The Residential Landlords Association has criticised the pressure group Generation Rent for making what it calls inaccurate accusations playing on fears about the private sector.
RLA policy director says some of the group's claims are simply the politics of division and says the association wants solutions [to problems] rooted in evidence rather seeking to play on and exploit people's gut fears of the sector.
The association says Generation Rent comments on soaring rents without taking into account Office for National Statistics data showing PRS rents increasing by less than inflation measured both by the Consumer amd Retail price indices.
The RLA is also angry over Generation Rent assertions that the private rented sector is characterised by insecure, short-term tenancies without acknowledging that the English Housing Survey records that the average length of residency for a tenant in the private rented sector is now 3.8 years.
Generation Rent also claims that landlords and letting agents are astonishingly unregulated but the RLA says there are over 100 Acts of Parliament asserting 400 individual requirements on landlords and agents.
The RLA also says the Generation Rent campaign for improvements in the PRS fail to mention that government figures show 83 per cent of tenants to be satisfied with their properties compared to 81 per cent in the social sector, and that just nine per cent of PRS tenancies in the private rented sector are ended by landlords rather than tenants.
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I really like the RLA they are very good at rebuting criticism of the PRS.
It would be helpful if Letting Agent groups also started standing up to unfair criticisms and misrepresentations however they seem happy to let these pass as it suits their regulation agenda.
Well said RLA. It seems Generation Rent has no idea what they are talking about. These stats really put in to context the propaganda spouted on social media.
The recent ranting about the Deposit Scheme providers seems to utterly miss the point that these organisation have to operate under a Law introduced by a Labour Government. Alex Hilton & Co seem to believe they can opt out of statute and criticise them for not complying with their misinformed demands.
What we need is a proper, regulated & policed industry - not scaremongering.