article_snippet: Car factory worker Mr Benn, 22, and his 21-year-old fiancee bought the house in Stoke-on-Trent under a regeneration scheme.
article_snippet: Buyers receive a £30,000 interest-free council loan to help cover the cost of essential repairs and refurbishment.
article_snippet: The new homeowners agree to repay it over ten years
article_snippet: – by which time the property will be worth far more than £30,000.
article_snippet: The couple has installed in The couple new home after buying the mid-terraced property for just £1 in Stoke-on-Trent .
article_snippet: The couple took out a £30,000 loan with the council for 10 years to carry out the work on the rundown property .
highlights_snippet: Rebecca Dennis and Chris Benn bought the terraced property together as part of Stoke-on-Trent City Council's home ownership scheme .
  
highlights_snippet: Stoke-on-Trent City Council invested £60,00030,000 in the two bedroom mid-terrace property that Rebecca Dennis and Chris Benn will pay back over next 10 years .
  