Quote Originally Posted by noel View Post
That's an astonishing claim WP. Check this article out: https://www.which.co.uk/news/2018/10...-in-your-area/

Or feel free to research your news from elsewhere if you don't like Which. Most data show the cost of the cheapest houses have risen a lot faster than wages.

"Gap years"!! You need to get out more and talk to real people.

I'm quite happy with the Which report. You are moving your own goal posts though as you suggested that youngsters were forced to rent rather than buy.

Noel the Which article doesn't actually refute anything I've said. It actually supports it. It just presents in a certain way and does raise some other issues than the one you origi9nal raised.

It shows comparisons with 1996.

What we know is that we didn't have a minimum wage in 1996. So that doesn't seem to have helped does it?

What we know is that the % of 18 year olds going to Uni has increased since 1996 and it's rare for a 16 year old to enter the workplace now.

If less 16 & 18 year olds are entering the workplace, it will take them more time to establish a financial base.

Without Which doing their research, I could have come to the conclusion that less under 35s would be in a position to make their first home purchase.

I might not have been able to quantify it in the same way, but the Which report supports what I have said.

Perhaps it would be more useful for Which to do a similar survey but rather than use 35 years of age, use 17 years after the age at which the average youth starts a full time job.

They'd certainly find the gap between the blue and green columns in the first chart would be closed up and maybe even find it was easier in the North East, where there is only a little change.