Trouble is - out of my close mates (that I would even consider buying a place with, half are involved or engaged so wanna move in with their woman, and the other half that are single wanna stay at home where it's cheap so they can go out on the lash every night

To be honest tho, even if I was involved (single at the mo) I would be wanting to do it on my own anyway, as I wanna live on my own at first (never done that before ) before commiting to buying a house with someone.....

The other thing is, buying a place with a mate - you're talking a LONG contract - 25 years!!! Naturally you and your mate ain't gonna wanna live together for 25 fooking years! One or both of us is gonna get married in that time and will move on - bit fooked then if you're the one left behind bearing all the mortgage repayments