The differences between the typical agency model and the rent to rent model

This is the first of two articles in relation to the rent to rent market. The second article will focus around confusions surround the rent and the protections around that rent but firstly we will look more generally at this growing sector of the market. Rent to Rent has been a model that landlords and some ‘agents’ have chosen to operate for at least 20 years. It was initially operated under what was loosely termed a guaranteed rent scheme and traditionally operated with either a local authority or social landlord being the tenant or with an ‘agent’ in the middle. ...