Research released this week by lettings platform Bunk showed that, at £51.9bn a year, the annual value of the UK private rental market outstrips the GDP of Myanmar, Luxembourg, Uruguay and Croatia. Despite this – and exceeding the market capitalisation of FTSE 100 blue chips such as Lloyds Banking (LLOY), Barclays (BARC) and Vodafone (VOD) – residential property isn’t the asset class it was.

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