For how long would the serving person be willing to DAILY commute from your property to their place of work? (One way)


Commuting from SFA


Commuting from private rental (allowance from MOD)


Commuting from own home


0 - 15 minutes


49% 17%


8% Reasons for not purchasing a property: 20% 15% 12% 10% 8% 16% 14% Why do you not own your own property?


16 - 30 minutes


36% 52%


30%


31 - 45 minutes


11% 21%


33%


46


minutes - 1 hour


4% 9%


23%


1 hour - 2 hours


0% 1%


5%


2 hours +


0% 0%


1%


3%


2% 0% We can’t


afford one in the area where we are currently posted


We can’t


afford one in the area would like to live


We want to be able to


Postings are too


move with serving


person on posting


unpredictable to decide where to buy


Living in Service


We don’t


accommodation is better suited to our family’s needs at present


want to buy a house where we are currently posted


We don’t want to own a home at this


stage of our life/ career(s)


We are


expecting our serving person to be posted


overseas or to an area where we don’t want to buy a home


The respondents who chose ‘Other’ did so primarily for the following reasons:


- Cannot afford to purchase at current location - Currently on a Overseas tour - Don’t want to buy at the moment - Saving to buy/Intend to buy soon


I have a toddler and one on the way; I want my children to have their Father around as much as possible while they are growing up. We would like to buy our own house but can’t afford one in the area we are posted in.


6 www.raf-ff.org.uk We


wouldn’t be able to live in the home


Intend to live in social housing on


retirement


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