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The government actively encouraged investment in property, in order to stimulate the housing market, and the financial sector - they provide specific tax breaks in order to enable this, and still do, which means it is still incredibly easy to buy an investment property on a large mortgage, but very difficult to buy your first proper on a manageable mortgage .