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Robin King, director at Move with Us, the residential property services company, analyses trends in the private rental sector over the past 12 months.

Rental properties in the UK provided robust underlying value and returns in 2012. The success of the private rental sector has largely been driven by a lack of available funding for potential homeowners, which is increasing rents. Figures from our monthly rental index show that gross rental yields  remained at 5% throughout Britain in 2012, with the majority of regions returning an average yield of around 4%. Returns have remained stable, as both house prices and rents have increased at similar levels. Average advertised rents in Great Britain for February remained close to January pr...