Wealth gap rises as home ownership falls, says study

Resolution Foundation finds that half the nation’s wealth belongs to a tenth of adults as property ownership declinesA fall in home ownership is fuelling the return of rising wealth inequality across Britain, it has emerged.Booming house prices in the run-up to the financial crisis had led to a decade-long fall in the uneven distribution of the country’s wealth. However, comprehensive new analysis of the UK’s wealth divisions has now found that the trend has gone into reverse.