The latest research by nationwide buy-to-let specialist, Sequre Property Investment, has revealed the areas which have seen the biggest swings toward renting when compared to homeownership in recent years. Sequre analysed data on dwellings across each area of England since... View Article

Millions of private tenants risk losing their valuables and essential property as they fail to take out contents insurance, protecting them against damages, loss and theft. New data from the comparison website GoCompare shows that just 7 per cent of... View Article

Nearly one in five households in England live in the private rented sector, making it the second largest tenure. Just over 4.4 million households live in the private rented sector in England, 19 per cent of all households. By comparison,... View Article

There are 4 million households in the social rented sector. The sector is home to more vulnerable groups than other tenures, likely due to the way social housing is allocated on the basis of need. Over half, 54 per cent,... View Article

Rising numbers of people who are homeless are being placed in bed and breakfast hotels due to a severe shortage of housing meaning councils are being forced to spend over five times as much money on emergency accommodation as they... View Article

The latest results from the English Housing Survey provides encouraging news on energy efficiency, but gives strong pointers to where further improvements should be targeted. The proportion of dwellings in the highest EER bands of A to C, increased from... View Article

Around 1.9 million households in England had one or more people with a health condition that required adaptations to their home, according to the latest English Homes Survey findings. In 2019/20, 8 per cent of all households in England (1.9... View Article