{"id":3049,"date":"2017-07-17T15:30:05","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T14:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.buyassociation.co.uk\/?p=3049"},"modified":"2017-07-17T15:30:05","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T14:30:05","slug":"high-house-prices-bigger-effect-population-youd-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/news\/high-house-prices-bigger-effect-population-youd-think\/","title":{"rendered":"How high house prices have a bigger effect on the population than you\u2019d think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>High house prices and difficulties getting onto the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2017\/11\/30\/uk-house-prices-nudge-upwards-defy-downbeat-expectations\/\">property ladder<\/a> are having unintended effects on the population according to a study a think tank recently published, calling it the \u201cfertility crisis\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The research put together by the Adam Smith Institute (ASI) revealed that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2017\/07\/07\/meet-generation-cant-afford-buy\/\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">young people<\/a> are holding off having kids as it is too cost intensive to settle down.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"Ypop9RKZpe\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2017\/07\/17\/uk-private-rented-sector-doubled-since-1990s\/\">UK private rented sector has more than doubled since 1990s<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;UK private rented sector has more than doubled since 1990s&#8221; &#8212; BuyAssociation Group\" src=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2017\/07\/17\/uk-private-rented-sector-doubled-since-1990s\/embed\/#?secret=YOsaqAvp1J#?secret=Ypop9RKZpe\" data-secret=\"Ypop9RKZpe\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2017\/04\/04\/uk-homeownership-falls-lowest-rate-since-1985\/\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Home ownership among young people<\/a> (those aged between 25 and 34) has dropped significantly in recent years, from 60% in 2004 to 35% in 2014. The think tank has managed to connect this drop with the number of children that weren\u2019t born as a result. In two decades, since 1996, it says 160,000 were not born due to young adults not being able to afford settling down.<\/p>\n<p>The trouble many couples are facing to get onto the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2018\/01\/23\/home-mover-deposits-now-exceed-100k-uk-for-first-time\/\">property ladder<\/a> has led them to either put off having a family entirely or have smaller ones.<\/p>\n<p>ASI calculated that whilst <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2017\/07\/14\/britains-house-prices-increased-2-5-june\/\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">house prices have increased<\/a> by 10% in the time to 2014, birth rates have decreased by 4.9% among renters. For homeowners the numbers have only decreased by 2.8%.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Sabinsky was in charge of the think tank\u2019s paper and commented his findings:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe housing crisis is a well-known immediate economic problem, but this report showcases how it is wrecking the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2017\/05\/04\/take-generation-rent-59-years-make-onto-property-ladder\/\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">lives of the people of this country<\/a>, preventing them from having the children they want to have.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This private tragedy will, in the long-run, entail massive knock-on costs to public finances. Housing market liberalisation is something the government should do anyway, but this report outlines a new set of pressing reasons for it to act.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High house prices and difficulties getting onto the property ladder are having unintended effects on the population according to a study a think tank recently published, calling it the \u201cfertility crisis\u201d. 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