While Generation Rent has a bleak outlook on owning their own home, Gen Zers are more hopeful, and many are ahead of the home-owning game. While Zers have been criticized for adopting backward lifestyles, their techniques are helping them achieve their long-term goals once thought out of reach.

Berlin-based start-up Justhome is helping young generations access the housing market with pre-approved mortgage options and a simplified buying process. The digitisation of conventionally archaic financial services is helping to meet the efficiency-related expectations of younger cohorts.

As the cost of living crisis affects spending power around the world, the property market is looking even further out of reach for all but the most privileged. As a result, some people are turning to unconventional platforms to get their feet on the ladder while others are giving up on the idea of ever owning a home.

Gen Yers may feel like they’re redefining what it means to be in one’s 30s and 40s, but are their youthful appearances and attitudes solely a result of consciously avoiding traditional ageing? Or have economic structures made the typical markers of adulthood a financial impossibility?