2024年英国私人房东调查报告

English Private Landlord Survey 2024 Technical Report Table of Contents Introduction........................................................................................................................... 3Methodology and approach .................................................................................................... 4TDP Data ............................................................................................................................... 7Questionnaire...................................................................................................................... 13Sampling ............................................................................................................................. 17Survey response .................................................................................................................. 22Weighting ............................................................................................................................ 25Data processing and quality assurance................................................................................. 32Interpreting the results ......................................................................................................... 39 Introduction The 2024 English Private Landlord Survey (EPLS) is a national survey of landlordsand letting agents who own and/or manage privately rented properties in England. Itwas commissioned by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government(MHCLG). The aim of the EPLS is to inform government understanding of the characteristicsand experiences of landlords and how they acquire, let, manage and maintainprivately rented accommodation. Similar surveys of private landlords were carriedout by the department in 2001, 2003, 2006, 2010, 2018 and 2021. The 2024 EPLS took the same approach as the previous two surveys (2018 and2021) - an online survey of landlords and agents registered with one of the threegovernment-backed Tenancy Deposit Protection (TDP) schemes. This is a differentmethodology compared to that used inprevious private landlord surveys. The research was conducted by the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) inpartnership with BRE research. This report provides details of key technical features of the 2024 EPLS. Each sectioncovers a specific aspect of the survey and is designed to be read as a standalonedocument. Findings from the survey can be found in aseparate report. If you haveany queries about the report or would like any further information, please contactepls@communities.gov.uk. Methodology and approach This section provides an overview of the methodology used to conduct the survey. itstarts by giving some background information on the Tenancy Deposit Protection(TDP) schemes which provided the records from which the survey was sampled. Background to the TDP schemes Since the 6thApril 2007, in England when a deposit is provided by a tenant to alandlord for an assured shorthold tenancy, all landlords (or their agents) are legallyrequired to register that deposit with one of three government-backed TDP schemes;Tenancy Deposit Scheme,My Deposits, orDeposit Protection Service. There aretwo models of tenancy deposit protection. Landlords can choose to protect depositsin either a custodial scheme (where the deposit is held by a TDP scheme), or aninsurance-backed scheme (where the landlord or agent retains the deposit but paysa fee to the scheme which insures against the landlord or agent unlawfully retainingthe deposit). All three schemes offer both custodial and insurance-backed protection. The administrative data on registered deposits held by TDP schemes was used tosample landlords (and agents) for the EPLS. The administrative data used to sample for EPLS 2024 was that available as of May2023. At that time, the TDP scheme data indicated that there were just over 4.2million live deposits registered with a TDP scheme in England, corresponding to anestimated 550,000 registrants (landlords and agents – each agent representingmultiple landlords on whose behalf they have registered a deposit). This estimateincludes approximately 513,000 landlords who registered (one or more) depositsthemselves. A randomly selected sample of these landlords and agents were invitedto take part in the EPLS. Landlords and agents with larger portfolios were over-sampled to provide sufficient numbers for analysis. There is no official estimate of the proportion of the private rented sector that iscovered by the TDP schemes. In 2022-23, the latest year for which data areavailable from the English Housing Survey (EHS), 77% of households in the privaterented sector paid a deposit when they moved into their current accommodation. Ofthese, 81% said that their deposit was protected in a government-backed TDPscheme; 6% said that it was not protected while 13% said that they did not know.Therefore, the total proportion of private rented sector households