Findings by LSL Companies suggest that by 2025, 25% of all households will be living in the private rented sector.
According to the latest English Housing Survey, the proportion for the year 2015/16 was 20% representing 4.5 million households. The figure equates to a growth of £2.5m households since 2000.
Your Move also reported that in London – which has a fifth of all the rental properties in the UK – the average tenancy length is 20 months but in the south east and commuter belts it is much longer.