The inadequate supply to the growing demand for the housing property market will show effect on the property rental as property prices are predicted to become unaffordable for customers over the next decade, a report suggests.

The report forecasts that average rents are expected to rise by 50%, exceeding ÂŁ2,000 a month by 2022 and far outstripping pay rises. Many families will be forced to claim housing benefit to avoid eviction, as a result of this humongous rise.

London house prices are expected to increase over the next decade by 60%, to an average of ÂŁ687,900. This increase is expected to bring down home ownership in London 40% mark by 2025, the lowest level for a quarter of a century. Recent figures in property website Zoopla showed that property prices in London rising 7.3% over the past year to an average of ÂŁ444,393, more than twice the pace of any other area.

Kate Dodsworth, the London assistant director for the National Housing Federation, which published the study, said, “We have reached the point of absolute crisis — the supply of new housing is not keeping up with demand in London. This is not a time for a short-term response, the Government has to look beyond 10 years if we are going to have a chance of sorting this out.”

The Federation disclosed that rents rose faster than wages last year in 28 of London’s 33 local authority areas. The biggest “affordability gap” was in Hammersmith & Fulham where average monthly rents increased 15% to £1,677, while average income dropped by 1%. Merton, Barnet, Richmond and Enfield were other boroughs which recorded double-digit rent rises.

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