45.3% Of Hillingdon's Under 35s Own Their Own Home… So Much For ‘Generation Rent’ For years we have been told younger people had given up on homeownership, yet the latest Census data tells a very different story in Hayes. Quietly, steadily & against the odds, more under 35s have managed to get onto the property ladder in the last decade, despite one of the toughest economic decades in modern history. Perhaps the real issue is not whether younger people still want to own homes, because clearly they do. The bigger question is what this changing trend means for the future of the Hayes property market?