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The coalition of 20-plus groups which have previously spoken enthusiastically about the Renters Reform Bill has now changed its mind. On April...

Spain’s Minister for Housing, Isabel Rodríguez, says the country is taking the first steps to eliminate the Golden Visa.  This visa was...

MPs return to the Commons today after a substantial Easter recess - and with progress on the Renters Reform Bill on...

Amendments to be made to the Renters Reform Bill when it returns to the Hoise of Commons next week won’t significantly...

A national newspaper says the Renters Reform Bill is “on the brink of collapse” as Tory MPs are divided on their views...

A leader of the Renters Reform Coalition activist lobby has made a specific targeted attack on the motives and honesty of...

The Renters Reform Coalition - a group of organisations including Shelter and Generation Rent - has again written to Housing Secretary...

Generation Rent has launched a double-pronged attack on landlords and the government. The activist group claims that the latest possession statistics from...

The Renters Reform Bill will not go for its Third Reading in the House of Commons for at least another fortnight. The...

The controversial Renters Reform Coalition - a band of campaigners including the Acorn and Generation Rent ginger groups - claims public...

The first meeting has been held of the Housing Coalition, a new group including a number of local and regional landlord bodies...

The government should tax property ‘hoarders’ cashing in on the UK housing market says a left-leaning think tank. A report by the New Economics...

Activist’s Twitter war of words continues  It appears as if Suella Braverman is not the only figure making a personal attack in...

Claims on social media by a leader of the Renters Reform Coalition - who is also a contributor to a Labour-supporting website...

Middleton Advisors commissions ongoing research to investigate key trends and structural changes in prime UK housing markets.  Our latest research considers the...

The hardline activist group Acorn - part of the Renters Reform Coalition involving Generation Rent - now claims that some 600,000...

Housing Secretary Michael Gove is being lobbied to take urgent action over the growing problem of abandoned tenancies. Propertymark chief executive Nathan...

The Renters Reform Coalition - an umbrella body which includes direct action groups Acorn and the Renters Rights London - has ...

A Labour MP has expressed concern at the speed of progress on the Renters Reform Bill - pushing Leader of the...

Activists who at one time appeared broadly happy with the pro-tenant Renters Reform Bill now appear to have changed their mind. Over...

Activists who until last week were focussing their campaigning on demanding the publication of the Renters Reform Bill have now announced...

In a surprise move, Housing Secretary Michael Gove has given the stand-in leader of activist group Generation Rent a prime role...

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

A coalition of tenant activists has called a Day of Action to protest at delays in the government’s rental reform agenda. The...

A coalition of landlords and lettings groups has submitted a Petition to the Court of Session in Edinburgh seeking a Judicial...

Activists got reassurance from Boris Johnson and Liz Truss in the past, and have a supportive politician in the form of...

As the energy crisis gather pace, households are increasingly likely to be in the position where they are unable to afford...

One of the many activist groups in the so-called Renters’ Reform Coalition has pledged to “train people across the country to...

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

A landlord group is threatening legal action following a council’s approval of a new licensing scheme. York council - run by a...

The House of Commons Library provides books, journals and online resources for MPs, MPs' staff and parliamentary staff. Some of this is...

Greg Clark is the new Housing Secretary, with responsibilities including steering the Renters' Reform Bill through parliament. He is part of a...

Activists from pressure groups and London-focussed tenants’ bodies have handed in a letter to 10 Downing Street asking the Prime Minister...

Renting is changing. That’s what we keep being told by the Government as it prepares the ground for its renters’ reform...

Rental activists have made clear that they are not going to stop when their objective to scrap Section 21 eviction powers...

A pressure group of campaigners highly critical of landlords and letting agents is organising protests at cities this weekend. Acorn - which...

Housing minister Eddie Hughes MP has met with activists to discuss the government’s reform proposals for the private rental sector.  They were...

The Renters’ Reform Coalition, a combination of some 20 groups of activists wanting to transform the lettings sector, has set its...

An alliance of 25 major charities have written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Chancellor Rishi Sunak, calling for urgent action...

Conservative opposition councillors have derailed a local authority’s plan to introduce a landlord licensing scheme this week. Southend council is run by...

The new coalition of the Scottish National Party and the Greens in Scotland has pledged to introduce rent controls - and...

The Green Party says the fact that some landlords increased rents during the Coronavirus pandemic shows the need for rent controls. The...

A leading market analyst says the looming threat of rent controls may be deterring landlords entering the buy to let sector,...

A former member of Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow cabinet has thrown his weight behind Generation Rent’s latest campaign. Lloyd Russell-Moyle - chair of...

Activists including Generation Rent are to lobby MPs this afternoon, to complain against eviction notice periods in England reverting to pre-Covid...

Activists’ group Generation Rent says it’s to lobby MPs on Tuesday next week against the return of normal eviction notice periods...

The tenants’ campaign group Generation Rent is planning a week of events to promote renters’ rights later this month. The campaign says...

A coalition of 20 pro-tenant organisations - including at least one actively campaigning against some government measures - wants a meeting...

The Baroness who leads the Generation Rent campaign has made a sharp attack on section 21 notices. Baroness Alicia Kennedy says: “A Section 21...

A group of activists at the centre of campaigns for renters’ rights has claimed the police help landlords commit illegal acts. The London...

With buy to let and traditional commercial property both under challenge thanks to government regulations and Coronavirus, the government is now...

A coalition of rental groups with the same view on how to tackle arrears is calling on the Chancellor to help...

Activists in a rental reform coalition say court possession hearings should be halted as well as bailiff-led evictions. They say the stress...

Generation Rent, the lobby group that tells the government how it thinks the lettings industry should operate, appears to have a...

Staff are being recruited by a coalition of groups campaigning for widespread restrictions on landlord powers in 2021. Called the Renters Reform...

The Labour-controlled Greater London Authority and 18 other groups of activists, charities and students have formed a new pro-renter coalition. Called the...

Buy-to-let landlords north of the border are urging the Scottish government to take into consideration the impact that the Covid-19 pandemic...

The next government should urgently reduce VAT on maintenance and improvement works to people’s homes to help boost investment in the...

The two candidates for Conservative leader are being urged to make a public commitment to abolishing the controversial Right to Rent...

Landlords and letting agents have joined forces to campaign against government plans to scrap Section 21, the so-called ‘no fault eviction’. ‘Fair...

If you’ve been reading about the Manchester property market, then you will probably have read that overall sales volumes have fallen...

A number of young renters will be offered ‘rent to buy’ deposit-free homes as part of plans being proposed by the...

Former British prime minister Tony Blair made headlines over the Bank Holiday weekend for announcing a return to domestic politics to...

New housing policies affecting the private rented sector, including longer tenancies, boosting the supply of much needed housing and plans to...

Landlords represented by Cherie Blair have failed in their legal battle against planned government tax relief changes for buy-to-let homes set...

This Saturday renters in London are taking to the streets in a “day of action” calling for an end to what...

If the first few hours of the new government’s approach to housing are anything to go by, it could be a...