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Will the next 10 years be the decade of the rental?
Is the coming decade going to be the one where Britain becomes more like countries in Europe where renting is the norm? Several interesting reports online today consider this. An article in the FT quotes the Department for Communities and Local Government’s Survey of English Housing, which shows that the proportion of owner-occupied homes in…
Affordable housing is not affordable
It seems that ‘affordable housing’, a term much bandied about nowadays, is actually not really affordable at all. Generally the phrase is taken to mean that the property is available at below full market cost or rent. Much is often made of the ‘affordable’ element of housing in new developments. However are they really affordable…
Rent arrears protocol justified
Figures from the DCA show that landlord possession claims were 20% down during the last quarter. Co-incidentally this was the first quarter after the rent arrears protocol came into force. That’s the protocol which requires social sector rent officers to try to sort things out before issuing proceedings for possession. So maybe it was a…
Possession claims stats
For those who are interested in such things, the Department of Constitutional Affairs have published the stats for possession proceedings which can be viewed here. To see the figures you have to scroll right down to the end of the page. The stats are divided into mortgage claims and landlord possession claims, the latter including…
Small landlords dominate PRS
Reading an article in the Landlord press, I was interested to see that the median number of properties owned by private residential landlords is 4, and that some 30% have just a single property. The private rented sector, which makes up around 10% of the housing market, is dominated by small scale private individuals who…
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Private rented sector statistics
The private rented sector is the subject of a recent government report and survey which is looked at in this post