The chart compares the percentage between house owners and renters who are between 25 and 34 years old living in the United Kingdom within a range of 11 years.
Over all, the percentage of buying houses was completely more than that of renting houses. While levels of house owners went down gradually, those of renting rose sharply.
In 2004, owning houses was popular thought renting houses was less interesting. In2005 and 2006, the bar for owners declined slightly from 58% to56% and 55% respectively but climbed a bit in 2007. The bar for rent still remained the same, by approximately 23% from 2008 to 2011, while the interest in buying houses decreased slightly and then level off over the couple of years,2011 and 2012. On the other hand, the demand for rent increased dramatically from 23% to 41% since 2006. In 2014, renting became the top of the list, by 48% rathe than buying by approximately 36%.
