Wembley Millennials Moving Back in with Mum & Dad?

“As parents, we bring up our children so eventually they fly the nest and live their own independent lives. Yet with Coronavirus, one in six millennial tenants are planning to move back in with their parents and in this week's article on the Wembley Property Market we discuss how this will affect family life and the property market as a whole ”

Wembley Millennials Moving Back in with Mum & Dad?
Roll the clock back 20 years and any self-respecting late 20/early 30 something would never say on their first date that they lived with their mum and dad. It was seen as a sign of immaturity being tied to your mother’s apron strings as a failure to leave the family home. Yet over these last two decades, the age of leaving home has been increasing steadily from 20 years and 11 months in the late 1990’s to 22 years and 7 months today.

However, as with all the stats, the devil is in the detail. Although the age of leaving home has only risen by 8% between 1997 and today, those that didn’t leave home in their early 20’s tended to stay much much longer.

In 1997, 11.26% of 25yo to 34yo still lived at home with their parents,
yet last year that had risen to 15.74%, an increase of 391,000
 ‘stay at home’ Millennials

However, before we deride these Millennials for still being tied to their mother’s apron strings, I would say those very same Millennials (the mid 20’s to 30-year olds) have been pragmatic, being attracted to sacrificing independence in order to achieve their long-term life goals as they have seen rents rise and an inability to save for the mortgage deposit. All of this has seen the first-time buyer levels in this millennial age range, rise for the last three years … so good news for everyone!

However, is all that about to change?

Just as mum and dads in Wembley had thought their late 20 something/early 30 something offspring had flown the nest, Covid-19 has blown some Wembley ‘chickadees’ back into the nest. Back in March, the lockdown saw many Millennials flee the big UK cities, with their constrained and poky shared HMO’s and flat shares, swapping their city centre private rented home for their parents’ Wembley home.

Yet with lockdown lessening, it isn’t just remote workers who are unenthusiastic and disinclined to return to the big cities (fearful of a second lockdown) — many of these Coronavirus blow-ins are deciding to stay put too! A recent YouGov poll asked Millennials of private rented homes what their plans were and 1 in 6 tenants planned to hand their notice in on their rented home and fly back to the nest of mum and dad. The advantages are quite plain, especially as it could enable them to save for a deposit to buy their future home.

There are 30,542 households in Wembley, made up of 6,621
single person households and 16,396 family households
(the remainder being made up of shared houses etc.)

Yet how many of those Wembley family households had non–dependent children before Covid-19?

4,223 Wembley households have children
that haven’t flown the nest

That’s 25.7% of Wembley families whose kids are still to leave home … and it’s only going to get worse!

So, what does this mean for Wembley homeowners and Wembley landlords?

It will mean that Wembley parents and their children will get to know each other better, build stronger relationships and it will enable their children, if they are wise, to save for their deposit for their first home purchase - who knows maybe in Wembley, as working from home could become the norm.

Also, with remote working, many tenants are looking for properties with bigger gardens which could translate into greater demand for property with bigger gardens? It will also change the property needs of those Wembley parents and potentially could mean instead of those parents moving down market, they could end up staying longer or moving up market?

Now of course these polls could be a load of hot air? What I do know is that this thing has not played out yet and only time will tell if this will make a concrete change to the way people live, rent and buy property.

These are interesting times and thank you for reading this. Do let me know your thoughts on this matter.

Abigail & the Team at Grey & Co x,

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