The Private Rented Housing Market: Regulation or Deregulation?

by Stuart Lowe, David Hughes

Overview

Based on new and original research, this volume brings together specialists in housing policy and legal studies to examine the UK privately rented sector, and its future direction. The contributors show how the new regulatory environment is opening a series of issues with significant potential to affect (and potentially damage) the market.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781409490999
Publisher:	Ashgate Publishing Ltd
Publication date:	12/28/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

David Hughes is Professor of Housing and Planning Law at De Montfort University, UK. Stuart Lowe is a Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of York, UK. They have both published widely in their respective fields and have jointly co-edited A New Century of Social Housing (1991), Social Housing Law and Policy (1995), and Public Sector Housing Law 3rd edition (2000).

Stuart Lowe, Peter Bibby, Max Craglia, A.D.H. (Tony) Crook, Steven Rowley, David Rhodes, Julie Rugg, Diane Lister, David Ormandy, Martin Davis, Rachel Houghton, David Hughes.

Table of Contents

Contents: Preface; The new private rented sector - regulation in a deregulated market, Stuart Lowe; A GIS analysis of rent formation in the private rented housing sector in England, Peter Bibby, Max Craglia, A.D.H. (Tony) Crook and Steven Rowley; Buy to let landlords, David Rhodes; Housing benefit and the private rented sector: a case study of variance in rental niche markets, Julie Rugg; Controlling letting arrangements in the private rented sector?, Diane Lister; Regulating the market, David Ormandy and Martin Davis; Landlords and fair trading: all consumers now?, Martin Davis and Rachel Houghton; Accreditation, David Hughes and Rachel Houghton; Regulating a deregulated market, David Hughes and Stuart Lowe; Bibliography; Index.