No. My younger daughter and her partner are both employed, with two school age kids, and renting a very basic house. It's too small for them really, but they would jump at the chance to buy it, or one just the same. Absolutely no chance. They can't save enough to get the large deposit they would need, and the building societies wouldn't give them a mortgage without a big deposit.
That said, it's true that some are over-picky, but that's not a new thing. We bought our first house in 1984 - a Victorian terrace that needed a lot of work (which we did, steadily, over several years). At the time, I had a slightly younger colleague looking to buy, and he asked me (and another guy who had also just bought) for advice. We both said the same thing - get a terrace in an unfashionable area, and do it up. He was aghast - "Ugh! I'm not living in an old terrace, it must be new, and fully detatched!" First time buyer on a modest wage? Good luck with that, we said. Never found out what happened.
EDIT: My suspicion is that he borrowed way beyond his limit (because the building societies in those days were handing out 5% mortgages like confetti) and bought a tiny (but new, and detached) crappy house on a Barratt estate. And within two years, interest rates had soared to 15%. Whatever floats your boat.