‘I’m a father-of-two in my 40s – and I’ve had to move back in with my mother’

Adults caught in the middle of a perfect storm of soaring rent and house prices are finding themselves back living with parents years after they initially flew the nest.

The “boomerang generation” – adults who moved out but returned home later – is expanding, and it is no longer just those in their early 20s who are back under their parents’ roofs.