Acknowledgements -- Notes to tables -- Introduction -- Sample design and response -- Data collection -- Weighting and grossing -- Data presentation and interpretation -- Trends in tenure and cross tenure topics -- New and recently moved households -- Owner occupiers and second homes -- Social renters -- Private renters -- Households in deprived areas -- Attitudes to the local area and tenants' views of their landlord -- Appendices: definitions and terms; survey design and response; grossing and weighting; sampling errors; list of tables and charts; data access and how to contact us

Report based on the results of English Housing Survey started in the year beginning April 2007. The findings include owner occupation remaining the most common form of tenure, forming 68.3% of all households in England. Renting is considerably more prevalent in London, where owner occupation stands at 55%. The proportion of younger householders (aged 25-29) who are in privately rented accommodation has risen from 19% in 1993 to 38% in 2007-08. Second homes in England have risen by 35% in the last 11 years and households having a second home abroad have risen by 135%. Provides detailed statistics.