The baby boomer generation are often enviously described as the ‘lucky generation’. Certainly that demographic cohort born after the end of World War II and before 1960 enjoyed a very different economic and social backdrop to their parents and grandparents and that went a long way to changing attitudes to housing, money and retirement. When it comes to wealth factors the sustained growth in residential property prices in Australia have benefited baby boomers in a significant and material way. The intergenerational impact of that is increasingly a subject of national debate about whether property prices – at least in Sydney […]