Estate agents ‘permanently apologising to tenants’ as families of 5 scramble for 1-bed flats amid rent crisis

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1. *”“Tenants are frustrated. There isn’t enough housing stock and we as agents can’t create more. Some people are desperate because their personal circumstances dictate that they’re going to be effectively homeless so it becomes very stressful for them”*

2. It’s got to the point where i’m seriously considering starting a slum, maybe begin with a lean-to in the woods and see who else turns up. Zero affordable housing locally and yet there are huge estates of spacious 2-4 bed homes popping up like mushrooms which the developers can’t even give away, every time you pass by there are no all sorts of offers to move in, no money down that kind of thing yet every week on Rightmove the same places are up for sale

3. >“Secondly, we need to encourage people to invest in the buy-to-let market.

   Oohhh, that’s not gonna be popular on Reddit.

   Doesn’t he know ALL landlords are evil scum bastards.

   Who just want to invest their hard-earned money into an asset that appreciates in value (and makes them income). Whilst providing housing for those who don’t want to buy/can’t afford to buy their own home.