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The Sunday Times 16.10.2016. reproduced here with kind permission of The Sunday Times newspaper.

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Abstract

There has been a lot of discussion this year about concerns that landlords are fleeing the rental market in the face of rent freezes and difficulties in making a profit — but are they? First, it is important to note that it is not the number of landlords in a market that is relevant, it’s the number of tenancies, which is a measure of the size of the sector. The sector has actually expanded in the past 12 months from about 319,000 tenancies at the end of last year to 324,000 in mid-2016. The number of landlords also increased in the 20 months to June 2016, to 172,159.

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https://doi.org/10.21427/vpzw-c991


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