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Rent controls are at the heart of the local election manifesto of the Green Party of England and Wales. Co-leader Carla Denyer,...

A think tank based in central London says landlords would not quit the sector if much tougher - and more expensive...

Labour leader Sir Kier Starmer and the party’s controversial Mayor of London Sadiq Khan are at loggerheads over rent controls. Khan has...

A newly-nominated candidate in this spring’s London Mayoral election has vowed to lower private rents if he wins. Serge Crowbolder, currently a...

Many landlords say they’re set to expand investments in 2024 despite facing up to 80 per cent higher costs in the...

A respected financial body is warning that landlords face rising costs of up to 80 per cent in the next two...

When Chancellor Jeremy Hunt gets to his feet on Wednesday to deliver his Autumn Statement, he should consider offering support to...

London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan and activist group Generation Rent have issued a joint appeal for rent controls in the capital. Khan’s...

Activist group Generation Rent - which has demanded rent freezes, eviction bans and cash hand-outs to help tenants move now wants...

The National Residential Landlords Association has reacted angrily to the latest UK government to flirt with adopting the Scottish example of...

The co-leader of the Green Party wants the Renters Reform Bill to go further in restricting the powers of private landlords. Carla...

A newspaper report claims that some Conservative MPs are unhappy at the anti-landlord tone of the Renters Reform Bill which is...

Rent controls and political uncertainty are affecting investor appetite to fund and deliver Build to Rent homes in Scotland, according to...

Both the Generation Rent activist group and London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan have issued a joint attack on private rental sector...

One of Scotland’s largest lettings agencies is voicing concern over what it calls “the lack of balance” in the Scottish government’s...

Two of the most prominent campaigners over rent controls - albeit one on either side of the argument - have had...

An immediate private sector rent freeze and eviction ban for the duration of the cost of living crisis is the key...

Landlords are being encouraged to contribute to a crowdfunding campaign to take legal action regarding rent caps and eviction bans. It follows...

The Scottish Government, despite being in the middle of electing a new First Minister, is pressing ahead with legislation for long-term...

A host of local Labour leaders including mayors Andy Burnham and Sadiq Khan are leading a call for an immediate private...

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has yet again taken to social media to demand the powers to freeze private sector rents. This has...

I am, by my own admission, ever the optimist, but with a barrage of enquiries from concerned landlords facing very real...

The rent freeze imposed on the Scottish private rental sector appears to have backfired. In the first quarter since the freeze was...

Ruling politicians in Scotland have agreed that from April private rents can rise by 3.0 per cent in a 12 month period...

There are early signs that the controversial private rental sector rent freeze in Scotland could be made permanent. The freeze, along with...

Bristol councillors who are landlords have been told they cannot speak in a debate on rent controls.  Earlier this week we explained...

Landlords are not “contributing anything useful to society” a politician has claimed. Over the Christmas and New year break Ross Greer, a...

Propertymark has come out in favour of private landlords being allowed to follow the example of social landlords in agreeing an...

There’s a warning that the next 12 months could be even worse than the last for the private rental sector in...

Half of private renters have faced a rent increase in the last year, it’s claimed.  Activists in Generation Rent claims of those...

Two councillors have successfully used the London Assembly to push London Mayor Sadiq Khan and the government to do more to...

Activist group Generation Rent has started a petition calling on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to freeze private rents this winter. As part...

A prominent figure in the lettings industry is warning the Tories against ‘stealth increases’ for Capital Gains and Inheritance taxes. David Alexander...

A Labour peer who was to have invested £1 billion in affordable homes has halted his scheme because of the threat...

The so-called emergency rent freeze and eviction ban in Scotland “can serve as a Europe-wide template for protecting tenants rights” according...

The National Residential Landlords Association has joined with other landlord and agent bodies to seek legal opinion on whether Scotland’s rent...

Labour is backing a rent freeze in Scotland and flirting with one in England - but it’s just stopped one being...

A combination of Labour, the Green Party and the Scottish Nationalists have pushed through a rent freeze proposal. The Cost of Living...

The Scottish Federation of Housing Associations says its members are key to tackling the cost of living crisis but rent freezes,...

A rent freeze in Scotland - which has been condemned by many experts in the private rental sector and by housing...

In Scotland - where a rent freeze kicks in this coming weekend - Scottish private rents have fallen nearly 15 in...

The politician who is the architect of an emergency private sector rent freeze set to come into force this week has attacked...

Property experts in one part of the UK where rent freezes are a way of life say they make the housing...

The mini-Budget was always billed as a tax-cutting, growth-generating affair - and so it proved - but Labour has criticised it...

There is no real prospect of improved rental supply in the near term as private landlords continue to sell off homes...

Want to know more about the Scottish Government’s rent freeze policy? If so, Rightmove’s webinar tomorrow, September 14, at 10am, may be...

Both Shelter and Generation Rent have paused their campaigning on social media for the duration of national mourning for The Queen. A...

The controversial rent freeze policy in Scotland has been described as being “in chaos” by a top lettings agency chief. In a...

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The Scottish Government’s dramatic immediate introduction of a rent freeze and eviction ban could mark the beginning of the end of the...

An emergency rent freeze in the private and public sectors has been announced this afternoon in Scotland. It will last until...

A senior Conservative has made a surprise plea for a two year rent freeze in the private rental sector with no...

Scottish Labour Party leader Anas Sarwar has called for the Scottish Government to implement an emergency rent freeze. The freeze, which Sarwar...

Baroness Alicia Kennedy, director of the Generation Rent group, is warning that millions of tenants may not be able to pay...

New government figures show 3,405 households in the private rented sector were evicted by bailiffs in England between April and June this year...

Generation Rent is promoting another rent freeze campaign. In a short series of tweets, and in relation to the predicted energy price...

Activists in Generation Rent have repeated once again their call for a rent freeze and yet another eviction ban.  “Rents have been...

Labour’s London Mayor - buoyed up after the party’s successes in the capital in last week’s elections - has renewed his...

Activists in the Generation Rent group have made seven demands on government including a rent freeze, the clearing of tenants’ arrears,...

Generation Rent is calling for a national rent freeze in the private sector for an unspecified period “for the duration of...

A controversial PropTech rental platform has issued a list of questions and issues to check when tenants rent from a landlord...

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

A Labour Mayor and a former Labour baroness have teamed up to call for rent freezes in London, claiming they slash...

John McDonnell, who until 15 months ago was the shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, has called for all tenants to be...

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has called for an extension of the eviction ban and a two year rent freeze in the...

Rents should be frozen in London to avert mass evictions, city mayor Sadiq Khan has told the government. Khan wants new powers...

Sadiq Khan’s proposal to introduce rent controls in London risks reducing the number of private homes available for rent, as landlords...

The government is under growing pressure to consider doing more to protect tenants from the threat of eviction during the coronavirus...

Germany’s rent controls place strong restrictions on in-tenancy rent increases, while the ‘rent brake’ introduced a couple of year ago makes...

Labour’s symbolic victory over the rollout of universal credit on Wednesday night will have been welcomed by many buy-to-let landlords. Tory MPs were...

Some 60% of London landlords would reduce the size of their property portfolios in the event of a rent freeze.  This is...