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Activists in the Generation Rent campaign says big city Mayors should “tackle the worst landlords and seize their properties.” It also wants...

A council has issued formal cautions to two local landlords who illegally evicted their tenants. Both landlords gave their tenants incorrect paperwork...

A group delivering tenant relations training claims thousands of illegal evictions are made possible because many local councils have no trained...

Airbnb, so often criticised for operating in the largely-unregulated short lets market, has called on the UK government to scrap Section...

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

Shelter has given what appears to be unconditional support to the SNP-Green proposals for reform of the private rental sector in...

A couple have been fined over £13,000 after they were found guilty of unlawfully evicting four tenants and breaching management regulations...

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

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

The Generation Rent campaign group has entered the fray for the Police and Crime Commissioner elections which will be held in some...

A pressure group for tenants wants the next Mayor of London to win powers from the government to reduce rents, through a...

Robert Rinder, the reality TV celebrity and barrister, has joined the campaigning charity Shelter to oppose what he describes as illegal...

There has been a sharp rise in illegal evictions by rogue landlords, it has been claimed.  According to The Independent, illegal evictions...

Hefty fines could soon be issued to rogue landlords in Bradford without being taken to court, under plans due to be...

A landlord has been given a 12-month community service order with a rehabilitation activity requirement of 20 days after being convicted...

Rogue landlords in Hackney face heavy fines after the local council gained new powers to issue penalties of up to £30,000.  Landlords...

A buy-to-let landlord pleaded guilty to two charges relating to the harassment of his tenants during a short hearing at Sheffield...

After lobbying Tower Hamlets Council for three years, private renters in the east London district have finally been granted a new...

The mayor of London Sadiq Khan has vowed to crackdown on criminal landlords by ensuring that they are ‘named and shamed’...

Private tenants north of the border have come together to launch Scotland’s first national union for people living in the private...

Rogue landlords are being weeded out by councils for some of the worst cases of illegal eviction, according to the Local...