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Labour says the latest extension to the ban on bailiff-enforced evictions doesn’t go far enough to help tenants. The extension to the...
15 February 2021
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New research suggests even those renters who want to be owner occupiers are likely to remain in the lettings sector in the...
01 February 2021
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Activists from a range of pressure groups have reacted angrily to what they call a half-baked eviction ban announced by the...
11 January 2021
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The Prime Minister has told MPs that the eviction ban effectively in place now but scheduled to expire on January 11...
07 January 2021
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Generation Rent’s campaign for more public funds for private tenants continues unabated with a call on Chancellor Rishi Sunak to increase...
25 November 2020
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The Generation Rent campaign has renewed its call for public money to be allocated to clear at least some rent arrears...
23 November 2020
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The main trade body representing lettings agents has described the government’s latest eviction ban as “a further blow” for the sector. At...
09 November 2020
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Campaign group Generation Rent says thousands of tenants in areas of the country under Tier 3 Coronavirus restrictions are in danger...
23 October 2020
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An organisation that wants rent controls, the scrapping of Section 21 and what it calls “indefinite tenancies” claims to have 4,000...
16 October 2020
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It’s a year today since the closure of the formal government consultation into scrapping Section 21 powers for agents and landlords. In last...
12 October 2020
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Government intervention, which in recent years has seen scores of legal and regulatory changes to the private rental sector, may be...
05 October 2020
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The government has accused campaign group Generation Rent of peddling “unreliable and misleading” figures about potential evictions in the private rental...
23 September 2020
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One of the most outspoken campaign groups against the end of the eviction ban has staged a series of so-called ‘boot...
21 September 2020
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Campaigners against evictions during the Coronavirus crisis have launched a last-ditch call for the government to grant another extension to the current...
14 September 2020
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The Association of Residential Letting Agents is urging its members to write to their MPs over the provision of cash help...
07 September 2020
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ARLA and the NRLA have teamed up with charities - some usually critical of letting agents and landlords - to lobby...
01 September 2020
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The Generation Rent campaign group has written to Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick demanding answers to five questions regarding the eviction extension...
26 August 2020
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The new director of campaign group Generation Rent says the government has caused “untold mental stress” to thousands of tenants. Commenting on...
24 August 2020
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The Generation Rent pressure group has made a last-ditch argument in favour of keeping the evictions ban, which will lapse at the...
21 August 2020
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The anti-letting agent group ACORN is to stage protests in 10 to 15 UK cities this weekend according to an activists’...
20 August 2020
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The author of a book described as being about “insecure renters haemorrhaging cash” has used her newspaper column to make a...
19 August 2020
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The campaigning pressure group Generation Rent has returned to the battle to win an extension to the current evictions ban in...
17 August 2020
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Campaign group Generation Rent says private tenants could miss out on an energy efficiency drive if they are not given the...
31 July 2020
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The Generation Rent campaign group has made its second plea to Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick in 24 hours - both on...
23 July 2020
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A debt charity is urging the Housing Secretary to pledge that no one who has lost income because of Coronavirus will...
22 July 2020
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Former Labour Baroness Alicia Kennedy, the new director of the campaign group Generation Rent, claims 500,000 renters are in arrears as...
09 July 2020
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A pro-tenant campaign group has this morning kicked off its campaign to have the eviction ban - already extended until late...
01 July 2020
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One of the rental sector’s highest-profile trade bodies has accused pro-tenant group Generation Rent of needlessly scaring renters with the spectre...
01 July 2020
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The militantly pro-tenant Generation Rent group says it’s working with local councils to have a new “tenants’ charter” introduced. The new director...
29 June 2020
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Pro-tenant campaign group Generation Rent says judges should have more power to protect tenants from eviction while the Coronavirus outbreak continues. The...
26 June 2020
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A Labour Baroness, Alicia Kennedy, has been named as the new director of the fiercely pro-tenant Generation Rent campaign group. The announcement...
25 June 2020
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The director of renters’ campaign group Generation Rent says the long-running scandal of a planning decision made by the Housing Secretary...
22 June 2020
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Labour has thrown its weight behind campaigning pressure groups in a general call to avoid what the party’s housing spokeswoman calls...
17 June 2020
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Campaigning organisations that demanded an extension to the evictions ban imposed because of the Coronavirus crisis have been quick to return...
09 June 2020
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The government is extending the eviction ban for a further two months. A tweet early this evening from Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick...
05 June 2020
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The Generation Rent pressure group is wrong to claim that the majority of landlords are failing to support tenants needing help...
13 May 2020
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A commission investigating affordable homes in the UK has called for annual private sector rent increases to be limited to a...
05 May 2020
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A pressure group representing private tenants wants government to help housing associations purchase buy to let properties “at knockdown prices.” A blog...
04 May 2020
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The Generation Rent pressure group, fiercely critical of agents and landlords in recent months, wants the government to implement a 12 month...
14 April 2020
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The three month outright eviction ban pledged to renters last week appears to have been watered down in the Coronavirus Emergency...
24 March 2020
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There is no doubt that the BBC News article in early February caused something of a stir within the Deposit Free...
12 March 2020
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Pressure group Generation Rent claims half of London’s councils did not fine any landlords for letting out unsafe homes in the...
06 March 2020
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A pet care company claims that millions of private renters are being denied the benefits of pet ownership because of landlords...
04 March 2020
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A rental activist who runs the Generation Rent pressure group has told landlords that if they are “serious” about providing long-term...
03 March 2020
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A BBC investigation suggests some agents may be mis-selling deposit alternative schemes. Tenants are then hit by what the probe says are...
10 February 2020
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Generation Rent - an outspoken organisation sharply critical of lettings agents and many aspects of the private rental sector - is...
06 February 2020
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The fallout continues over the government’s shock refusal to allow Liverpool council to continue its huge landlord licensing scheme. Yesterday we reported that...
15 January 2020
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The government’s Queen’s Speech has confirmed what the industry has effectively been expecting for some months. There will be a new lifetime...
20 December 2019
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Number 10 briefings to the national media suggest that the scrapping of Section 21 - long talked about by the previous...
17 December 2019
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Generation Rent, a campaign group that is consistently critical of lettings agencies and landlords, says a priority of the new government...
16 December 2019
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A roundtable discussion of rental industry leaders has produced a recommendation for the mandatory regulation of lettings agents. The objective, they say,...
28 November 2019
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A pressure group that has spoken out against letting agents and landlords is urging private tenants to take part in a...
25 November 2019
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The pressure group Generation Rent, which in the past has been highly critical of letting agents and other aspects of the...
20 November 2019
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A collective of activist renter groups has set out a manifesto of what it wants from the winner of next month’s...
04 November 2019
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An online letting agency which launched last month has announced the recruitment of two former Purplebricks staff. Michael Booth, the hybrid agency's...
04 October 2019
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Labour is backing new guidelines which ban adverts which can be interpreted as encouraging landlords and home owners to flout restrictions...
19 September 2019
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London Trading Standards has made the startling claim that 46 per cent of almost 2,000 agents it has surveyed are falling...
13 September 2019
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It may seem as if governments and councils are falling over themselves to change the private rental sector to win the...
23 August 2019
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With the recent introduction of the Tenant Fees Act – which bans upfront fees charged by letting agents and caps security...
19 August 2019
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Rents in London are rocketing but a leading market commentator says this is no reason to give in to a “Marxist dystopia”...
07 August 2019
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A European law firm has set out a critique of the driving forces behind Build To Rent - and it says...
24 June 2019
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Airbnb has issued a statement distancing itself from controversial advertisements from a short lets management service. Hostmaker - which describes itself as...
07 June 2019
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A statement issued by short lets management firm Hostmaker about its controversial advertising campaign has been branded “disgusting” by a campaign...
07 June 2019
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A trade union says the government’s intention to scrap Section 21 eviction powers for landlords is “a huge victory” - but...
29 April 2019
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A dispute concerning a ‘no deposit option’ put forward by a letting agency has reached the Daily Mail. The newspaper’s online service...
12 April 2019
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Today the long-awaited Homes (Fitness For Human Habitation) Act comes into force, pioneered by Labour MP Karen Buck and giving people...
20 March 2019
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The agency industry has reacted in a broadly downbeat way at the relatively few housing-related proposals that were announced in yesterday’s...
30 October 2018
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Croydon council is reported to have become the first local authority to back the scrapping of Section 21 of the 1988...
10 October 2018
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Generation Rent, the controversial pressure group campaigning alongside Shelter and others for the scrapping of landlords’ rights to evict under Section...
29 August 2018
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The campaign group Generation Rent is back on the warpath in opposition of Section 21, which it describes as “the leading...
21 August 2018
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Campaigning group Generation Rent has secured over 20,000 signatures for a petition it says will “end unfair evictions”. The petition, on the...
23 July 2018
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The pressure group Generation Rent has joined forces with other critics of the private rental sector to demand an end to...
16 July 2018
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The Association of Residential Letting Agents has heaped praise on a local authority which has fined 27 lettings and managing agents...
11 July 2018
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Yet another leading lettings agent has hit out at the government over its proposals for three year tenancies being the norm...
10 July 2018
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A Tory activist has made an outspoken attack on the government’s policies towards the private rental sector on the pages of...
09 July 2018
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Two senior London politicians are backing a campaign to scrap the powers of agents and landlords to evict tenants under Section...
06 July 2018
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A collection of rental sector protest organisations is getting together to campaign against S21 powers under which landlords or agents on...
18 June 2018
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John Lewis has announced details of a partnership with rental app Canopy to provide employees with the opportunity to have their rent payments...
24 May 2018
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Flatsharing website Ideal Flatmate has passed the seed funding milestone of £1 million. The website - which includes former Green & Co...
22 May 2018
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The pressure group Generation Rent - often identified with highlighting issues concerning young tenants - is now warning of a massive...
14 November 2017
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A Build to Rent scheme in Salford is launching this week with tenants moving in to purpose-built rental accommodation at 'The...
08 June 2017
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Campaign group Generation Rent has provided material to The Guardian newspaper suggesting that a typical two-adult household is being charged letting agents’...
02 June 2017
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Agencies are responding to the latest criticism of their fees on tenants, levied by the pressure group Generation Rent. The group -...
11 May 2017
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The Residential Landlords Association has broken ranks with the Association of Residential Letting Agents by opposing an ARLA-backed public database of...
27 April 2017
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The anti-letting agency fee pressure group Generation Rent is urging its supporters to participate in the government formal consultation over agents’...
27 April 2017
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A Facebook group has been set up to name and shame so-called ‘tenants from hell’. At the moment the page applies to...
24 April 2017
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The number of people committing to tenancies for two years or more is declining according to new data released by Foxtons. In...
24 April 2017
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New research suggests the UK is on the brink of a large-scale, commercially developed, owned and operated Build To Rent sector. A...
22 November 2016
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The latest demand by anti-letting agent pressure group Generation Rent is for the government to abolish the right of landlords or...
01 November 2016
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The campaign group Generation Rent says most buy to let properties are not mortgaged and many landlords are unaffected by current...
14 October 2016
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Campaign group Generation Rent has returned to attacking mode with an article criticising letting agents’ fees to tenants and effectively urging...
24 August 2016
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The Daily Telegraph - an outspoken critic of George Osborne’s fiscal changes aimed at extracting more money from the buy to...
22 June 2016
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A high proportion of tenants do not feel the government is doing enough to protect them from unscrupulous landlords. This is the...
03 June 2016
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A letting agency in London has announced that it has dropped all fees it charges to tenants. STANLEY Chelsea, a one branch...
01 June 2016
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Campaign group Generation Rent is running a research project into letting agent fees via a comparison website named Letting Fees UK. The...
31 May 2016
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A Twitter campaign has been launched under the hashtag ventyourrent to expose what its users claim are the “rip off” rent...
28 April 2016
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The vocal campaign group Generation Rent is making the jaw-dropping claim that one in four private tenants has been evicted “for...
28 January 2016
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The new chief executive of Grainger has started setting out her company’s Build To Rent strategy. Helen Gordon has told the Sunday...
25 January 2016
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24 November 2015
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Generation Rent, the lobby group which recently narrowly escaped folding because of a lack of financial support, wants the public to...
19 November 2015
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The private rented sector is becoming an increasingly diverse place. Its growth into the UK's second largest form of housing has...
15 September 2015
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An announcement is expected today about the future of the campaign group Generation Rent, which has been sharply critical of letting...
01 September 2015
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Generation Rent - the campaign group that needs £60,000 to continue operating beyond the end of August - has renewed its...
11 August 2015
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Pressure group Generation Rent - a thorn in the side of many property professionals in recent years - has launched a...
31 July 2015
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Some 19 per cent of MPs in the new parliament are landlords according to their entries in the first Register of...
10 July 2015
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One of four MP candidates standing for the Labour Party leadership says Right To Buy should be extended - to private...
26 June 2015
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The immigration charity the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants says it is working with a range of other bodies...
24 June 2015
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Debate over spending cuts and taxation is increasingly asking whether landlords should continue to receive an estimated £10 billion - or...
22 June 2015
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Alex Hilton - a fiercely outspoken critic of the property establishment, especially letting agents - is stepping down tomorrow from his...
14 May 2015
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Generation Rent, the pressure group advocating extensive restrictions on letting agents and private landlords, is now offering an alternative Queen’s Speech...
13 May 2015
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I write this article on the day of the General Election so you’ll forgive the political analogies. In particular, how any...
08 May 2015
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Ian Wilson, the head of Martin & Co, recently threw his hat into the ring regarding Labour’s stated intention to cap...
06 May 2015
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While much of the lettings industry protests against Labour proposals for rent controls and three year tenancies, an influential pressure group...
29 April 2015
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There has been widespread criticism of Labour's proposals for the private rental sector. The policies will “backfire” according to the National Landlords’ Association. "We understand...