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The issue of ‘rent for sex’ - tenants offered free or discounted rent in return for sexual favours - is now...

The National Residential Landlords Association says average rent debt owed by tenants as a direct result of the pandemic is still...

Not-for-profit accreditation scheme safeagent wants the government to help tenants clear Covid-related arrears through an overhaul of Discretionary Housing Payments. Enhancing these...

Councils across Scotland have been given £10m to provide grants to tenants who have Covid-related arrears and risk eviction. The grants will...

A property investment platform has taken the unusual approach of accusing the government of driving up homelessness through its policy of...

Official figures show that far from seeing a rise during the pandemic, there has been what the government calls “a massive...

An influential group of MPs wants an end to repeated last minute extensions to the ban on evictions and instead wants financial support...

A think tank says large scale intervention in the rental market via loans to tenants is the only way of addressing...

The government has formally announced a pause in evictions in England until January 11 at the earliest. The only exceptions to this...

A charity claims that private tenants in the areas with the higher tiers of Coronavirus measures face “harsh enforcement” if they...

The government has accused campaign group Generation Rent of peddling “unreliable and misleading” figures about potential evictions in the private rental...

Housing Minister Chris Pincher says the eviction ban is formally over but the situation remains under “constant review” as the second...

The latest announcement from Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick suggests the eviction ban WILL end at last on September 20. However, more concessions...

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has given Letting Agent Today a statement trying to soothe critics of its...

The Chartered Institute of Housing has published proposals aimed at avoiding a spike in private rental sector evictions when the current...