Younger people will have more difficulty finding rented
accommodation in coming months as a substantial proportion of landlords
actively cut back on renting to under-35s. Although nearly all landlords are
willing to rent to under-35s, nearly a third are changing their letting
strategy, mostly to ensure that they have security of rent payment. These are
the findings of research involving nearly 2,000 mostly individual private
landlords. The research found that 79 per cent of landlords who let to
under-35s cited the higher risk of rent arrears as a reason for reducing the
numbers in this category that they took on as tenants. Read more on the RLA
website.
Trevor Hendy obituary
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My friend Trevor Hendy, who has died aged 89, was director of development
at United Kingdom Housing Trust (UKHT) in the 1980s, a period in which,
among o...
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