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Labour’s shadow housing secretary and deputy leader Angela Rayner says her party will scrap Section 21 on its first day in...

Scotland’s Court of Session has come down in favour of the Scottish Government when it comes to rent controls. A case against...

Housing Secretary Michael Gove says a healthy private rented sector is a “critical” part of the housing market. The comments came as he addressed...

The Green Party wants private tenants to be able to force landlords to improve the energy efficiency of homes. The scheme -...

A controversial consultation document about rent controls is proposing that Build To Rent operators be exempt from the caps which may...

A collection of pressure groups, fronted by Generation Rent, wants all private rental homes going on sale to be offered first...

Shelter has published what it calls a General Election manifesto with rent controls at its heart. Called The Way Home: a manifesto to...

The National Residential Landlords Association is warning the Welsh government to steer clear of rent controls. In its response to the Welsh...

Zoopla has given its latest market update on the private rental sector, with the headline rent rise now being 10.5 per...

Over a third of private landlords would sell properties if rent controls were introduced in their area, according to a trade...

The Scottish Government says rent controls - already existing as a so-called emergency measure - will become permanent. Scottish First Minister Humza...

The long running experiment with rent controls and an eviction ban north of the border may yet continue for years to...

London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan and the Labour-supporting leader of the Generation Rent pressure group have starred in a lengthy social...

London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan and activist group Generation Rent have issued a joint appeal for rent controls in the capital. Khan’s...

A left-wing pressure group wants new laws to force landlords to pay hefty relocation expenses to tenants who claim high rents...

Housing Secretary Michael Gove has pledged to publish “shortly” revised timetables for the implementation of further energy efficiency targets for the...

Housing Secretary Michael Gove has this morning said his government should ‘relax the pace’ of EPC reforms expected from private landlords. In...

London Mayor Sadiq Khan, who wants the government to give him the powers to impose rent controls, is now demanding licensing...

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

A newspaper which often carries leaks of new Labour policies has produced an interesting theory on the fate of the Renters...

The National Residential Landlords Associations has expressed relief that Labour appears to be backing away from rent controls. Association chief executive Ben...

London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan has returned to his demand for powers to control rents in the private sector, citing a...

A Labour Mayor whose post was abolished by a public vote last year now wants to become an MP. Marvin Rees’ position...

Landlords are being asked for any evidence or case studies that can help build a case against rent controls. The National Residential...

The National Residential Landlords Association has reacted angrily to the latest UK government to flirt with adopting the Scottish example of...

The co-leader of the Green Party wants the Renters Reform Bill to go further in restricting the powers of private landlords. Carla...

The Financial Times says the Labour Party is poised to reject the increasingly shrill calls for rent controls made by the...

Activists are demanding that the government stop landlords circumnavigating an imminent eviction ban by hiking rents so tenants leave anyway. The London...

Politicians have rejected calls for rent controls, open ended tenancies and slower evictions - although this has not happened on the...

Research from Propertymark highlights a growing concern for the private rental sector in Scotland. As the Scottish National Party lurches from crisis...

Rent controls and political uncertainty are affecting investor appetite to fund and deliver Build to Rent homes in Scotland, according to...

Two of the most prominent campaigners over rent controls - albeit one on either side of the argument - have had...

An immediate private sector rent freeze and eviction ban for the duration of the cost of living crisis is the key...

Housing Secretary Michael Gove has pledged that the long awaited Rental Reform Bill will be introduced into the Commons in two...

The Scottish Government, despite being in the middle of electing a new First Minister, is pressing ahead with legislation for long-term...

An unexpected and unlikely political alliance has prevented another city council demanding powers to freeze private rents. London, Bristol, Liverpool and Manchester...

A leading property industry figure has exploded the myths that lie behind the calls for private rent controls. Ian Fletcher, director of...

The Portuguese government has announced sweeping measures, mostly against landlords, which some activists want introduced in the UK too. Portuguese Prime Minister...

A rant about rent controls by London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan appears to have backfired. Khan - who has repeatedly demanded that...

Another council says it wants to implement private sector rent controls - although it has no power to do so. Belfast council...

A Labour council which banned councillors who were landlords from contributing to a key debate has done a U-turn on legal...

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

Bristol councillors who are landlords have been told they cannot speak in a debate on rent controls.  Earlier this week we explained...

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

Labour leader Sir Kier Starmer has set out a radical programme of devolution to local authorities at city and county level...

Landlords are not “contributing anything useful to society” a politician has claimed. Over the Christmas and New year break Ross Greer, a...

Yes, it’s that time again when the property hoi polloi impose their predictions for the following year on us and so,...

Tenant activists have turned on the bosses of Shelter - just as the charity wants to maximise income from its annual Christmas...

Propertymark says some 85 per cent of its member agents in Scotland have landlord clients who have expressed a wish to...

Two groups of activists who campaign for rent controls and reform of the private lettings sector have turned on each other. Acorn...

Scottish landlords have been targeted with a raft of restrictive legislation in recent years but most are staying the course and...

The leader of the Generation Rent activist group says that the shortage of homes to rent means no private sector tenant...

It’s disappointing to say, but once again the rhetoric from both the Labour and Conservative party conferences towards the private rented...

A Labour peer who was to have invested £1 billion in affordable homes has halted his scheme because of the threat...

Labour is backing a rent freeze in Scotland and flirting with one in England - but it’s just stopped one being...

The mini-Budget was always billed as a tax-cutting, growth-generating affair - and so it proved - but Labour has criticised it...

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Scottish Labour Party leader Anas Sarwar has called for the Scottish Government to implement an emergency rent freeze. The freeze, which Sarwar...

The authoritative publication Inside Housing says the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities is pondering a formal consultation on limiting...

A new political party called Breakthrough is campaigning for radical reform of the rental sector and housing in general. The party -...

A senior figure at the right wing magazine The Spectator has slammed landlords for blatant profiteering. The magazine’s assistant online editor says...

The housing chief of the Scottish Government says that all homes in that country - irrespective of tenure - must hit...

London’s Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan has claimed credit for many of the measures contained in the government’s Fairer Private Rented Sector...

Bristol’s Labour council has made a name for itself with policies shifting power from landlords to tenants. Earlier this year the Mayor,...

On 16 June 2022, the Government introduced a White Paper called “A Fairer Rented Private Sector”. It proposes the biggest changes...

Highland Council is going to ask the Scottish Government for a rent control zone in part of its patch. This is despite...

Landlords and owner occupiers alike could lose the most financially from rent controls according to a prominent rentals expert. The claim comes...

Opposition continues to build to the prospect of rent controls in part of the UK, with the latest voice citing the...

Financial Times columnist and radio presenter James Max has made a strong case for opposing rent controls. Appearing on the Jeremy Vine...

A study of what has happened to a private rental sector hit by rent controls provides lessons to those in the UK...

Labour’s London Mayor - buoyed up after the party’s successes in the capital in last week’s elections - has renewed his...

Voters in Bristol have decided to abolish the city’s directly elected mayor following a referendum. The city was given the choice of...

A trade union has called on the government to “look at all forms of rent control” as a way of combatting...

Landlord Action supremo Paul Shamplina says he anticipates the long-awaited Rental Reform White Paper may now be delayed further, possibly until...

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

A leading lettings industry figure is warning politicians that they risk shrinking the size of the private rental sector if they...

EU citizens returning to the UK following the disruptions of the pandemic and Brexit May be the biggest losers from rental...

A Labour city council that has already called for powers to impose rent controls has now extended its existing landlord licensing...

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

A campaign group wants local candidates fighting elections in London next month sign up to a set of policies including rent...

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

Trade unions in Scotland are demanding that local council candidates sign a pledge to support “urgent” rent controls in that country. The...

The former Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer says rent controls are a vital part of a four-pronged ‘Radical Recovery Programme’. John McDonnell has...

The National Residential Landlords Association is trying to head off the growing clamour for rent controls by setting out its own...

The threat of rent controls in two parts of the country may now be so severe that buy to let landlords...

A new calculation suggests London needs almost 85,000 new private rented homes a year to meet its housing needs. And it adds...

A veteran lettings agency chief says future economic growth in part of the UK is under threat from a radical reform...

A prominent Conservative has branded the rush towards rent controls by some politicians as “heavy-handed and economically illiterate”. Janet Finch Saunders, an...

A prominent property website, which monitors the lettings market, suggests that rent controls would drive a proportion of rental stock to...

The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan wants rogue landlords to pay bigger fines and more compensation to tenants. He is also introducing...

A prominent Welsh politician says rent controls should be introduced across that country to “make landlordism less financially attractive.” The Welsh nationalist...

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

One of the driving forces behind a summit being held to consider rent controls in a major city says she is...

A prominent country property expert has issued an urgent appeal to rural landlords to become involved in the consultation process which...

A newspaper is suggesting that proposals for rent controls could be scuppered because of the relatively large proportion of elected politicians...

A senior figure in a newly-enlarged agency that wants to become a national force in lettings has thrown his weight behind...

Labour is the latest political party to call for rent controls following similar pleas from the Green Party and the Scottish Nationalists. Paul...

Scotland’s controversial Green Party housing chief - who is part of a governing arrangement with Nicola Sturgeon’s Scottish National Party -...

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

ARLA Propertymark has launched a radical programme of reform for the private rental sector - getting in before the government’s own...