ABSTRACT
The privately rented housing market in Britain has been signifi cantly transformed since the 1970s. Indeed, over that period it has developed in ways that would not have been expected by most, if not all, commentators back then. Although private renting has been a tenure in transition since the early years of the twentieth century, the nature of that transition changed from the late 1980s and early 1990s as the sector entered a period of modest revival following seven decades of decline and decay. It is now clear that private renting has entered a new and different trajectory from that which characterised it for much of the twentieth century.
