Quarter of UK Households will be Private Rentals by 2021
A recent report predicts that a Quarter of UK Households will be classed as Private Rentals by the end of 2021 That amounts to almost 5.8 million households being Private Rentals; an increase of 2.4 million since 2011 One in four household will be private rentals by the end of 2021, as house prices continue to soar, wages stagnate and the cost of living continues to increase. Five million Private Rentals At the moment, about five million households are classed as being privately rented (or 21% of the total residential properties in the UK); a quarter of these are families…