The Land Trap: How Britain Engineered the Conditions for the Collapse of Small Landlordism “You can ignore the laws of Parliament, but not the laws of economics.” — Unknown In 2024, journalist and analyst Mike Bird published The Land Trap , an ambitious exploration of the strange gravitational pull of land in the global economy. It is not a book about landlords or housing policy per se — but its implications for the private rented sector (PRS), especially in the UK and Wales,

The Existential Doubt of the Modern Letting Agent If a letting agent vanished tomorrow, would anyone notice?  David Graeber, in Bullshit Jobs, asked a similar question about much of modern work: if your job disappeared and the world carried on exactly the same, perhaps it was never real work to begin with. For many letting agents, this thought lands uncomfortably close to home. The day-to-day reality of agency life often feels like a performance. Endless compliance uploads, m