*And lots of smaller categories (shared ownership, rent free, private renting not involving a landlord or letting agency, etc) as well.
how does one privately rent without involving a landlord or agency?
Not sure about UK, but Australian Bureau of Statistics Census data breaks tenure into a wide range of options, including owned outright, owned with a mortgage, purchased under a rent/buy scheme, rented, occupied rent-free (I suspect/observe but haven't analytically proven a correlation with university students... most likely international students - I can elaborate if anyone's interested, but you probably understand the principle), occupied under a life tenure scheme, and "Other tenure type."
It also provides separate data on "landlord type" - which includes real estate agent, state or territory housing authority, person not in the same household - parent/relative, person not in the same household - other, residential park (includes caravan parks and marinas), employer - Government (including Defence Force Housing), employer - other, housing cooperative/community/church group.
I don't think I'll post any maps of these Australian maps because the ABS website maps them very nicely so I'd be a little superfluous. If anyone wants to have a look, I believe the ABS Tablebuilder link is in the "Important Links" stickied thread, and I can explain to anyone interested (just PM me). If people are interested, but don't want to register for the free access to the Census website, I might make some of these maps, if people say what they'd like to see.
