"As first-time renters, students are especially vulnerable to rogue landlords and the other pitfalls of our broken rental market, simply because they have less experience of it," says Campbell Robb, chief executive of Shelter.
Shelter in 2012 proposed a new "stable rental contract" which it believes would give tenants greater stability and also give landlords more certainty of a good return, because a high turnover of tenants can cause them expensive hassle they don't need.
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The governors of Hatch End high school, where HYM is based, have told us our annual rental, at £20k, should be £90k.
British landlords earned £112bn from capital gains and rental income last year, in the latest example of the booming buy-to-let market.
As would-be first-time buyers struggle to get a toehold on the housing ladder amid rising property prices and tougher mortgage-lending criteria, investors continue to pile in to the rental market.
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An advertisement posted online says rental includes use of Megyer's four streets, two of them asphalted and two gravel, as well as the mayor's office, the cultural centre, the bus-stop, and seven furnished "peasant-style" houses.
"They get tax relief on the interest and it means that they have cash to buy more properties – if they bought in cash they would be able to buy fewer homes and they would pay more tax on the rental income coming in," he said.
The analysis assumed a buy-to-let investor would use rental income to pay off their mortgage, clearing it after 13 years and banking it in the final five.
