Around 1 / 4 (23%) of personal landlords stated they’ve elevated the variety of properties they hire out during the last yr, TDS Charitable Foundation reveals, up from one in 5 (19%) who stated the identical final yr.
TDS discovered that the proportion saying they bought property has remained flat at 14%, in comparison with 13% final yr.
Landlords who purchased properties this yr bought a mean of two.5 every, up from 2.2 final yr. This can also be greater than the typical of two.3 properties bought by these promoting throughout the identical interval.
TDS explains that the rise in rental provide has coincided with a slight easing of economic pressures confronted by tenants. While 56% of landlords stated that they had elevated rents over the previous 12 months, this was down from 61% the earlier yr.
This is mirrored within the basis’s latest consultant survey of personal sector tenants, which has discovered a slight fall within the proportion of tenants saying they have been struggling to afford their hire, which is now at 32%, down from 35% final yr.
Among full-time college students, the proportion saying they struggled to afford their hire has fallen from 45% final yr to 32% now.
Data from the Office for National Statistics has proven that hire will increase within the sector are additionally slowing.
The newest figures present they elevated by a mean of 6.7% throughout the UK within the yr to June 2025, down from a latest peak of 9.1% within the yr to March 2024.
The knowledge comes from a consultant survey of over 2,000 personal landlords in England carried out by the TDS Charitable Foundation.
TDS Group chief government and trustee on the TDS Charitable Foundation says: “Whilst value pressures within the sector is perhaps easing, many tenants are persevering with to battle to afford their rents.”
“Measures within the Renters’ Rights Bill to assist tenants problem unreasonable hire will increase will rely for nothing except they’re outfitted with the details about rents and supplied with the detailed data that they should train these rights successfully.
“Alongside this, it’s clear that many low-income tenants are persevering with to battle to cowl their rents as a result of ongoing freeze on housing profit charges.”
