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Recent statistics published by the Office of National Statistics show that there are 267,704 private rented households in the UK that are occupied by people aged 65+ - that's 4.39% of OAPs living in private rented property. This got me thinking two things: 1. How many...

Can we blame the 55 to 70-year-old Rotherham citizens for the current housing crisis in the town? Known as the ‘Baby Boomers’, these Rotherham people were born after WW2 when the country saw a massive rise in births as they slowly recovered from the economic hardships...

In the 1970s and 1980s people could afford to buy their own home. Why aren’t those in their 20s and 30s buying in the same numbers as they were 30 or 40 years ago?

This is the big picture: the number of people moving house in the UK has dropped by over a third during the last decade. Over the last 12 months 1,061,557 properties were sold with a total value of £223.74bn. Compare this with ten years ago when 1,581,727 properties...

There's a potential blessing in disguise for Rotherham landlords. If I were a buy-to-let landlord in Rotherham today, I might feel a little bruised by the assault made on my wallet in the last 12 months by HM Treasury’s tax changes on buy-to-let. To add insult to...