Accommodation for Students is very pleased to release our latest Landlord Research Report. Firstly, a big thanks to all those that took part - your data has been vital!
This year’s survey has shown us that overall attitudes towards students as tenants is once again, positive. Consistent with previous years, the vast majority of respondents concluded that students make good tenants, with very large proportions stating that they also made better tenants than non-students.
Landlords attitudes and behaviours appeared to have been consistent with previous years’ findings; increases in rent were at a rate that was similar to 2015, they recorded their confidence in the market to be unchanged and they are offering similar bills inclusive packages as was identified last year.
However, of those respondents who believed that there would be an impact as a result of political of new ‘Right to Rent’ requirements and the UK eventually inciting Article 50 to leave the EU, large proportions of the respondents believed that these impacts would be negative.
Nevertheless, despite the looming potential of uncertainty for some landlords, successes were still apparent, with 87.78% of individuals in the survey stating that they had let all of their portfolio for the 2016/2017 academic year. As a consequence, it is no surprise that 85.39% of respondents also believe that they will be able to let all of their properties for the following academic year (2017/2018).
To get all of the insight of the most recent survey, check out the report at:
