Research and analysis

CORE: Counts and rents of first let social lets in London, 2016-17 and 2017-18

Counts and weekly rents of first let General Needs Social Rent lets by private registered providers in London boroughs, 2016-17 and 2017-18.

Applies to England

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The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government collects data on new social housing lettings in England through the COntinuous REcording of lettings and sales in social housing in England (CORE) system.

This ad-hoc analysis completed as part of a Freedom of Information request shows the following CORE-derived statistics:

  1. The number of First Let General Needs Social Rent lets in each London local housing authority area in 2016-17 and in 2017-18, with a total number and a breakdown by local authority and private registered provider, with the number of lets by each number of bedrooms.

  2. Mean average rents (exclusive of service charge) for these lets, with breakdowns by local authority and private registered provider, for each London local housing authority area, and by the number of bedrooms in each case.

Published 11 December 2020