
The Private Rented Housing Market
Regulation or Deregulation?
Ashgate Publishing Limited
Published on 28. November 2007
Book
Hardback
176 pages
978-0-7546-4835-2 (ISBN)
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Description
The privately rented housing market has largely catered for young, mobile people and students since it was deregulated in the late 1980s. In this volume, the editors provide a timely insight into this rapidly evolving market, asking: What is the nature of this market? How should we interpret what is happening through the government's and the EU's attempts to regulate worst practice and create a 'fair' commercial market and better management of the sector? Having liberalised the market, brought in new investment and generally improved the standard of housing is there now a danger that an over-regulated market might undermine investors' confidence?This volume is based on new, original research which brings together specialists in housing policy and legal studies, with their common and increasingly interdependent knowledge base about the privately rented sector and its future direction. The collection opens with an overview of the historical context and recent changes to the sector, such as the rapid and continued expansion of the buy-to-let market, followed by a discussion at the factors shaping the contemporary market.
The contributors show how the new regulatory environment is opening a series of new issues that have significant potential to affect (and potentially damage) the market.This volume will be of interest to academics and students in social and public policy, law and housing studies, as well as law practices and housing authorities.
The contributors show how the new regulatory environment is opening a series of new issues that have significant potential to affect (and potentially damage) the market.This volume will be of interest to academics and students in social and public policy, law and housing studies, as well as law practices and housing authorities.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
includes 15 tables
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7546-4835-2 (9780754648352)
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David Hughes is Professor of Housing and Planning Law at De Montfort University, UK. Stuart Lowe is a Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of York, UK. They have both published widely in their respective fields and have jointly co-edited A New Century of Social Housing (1991), Social Housing Law and Policy (1995), and Public Sector Housing Law 3rd edition (2000).
Content
Preface; The new private rented sector - regulation in a deregulated market, Stuart Lowe; A GIS analysis of rent formation in the private rented housing sector in England, Peter Bibby, Max Craglia, A.D.H. (Tony) Crook and Steven Rowley; Buy to let landlords, David Rhodes; Housing benefit and the private rented sector: a case study of variance in rental niche markets, Julie Rugg; Controlling letting arrangements in the private rented sector, Diane Lister; Regulating the market, David Ormandy and Martin Davis; Landlords and fair trading: all consumers now?, Martin Davis and Rachel Houghton; Accreditation, David Hughes and Rachel Houghton; Regulating a deregulated market, David Hughes and Stuart Lowe; Bibliography; Index.