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17% of all tenants want to complain about renting experience
Most tenants did make a complaint, but some were put off by fear of the consequences, the English Housing Survey finds.
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Government contradicts its own ‘broken rental market’ claims
Latest English Housing Survey published yesterday shows vast majority of tenants are happy with their lot, its research reveals.
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So has the fees ban all been a mistake? Most tenants happy with their home
A tenant satisfaction survey report show a large majority of private sector tenants, 84 per cent, are satisfied with their housing according to the newly published report for 2016/17.
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House sales in ‘structural decline’ says Barclays
A city analyst working for Barclays believes house sales are in ‘structural decline’ in the UK. The comments by Jon Bell (pictured, below) come in a note sent to City investors yesterday in which he says the number of homes sold in the UK peaked in 1989 and have been declining ever since. Reason for the decline, the equity analyst says, include the increased number of homes owned by buy-to-let landlords, who tend to buy and sell properties less often than home owners. Bell points out that government’s own figures highlight how private home ownership has barely changed since the early 1990s while the extra housing stock made available since then has been swallowed up by private landlords. Bell also says the higher cost of Stamp Duty, a lack of new public and private housing and the UK’s ageing population, who tend to move less often than younger families, is also depressing sales. Bell, who works at the high street bank’s investment banking arm in the City, also proffers some more surprising reasons for the UK’s declining number of house sales. He says the government Help to Buy scheme for new homes is helping younger buyers purchase larger homes, and…
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English Housing Survey: 7 new facts it reveals
The English Housing Survey has just been published and it reveals some fascinating facts about the fast-changing private rented sector. 1. Last year 787,000 tenants moved home within the private rented sector. Of these, 73% said they moved because they wanted while 11% or 86,600 tenants were asked to leave by their landlord – two thirds because the landlord wanted to sell or move back in, and a third presumably for bad behaviour. 2. Despite constant media coverage of rogue landlords and agents, the survey reveals that 71.4% of all tenants were satisfied with the way repairs and maintenance were carried out on their property. But the survey also says 17.7% of tenants were unhappy with how their landlord looked after their property, leaving 9.5% not sure either way. 3. Being a tenant has yet to become as popular as home ownership, either. Just one in five renters or 21% quizzed by the report were satisfied with their status as a private tenant. 4. The research also reveals that the private rented sector is now significantly larger than the social rented one. There are 4.413 million private homes in the UK compared to 3.85 million local authority and social housing ones.…
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