Halifax Landlord Insurance has just completed a report that lets us in on the secret of how most landlords think. It makes for very interesting reading.
Some things I don’t consider to be much of a shock.
The news that most landlords (77%) prefer to let their property to a female tenant did not surprise me. Rightly or wrongly, I think this fits with the general population’s stereotypical notion that the female sex is less reckless and perhaps a little more tidy.
It is also not a huge shock that most of us prefer our tenants to be of a certain maturity. Sixty seven percent of us would prefer our tenants to be over the age of 25.
Not that we have anything against youth, I am sure, but we were all young once and that is probably the problem.
On a lighter note, I am also far from surprised that landlords declare themselves reluctant to rent to the celebrity market, especially when the celebrity named is Amy Winehouse. I think given her reputation most people would be reluctant to lend her their favourite pen never mind a house worth hundreds of thousands of pounds.
Some of the other findings, however, I did puzzle over a bit. A lot of tenants named the health profession as the area of work they would most like their tenants to be involved in. I wonder why this is; I would be fascinated to hear your thoughts.
One reason I have been given is that they spend so much time working that they have little time to party……?
