If SFA entitlement is going to take a bit of a kicking, solace maybe, in that Mervyn King is expected to hint today in his quarterly inflation report that interest rates will stay put until the end of next year at the earliest as well as a downward forecast for the economy and upwards forecast for inflation.
There are various schemes out there to assist with house purchase, lenders are increasingly sniffy but they seem to like the regularity of military income more and more these days. In 20 years time, the jncos and junior officers of today will possibly look back on this period as their home buying sweet spot - just as I look back on the early 90s repo period as mine.