@fesh Personally, neither me nor my family is very fond of gold or gold jewellery, so I happen to also save on locker rent, lol. But in your friend’s case she may be having some jewellery and she may have some emotional attachment with that. If yes, then she can consider taking loan against gold jewellery.
Secondly, one can take loan against some eligible insurance policies too.
But decision should be taken by her after considering everything. Take ideas from this place but take your own decision.
Just don’t forget one thing - don’t exhaust all the savings in purchasing the house, some emergency funds must remain with your friend. There are many other expenses too that come after one purchases a house like registration cost, municipal tax, electric connection, paint and furnishing etc. So take an informed decision.