they reached a point where they believed they’d never make it on the ladder. “Homes were disappearing off the market in five minutes,” Jackson told Cornwall Live.

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