As a young person on the horizon of starting a family the only reason I want to buy in my country (UK) is due to how renters are treated. I've had a total of five landlords in my young life - and they have all (and I understand this is anecdotal and not everybody's experience) been different shades of exploitative/incompetent. I don't want to have to live with the boot heel of some lucky idiot on my neck. I don't want to have to have my day-to-day life beholden to the bizarre whims of a random who doesn't need to prove that they are sane, competent, or empathic enough to be a landlord.
Renting is not a functioning market in the UK, the quality of the landlord is now my biggest concern and this information is kept completely hidden. If I was a policy maker I would implement a landlord license and setup an independent review site for those landlords so that tenants can leave reviews of their tenancy.
Renting is not a functioning market in the UK, the quality of the landlord is now my biggest concern and this information is kept completely hidden. If I was a policy maker I would implement a landlord license and setup an independent review site for those landlords so that tenants can leave reviews of their tenancy.