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

Campaign group Generation Rent, led by former Labour Baroness Alicia Kennedy, has renewed its call for the scrapping of Section 21...

Baroness Alicia Kennedy, director of the Generation Rent campaign, says rents in Wales, Scotland and South West England have soared thanks...

A tenant who says his former rental property has been turned into an Airbnb has set up a petition demanding Chancellor...

A prominent member of the House of Lords and a rental activist are calling for an immediate suspension of all Section...

The Generation Rent campaign group and Labour are again uniting to argue in favour of rent controls in London. Just last week...

A PropTech company says sloppy referencing by agents and landlords effectively means that around a third of prospective tenants are discriminated...

Baroness Alicia Kennedy has accused the government of hypocrisy over its diverging approach to evictions for commercial and residential tenants. On Wednesday...

ARLA Propertymark says letting agents have a vital role to play in highlighting the rights of private rental sector tenants. The comment...

There have been just 17 First Tier Tribunal cases involving allegations of fees charged to tenants in contravention of the Tenants...

Propertymark has joined forces with the likes of Generation Rent and Shelter to step up the campaign for the provision of...

The activist group Generation Rent is urging tenants to scrutinise the paperwork they get from agents to use against possible eviction.  Failure...

Campaign group Generation Rent has set out a 10-point plan for reform of the private rental sector in favour of tenants. Its...

The head of the tenants’ campaign group Generation Rent has condemned the government as “reckless” for ending the eviction ban on May...

The most vocal campaign group for tenants, Generation Rent, has warned government that renters have already been waiting two years for...

Councils are failing to protect tenants in three out of four cases where they discover rental homes are unsafe, according to...

A group of rental campaign bodies have come together to claim that some 694,000 tenants apparently face eviction when the current...

The property market has performed strongly in recent months  as the impact of the pandemic has encouraged more people to move...

Acorn, a prominent campaign group targeting letting agency offices for protests, says the latest eviction ban extension doesn't go far enough. While...

Campaigning charity Shelter has criticised Chancellor Rishi Sunak for allegedly leaving “far more people on the brink of homelessness than homeownership.”  Chief...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents says it’s disappointed the Budget failed to address the funding of the private rental sector.  “Extending...

An online petition which appears to inaccurately say private tenants can still be evicted “for no reason” has won 30,000 signatures...

Labour says the latest extension to the ban on bailiff-enforced evictions doesn’t go far enough to help tenants. The extension to the...

New research suggests even those renters who want to be owner occupiers are likely to remain in the lettings sector in the...

Activists from a range of pressure groups have reacted angrily to what they call a half-baked eviction ban announced by the...

The Prime Minister has told MPs that the eviction ban effectively in place now but scheduled to expire on January 11...

Generation Rent’s campaign for more public funds for private tenants continues unabated with a call on Chancellor Rishi Sunak to increase...

The Generation Rent campaign has renewed its call for public money to be allocated to clear at least some rent arrears...

The main trade body representing lettings agents has described the government’s latest eviction ban as “a further blow” for the sector. At...

Campaign group Generation Rent says thousands of tenants in areas of the country under Tier 3 Coronavirus restrictions are in danger...

An organisation that wants rent controls, the scrapping of Section 21 and what it calls “indefinite tenancies” claims to have 4,000...

It’s a year today since the closure of the formal government consultation into scrapping Section 21 powers for agents and landlords. In last...

Government intervention, which in recent years has seen scores of legal and regulatory changes to the private rental sector, may be...

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

One of the most outspoken campaign groups against the end of the eviction ban has staged a series of so-called ‘boot...

Campaigners against evictions during the Coronavirus crisis have launched a last-ditch call for the government to grant another extension to the current...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is urging its members to write to their MPs over the provision of cash help...

ARLA and the NRLA have teamed up with charities - some usually critical of letting agents and landlords - to lobby...

The Generation Rent campaign group has written to Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick demanding answers to five questions regarding the eviction extension...

The new director of campaign group Generation Rent says the government has caused “untold mental stress” to thousands of tenants. Commenting on...

The Generation Rent pressure group has made a last-ditch argument in favour of keeping the evictions ban, which will lapse at the...

The anti-letting agent group ACORN is to stage protests in 10 to 15 UK cities this weekend according to an activists’...

The author of a book described as being about “insecure renters haemorrhaging cash” has used her newspaper column to make a...

The campaigning pressure group Generation Rent has returned to the battle to win an extension to the current evictions ban in...

Campaign group Generation Rent says private tenants could miss out on an energy efficiency drive if they are not given the...

The Generation Rent campaign group has made its second plea to Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick in 24 hours - both on...

A debt charity is urging the Housing Secretary to pledge that no one who has lost income because of Coronavirus will...

Former Labour Baroness Alicia Kennedy, the new director of the campaign group Generation Rent, claims 500,000 renters are in arrears as...

A pro-tenant campaign group has this morning kicked off its campaign to have the eviction ban - already extended until late...

One of the rental sector’s highest-profile trade bodies has accused pro-tenant group Generation Rent of needlessly scaring renters with the spectre...

The militantly pro-tenant Generation Rent group says it’s working with local councils to have a new “tenants’ charter” introduced. The new director...

Pro-tenant campaign group Generation Rent says judges should have more power to protect tenants from eviction while the Coronavirus outbreak continues. The...

A Labour Baroness, Alicia Kennedy, has been named as the new director of the fiercely pro-tenant Generation Rent campaign group. The announcement...

The director of renters’ campaign group Generation Rent says the long-running scandal of a planning decision made by the Housing Secretary...

Labour has thrown its weight behind campaigning pressure groups in a general call to avoid what the party’s housing spokeswoman calls...

Campaigning organisations that demanded an extension to the evictions ban imposed because of the Coronavirus crisis have been quick to return...

The government is extending the eviction ban for a further two months. A tweet early this evening from Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick...

The Generation Rent pressure group is wrong to claim that the majority of landlords are failing to support tenants needing help...

A commission investigating affordable homes in the UK has called for annual private sector rent increases to be limited to a...

A pressure group representing private tenants wants government to help housing associations purchase buy to let properties “at knockdown prices.” A blog...

The Generation Rent pressure group, fiercely critical of agents and landlords in recent months, wants the government to implement a 12 month...

The three month outright eviction ban pledged to renters last week appears to have been watered down in the Coronavirus Emergency...

There is no doubt that the BBC News article in early February caused something of a stir within the Deposit Free...

Pressure group Generation Rent claims half of London’s councils did not fine any landlords for letting out unsafe homes in the...

A pet care company claims that millions of private renters are being denied the benefits of pet ownership because of landlords...

A rental activist who runs the Generation Rent pressure group has told landlords that if they are “serious” about providing long-term...

A BBC investigation suggests some agents may be mis-selling deposit alternative schemes. Tenants are then hit by what the probe says are...

Generation Rent - an outspoken organisation sharply critical of lettings agents and many aspects of the private rental sector - is...

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...