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Buying vs. Renting: how does the choice stack up?

To judge by much of the commentary surrounding the plight of “generation rent” you might conclude that anyone who can buy should do so immediately or risk being frozen out of the market. Yet even if house prices do not fall, as we expect, over the next few years, our calculations show that those who can buy have little to lose by biding their time.

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