Private rental sector expected to exceed 5m homes by 2025

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England’s Private Rented Sector housing stock expected to exceed 5 million homes by 2025

Research from Ocasa , the specialist rental platform, reveals that, after almost 20% growth in the past ten years, England’s Private Rented Sector (PRS) could exceed 5 million homes by 2025.

In the past ten years, England’s PRS has increased in size by 18.8%, from 4.1 million homes to just shy of 4.9 million.

On a regional level, the fastest growth over this time period has...