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Build more student accommodation, free up homes for families – good idea

Build more student accommodation, free up homes for families – good idea

There seems to be too few easy options for relieving the housing crisis at the moment and certainly too few win-win options. It’s unlikely we’ll find a single solution to the mess we find ourselves in and the answers may not necessarily be solely found in building more houses, but using those we have better. So one thought that has fascinated me for ages is whether building more bespoke student accommodation to release rented private homes could be one. Well…

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Spiralling rents pose a tough question for Shapps: Where will the new homes come from?

Spiralling rents pose a tough question for Shapps: Where will the new homes come from?

The latest survey of the residential rental market by the surveyors’ body RICS is likely to wind up the pressure on the housing minister Grant Shapps to promote more house building. The survey suggests that rents are rising ever faster, driven by rising demand in a market where supply is constrained, as the graph taken from the RICS survey shows.