Skipton Building Society found that as many as one in four people aged 20 to 35 were counting on parental help.
And a further one in eight admitted that they expected their parents to act as mortgage guarantors, putting the parental home at risk.
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Skipton said that the survey’s findings mirrored the trends they had seen as a mortgage lender.
Jennifer Holloway, from Skipton Building Society, said: “We have certainly seen a rise in the number of parents acting as guarantors on our mortgages, or even going as far as buying a house with their child.
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