UK rents expected to increase by in excess of 20 pct over the next five years, says RICS survey

The UK’s most vulnerable tenants are being pushed out of the private rental market, according to the latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Residential Market Survey. New figures show that around one-third of respondents believe that access to private rented properties had fallen among people on housing benefits. Recent caps to housing benefits were …

Rents continue to rise in June across the UK, says HomeLet

  Rents across the UK continued to rise during June, but the first half of 2016 has been characterised by a slowing in the pace of rental increases, new data from the June HomeLet Rental Index reveals. The index, the most comprehensive data available on the UK’s private rental market, shows that rents agreed on …