Tenants
Rental price growth slows in most of UK with landlords reluctant to push them up
Rents in the UK are not surging ahead as some had predicted with the latest lettings index showing that they rose by an average of just 0.8% in February compared to the same month in 2016. This marks a considerable decline in the pace of rental appreciation which was 4.7% in June last year and […] The post Rental price growth slows in most of UK with landlords reluctant to push them up appeared first on PropertyWire . Continue reading →
Report brands new homes in England as unaffordable and of poor quality
The current system of house building in England is failing families by producing high priced and poor quality homes that eight in 10 families cannot afford, a new report claims. Some 83% of families who rent cannot afford to buy a typical new build home across the country even if they used the Government Help […] The post Report brands new homes in England as unaffordable and of poor quality appeared first on PropertyWire . Continue reading →
Number of households in England, rented and owned, not changed in a year
There has been no change in the number of people in England owning their own homes in the last three years and the private rented sector has stalled in the last 12 months, the latest official data shows. Of the estimated 22.8 million households in England some 14.3 million or 63% were owner occupiers in […] The post Number of households in England, rented and owned, not changed in a year appeared first on PropertyWire . Continue reading →