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The government has been told to raise the landlord cost cap to £10,000 to increase the number of private rental sector...

London Mayor Sadiq Khan wants to buy back former council houses now in the private rental sector. Right to Buy, part of...

Labour councils in London have backed the initiative from Mayor Sadiq Khan to buy back ex-council houses now in the private...

London’s Labour Mayor, Sadiq Khan, and the Baroness leading the Generation Rent campaign have called for powers to control rents. Khan claims...

The main landlords’ trade body has hit out at a bid by London Mayor Sadiq Khan to secure powers to impose private...

Only 39 rogue landlords and letting agents have been hit with banning orders in the first three years of their existence. The...

A group of activists at the centre of campaigns for renters’ rights has claimed the police help landlords commit illegal acts. The London...

London Mayor Sadiq Khan is to keep a call for rent controls in the capital as a major plank of his...

A landlord who let out a former bank vault as an illegal flat described by the local council as “dangerous” has...

Activists in a rental reform coalition say court possession hearings should be halted as well as bailiff-led evictions. They say the stress...

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has called for an extension of the eviction ban and a two year rent freeze in the...

Generation Rent, the lobby group that tells the government how it thinks the lettings industry should operate, appears to have a...

London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan wants a £3 billion one-off windfall tax on private developers to fund replacement cladding on affected...

Staff are being recruited by a coalition of groups campaigning for widespread restrictions on landlord powers in 2021. Called the Renters Reform...

One of the candidates for next year’s London Mayoral election wants to put pet-friendly tenancies for the private rental sector as...

London Mayor Sadiq Khan says landlords in the capital could  discriminate against EU citizens living in the UK capital if those...

Pressure groups attacking landlords and letting agents are usually on the other side of the fence from property industry professionals but...

London’s Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan has launched a new tool for tenants to check on their landlords - and possibly claim...

Rents should be frozen in London to avert mass evictions, city mayor Sadiq Khan has told the government. Khan wants new powers...

Sadiq Khan’s proposal to introduce rent controls in London risks reducing the number of private homes available for rent, as landlords...

Transport for London (TfL) has finally bowed to pressure from campaigners and announced a ban on adverts that promote short-term letting...

The mayor of London has called for additional powers so he can introduce rent controls in the capital. Sadiq Khan believes greater...

Hostmaker, which specialises in managing London properties put on to Airbnb and other short-let platforms, has apologised for causing controversy over...

More than 8,300 Londoners have called on London Mayor Sadiq Khan to ban adverts ‘encouraging’ landlords to abandon long-term tenants for...

London mayor Sadiq Khan is being urged to pull advertisements encouraging landlords to move into tourist lets. Following a significant drop in...

Around 2 million Londoners, including many renters, live in areas which exceed legal limits for air pollution, fresh figures show. The data...

There was a significant increase in the number of landlords exiting the rental market in December 2018 as rents increased for...

The mayor of London Sadiq Khan is developing rent control proposals as part of his 2020 re-election bid in the hope...

The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) has warned that growing speculation the mayor of London Sadiq Khan is considering introducing rent controls...

The increase of London Living Wage to £10.55 per hour and UK Living Wage to £9 per hour has been welcomed...

Criminal landlords across London will be named and shamed on an online database after all London boroughs signed up to a rogue...

With 65,000 affordable new homes planned to be built in London per year, it would appear that the capital is offering...

The mayor of London Sadiq Khan yesterday launched a new public online database which ‘names and shames’ dodgy landlords and letting...

A high number of buy-to-let investors prioritise rental rents over capital gains when making property purchase decisions, and with that in...

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

Short-term letting agents in the capital are being urged by the Mayor of London to follow Airbnb’s lead by blocking hosts...

The mayor of London’s pledge to publically name ‘bad’ landlords who have been convicted of housing-related offences is supported by the...

The new mayor of London has pledged to get tough on rogue landlords in the capital by introducing a ‘London Landlord...

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

With just a few hours until polls close in London, housing remains the main issue that may help determine who gets to run the...

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...