"You can tailor the time frame of your mortgage to ensure that you pay a similar or lesser amount [as] you will also be responsible for paying insurance, undertaking your own maintenance, paying rates and utilities to council."
"Being able to buy your own home is a real dream. It underpins your family's prosperity and your family's future, and can be used for equity in other things,"Mr Bissell said.
"The next generation will have good stability rather than renting for the rest of their lives like we've done."
"This gives you the ability to control your own life, which is all anybody really wants."
"All I really wanted is to own this house,"he said.