 Welcome to the third video of our suite of eight mini videos to support you through the data requirements needed to run the local housing market assessment tool, referred to as LHMA in this video. Please use the videos as reference resources prior to and as you populate the LHMA tool. You will need to have populated your housing market areas as shown in video one before starting this task. This video focuses on the sheet named rent data by HMAs in section two of the tool. In this sheet you will need to select the most appropriate and relevant rent data, and in particular the 30th and 50th percentile rent values for each housing market area. The 30th percentile rent data will inform the allocation of the annual average newly arising need for the social rent tenure, and the 50th percentile rent value for market housing tenure. You will need to decide whether to use the default option provided by Welsh Government or select alternative data. If the latter, you will need to state the alternative data here, and this must be supported by a statement as to why this is more appropriate than the default option. If you select the default data which is provided by rent officers Wales, you will need to select from the drop down list either a financial year basis or calendar year basis on which the data is to be provided. This data includes renewal and new tenacy data and is only from confirmed let-ins. The data excludes properties on which local housing allowance is claimed. Please note any asterisk entries as shown here denotes insufficient data to disclose a rent value. To request the rent data from rent officers Wales, you will need to copy your table 4 into an email and send to afdl-lhma.wales. In around two to three weeks and possibly sooner, you will receive the rent data to copy and paste directly into table 5. The formula to determine the 30th and 50th percentile rent values gives equal weight in across all number of bedrooms. You can amend the formula to limit the data included in these values if this is more relevant for a housing market area. When complete, you can tick the appropriate box on the front page of section 2 and that concludes the rent data requirements. For further information, you can consult the LHMA guidance or email Welsh Government at afdl-lhma.wales.