Examiner: What options are available to young couples looking for accommodation in your country?

Toni: If they want to buy their own home it isn’t easy for first-time buyers … mortgages are hard to get so most people live with their parents or in rented accommodation … but that can also be very expensive … you often have to pay rent in advance … and if the accommodation isn’t fully furnished you have the expense of buying furniture 

• to pay rent in advance: trả tiền thuê nhà vào đầu tuần hoặc đầu tháng 
• fully-furnished: đầy đủ tiện nghi 
• first-time buyer: người mua lần đầu 
• rented accommodation: thuê nhà

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Examiner: What are some of the pleasures involved in making a home for ourselves?

Suki: I suppose it starts with house-hunting … finding your ideal home … some people enjoy doing up an old property … giving a property that’s old and tired a new lease of life … others like making wherever they live feel like home with some home comforts …

• to do up a property: sửa chữa tòa nhà cũ 
• house-hunting: tìm kiếm nhà

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Cheers,

BEC Team.