“I am waiting for the bailiff to knock on the door, take my keys and kick me out,” says Jose Da Costa Diogo, one of thousands of people who have been told this year their homes will be repossessed. The 65-year-old learned he would lose his home in Thetford, Norfolk, during a brisk 10-minute county court hearing earlier this year.
The interest-only mortgage on the three-bedroom property was taken out more than 20 years ago in the hope he and his then wife would save up enough to eventually cover the capital sum. But the collapse of the marriage and his ex-wife’s departure to Brazil in 2015, left Mr Da Costa Diogo unable to repay the £80,000 still outstanding.
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