Private Rented Sector (Northern Ireland)

Commercial rental data has been combined with NIHE rent data. The NIHE rental data is used to calculate the Local Housing Allowance received for the administration of private sector housing benefit. In order to combine the data sets, the NIHE rent data has been adjusted to the preferred monthly frequency and adjusted upward by property type to be inclusive of (domestic) rates. Sample survey of data (for example, the report for January - June 2015 was based on a sample of 11,443 rental transactions for the first half of 2015).

Time

2013 - On-going (Other)

Bi-annually. Figures for the private rented sector in the Belfast Metropolitan area are available from 2009.

Dataset Quality

Data has been cleansed to remove outlier. Further methodological information available from NIHE website.

Dataset Access and Use

Free to download from the NIHE website

Seems favourable to data use for research. The development of the research has been done in conjunction with the University of Ulster.

Geography

Coverage: Northern Ireland

Units: Local authority

Resources