The Private Rented Sector is a classification of UK housing tenure as described by the Department for Communities and Local Government, a UK government department that has amongst its remit the monitoring of the UK housing stock. Other classifications are: Owner Occupied, Rented from Registered Social Landlords, Rented from Local Authorities. The private rented sector consists of 2.7m dwellings in the UK or 10% of the total housing stock.
