Rents are likely to go up, is the message from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. Remember the rise of the accidental landlord... the frustrated vendors left high and dry by a dead property market and forced to let their homes? Now - apparently - they've all rushed to sell while the market's revived. The net effect... that surplus of privately rented property has dried up into something like a shortage, and so rents are likely to go up in 2010.

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