Print Email Facebook Twitter The competitiveness of rental market structures and its effect on landlord behavior: A methodological approach Title The competitiveness of rental market structures and its effect on landlord behavior: A methodological approach Author Lennartz, C. Faculty OTB Research Institute for the Built Environment Department OTB Research Date 2010-12-31 Abstract Governments in many European countries have required social housing providers to become more market orientated and work more efficiently. As a result, the demarcation between the activities of social and private landlords seem to have become more blurred, which has presumably led to increased competitive pressures on both landlord groups. In an attempt to create a better understanding of the basic conditions of a competitive relationship between social and private renting providers, this paper sets out the idea of a market structure in rental housing and makes a comparison between the situations in England and the Netherlands. In economic theory, market structure is defined by the degree of supply concentration, existing barriers to entry and exit, and the extent of product differentiation. In the theoretical part of the paper it is discussed how those three components apply to rental housing and why some changes of the original concept of market structure seem to be inevitable. The refined theoretical concept is then applied to rented housing in England and the Netherlands. On the one hand, the comparative approach will show that market structures can differ significantly across countries and with them the conditions for the competitive behavior of rental housing providers. On the other hand, it will reveal the methodological challenges that are involved with the analysis of rented housing, particularly private renting. Subject competitionsocial housingprivate rentingmarket structurelandlord behavior To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:f5e11458-0764-4a7f-99bb-315c903d0619 Publisher Istanbul Technical University Source 12th New Housing Researchers' Colloquium, NHR 2010, 2-3 July 2010, Istanbul, Turkey Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2010 Lennartz, C.Delft University of Technology Files PDF 260347.pdf 145.89 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:f5e11458-0764-4a7f-99bb-315c903d0619/datastream/OBJ/view