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![Over-50 year old first time buyers show significant increase](/upload/images/shutterstock_1393919921.jpg)
There were 12,000 first time buyers over the age of 50 in the UK in 2022, the latest figures available. This means...
30 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Older tenants need Renters Reform Bill insists pressure group](/upload/images/shutterstock_1940487949(1).jpg)
Older private renters must have their voices heard In support of the Renters Reform Bill. That’s the view of Joanna Elson, chief...
25 October 2023
From: Breaking News
![Many older renters set to struggle according to new analysis](/upload/images/shutterstock_523271107.jpg)
A retirement forecast suggests older renters may struggle as demographic and property market figures change over time. Scottish Widows’ annual retirement report,...
01 August 2023
From: Breaking News
![Dramatic increase in pension-age renters coming soon](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Rent-Mobile-400x310.png)
After a decade of steady growth, the number of older renters is poised to increase rapidly over the next 10 years...
17 July 2023
From: Breaking News
![Older tenants will benefit most from Renters Reform Bill - claim](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Over55Tenant-400x310.png)
The Centre for Ageing Better claims older tenants will benefit most from some of the provisions in the Renters Reform Bill. As...
18 May 2023
From: Breaking News
![Silver Renters - over-60s seen as growing lettings market](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/RetirementLiving-1-400x310.jpg)
The launch of a new collection of high end homes aimed at renters aged 60-plus has triggered enthusiastic responses from agents. Developer...
27 April 2022
From: Breaking News
![Tenants like their rental homes - big majority of renters are happy](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/MillennialOnPhone-400x310.jpg)
A large majority of private renters are happy with their properties, status and their landlords according to a new survey. A report...
16 March 2022
From: Breaking News
![Analysis - fewer millennial tenants help drive down rents](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/MillennialTenants-1-400x310.jpg)
Tenants are now paying less rent than five years ago, research claims. Analysis by Hamptons claims the total amount of rent paid...
13 September 2021
From: Breaking News
![Age UK is latest charity to call for repeal of Section 21](/img/default/lat.png)
Age UK is the latest campaigning charity to call for the repeal of S21 and the introduction of greater controls over...
12 June 2020
From: Breaking News
![Does paying 50% of salary in rent really make an area affordable?](/img/default/lat.png)
A PropTech platform claims that an area where the average rent is 50 per cent of less of an average salary...
16 March 2020
From: Breaking News
![Industry supplier takes swipe at new Housing Minister](/img/default/lat.png)
A rent guarantor service has taken a swipe at new housing minister Chris Pincher and his recent predecessors who have not...
02 March 2020
From: Breaking News
![Older renters likely to transform lettings landscape, says report](/img/default/lat.png)
A government report suggests the private rental sector is attracting an increasing number of older tenants - and the sector needs...
11 February 2020
From: Breaking News
28 January 2020
From: Breaking News
![Millennials Rejoice! You’re paying less rent than before…](/img/default/lat.png)
Research from Hamptons International suggests that millennials are paying a lower proportion of the total rental burden in Britain than a...
20 January 2020
From: Breaking News
![Blow to Labour Right To Buy plan - most tenants don’t want to own](/img/default/lat.png)
The majority of the UK’s private renters don’t want to purchase a home according to new research, coming just as the...
24 September 2019
From: Breaking News
![Rental sector must prepare for more older tenants, says top expert](/img/default/lat.png)
The rental sector needs to prepare for the demographic challenge of an increasingly older population, says the head of a high...
23 September 2019
From: Breaking News
![Family and older person rental markets ‘present agents with opportunities’](/img/default/lat.png)
Utilities management service Tenant Shop says demographic changes leading to more families and older individuals renting privately represent an opportunity for...
12 September 2019
From: Breaking News
![An ageing rental population? Huge increase in tenants aged 45+](/img/default/lat.png)
The 45+ age demographic is the fastest growing tenant market, according to flatsharing site SpareRoom. The website's data shows that the total...
08 July 2019
From: Breaking News
![Countrywide claims big surge in over-50s who now privately rent](/img/default/lat.png)
New figures out this morning show that the over-50s are becoming a larger part of the rental market. So far this year...
17 June 2019
From: Breaking News
![Government told - Help us to help older tenants](/img/default/lat.png)
A trade body has stepped up its calls on government to help the lettings industry do more for older renters. Responding to...
14 May 2018
From: Breaking News
![We can handle longer tenancies says Build To Rent provider](/img/default/lat.png)
Grainger says it’s ready to respond to the growing need for longer tenancies for families and older renters - the latter...
14 May 2018
From: Breaking News
![BBC research reveals concern over rise in older renters](/img/default/lat.png)
Older people aged 40 and above are now almost twice as likely to be renting their home from a private landlord...
11 May 2018
From: Breaking News
![Call for rent controls to help 'ignored' older tenants](/img/default/lat.png)
Policy makers concerned with the private rental sector ignore the needs of older tenants who are regarded as “invisible”. That’s the claim...