Poor levels of affordability, tight lending criteria, and further expected capital losses on houses, imply both strong growth in the demand for rental accommodation and limited growth in supply. Accordingly, the outlook for rental growth is promising. We expect rents to rise by around 5% in 2008 and 6% in 2009.
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