Friday 9 May 2014

'Generation Rent': 1 In 5 Have No Desire to Own Home

One in five of those classed as ‘generation rent’ have no desire to own a home, a new report has revealed. The fourth annual Halifax Generation Rent report, produced by the National Centre for Social Research (NCSR), uses data from 32,000 interviews built up over four years with 8,026 20 to 45-year-olds and 1,005 parents interviewed in 2014. The opinions of 20 to 45-year-olds have changed between the first report in 2011 and this report. It found one in five of 23 to 27-year-olds have no desire to own a home and 48 per cent agree Britain will become a nation of renters within the next generation. A third, 36 per cent, think the nation should lose its obsession with homeownership. Download a copy of the report from the NCSR website.

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