• Buying your first home has never been tougher. In this On the ladder series, Stuff talks to Kiwis who’ve made it onto the property ladder and others who, by choice or not, are still renting.

Auckland-based Neighbourly marketing and communications director Sarah Moore has the best of both worlds.

She made it onto the property ladder by renting out her home on the Whangaparaoa Peninsula while she enjoys the Auckland lifestyle by renting a Newmarket apartment.

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When Sarah Moore, Head of Communications at Neighbourly, discovered she wasn’t able to live in her Stanmore Bay home, her solution was to rent to her mum.