In our latest Briefing note on the rental market, we analysed the age, income and affordability of renters across the UK, comparing houses to flats.
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In Briefing Note 12, we explore the extent to which people on low earnings are excluded from the UK’s private rental sector, or compromise on their living standards.
In this Briefing note we draw on results from our Rental Potential Model. Looking across 60 cities and towns; we’ve identified the strongest relationships which explain high rents, using correlations to express the strength of the relationship as a percentage.
Steeply rising rents over the past year or two have focused attention on ‘affordability’ because it is central to the outlook for rental growth. Overall, declining affordability limits potential for rental growth.
In this Briefing note, we report headline trends from higher earners in London and Manchester.
Eco-Step Scores measure the biodiversity potential of an urban area. Environmental credentials have become a priority for investors and consumers. The government, in its Levelling Up White Paper, put an emphasis on bringing wildlife back into our publicly accessible green spaces – which is more complicated than simply adding more
green space.
In the latest in our series of Briefing notes we explore the question of how important community is to renters. The survey was conducted across the whole private rental market but has important implications for designing and delivering build to rent stock.
A lot of what you see reported at the moment is likely to be undercounting the number of transactions because of delays at the Land Registry. Read on …
In the latest in our series of Briefing notes we explore the question of how long renters spend in rented accommodation.
To investigate this question, we delved into a subset of Dataloft Rental Market Analytics (DRMA), our rent paid and tenant demographic dataset. The analysis concentrated on renters whose previous home had also been in the private rented sector.
In this Briefing note we investigate single-family housing in England and Wales. Dataloft defines single-family as suburban houses. To quantify the size and nature of this market in England and Wales, Dataloft examined the existing stock of rented houses in suburban areas.
Dataloft Briefing notes address issues raised by our clients as they respond to changing housing market conditions through and beyond Covid-19.
Issue 5 Vulnerable employment sectors – which residential rental markets are most exposed to an increase in unemployment?
Dataloft Briefing notes address issues raised by our clients as they respond to changing housing market conditions through and beyond Covid-19.
Issue 4 Open market rental values – what happened to values in London at the height of lockdown?
Dataloft collaborated with HomeViews on this study, finding that well-designed new homes in London command an 11% price premium. The results chime with the Government’s recent proposals to redefine planning laws to be more design-led.
Covid-19 has taken an unprecedented toll on many things in the last few months, no less the different sources of data which commentators rely on to report on trends across the property market. This period will make it more challenging for many to report on accurate trends across the sector.
Dataloft Briefing notes address issues raised by our clients as they respond to changing housing market conditions through and beyond Covid-19.
Issue 2 Short term loss in overseas students – how vulnerable are UK rental markets?
The Dataloft Demand Index, launched on June 8th, tracks demand from March 15th onwards.
Restrictions on the housing market in England were unexpectedly lifted on 13th May. We knew that around 370,000 transactions had been ‘caught’ in progress on March 23rd and that only a small proportion of those had been completed during lockdown.
Dataloft Briefing notes address issues raised by our clients as they respond to changing housing market conditions through and beyond Covid-19.
Issue 2 Short term fall in earnings – how vulnerable are UK rental markets?
We have drawn up a set of scenarios for how transactions might pan out over 2020. Here we set out our central scenario.
Dataloft Briefing notes address issues raised by our clients as they respond to changing housing market conditions through and beyond Covid-19.
It can happen at any time of day or night, at any time of year. You may have gone out for a breath of fresh air, or to pick blackberries, or to take photographs. Whatever your reason for being out and about, you will, almost certainly, meet a dog walker. You may even be one of them.