Rising prices and a shortage of affordable homes will render the property ladder an unreachable climb for many young people in 2014. Naturally Britain is delving further and further into becoming a nation of renters and I’d personally expect to see a fifth of households in rented homes by 2020. Finally however the demand is there and now, at last, we have a greater number of buyers who are able to access the finances necessary to buy homes, however the supply is nowhere near matching that of the demand. That is why we at Genesis 100 buy every property we can get our hands on for cash.