Publisher's Synopsis
This report is based on information from the 15,622 households interviewed for the Survey of English Housing Survey (SEH) beginning April 2007. It also contains some analysis of housing-related data from the Labour Force Survey and the Family Resources Survey. Owner occupation continues to be the most common housing tenure in England, with 14.6 million owner-occupiers in 2008. This represents 68.3 per cent of all households in England, down from 69.6 per cent in 2007 and a high of 70.9 per cent in 2003. The rate of homeownership last stood at 68.3 per cent in 1993. In 2008 there were also an estimated 3.8 million social renters (17.7 per cent - unchanged) and 3.0 million private renters (13.9 per cent - up from 12.7 per cent in 2007). Renting is more prevalent in London than in any other region: in 2008, 24 per cent of households in London were social renters, 21 per cent were private renters, whilst 55 per cent were owner occupiers. Fr
