s a nation, we seem obsessed with ‘getting on the property ladder’; in fact, helping Generation Rent was one of the many promises made by our new prime minister, Liz Truss. This is nothing new – such ambitions can be traced back to Margaret Thatcher’s ‘Right to Buy’ schemes, which allowed council tenants discounts so they could buy their own homes from the late 1970s to the 1990s. But is the rental landscape changing? While intense competition, absent landlords, unsafe or damp properties, spiralling deposits, and renting through necessity due to property prices, might be the stories we see shared on the news and social media, there are also those who are happy renting, very much like many of our European neighbours, while the build-to-rent sector is growing
