Band 7+: You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The line graph shows the percentage of people of different age groups and how they rate a set of factors in terms of importance when buying a new home. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant. Write at least 150 words.

The graph illustrates how many people from the age of 25 and above rate a set of factors in terms of importance when purchasing a real state.

Overall, a crime rate is the most important factor regardless of age, whereas the less significant factor is availability of public transport; meanwhile, schools are the second most important aspect among middle-aged people, but it experiences a sharp downward trend among the older generation.

A crime rate, as the main factor, stays relatively constant at 75% among all age groups. However, the public transport, as the less important aspect, remains steady at around 8% until the 45-54 age group, when it rises marginally to 20%; nevertheless, there are two more factors: parks and shopping facilities, that show a fairly similar trend. The latter also presents a plateaued tendency of around 20% in the 35-44 age group but rocketed to about 30% among people aged 55 to 64.

In addition, schools, as a factor, exhibited a gradual decline starting with a 35 to 44 year-old age group: from around 55-52% to less than 25% among the older generation.