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A small number of activists have tried to erect a four metre high mock eviction notice on one of Housing Secretary...

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

The Scottish Government’s Housing Bill allows SNP and Green politicians to create rent control areas, triggered by local authorities, and this...

A tenants’ union has developed an app which it claims makes it easy to complain about short lets. Living Rent - a...

The Labour dominated council in Bristol has written to Housing Secretary Michael Gove demanding that he gives it the powers to...

A co-living brand called Folk is launching its third site in the capital, Florence Dock in Battersea.  The building, which already has...

A nine-page legal document outlining landlords’ arguments has effectively stopped a controversial housing minister and campaigning organisations giving evidence to a...

A Labour council is being tipped to vote tomorrow to introduce rent controls for the private sector, even though it has...

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

A points-based system of rent controls is being advocated by activists associated with a controversial pro-tenant group. Living Rent, which is calling...

The mayor of Labour-controlled Bristol council is teaming up with local anti-landlord activists to look at how to introduce local rent...

An operator in the co-living rental niche in London has recorded an average 44 per cent annual growth over the past...

Activists from Shelter and Generation Rent have led the charge for a renewed eviction ban in the light of the latest...

Labour politicians, union leaders and Shelter are amongst those writing to Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon demanding an eviction ban. The protest...

An operator of co-living rental units in London has linked with a PropTech platform to reward tenants for their loyalty.  Built Asset...

Anti-eviction campaigners have confronted two landlords over an alleged planned eviction.  Members of the Living Rent tenants union are pictured by the...

From today possession cases with severe rent arrears will be exempt from the effective ban on evictions applying to the England...

Some of the UK’s largest tenants unions have joined forces to heap pressure on the government to suspend all rent immediately,...

Landlords are being urged not to evict tenants facing financial hardship as a consequence of the coronavirus pandemic.  Responding to a petition...

A number of landlords are jeopardising their property investments - probably their biggest assets - by failing to comply with basic...

An unscruplous landlord has been handed a £7,500 fine after he broke tenancy laws by claiming a flat in the Warriston...

The soaring cost of renting property in prime central London has once again come under the spotlight following WikiLeaks founder Julian...

A new survey has revealed three in four Scots back rent caps north of the border to help curb increasing housing...

Legal & General has exchanged contracts on its largest build-to-rent (BTR) site to date located in Woolwich. The scheme, which has been...

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

The new mayor of London Sadiq Khan has pledged to do all in his power to help make London “better” after...

The Green Party has launched its manifesto which contains what the National Landlords Association (NLA) described as a “one-sided view of...