# The Rent Officers (Housing Benefit Functions) Order 1997, Paragraph 5: Broad rental market area


A broad rental market area must contain—
(a) residential premises of a variety of types, including such premises held on a variety of tenures; and
(b) sufficient privately rented residential premises to ensure that, in the rent officer’s opinion, the local housing allowance for the categories of dwelling in the area for which the rent officer is required to determine a local housing allowance is representative of the rents that a landlord might reasonably be expected to obtain in that area.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1984/schedule/3B/paragraph/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/rent-officers-housing-benefit-functions-order-1997/schedule-3B/paragraph-5
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