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PHOTO: SUPPLIED Financial adviser Liz Koh says it could be hard to replicate Holmes’ and Coppell’s luck.

A Lower Hutt couple gambled on the sharemarket to pull together a deposit for a $485,000 home.

Aden Holmes, 24, and Thomas Coppell, 27, pooled their KiwiSaver savings and about $23,600 through sharemarket investment app Sharesies to pay their 10 per cent deposit.

Holmes, a pharmacist and Coppell, an office manager at NZX by day and a film producer by night, started investing through Sharesies in October 2017 to get in the habit of saving.

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