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home ownership

August 18, 2020

Falling house prices will not help first-time buyers, says Resolution Foundation

The coronavirus crisis has placed more barriers to homeownership in front of young people, regardless of expected falls in house prices, says the Resolution Foundation.
December 9, 2019

Richest households 'enjoy the lion’s share of the UK’s big wealth boom'

Wealth inequality is almost twice as high as income inequality and, having fallen for most of the 20th Century, has increased over the past decade, says the Resolution Foundation.
June 20, 2019

Additional property wealth in Britain worth almost £1 trillion says Resolution Foundation

Over one in ten people across Britain own second homes, buy-to-let and overseas properties worth £941bn, according to new research by the Resolution Foundation.
December 24, 2018

First rise in home ownership for young families for 30 years but Generation Rent here to stay

Home ownership rates for families aged 25-34 are rising for the first time in 30 years, but high barriers to entry facing first-time buyers remain acute, according to new analysis published by the Resolution Foundation.
October 10, 2018

Cheapest local homes are out of reach for at least 40% of young adults, says IFS

As long as they had a 10 per cent deposit, in 1996 over 90 per cent of 25- to 34-year-olds would have been able to purchase a house in their area if they borrowed 4½ times their salary (the maximum that most lenders will now allow).By 2016, only around 60 per cent of young adults would have been able to borrow enough to buy even one of the cheapest homes in their area.
June 29, 2018

CIH calls on government to suspend right to buy

150,000 social rented homes were lost between 2012 and 2017 due to right to buy and other factors.
June 12, 2018

Analysis of wealth and retirement in England

Retired people in England look set to bequeath rather than use most of their wealth.
May 9, 2018

Commission calls for NHS levy and Citizen’s Inheritance to build new generational contract

The final report of the Intergenerational Commission has called for a new generational contract to tackle the big challenges Britain faces for young and old.
April 18, 2018

Up to a third of millennials face renting from cradle to grave

Policy makers need to radically reform the private rental sector to make it fit for raising children and retirement because a generation of young people face the prospect of never owning their own home, according to a new report published by the Resolution Foundation.
December 30, 2017

Inheritance won't solve inequality or housing problems, says Resolution Foundation

Millennials will enjoy an ‘inheritance boom’ but it will be too late and too unequally shared to solve the generation’s home ownership and wealth inequality woes, according to the Resolution Foundation.