New research reveals the rapid growth of the private rented sector in the UK

Over two million homes have changed tenure in the last decade when taking into account all property sales between owner occupiers and landlords, according to new research. Some 1,550,000 properties have gone from being lived in by their owner to being lived in by a tenant, while 550,000 have moved the other way, from the private rented sector into owner occupation. This has resulted in an extra million homes being occupied by a tenant rather than a home owner, equivalent to the number of househo...