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Bristol in top five cities for rental dissatisfaction
Bristol is in the top five cities for rental dissatisfaction, according to a new study.
Bristol ranked fourth in a study by Online Mortgage Advisor, in terms of rental dissatisfaction with 38.7 per cent of tenants in the city feeling dissatisfied with their renting conditions.
Belfast had the highest rental dissatisfaction in the UK, with 43.5 per cent, followed by Glasgow, Bradford and then Bristol.
The study also analysed the most common types of grievances, with landlords, rising rent prices and housing conditions coming up top.
The most commonly mentioned words in negative tweets about rent were “people”, “money” and “time”.
Online Mortgage Advisor used a research tool called SentiStrength to analyse 276,000 tweets from across the UK, US and Europe.
SentiStrength is an AI tool which detects positive and negative sentiment levels in short pieces of text and assigns them a score from 5 (extremely positive) to -5 (extremely negative).
A recent study by home insurance company, Admiral, also discovered that for every 100 available rooms on the market in Bristol, 276 people were looking for a place to rent in the city.
The study comes amid rising demands for rent controls in the city to tackle an “increasingly unaffordable” property market.
Just under a third of homes in Bristol are privately rented, according to council figures, and the cost of privately renting a home in the city has increased by more than 50 per cent over the past decade.
Main photo: Ellie Pipe
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