'I sold my house for £25k under the asking price - we can't climb the property ladder'

'I sold my house for £25k under the asking price - we can't climb the property ladder'

“We are locked out of the next step,” says Peter Blackall. “The housing market is telling us: ‘You’re not allowed to move up to your next house – a four-bedroom family home – you can’t move up to it.’” Over the past year, the 39-year-old, who works in risk management for a financial institution, has been struggling to sell the three-bedroom family home he and his partner bought in Farnham, Surrey, back in 2013. Blackall and his partner have two …