Avocados and first-time home buyers have a somewhat strained history in the property game, but home-moving services platform ReallyMoving.com appears to have forgotten this. ReallyMoving came out with a statement saying wannabe-home buyers need to cut out some 20,000 avocados to save up for a deposit.
It has released a survey that highlights how, in order to get on the property ladder, UK buyers need to eschew some 21,700 avocados costing £1.08 each in order to save up for a deposit. For Londoners this is, of course, just the start.
This all seems eminently sensible on the face of it, but the platform has obviously forgotten that in November 2017 estate agency Strutt & Parker made a similar claim, suggesting that couples could save up a £33,000 deposit in just five years through energetic thriftiness including ‘growing their own avocados’.
Although the stunt was well-intentioned, it triggered an avalanche of online hate from Millennials who were offended.
