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Latest Landlord News by: Madalena Penny.<\/p>\n

Landlords<\/a> are a resilient breed.\u00a0 Faced with CGT rises, housing benefit caps, interest rate rises and generally a higher cost of living, the great British landlord tackles adversity with quiet confidence and of course with a bit of help from ongoing demand for rental properties.<\/p>\n

LSL Property Services latest buy-to-let Index revealed that February has seen the first rent rise in the private sector this year.\u00a0 With a rise of 0.2%, the average rent is now estimated at \u00a3684 per month and has increased by 3.9% on February of last year.\u00a0 Not to be out-researched, Paragon have also revealed that 32% of residential landlords surveyed have raised rents on properties in Q1 of 2011 and nearly one third had increased their rental income as a result.<\/p>\n

However none of this is surprising when confronted with data surrounding the private rented sector.\u00a0 Again LSL, report that a shortfall of 158,000 first-time buyers had entered the market in the last year when compared to 2007\/2008.\u00a0 According to the latest statistics published on the 24th<\/sup> February this year, the Department of Communities and Local Government has contributed a true picture of the changing housing sectors with their latest publication, the \u2018English Housing Report\u2019.<\/p>\n

Figures from the 2009\/2010 report reveal:<\/p>\n