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![Labour left puts Khan under pressure over housing policies](/upload/images/shutterstock_1803157102.jpg)
Sadiq Khan, newly elected for a third term as London Mayor, is already under pressure from the Labour Left to be...
10 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![Mayor election hopefuls told to clampdown on Airbnbs](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/shutterstock_2198282283.jpg)
Agents’ trade group Propertymark is demanding London Mayor candidates tackle what it calls “the unique housing challenges that the capital experiences.” Londoners...
01 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![Khan wants taxpayer-funded mould sensors in private rental homes](/upload/images/shutterstock_1005702670.jpg)
Labour London Mayor Sadiq Khan wants to install ‘mould sensors’ in thousands of rental homes across the capital. In a pledge ahead...
29 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Khan funds group “intervening on the doorstep” at evictions](/upload/images/shutterstock_1324745120.jpg)
London Mayor Sadiq Khan is demanding the government finally abolish Section 21 eviction powers - and claims over 30,000 households in...
04 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![Generation Rent wants rent controls to be election issue](/upload/images/shutterstock_2239146247.jpg)
Generation Rent has yet again come out for rent control over the private sector - and wants it to be an...
22 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![Is a change of government Starmergeddon for Britain’s landlords?](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews2-400x310.png)
I’m not especially political and certainly carry no candle for one flavour or another. I might argue that they’re all pretty...
10 February 2024
From: Legislation & Compliance
![Sadiq Khan challenged by new candidate seeking rental reform](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Buy-to-let-3-400x310.png)
A newly-nominated candidate in this spring’s London Mayoral election has vowed to lower private rents if he wins. Serge Crowbolder, currently a...
06 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![Rent Control Mayor dismissed as “well meaning but naive”](/upload/images/shutterstock_1909455316.jpg)
Rents across the UK continue to retreat from their 2023 highs, falling by 2.9 per cent over the last three months,...
17 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![EPCs - Generation Rent and Labour Mayor slam landlords and government](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/Energy_Efficiency-400x310.png)
Generation Rent and London Mayor Sadiq Khan have jointly slammed landlords who do not improve the EPCs of their private rental...
05 December 2023
From: Breaking News
![Rent Controls would force a third of landlords to quit Buy To Let](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Buy-to-let-2-400x310.png)
Over a third of private landlords would sell properties if rent controls were introduced in their area, according to a trade...
07 September 2023
From: Breaking News
![Airbnb refutes Sadiq Khan’s analysis of ‘out of control’ short lets](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/shutterstock_2198282283.jpg)
Airbnb has issued a statement responding to the call for a clampdown on short lets demanded by Labour’s outspoken London Mayor,...
01 August 2023
From: Breaking News
![Sadiq Khan wants Airbnb and short-let licensing for London](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/_licensing1-400x310.png)
London Mayor Sadiq Khan, who wants the government to give him the powers to impose rent controls, is now demanding licensing...
21 July 2023
From: Breaking News
![NRLA delight that Labour now opposes rent controls](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews3-400x310.png)
The National Residential Landlords Associations has expressed relief that Labour appears to be backing away from rent controls. Association chief executive Ben...
29 June 2023
From: Breaking News
![Activists back Labour Mayor’s demand for power to seize homes](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/House-in-Hand-400x310.jpg)
The Generation Rent campaign has given its support to a call by London Mayor Sadiq Khan to be given powers to...
26 May 2023
From: Breaking News
![Starmer rejects Sadiq Khan’s demand for rent controls](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/LettingAgent-400x310.png)
The Financial Times says the Labour Party is poised to reject the increasingly shrill calls for rent controls made by the...
19 May 2023
From: Breaking News
![Rent Controls - Twitter spat between high-profile campaigners](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Social%20Media/TwitterLogo-400x310.jpg)
Two of the most prominent campaigners over rent controls - albeit one on either side of the argument - have had...
11 April 2023
From: Breaking News
![Sadiq Khan urged to act against ‘exempt landlords’](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Flags%20%26%20Locations/London1-400x310.png)
The London Mayor has been told to act urgently against the landlords of so-called ‘exempt accommodation’ in London. This is the largely-unregulated...
21 March 2023
From: Breaking News
![Mayor demands powers to freeze private rents - yet again…](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Rent_Freeze-400x310.png)
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has yet again taken to social media to demand the powers to freeze private sector rents. This has...
23 February 2023
From: Breaking News
![Myth of rent controls is exploded by property industry chief](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/BTR-400x310.png)
A leading property industry figure has exploded the myths that lie behind the calls for private rent controls. Ian Fletcher, director of...
22 February 2023
From: Breaking News
![Rent control Twitter rant backfires on London Mayor](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/ToLetBoard-400x310.png)
A rant about rent controls by London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan appears to have backfired. Khan - who has repeatedly demanded that...
15 February 2023
From: Breaking News
![A Perfect Storm for London Renters?](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Flags%20%26%20Locations/LondonPropertySector-400x310.png)
The perennial shortage of new homes in the capital has now collided with a sharp increase in government regulation, a tripling...
28 January 2023
From: The Big Issues
![Stricter EPCs, Rent Controls, S21 Scrapping - is this 2023?](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/Low_EPC-400x310.png)
Yes, it’s that time again when the property hoi polloi impose their predictions for the following year on us and so,...
17 December 2022
From: The Big Issues
![Labour’s Sadiq Khan pushed to do more to help renters](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/DamagedProperty-400x310.png)
Two councillors have successfully used the London Assembly to push London Mayor Sadiq Khan and the government to do more to...
05 December 2022
From: Breaking News
![Labour Mayor demands 'name and shame' UK rogue landlord database](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/PropTech/AgentOnline-400x310.png)
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has praised tenants in the capital for using a register that names and shames rogue landlords -...
23 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![“We’ll train people to resist evictions” says Renters Reform group](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Misc/Protest-400x310.png)
One of the many activist groups in the so-called Renters’ Reform Coalition has pledged to “train people across the country to...
13 October 2022
From: Breaking News
![Labour criticises Budget for not including rent freeze](/upload/images/library/RentalMarketImage-1-400x310.jpg)
The mini-Budget was always billed as a tax-cutting, growth-generating affair - and so it proved - but Labour has criticised it...
26 September 2022
From: Breaking News
![Labour calls for rent freeze now and rent controls long term](/upload/images/library/Labour-logo400x310.png)
Labour’s London Mayor - buoyed up after the party’s successes in the capital in last week’s elections - has renewed his...
10 May 2022
From: Breaking News
![Tenants given 15 questions to ask landlords and agents](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/house-prices400x310.png)
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
![Prominent Labour MP wants rent controls to aid economic recovery](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/New%20Rental%20Index-400x310.png)
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
![Rent Control threat now hurting capital values - analyst’s warning](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/Calculator-PoundCoins-2019-400x310.jpg)
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
![Labour Mayor and ex-Labour Baroness demand rent freeze](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/SadiqKhan-400x310.png)
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
![Rent controls would add to London’s lettings stock shortfall](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/UKHouses2-400x310.png)
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
![EPC Upgrades - Raise cap for landlord spending, government told](/upload/images/library/EnergyEfficiency-1-400x310.jpg)
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
![New plan to buy back council houses, then re-let them](/img/default/llt.png)
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
![Landlords slam Sadiq Khan’s rent control power grab](/img/default/llt.png)
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
![Police help landlords conduct illegal and violent evictions - claim](/img/default/llt.png)
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
![Eviction ban set to be central issue in spring local elections](/img/default/llt.png)
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
![Labour Mayor Khan to put rent controls at heart of election fight](/img/default/llt.png)
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
![Tenants shouldn’t be obliged to attend possession hearings - call](/img/default/llt.png)
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
![Rent freeze and eviction ban demanded by London Mayor Khan](/img/default/llt.png)
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
![Rent reform activists hit trouble with recruitment drive](/img/default/llt.png)
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 Mayor wants windfall tax to fund cladding removal](/img/default/llt.png)
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
![Pro-tenant activists recruit campaign staff for 2021 battle](/img/default/llt.png)
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
![Candidate makes pet-friendly tenancies a political hot potato](/img/default/llt.png)
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
![Landlords could discriminate against EU citizens, fears Mayor Khan](/img/default/llt.png)
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
![London mayor Sadiq Khan calls for two-year rent freeze](/img/default/llt.png)
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 bans short term letting ads](/img/default/llt.png)
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
![National Landlord Investment Show to address key issues today](/img/default/llt.png)
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 to pull their ‘misguided’ short-term rental ads](/img/default/llt.png)
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
![Petition calls for Sadiq Khan to ban holiday let adverts in London](/img/default/llt.png)
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
From: Breaking News
![Former London mayor to take part in major landlord debate](/img/default/llt.png)
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 urged to crackdown on short-term letting adverts](/img/default/llt.png)
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
From: Breaking News
![Ultra-low emission zone aims to reduce poor air quality](/img/default/llt.png)
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
![London property hotspots – where should you invest in 2018?](/img/default/llt.png)
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
From: Breaking News
![Top 10 postcodes for buy-to-let in London](/img/default/llt.png)
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 now spending two-thirds of disposable income on rent](/img/default/llt.png)
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
From: Breaking News
![Name and shame ‘minority’ who provide substandard accommodation, say landlords](/img/default/llt.png)
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
![Sadiq Khan vows to expose London’s rogue landlords](/img/default/llt.png)
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
![What does Sadiq Khan’s victory mean for housing in London?](/img/default/llt.png)
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
![Where do leading London mayoral candidates stand on housing?](/img/default/llt.png)
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
![RLA launches London Mayoral Manifesto](/img/default/llt.png)
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 proposes rogue landlord database for London](/img/default/llt.png)
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
From: Breaking News
![Lib Dems in London push for longer tenancies](/img/default/llt.png)
The Liberal Democrat London mayoral candidate Caroline Pidgeon says she would encourage landlords to offer longer tenancies if she was elected...
10 March 2016
From: Breaking News
![London boiler cashback scheme launched](/img/default/llt.png)
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
![LSE: “Rent control is not the easy answer”](/img/default/llt.png)
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
![Mayor’s rental standard has “flopped”, says critic](/img/default/llt.png)
A member of Labour’s London Assembly has warned that “Boris Johnson’s system of voluntary self-regulation is failing private renters in Tower...