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Political parties should stop bickering and instead work together to boost enforcement of rental standards in the private sector. That’s the view...

A charity representing older people has taken up almost all of the key demands of activist group Generation Rent. Independent Age says...

An all-party House of Commons committee is calling on Local Housing Allowance to be updated automatically and annually. LHA rates have been...

The National Residential Landlords Association has slammed yesterday’s lacklustre Budget as a missed opportunity. Yesterday’s announcements - like to be the last...

Almost a million private rented households reliant on Universal Credit experience a shortfall between the benefit payments they receive and the...

A think tank claims that the government will pay landlords in the private sector six times the expected spend on new affordable homes in the five-year period between 2021 and 2026. The New...

Another survey highlights the relatively low proportion of landlords who appear to allow tenants to keep pets. The analysis, from Confused.com Mortgages,...

An estimated 1.6m private renters are set to receive an uplift to their housing support for 12 months from April 2024,...

Generation Rent says it’s worked out what rent levels will be in two years’ time. The activists say rents will rise 14...

The proportion of private landlords who report increased demand for rental properties has more than tripled compared with demand for properties...

Campaigning charity Shelter has welcomed the decision by Chancellor Jeremy Hunt to unfreeze Local Housing Allowance - but it wants it...

Many have welcomed the move by Chancellor Jeremy Hunt to unfreeze the Local Housing Allowance - but some tenant activists say...

When Chancellor Jeremy Hunt gets to his feet on Wednesday to deliver his Autumn Statement, he should consider offering support to...

Housing Secretary MIchael Gove is reported to be pressing Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to increase Local Housing Allowance in next week’s...

The ongoing freeze on housing benefit rates is a travesty that needs reversing immediately, the National Residential Landlords Association is warning.  The...

There’s been a strong personal attack on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak by anti-landlord activists over the subject of energy efficiency. The Generation...

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

The Competitioin and Markets Authority is to probe five activities involving landlords and letting agents and their responsibilities to private tenants. Sarah...

A Labour council says local landlords have only a week to apply for a licence before a big rise in the...

A year ago, many landlords’ primary concern was what would be included in the Government’s long-awaited Renters (Reform) Bill. Today, with...

Across the country landlords and renters are struggling as mortgage costs soar, tax hikes bite and uncertainty remains about the impact...

New research shows a 41 per cent reduction in the number of London properties available for private rent since the Covid-19...

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

The Supported Housing (Regulatory Oversight) Bill has passed its third reading in the House of Lords and is set to become law...

A Labour MP who last held shadow office under the party leadership of Jeremy Corbyn has attacked the government for having...

A charity claims that private renters are about twice as likely as the general population to be in problem debt. StepChange, via...

Section 21: Research carried out by Leaders Romans Group has found that Section 21 is rarely overused, and even more rarely...

Propertymark has told a group of MPs that many benefit recipients are excluded from the private rented sector due to the...

The landlord of a cellar ‘flat’ where a fire resulted in the death of a man has been jailed for breaching...

Both the Generation Rent activist group and London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan have issued a joint attack on private rental sector...

The government has made no estimate of the number of people unable to meet housing costs due to the freeze on...

The London Mayor has been told to act urgently against the landlords of so-called ‘exempt accommodation’ in London. This is the largely-unregulated...

The government has published the findings of a review into the operation of Right To Rent by private landlords and letting...

A landlord has agreed to repay £2,160 that he received in housing benefit following the expiry of an improvement notice served...

If you’re looking to make some extra cash in 2023 as the cost of living continues to bite, you may consider...

Campaigning charity Shelter claims that last month 482,000 private renters were behind on their rent. It also claims that 504,000 people have...

Shelter claims government figures show 5,940 households were “threatened with homelessness” in England as a result of Section 21 evictions between April...

The charity Crisis says rising rents are a contributing factor to the homelessness crisis. The comment come as  new data from the...

The freezing of Housing Benefit at 2020 levels, announced in the small print accompanying the Autumn Statement yesterday, risks leading to...

Rogue landlords who exploit the supported housing system at the expense of vulnerable residents could be banned from operating or fined...

Crisis, the homelessness charity, is demanding financial and legislative help for tenants. Matt Downie, Crisis chief executive, says: “This is a time of...

The current system of so-called ‘exempt rental accommodation’ has been condemned by MPs as “a complete mess” which wastes taxpayers’ money...

The National Residential Landlords Association says controversial Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng should use a £1.5 billion underspend to help buy to let...

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

Shelter claims that almost 1.1m private renters in England – one in seven – had their rent increased in the last...

Landlords have hit back at claims made by Shelter overnight, suggesting that one in seven private tenants in the UK have...

A government department is asking landlords to share their data in a bid to improve services. The Valuation Office Agency says it...

Zoopla is warning that low-income renters across England are facing a ‘housing black hole’ due to soaring rents and the freeze...

New government figures show 3,405 households in the private rented sector were evicted by bailiffs in England between April and June this year...

The National Residential Landlords Association has hit out at what it calls “baseless suggestions” that landlords will not pass on energy...

The House of Commons Library provides books, journals and online resources for MPs, MPs' staff and parliamentary staff. Some of this is...

Unscrupulous landlords in the ‘exempt rental’ niche will be driven out by a new clampdown, the government insists. The exempt sector provides...

Some 820,000 private rented households in Britain are routinely hit by a shortfall between their housing benefit and their monthly rents...

A council is notifying its landlords with tenants on housing benefit that it is switching its payment schedule from paper to...

The government is reported to be considering extending the Right To Buy from just council tenants in England to housing association...

One of the leaders of the Generation Rent group claims it can be “an uphill struggle for private renters to get...

A senior committee of MPs claims that it’s “too difficult for renters to realise their legal right to a safe and...

The National Residential Landlords Association has backed a far-reaching report by a group of MPs which has condemned the quality of...

Almost 70 per cent of private tenants in the North East relying on Universal Credit to pay their rent have a...

More than 50 per cent of private tenants who rely on Universal Credit to pay their rent have a shortfall between...

Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s Spring Statement was something - but not enough. That’s the view of Ben Beadle - chief executive of the...

Campaigning charity Shelter claims that in one part of the UK alone, some 75,000 tenants have been discriminated against by landlords. The...

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

Manchester council has launched its own building company - called This City - to construct affordable and market homes to rent. The...

A House of Lords report claims that the private rental sector has become ”increasingly unaffordable” and says out welcomes the proliferation...

The charity Crisis has identified the end of the eviction ban as one of the factors directly leading to homelessness over...

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

High profile MP Caroline Lucas has told a newspaper that the government turns a blind eye to bad landlords. “This government, like previous...

Landlords selling up or converting to short lets have led to a growing housing crisis, according to a trade body of...

The National Residential Landlords Association says fewer tenants now have Covid-related arrears - but for those who do, the debt is...

The Budget revealed by Chancellor Rishi Sunak does too little to help many of those struggling most to pay their rents. That’s...

Over 150,000 households in Britain are in ‘exempt’ accommodation, a rental sector which some say is “dangerously under-regulated.” ‘Exempt accommodation’ is intended...

A call has gone out to shift tens of thousands of the poorest tenants in the private rental sector into social...

New analysis of government data by the national homelessness charity Crisis suggests that in England over 100,000 low income renters on Universal Credit will be at least two or more months behind on...

Shelter and Generation Rent have separately made a case for more cash help for tenants, claiming the current pandemic and energy...

Private renters and landlords face a cliff edge as the end of furlough coincides with cuts to benefits, says a leading...

The National Residential Landlords Association has joined a series of charities and Propertymark to warn about the poverty risk of expected...

A local authority with a rapidly-growing number of HMOs is to consult over a new policy later this month. The Houses in...

A stinging attack on Chancellor Rishi Sunak has been made by the National Residential Landlords Association. The trade body has produced a...

Tenants with arrears accumulated during the pandemic are finding it tough to secure alternative accommodation because their credit scores have been...

Landlords in a Midlands city are being asked to help find safe places to live for homeless individuals and families. The council...

The National Residential Landlords Association has repeated its backing for upfront cash payments and rent guarantees. A new study has found that...

A council in the Lake District is inviting new and existing private landlords to register with Property Links, its free matching...

The head of an agency is urging landlords to “embrace” tenants on housing benefits, instead of seeking to avoid them. Mish Liyanage,...

A landlord has been handed penalties totalling nearly £8,000 after being found guilty of operating an unlicensed HMO. This follows an investigation...

A lettings agency is telling landlords to take more tenants claiming housing benefits. The agency in question says it’s wrong that some...

A landlord who failed to licence his property has been ordered to pay back over £5,000 in rent. Michael Convery from Belfast...

Generation Rent campaign activists say 700,000 private tenants on Universal Credit cannot afford to pay their rent. The campaign - led by...

A landlord who failed to licence his properties has been ordered to pay back over £8,000 in rent. Dexter Blackstock, a former...

A coalition of rental groups with the same view on how to tackle arrears is calling on the Chancellor to help...

Landlords are today backing a call by the Resolution Foundation think tank for tenant hardship loans for renters impacted by the...

A BBC investigation into ‘No DSS’ statements on two prominent landlord websites has provoked campaigning charity Shelter into an attack on the...

A YMCA chief executive claims the proliferation of HMOs may be endangering private tenants’ health by encouraging overcrowding and undersized-rooms. Alan Fraser,...

A landlord body says some tenants will have little choice but to increase their risk of contracting Coronavirus because of inadequate...

The Lettings Industry Council has published a report outlining why Section 21 should not be abolished, despite the government’s commitment to...

The ‘No DSS’ issue has been effectively settled by a landmark court case, but a new document for MPs says ‘affordability...

Labour wants to see a tenant loans scheme in England similar to one now operating in Wales. Easington Labour MP Grahame Morris...

A second UK court has ruled that ‘No DSS’ is unlawful, after a renter won a legal trial against housing benefit...

The Scottish government has published updated guidance for private landlords and letting agents to help cope with the existing Covid-19 pandemic.  The...

A specialist property litigation firm is warning buy-to-let landlords not to discriminate against benefit claimants, following a recent landmark ruling that...