The Private Rented Housing Market

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).

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.