8 Things You Didn’t Know About Private Landlords

Shelter recently commissioned YouGov to carry out the biggest and most representative survey of landlords for five years. Here are a selection of the survey’s top findings about landlords.

·         More than 40% of landlords are mortgage free

·         Only 6% of landlords rent themselves

·         Almost 60% of landlords only let out one home

·         Not many are accredited or in a trade body

·         Nearly two thirds of landlords don’t like to take people on housing benefit

·         Almost half are less likely to rent to people they think are immigrants in the future

·         Half of landlords are having regular electrical safety checks

·         Most landlords are open to the idea of offering longer tenancies

Read more on the Shelter blog.