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The Housing Ombudsman has revealed figures showing huge increases in the numbers of complaints from tenants on social housing. The Ombudsman says...

Urgent action is needed by government to protect tenants who live in poor quality private rented homes, MPs have demanded. A report...

A clampdown has found 18 council homes were being unlawfully sublet on Airbnb and other short let platforms. The investigation led by...

The Housing Ombudsman - who presides over all social housing - has revealed a huge surge in what it calls “severe...

The new Housing Loss Prevention Advice Service kicks in tomorrow - it offers early legal advice, free of charge, to anyone...

Social housing tenants are to be encouraged to hold their landlords to account as part of a taxpayer funded training scheme. From free advice on...

Housing Secretary Michael Gove is urging tenants to complain about sub-standard housing with the government’s ‘Make Things Right’ advertising campaign. Social housing...

At LRG we are currently seeing rental properties go within days, and sometimes hours of being placed on the market.  Rent is...

Three more social housing landlords have been ‘named and shamed’ by Housing Secretary Michael Gove. The trio - two of which are...

A London council and Airbnb are working together to try to counter large scale fraud amongst social housing tenants who sub-let...

The government is investigating a new way to tackle renters’ anti-social behaviour in the social housing sector - through a new...

A fake landlord who made over £2,500 a month letting out a London that he didn’t own has been taken to...

Shelter - for so long an outspoken critic of private rental landlords and letting agencies - has now turned its fire...

Private landlords get it in the neck for allegedly-high rents but 4.75m families living in social housing in England are facing...

Private landlords are being offered money to help encourage them to restore their empty homes in the London borough of Barnet.  Empty...

The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) has hit back at accusations made by Jeremy Corbyn in his Labour conference speech that private...

MPs will offer their reaction to Lords amendments to the Housing and Planning Bill this afternoon, which may take a while given...