As a JO I would struggle to pay a mortgage on a small 3-bed semi in the area of Lye or Bzn - average price is now over £200000!!!!!
Fortunately military personnel now qualify as 'Key Skill Workers' and are able to purchase homes through the KSW scheme. Unfortunately the qualifying criteria are a little too specific.
1) You must be based in the South East.
2) You must be able to
guarantee on application for the KSW scheme that you will be residing in the SE for a minimum of 5 years.
Quite how many people in the armed forces fall under the first criteria I'd be interested to see but not as much as I'd be interested to see how many folk can meet the second of the criteria!
I asked Swiss Des to give me an answer to the above when he visited Odious a while back (and the CO and a PRO asked for a copy of the question) but he and his minions have been strangely quiet.