Briefing • 14 March 2014
Briefing 22: Most first-time house-buyers depend on the ‘Bank of Mum and Dad’
Young people now need wealthy parents if they want to own their own home
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Explaining the data:
The main figure comes from the Council of Mortgage Lenders from Dec 2011, http://www.cml.org.uk/cml/publications/ newsandviews/104/390. The restriction to those under-30 is because at older ages people are more likely to be ‘returners’ (i.e. we are less confident that they are truly first-time buyers).
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