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A controversial PropTech rental platform has issued a list of questions and issues to check when tenants rent from a landlord...
12 April 2022
From: Breaking News

The former Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer says rent controls are a vital part of a four-pronged ‘Radical Recovery Programme’. John McDonnell has...
22 March 2022
From: Breaking News

The threat of rent controls in two parts of the country may now be so severe that buy to let landlords...
17 March 2022
From: Breaking News
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A Labour Mayor and a former Labour baroness have teamed up to call for rent freezes in London, claiming they slash...
11 March 2022
From: Breaking News

A new calculation suggests London needs almost 85,000 new private rented homes a year to meet its housing needs. And it adds...
07 March 2022
From: Breaking News

The government has been told to raise the landlord cost cap to £10,000 to increase the number of private rental sector...
08 October 2021
From: Breaking News

London Mayor Sadiq Khan wants to buy back former council houses now in the private rental sector. Right to Buy, part of...
15 July 2021
From: Breaking News

The main landlords’ trade body has hit out at a bid by London Mayor Sadiq Khan to secure powers to impose private...
09 April 2021
From: Breaking News

A group of activists at the centre of campaigns for renters’ rights has claimed the police help landlords commit illegal acts. The London...
18 March 2021
From: Breaking News

Activists are aiming to make the eviction ban a central theme in this spring’s local elections. In early May there are elections...
11 March 2021
From: Breaking News

London Mayor Sadiq Khan is to keep a call for rent controls in the capital as a major plank of his...
18 February 2021
From: Breaking News

Activists in a rental reform coalition say court possession hearings should be halted as well as bailiff-led evictions. They say the stress...
11 January 2021
From: Breaking News

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has called for an extension of the eviction ban and a two year rent freeze in the...
08 January 2021
From: Breaking News

Generation Rent, the lobby group that tells the government how it thinks the lettings industry should operate, appears to have a...
05 January 2021
From: Breaking News

London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan wants a £3 billion one-off windfall tax on private developers to fund replacement cladding on affected...
30 December 2020
From: Breaking News

Staff are being recruited by a coalition of groups campaigning for widespread restrictions on landlord powers in 2021. Called the Renters Reform...
22 December 2020
From: Breaking News

One of the candidates for next year’s London Mayoral election wants to put pet-friendly tenancies for the private rental sector as...
17 December 2020
From: Breaking News

London Mayor Sadiq Khan says landlords in the capital could discriminate against EU citizens living in the UK capital if those...
02 December 2020
From: Breaking News

Rents should be frozen in London to avert mass evictions, city mayor Sadiq Khan has told the government. Khan wants new powers...
17 September 2020
From: Breaking News

Transport for London (TfL) has finally bowed to pressure from campaigners and announced a ban on adverts that promote short-term letting...
19 September 2019
From: Breaking News

Buy-to-let landlords and property enthusiasts will once again descend on the Olympia Conference Centre in London today where they will be...
13 June 2019
From: Breaking News

Hostmaker, which specialises in managing London properties put on to Airbnb and other short-let platforms, has apologised for causing controversy over...
04 June 2019
From: Breaking News

More than 8,300 Londoners have called on London Mayor Sadiq Khan to ban adverts ‘encouraging’ landlords to abandon long-term tenants for...
03 June 2019
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Ex-London mayor Ken Livingstone will take part in the Future of the UK Housing Market Debate at the National Landlord Investment...
30 May 2019
From: Breaking News

London mayor Sadiq Khan is being urged to pull advertisements encouraging landlords to move into tourist lets. Following a significant drop in...
23 May 2019
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Around 2 million Londoners, including many renters, live in areas which exceed legal limits for air pollution, fresh figures show. The data...
08 April 2019
From: Breaking News

With 65,000 affordable new homes planned to be built in London per year, it would appear that the capital is offering...
05 February 2018
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A high number of buy-to-let investors prioritise rental rents over capital gains when making property purchase decisions, and with that in...
04 August 2017
From: Breaking News

Tenants are now spending two-thirds of their disposable income on rent as sky-high prices put even more homes out of reach. The...
13 September 2016
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The mayor of London’s pledge to publically name ‘bad’ landlords who have been convicted of housing-related offences is supported by the...
14 June 2016
From: Breaking News

The new mayor of London has pledged to get tough on rogue landlords in the capital by introducing a ‘London Landlord...
11 May 2016
From: Breaking News

The new mayor of London Sadiq Khan has pledged to do all in his power to help make London “better” after...
09 May 2016
From: Breaking News

With just a few hours until polls close in London, housing remains the main issue that may help determine who gets to run the...
05 May 2016
From: Breaking News

The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) has set out what it believes should be priorities for the successful London Mayoral candidate in...
11 April 2016
From: Breaking News

Labour's London mayoral candidate Sadiq Khan has launched his election manifesto and pledged to help the capital’s two million renters. Khan’s election...
11 March 2016
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The Liberal Democrat London mayoral candidate Caroline Pidgeon says she would encourage landlords to offer longer tenancies if she was elected...
10 March 2016
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London Mayor Boris Johnson has just announced the capital’s first boiler replacement scheme. The London Boiler Cashback Scheme is providing 6,500...
04 February 2016
From: Breaking News

Rent controls and similar policies which are thought to work well in other countries cannot be easily replicated in the UK’s...
22 June 2015
From: Breaking News

A member of Labour’s London Assembly has warned that “Boris Johnson’s system of voluntary self-regulation is failing private renters in Tower...