The rental properties market seems to be going through an all time low in the present time. As the prices of assets have risen high, the tenancy charges have also escalated steeply due to which many accommodations that are let out for hire are lying vacant. The owners of assets are also trying to take advantage of the situation by creating an artificial scarcity of accommodations and pricing the assets high. This kind of a low in the tenancy market has not been observed for years now, at least for the last twenty to twenty five years.

The rental properties in the suburban areas of cities and townships seem to be the worst affected. They are lying vacant for months. The condition in the city areas is better. The houses in the city areas are being hired by a lot of people at high monthly charges. The rates in fact seem to be the highest in a span of three years. They have gone up by thirty percent. As more and more people are opting for accommodation in urban areas, the owners have hiked up the hire charges drastically for their accommodations that are located in the urban areas. The demand for accommodations on hire is much higher than the supply of accommodations owing to which the prices have been raised up steeply.

The demand and supply ratio for rental properties in the urban areas is reverse from that for rented accommodations in the suburban and rural areas. The supply increases the demand in the suburban and rural areas and in the urban areas the demand is greater than the supply. The demand for good accommodations on hire is the greatest in well connected and posh areas of a city and it is very rare to get an accommodation of choice at a reasonable price in posh areas. The tenancy population of some areas has put a petition to the housing boards and housing authorities to build more accommodations as it has been understood that the problem of hired accommodations can only be solved when more of them are available.

Availability of more rental properties in the urban areas will bring down the hire charges of these accommodations individually. At present in these areas, the owners of accommodations are not following any rules set by the legal authorities with respect to the hire charges. They are setting their own rates which are being two or three times the normal rates. The rates have been steeply hiked in the past one year. The situation is really bad. The owners have increased the hiring charges so much that a lot of tenants are finding it hard to pay the new chargers. 

Many tenants feel that the governmental bodies are not doing much to control the menace of the owners. They feel that the government should involve themselves more actively in the issue and should stop the owners of rental properties from hiking up the hiring charges further. They should intervene and penalize the owners who are meting out unfair treatment to their tenants and forcing them onto the streets. The tenants suggest to their governments that there should not be a hike of more than ten percent in the hire charges per annum on the rented accommodations. They also feel that biddings on hire charges by tenants should be banned.