{"id":35294,"date":"2021-10-24T18:23:48","date_gmt":"2021-10-24T05:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propertynoise.co.nz\/au\/?p=35294"},"modified":"2021-10-24T18:23:48","modified_gmt":"2021-10-24T05:23:48","slug":"25yo-brisbane-property-owners-surprising-way-to-score-first-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propertynoise.co.nz\/au\/25yo-brisbane-property-owners-surprising-way-to-score-first-home\/","title":{"rendered":"25yo Brisbane property owner\u2019s surprising way to score first home"},"content":{"rendered":"

PHOTO: Jess Prior is a 25-year-old homeowner.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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A Queensland woman has managed to achieve the impossible twice over \u2014 travelling the world and owning a home all by the age of 25.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Jess Prior, from Brisbane, settled a $486,000 two-bedroom townhouse last month by herself.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s also been to 26 different countries. Most notably in 2019, she spent 11 weeks overseas, around one fifth of the entire year.<\/p>\n

\u201cI always joked about having this goal of 30 countries and a house by age 30,\u201d Ms Prior told news.com.au.<\/p>\n

That goal is looking more attainable by the minute.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s all thanks to her job, though not for the reasons you might think.<\/p>\n

Ms Prior was a retail worker at travel company Flight Centre for four years and 10 months so she knew about the best deals which were \u201cheavily discounted\u201d for travelling.<\/p>\n

Sometimes she even scored some free trips if she had to go abroad for work-related reasons.<\/p>\n

In 2019, the then-22-year-old went on a holiday to Bali in January, then she went to the US in July for a business trip. In September and October she had jetted off to Morocco in a personal capacity while finally going on another work trip to Canada later on.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was a very big year,\u201d Ms Prior conceded.<\/p>\n

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\"Jess<\/div>\n

Jess Prior has been to 26 different countries by age 25.<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n

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Before the pandemic, she spent 11 weeks overseas in a year.<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n

The young woman found herself suddenly jobless at the beginning of last year when travel ground to a halt due to the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

Initially she was stood down without pay for three weeks, until the federal government rolled out the JobKeeper program.<\/p>\n

After receiving for the $750 weekly payments\u00a0for many months and not able to spend any money on travel, she hoarded a trove of savings.<\/p>\n

Then she was made redundant in November.<\/p>\n

By a twist of fate, this turned out to be a good thing.<\/p>\n

She received a whopping five year redundancy payout which pushed her savings over the line and turned her into a homeowner.<\/p>\n

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