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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...

The government’s Queen’s Speech has confirmed what the industry has effectively been expecting for some months. There will be a new lifetime...

Number 10 briefings to the national media suggest that the scrapping of Section 21 - long talked about by the previous...

Generation Rent, a campaign group that is consistently critical of lettings agencies and landlords, says a priority of the new government...

A roundtable discussion of rental industry leaders has produced a recommendation for the mandatory regulation of lettings agents. The objective, they say,...

A pressure group that has spoken out against letting agents and landlords is urging private tenants to take part in a...

The pressure group Generation Rent, which in the past has been highly critical of letting agents and other aspects of the...

A collective of activist renter groups has set out a manifesto of what it wants from the winner of next month’s...

An online letting agency which launched last month has announced the recruitment of two former Purplebricks staff. Michael Booth, the hybrid agency's...

Labour is backing new guidelines which ban adverts which can be interpreted as encouraging landlords and home owners to flout restrictions...

London Trading Standards has made the startling claim that 46 per cent of almost 2,000 agents it has surveyed are falling...

It may seem as if governments and councils are falling over themselves to change the private rental sector to win the...

With the recent introduction of the Tenant Fees Act – which bans upfront fees charged by letting agents and caps security...

Rents in London are rocketing but a leading market commentator says this is no reason to give in to a “Marxist dystopia”...

A European law firm has set out a critique of the driving forces behind Build To Rent - and it says...

Airbnb has issued a statement distancing itself from controversial advertisements from a short lets management service. Hostmaker - which describes itself as...

A statement issued by short lets management firm Hostmaker about its controversial advertising campaign has been branded “disgusting” by a campaign...

A trade union says the government’s intention to scrap Section 21 eviction powers for landlords is “a huge victory” - but...

A dispute concerning a ‘no deposit option’ put forward by a letting agency has reached the Daily Mail. The newspaper’s online service...

Today the long-awaited Homes (Fitness For Human Habitation) Act comes into force, pioneered by Labour MP Karen Buck and giving people...

The agency industry has reacted in a broadly downbeat way at the relatively few housing-related proposals that were announced in yesterday’s...

Croydon council is reported to have become the first local authority to back the scrapping of Section 21 of the 1988...

Generation Rent, the controversial pressure group campaigning alongside Shelter and others for the scrapping of landlords’ rights to evict under Section...

The campaign group Generation Rent is back on the warpath in opposition of Section 21, which it describes as “the leading...

Campaigning group Generation Rent has secured over 20,000 signatures for a petition it says will “end unfair evictions”. The petition, on the...

The pressure group Generation Rent has joined forces with other critics of the private rental sector to demand an end to...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has heaped praise on a local authority which has fined 27 lettings and managing agents...

Yet another leading lettings agent has hit out at the government over its proposals for three year tenancies being the norm...

A Tory activist has made an outspoken attack on the government’s policies towards the private rental sector on the pages of...

Two senior London politicians are backing a campaign to scrap the powers of agents and landlords to evict tenants under Section...

A collection of rental sector protest organisations is getting together to campaign against S21 powers under which landlords or agents on...

John Lewis has announced details of a partnership with rental app Canopy to provide employees with the opportunity to have their rent payments...

Flatsharing website Ideal Flatmate has passed the seed funding milestone of £1 million. The website - which includes former Green & Co...

The pressure group Generation Rent - often identified with highlighting issues concerning young tenants - is now warning of a massive...

A Build to Rent scheme in Salford is launching this week with tenants moving in to purpose-built rental accommodation at 'The...

Campaign group Generation Rent has provided material to The Guardian newspaper suggesting that a typical two-adult household is being charged letting agents’...

Agencies are responding to the latest criticism of their fees on tenants, levied by the pressure group Generation Rent.    The group -...

The Residential Landlords Association has broken ranks with the Association of Residential Letting Agents by opposing an ARLA-backed public database of...

The anti-letting agency fee pressure group Generation Rent is urging its supporters to participate in the government formal consultation over agents’...

A Facebook group has been set up to name and shame so-called ‘tenants from hell’.   At the moment the page applies to...

The number of people committing to tenancies for two years or more is declining according to new data released by Foxtons.   In...

New research suggests the UK is on the brink of a large-scale, commercially developed, owned and operated Build To Rent sector. A...

The latest demand by anti-letting agent pressure group Generation Rent is for the government to abolish the right of landlords or...

The campaign group Generation Rent says most buy to let properties are not mortgaged and many landlords are unaffected by current...

Campaign group Generation Rent has returned to attacking mode with an article criticising letting agents’ fees to tenants and effectively urging...

The Daily Telegraph - an outspoken critic of George Osborne’s fiscal changes aimed at extracting more money from the buy to...

A high proportion of tenants do not feel the government is doing enough to protect them from unscrupulous landlords.  This is the...

A letting agency in London has announced that it has dropped all fees it charges to tenants.  STANLEY Chelsea, a one branch...

Campaign group Generation Rent is running a research project into letting agent fees via a comparison website named Letting Fees UK. The...

A Twitter campaign has been launched under the hashtag ventyourrent to expose what its users claim are the “rip off” rent...

The vocal campaign group Generation Rent is making the jaw-dropping claim that one in four private tenants has been evicted “for...

The new chief executive of Grainger has started setting out her company’s Build To Rent strategy. Helen Gordon has told the Sunday...

Only 26 per cent of people currently aged 20 to 39 in England will live in a home they own by...

Generation Rent, the lobby group which recently narrowly escaped folding because of a lack of financial support, wants the public to...

The private rented sector is becoming an increasingly diverse place. Its growth into the UK's second largest form of housing has...

An announcement is expected today about the future of the campaign group Generation Rent, which has been sharply critical of letting...

Generation Rent - the campaign group that needs £60,000 to continue operating beyond the end of August - has renewed its...

Pressure group Generation Rent - a thorn in the side of many property professionals in recent years - has launched a...

Some 19 per cent of MPs in the new parliament are landlords according to their entries in the first Register of...

One of four MP candidates standing for the Labour Party leadership says Right To Buy should be extended - to private...

The immigration charity the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants says it is working with a range of other bodies...

Debate over spending cuts and taxation is increasingly asking whether landlords should continue to receive an estimated £10 billion - or...

Alex Hilton - a fiercely outspoken critic of the property establishment, especially letting agents - is stepping down tomorrow from his...

Generation Rent, the pressure group advocating extensive restrictions on letting agents and private landlords, is now offering an alternative Queen’s Speech...

I write this article on the day of the General Election so you’ll forgive the political analogies. In particular, how any...

Ian Wilson, the head of Martin & Co, recently threw his hat into the ring regarding Labour’s stated intention to cap...

While much of the lettings industry protests against Labour proposals for rent controls and three year tenancies, an influential pressure group...

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...

The pressure group Generation Rent - which has been sharply critical of letting agents, landlords and the private rental sector in...