15 August 2025
David Smith featured in press on rental figures
Property Litigation Partner David Smith is featured in the property press, commenting on new figures from the Royal Institution of Surveyors (RICS), which show that the flow of fresh rental properties coming to market has fallen at its fastest rate in five years.
RICS reported that 31% of professionals saw new instructions from landlords falling rather than rising, which was the weakest reading since April 2020.
“This is entirely unsurprising given the ongoing level of uncertainty in the sector. Landlords have been slowly exiting the sector since 2019, the pace is increasing due to the effects of the Renters’ Rights Bill and the unwillingness of the government to listen to reasonable alterations to their bill, the ongoing failure to make real improvements in the court system, and the increasing weight of regulation on smaller landlords,” says David.
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