There are reasons to be cautiously optimistic for 2024. In particular, transaction activity should improve this year on 2023’s weaker levels.
Read moreDataloft Briefing notes 13: Who rents single family housing?
In our latest Briefing note on the rental market, we analysed the age, income and affordability of renters across the UK, comparing houses to flats.
Read moreDataloft Briefing notes 12: Rental affordability – a spotlight on lower income households
In Briefing Note 12, we explore the extent to which people on low earnings are excluded from the UK’s private rental sector, or compromise on their living standards.
Read moreDataloft Briefing notes 11: Ranking cities on their rental potential
In this Briefing note we draw on results from our Rental Potential Model. Looking across 60 cities and towns; we’ve identified the strongest relationships which explain high rents, using correlations to express the strength of the relationship as a percentage.
Read moreDataloft Briefing notes 10: Rental potential –Using affordability to assess headroom for rents
Steeply rising rents over the past year or two have focused attention on ‘affordability’ because it is central to the outlook for rental growth. Overall, declining affordability limits potential for rental growth.
In this Briefing note, we report headline trends from higher earners in London and Manchester.
Dataloft's future with PriceHubble
PriceHubble, the global property data and technology business, has acquired Dataloft, a leading UK residential property market intelligence company. This marks PriceHubble’s fifth acquisition to date and represents a significant milestone in its global growth strategy following a launch in the UK market last autumn, building on the success in Europe and Asian markets.
Read moreDataloft Briefing notes 9: Eco-Step Scores – measuring biodiversity in urban areas
Eco-Step Scores measure the biodiversity potential of an urban area. Environmental credentials have become a priority for investors and consumers. The government, in its Levelling Up White Paper, put an emphasis on bringing wildlife back into our publicly accessible green spaces – which is more complicated than simply adding more
green space.
Dataloft Briefing notes 8: Community – How important is community to renters?
The stereotype of renters in the UK is that they are a transient population with little emotional investment in the home they rent or their local neighbourhood. Using the results from a survey of over 8,000 renters conducted by Dataloft on behalf of the Property Academy in July 2021, we investigated the importance attached to community by renters. We also looked at just how transient renters are in the UK.
Read moreDataloft Briefing notes 7: Moving renters – How long do renters stay in their homes?
To explore the question of how long renters typically spend in a rented home, we analysed renters within the DRMA dataset who moved in 2020/21 and had previously rented in the private rented sector - ‘moving renters’. We were able to analyse how long they had lived at their previous address and to look for any variations across locations or age brackets.
Read moreDataloft Briefing notes 6: Single family housing – Exploring the opportunity in UK rental markets.
In this Briefing note we investigate single-family housing in England and Wales. Dataloft defines single-family as suburban houses. To quantify the size and nature of this market in England and Wales, Dataloft examined the existing stock of rented houses in suburban areas.
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