Leishman, C.Abebe, F.Baker, E.Kim, S.Reid, A.2025-10-302025-10-302025Housing Studies, 2025; 1-320267-30371466-1810https://hdl.handle.net/2440/148070OnlinePubl. Available online 1 September 2025Previous research has explored and conceptualised private renting as a unitary sector, thus obscuring deeper understanding of the experiences of discrete groups in the private rental market. We draw on a large-scale Australian survey dataset to estimate two inter-linked econometric models—a hedonic and a logit—that let us analyse rental conditions, rent paid and intended mobility. We find evidence of a specific group of renters who are in a more marginalised position than other cohorts. We argue that that price (rent) paid is a function of tenant choice, in addition to physical and neighbourhood attributes. Meanwhile, tenants’ propensities to move home are a function of satisfaction with physical, neighbourhood, landlord behavioural factors, as well as rent paid. Our empirical evidence supports the idea that marginalised renters face poor physical dwelling and neighbourhood conditions, higher levels of rent and higher levels of intended mobility.en© 2025 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.Private rental; conditions; mobility; intentions; costsJournal article10.1080/02673037.2025.2552397859334Baker, E. [0000-0002-9390-0491]Reid, A. [0000-0003-4350-480X]