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That’s still a 50% down payment on that house, your mortgage payments will be a lot less than your rent. So you’ll have a place of your own and more money every month, plus be investing in your capital instead of pissing money away. If that’s not life changing for you then nothing is.
But also as a general rule places don’t let you spend over 30% of your income in rent, 60K that you mentioned for a couple is £4186 per month, so the maximum rent of that hypothetical person is £1256. Which wouldn’t also allow you to rent a house like the one you showed, so it’s pointless. The house where a couple that earns 60k lives can absolutely be bought for close to 1 million (if not less). Whoever is living in a 4 bedroom house like the one you pointed out earns a lot more than 60k and so they can finance the rest.