The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) has published the findings of its latest English Housing Survey, which show a 1.3 million rise in the number of households renting privately since 2001, to 3.4 million in 2009-10, when social renters paid an average £75 per week in rent and private renters £153.
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3.4m private rental households across England
Increase in mortgages offset by affordability issues
The number of mortgages available from UK lenders has more than doubled in the last two years, but other factors continue to keep buyers out of the housing market.
Research by Moneyfacts.co.uk shows choice falling to an all-time low two years ago, when only 1,097 residential mortgage products were available.
Since then, the number of home loans [...]
Fewer long-term empty private homes
The number of long-term empty private homes in England has fallen for the first time in three years, according to the latest annual Empty Homes survey from Halifax.
As at April 2010, 295,519 homes had been vacant for more than six months, down 6% from a year earlier to the lowest level since 2007.
Empty dwellings accounted [...]
