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Bank of Mum and Dad gets busy raising deposits for young home buyers

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Bank of Mum and Dad gets busy raising deposits for UK’s increasingly reliant young home buyers

By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter

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One in four home purchases this year will be backed by parents, family and friends

One in four home purchases this year will be backed by parents, family and friends

The coronavirus crisis has made home buyers even more reliant on the ‘Bank of Mum and Dad’ to raise a deposit.

A survey by insurance giant Legal & General and the Centre for Economics and Business Research has found almost one in four purchases this year will be backed by parents, family and friends.

This is up from just under one in five (19 per cent) last year, with almost one in four (24 per cent) borrowers saying they are more dependent on the financial support of loved ones since the pandemic began.

Mortgage lenders have rushed to pull loans to those with small deposits. 

Bank of Mum and Dad ‘lenders’ will hand out an average £20,000 towards deposits.

Legal & General chief executive Nigel Wilson said the figure ‘remains a symptom of our broken housing market’.

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