Research: Landlord portfolio management, past and future

By: Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Research
Published: July 2017

Research: Landlord portfolio management, past and future

The private sector provides homes for millions of people, including an increasing number of families. This means that an increasingly large number of people are exposed to the decisions that landlords make about their portfolios. Landlords are a diverse group of people and institutions. Little is known about what motivates and informs their business decisions, and what might cause them to change their practices.

The research involved in-depth interviews with a range of private landlords in England. It explores how they make decisions over buying and selling stock, and how they could respond to recent tax changes and developments in the wider economy.