Student loans and high property prices have left many young adults with no option but to move back home. But between a perceived loss of independence and the added financial burden on households, how does this return impact the relationships between parents and their grown-up children?

House prices are soaring, and the average age of a first-time buyer is now 35. Student debt and a highly competitive job market is forcing 36% of Millennials to live with their parents. The Barclays Family Springboard Mortgage has a solution: borrow from the bank of mum and dad.

Starcity is a housing start-up that is creating one thousand affordable co-living spaces in the city of San Jose. Driven by astronomical price of housing in the city, Starcity instead offers 'vertical living' – or co-living – which is both social and affordable for the area's disparate youth.

Contrary to popular belief that Gen Y willingly embody 'Generation Rent', 91% UK Gen Yers have just as strong a desire to own a home as previous generations. Data suggests it's the reality of being priced out – not the abandonment of ownership – that's preventing them achieving the milestone.