Transforming private landlords : housing, markets and public policy /
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| Author / Creator: | Crook, Tony, 1944- |
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| Imprint: | Ames, Iowa : Blackwell Pub., 2010, c2011. |
| Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Real estate issues Real estate issues (Oxford, England) |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8368894 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. Private Landlords in Historical Perspective
- The Victorian landlord
- The First World War and beyond
- Post-war decline
- From control to regulation
- Private landlordism in the 1960s and 1970s
- Conclusions
- 2. Government Policy Since 1979
- Introduction
- Changing roles for private renting
- Policy objectives and barriers
- Reviving private renting: creating new model landlords
- 1980: first steps towards deregulation
- 1989: 'full' deregulation: the overall approach
- Deregulation of rents and more limited security
- Supporting and informing landlords
- Standards, management and deposits
- 'New model landlords'
- Other key policies
- Conclusions
- 3. Private Renting Since 1979
- Reversal of fortunes
- Improving the stock
- Deregulating lettings
- Changing tenants
- Images of renting
- Rents and housing benefit
- Conclusions
- 4. Private Landlords in Contemporary Britain
- Introduction
- The evidence
- Typologies of landlords
- Landlords in the 1980s
- Landlords after 1989
- Managing properties after 1989
- Investment returns and plans
- Conclusions
- 5. The Business Expansion Scheme
- Introduction
- BES: its origins and the rules for assured tenancy companies
- Launching the companies
- Numbers and types of companies formed
- Funds raised
- Property acquisition and management
- Returns
- Evaluation
- The longer term
- Conclusions
- 6. Financial Institutions and Rented Housing
- Introduction
- Barriers to institutional investment in residential lettings
- Housing Investment Trusts: initial proposals and legislation
- Housing Investment Trusts: the experience
- Real Estate Investment Trusts: the background and rules
- Real Estate Investment Trusts: the experience
- Real Estate Investment Trusts: lobbying for reforms
- The next step: pump-priming institutional investment
- Niche market players
- Conclusions
- 7. The Buy-to-let Boom
- The buy-to-let mortgage market
- The growth of buy-to-let
- Are buy-to-let landlords different?
- Buy-to-let and the credit crunch
- After the crash
- Conclusion
- 8. Conclusions
- The transformation of private landlords
- Lessons
- A broader consensus on private renting?
- Future prospects
- References
- Index
