London renting crisis: number of private homes to rent drops to ‘disastrous’ new low across the capital

London’s housing crisis has reached a “disastrous” new low as research reveals a huge drop in the number of available properties to rent in the capital.

Lettings in London have fallen by 41 per cent since the pandemic, further squeezing supply and deepening the homelessness crisis, according to a new study by Savills and the LSE.