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A Labour council in London admits that 24% of its social housing fails the sector’s Decent Homes Standard. The industry norm for...

A group of 20 major local authorities - the biggest social landlords in England - have sent an open letter to...

Grainger, the Stock Market listed corporate landlord, has been targeted by protesters over rent levels. A protest outside Grainger’s London HQ marks...

Activists are beginning to pile pressure on London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan, claiming the public will be disappointed if he toes...

London Mayor Sadiq Khan is demanding the government finally abolish Section 21 eviction powers - and claims over 30,000 households in...

Labour deputy leader and shadow housing secretary Angela Rayner says she is not ashamed to have brought her council house at...

A survey by an activist group suggests that one in three tenants claim that their private renting conditions are impacting their...

Some local authorities are quick to criticise private landlords for trying to avoid rent arrears but it appears councils themselves have...

London’s Labour mayor Sadiq Khan wants 10,000 private homes in the capital to be brought into the social rental sector within...

The Green Party’s co-leader Carla Denyer has branded the government’s Right To Buy scheme as a “slum landlord’s charter”.  Denyer made the...

A new political party called Breakthrough is campaigning for radical reform of the rental sector and housing in general. The party -...

A charity, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, wants a form of Right To Buy to be given to private tenants.  Right To Buy...

A national newspaper has backed a scheme by a council to purchase private properties and them let them out to lower...

The next Prime Minister must address the supply crisis in the private rented sector if homeownership ambitions are to become a...

The property industry has this week remonstrated at the video that housing charity Shelter has published and in which they portray...

The former Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer says rent controls are a vital part of a four-pronged ‘Radical Recovery Programme’. John McDonnell has...

The programme of selling off council houses pioneered by Margaret Thatcher has been a strategic failure adding to inequality in Britain. That’s...

The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan wants rogue landlords to pay bigger fines and more compensation to tenants. He is also introducing...

Landlords selling up or converting to short lets have led to a growing housing crisis, according to a trade body of...

An initiative set up earlier this year to help support private rented sector tenants and landlords has proved its worth according...

Evictions guru Paul Shamplina returns to the TV this evening but his Channel5 show has had a name change - it...

A senior Anglican priest has stood up for renting as a concept, and suggests Britain is too pre-occupied with home ownership. Angela...

A London council is writing to thousands of private landlords in its borough urging them not to evict people. Southwark council says this...

West Lothian Council is appealing to buy-to-let landlords to provide private let accommodation as a means of accommodating those on the...

The government’s decision to bring forward emergency legislation to protect private renters from eviction has been warmly welcomed by ARLA Propertymark.  Many...

A buy-to-let landlord who claimed that he needed a council home has been ordered to pay back more than £48,000 or...

Universal credit is not working in its existing form, with households on the benefit significantly more likely to have housing debt than...

Housing charity Shelter has launched a £600,000 fund in Greater Manchester today with a view to finding real-life solutions to the...

An unscrupulous landlord has been told to pay close to £25,000 after being prosecuted for renting out rooms in an unlicensed...

A buy-to-let landlord in Leeds who left his tenant homeless after changing the locks while he was on holiday has been...

Private landlords are being offered money to help encourage them to restore their empty homes in the London borough of Barnet.  Empty...

A rogue landlord has been fined in excess of £20,000 after renting a single house out to three separate families. Veli Bunul...

A pair of landlords in Dagenham have been slapped with a hefty fine for renting out two illegally converted flats over...

A landlord in Luton has been fined £11,620 for letting an unlicensed and poorly-maintained house in the town which is classed...

With only a few hours left of voting in the general election, the balance of power will have a major impact...

The Residential Landlord Association (RLA), National Landlord Association (NLA), Leeds Landlords’ Accreditation Scheme (LLAS) and​​ Unipol have teamed up with Leeds...

Two landlords in Reading have been fined almost £14,000 for failing to put right a string of housing offences at a...

A private landlord in Scunthorpe has been prosecuted for tenancy fraud and ordered to pay back more than £30,000 after deceptively...

Significantly more homes urgently need to be developed for the private rented sector to curb rising rental values in London, according...

Two tenants in Kingsbury, north-west London, have been handed fines totalling £4,500 after being convicted of obstructing a Brent Council housing...

The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) has hit back at accusations made by Jeremy Corbyn in his Labour conference speech that private...

A landlord who confessed to renting out houses in Stotfold and Arlesey with serious safety hazards has been ordered to pay...

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has set out plans to introduce a new Tenants’ Rights Charter to increase protection for tenants in...

Andy Burnham, former Labour leadership candidate and now the party's candidate for Greater Manchester Mayor, has put forward a number of...

A Kent landlord has been fined for failing to have a valid Gas Safety Record in place for five properties. Medway Magistrates’...

A local authority has refused to issue a private landlord licence after it was revealed the applicant had a conviction for...

A West Midlands landlord has been ordered to pay costs and fines of more than £6,600 after a series of poor...