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Revisiting our estimates of lossmaking rental properties

Mortgage rates have risen to a level that could cause costs on a fifth of rental homes to exceed the rent. That is likely to lead to a significant number of forced rental property sales, which will undermine the tight supply conditions that have limited house price falls to date.

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