{
  "id": 11322093,
  "title": "At 48, I’ve finally bought a home. I don’t feel like a failure for taking this long",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/02/at-48-ive-finally-bought-a-home-i-dont-feel-like-a-failure-for-taking",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-10-02T00:39:48.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Crikey",
    "slug": "crikey",
    "url": "https://www.crikey.com.au/2026/10/02/buying-property-house-australia-first-home-sami-shah/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The road to homeownership in Australia is one of rental duress, \"discretionary\" spending and investing time, energy and money into improving properties for landlords. It shouldn't be like this. The post At 48, I’ve finally bought a home. I don’t feel like a failure for taking this long appeared first on Crikey .",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}