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This publication is categorised as a CSO Frontier Series Output. Particular care must be taken when interpreting the statistics in this release as it may use new methods which are under development and/or data sources which may be incomplete, for example new administrative data sources.
The median age of purchasers stayed at 40 years between 2022 and 2024, across all transaction types.
Among sole purchasers, the median age fell from 43 to 42 in the same timeframe, whereas the median age for joint purchasers fell from 39 to 38.
The median age by different types of purchaser in 2024 were:
Almost a third of people who bought a dwelling in 2024 were aged 35 or under. Around 11% of purchasers were aged 60 and over.
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