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Monday’s Queen's Speech opened a new session of parliament, setting out policies on crime, health, the environment, and Brexit.  But while the Queen’s Speech...

All the main political parties are targeting the Generation Rent vote ahead of a potential snap general election, at the expense...

Fresh analysis looking at rental prices across the UK and how they have increased over the last five years shows that...

The majority of medium and large companies pay higher wage rates to men than to women, according to the latest government...

The average cost of renting a room in the UK increased by 8% between April and June and now stands at...

Investment into the Build to Rent sector reached a record high in 2018, as corporate landlords continued to tap into healthy...

Investor demand from corporate landlords, often backed by institutional finance, is growing and that is pushing up rental values across some parts...

Rents in the UK’s private rented sector increased by 1.3% in the 12 months to May 2019, up from 1.2% in April,...

Germany’s rent controls place strong restrictions on in-tenancy rent increases, while the ‘rent brake’ introduced a couple of year ago makes...

London unsurprisingly remains the most unaffordable city to rent a room in the UK with the average cost in the capital...

The soaring cost of renting property in prime central London has once again come under the spotlight following WikiLeaks founder Julian...

The cost of living alone has hit 92% of income, making it far harder for single people to get a foot...

An online petition calling on Rightmove to ban ‘No DSS’ wording in rental adverts has attracted more than 40,000 signatures. The petition...

Private rental prices in the UK increased by 1.1% in the 12 months to February, according to the Office for National...

A growing number of young professionals and students are choosing to house share, driving up the average cost of renting room...

Affordability is a serious problem, particularly in London, and this puts people wishing to buy their first property under a great...

Private rental prices paid by tenants in the UK rose by 1% in the 12 months to January 2019, unchanged from...

There has been a significant rise in demand from people looking to rent property amid political and economic uncertainty and this...

New research has identified London’s most uninhabitable boroughs for the capital’s tenants, based on the cost of living there to the...

Private landlords are offering their expertise to the increasing number of renters in this country, as part of a new campaign...

Ideal Flatmate has closed its second round of funding, taking total investment in the company to £1.25m. The website, a compatibility-based flatmate...

Buy-to-let landlords are currently being invited to list rooms for rent in London free of charge on Idealflatmate.co.uk, a compatibility based...