Sayu is a co-founder of Bricksmart. She covers the UK property market end to end: what the HMLR, VOA, MHCLG, Companies House and planning data actually say about who owns what, what it's worth, and what's changing.
Reach her at sayu@subfocustech.co.uk.
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Official figures still have the North East and North West growing fastest. New listings say the momentum has moved to the Midlands and Scotland.
The North East is now England's fastest-growing rental market at 6.5% a year, and London is the slowest at 2.0%. Eight years of official data show how the growth story moved from the capital to the regions.
Since 1987 UK house prices have risen 6.6 times while the cost of living rose 4 times. But not always. After the early-90s crash, prices fell behind inflation for years.
We ran a three-bed house in Stoke-on-Trent through Bricksmart's HMO appraisal. In seconds it showed that a six-room HMO could earn almost four times the monthly cashflow of a standard let.
