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![Sadiq Khan housing tax policies criticised by Left-wingers](/upload/images/shutterstock_2259917245.jpg)
Even as he was being elected as Mayor of London for a record-beating third successive time, Sadiq Khan was under pressure...
07 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![“Bold” new Labour reforms for private rental sector coming next month](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews-400x310.png)
An influential Labour website says a raft of proposed reforms for the private rental sector will be unveiled next month -...
08 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Labour pledge to build thousands of “rent control homes”](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Developments/Construction-400x310.png)
London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan says he will build 6,000 “affordable” rental homes by 2030 - with their rents capped. Khan, standing...
08 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![London Mayor capping some student rents in the capital](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/BuildToRent-400x310.png)
Over £100m has been invested into a new site that will offer purpose b built accommodation for 713 students beds in...
23 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Sadiq Khan’s rent controls dismissed as “well-meaning but naive”](/upload/images/shutterstock_1909455316.jpg)
Rents across the UK continue to retreat from their 2023 highs, falling by 2.9 per cent over the last three months,...
16 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Sadiq Khan and Generation Rent advising police on handling evictions](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Eviction-400x310%20(1).png)
The Metropolitan Police has been advised by tenant activists and the London Mayor on developing rule changes for evictions. The changes include a presumption against...
29 August 2023
From: Breaking News
![Labour Mayors want unlimited council tax on empty properties](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Taxes-400x310.png)
London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan is calling on the government to allow him to levy effectively uncapped council tax bills on...
02 August 2023
From: Breaking News
![Airbnb fights back against Sadiq Khan’s call for clampdown](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/shutterstock_2198282283.jpg)
Airbnb has issued a statement responding to the call for a clampdown on short lets demanded by Labour’s outspoken London Mayor,...
24 July 2023
From: Breaking News
![EPC changes to rental properties to be ‘relaxed’ - Gove](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/_EPC5-400x310.png)
Housing Secretary Michael Gove has this morning said his government should ‘relax the pace’ of EPC reforms expected from private landlords. In...
23 July 2023
From: Breaking News
![Labour turning its back on rent controls once and for all](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews-400x310.png)
It looks as if the Labour Party is turning its back on rent controls on England and Wales. In the past year...
29 June 2023
From: Breaking News
![Political website sets out case against rent controls](/upload/images/library/New%20Rental%20Index-400x310.png)
With the campaign for rent controls gathering momentum from London Mayor Sadiq Khan and sympathetic pressure groups, a right wing Conservative-backing...
24 August 2022
From: Breaking News
![Rental reform may be bogged down after elections, warns supplier](/upload/images/Logos/aiic-logo400x310.png)
Last month’s local election results could yet impact on the private rental sector, a prominent industry supplier claims. The Association of Independent...
06 June 2022
From: Breaking News
![Labour call for higher Capital Gains Tax rise for some buy to lets](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/Tax-400x310.png)
Labour’s Sadiq Khan wants an increase in Capital Gains Tax for some buy to let investors. The London Mayor made his response...
31 May 2022
From: Breaking News
![Airbnb - Labour politician speaks out about threat of short lets](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/Labour-logo400x310.png)
The Labour Mayor of Bristol has spoken out about the threat to the mainstream rental sector posed by the proliferation of...
14 March 2022
From: Breaking News
![Agents hit back at politicians over rent controls](/upload/images/Logos/NAEA-ARLA-Propertymark-400x310.jpg)
Propertymark has hit back at the latest demand by politicians for rent controls. The London mayor Sadiq Khan renewed his call for...
21 February 2022
From: Breaking News
![Agents hit back at Labour Mayor’s demand for rent controls](/img/default/lat.png)
ARLA Propertymark has hit back at a demand from London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan that he be given the powers to...
12 July 2021
From: Breaking News
![Rent Control Threat - petition launched to stop private sector rent caps](/img/default/lat.png)
An outspoken property investor has launched an online petition on the government website to oppose the threat of rent controls. YouTube influencer...
28 May 2021
From: Breaking News
![Rent Controls: Agents join protest against Labour proposals](/img/default/lat.png)
Letting agents body ARLA Propertymark has joined the criticism of London Mayor Sadiq Khan who wants to be given the power...
12 April 2021
From: Breaking News
![Rent controls back on the agenda as local elections near](/img/default/lat.png)
Rent controls are being discussed again as candidates prepare for May's local elections. In London Green Party mayoral candidate Sian Berry -...
29 March 2021
From: Breaking News
![Pro-Rent Controls group claims 4,000 members in London alone](/img/default/lat.png)
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
From: Breaking News
![Landlords slam London Mayor's call for ‘disaster’ two-year rent freeze](/img/default/lat.png)
The National Residential Landlords Association (NRLA) has slammed London Mayor Sadiq Khan's call for a rent freeze in the capital. Yesterday, ahead...
17 September 2020
From: Breaking News
![London mayor accused of scaremongering over eviction fears](/img/default/lat.png)
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has been accused of causing needless fear for renters by claiming all those in arrears due to...
17 August 2020
From: Breaking News
![Labour claims there are “illegal evictions by letting agents”](/img/default/lat.png)
London Mayor Sadiq Khan, has told the government of “illegal evictions by letting agents” - without specifying the incidents he refers...
14 July 2020
From: Breaking News
![Stinging attack on private rental sector by left-leaning think tank](/img/default/lat.png)
Another think tank has come up with proposals to scrap Section 21 eviction powers and cap rents - and it also...
14 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Labour’s rent controls: global examples of how they do not work](/img/default/lat.png)
Rent controls similar to those demanded by Labour in London and other major cities in the UK do not work, and...
29 October 2019
From: Breaking News
![Advertising curbs for Airbnb-style short lets welcomed by Labour](/img/default/lat.png)
Labour is backing new guidelines which ban adverts which can be interpreted as encouraging landlords and home owners to flout restrictions...
19 September 2019
From: Breaking News
![Lettings sector doesn’t want “Marxist dystopia” rent controls - claim](/img/default/lat.png)
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
From: Breaking News
![Rent controls for London slammed by right-wing think tank](/img/default/lat.png)
The right wing Adam Smith Institute is the latest organisation to voice its strong opposition to Labour’s proposed rent controls for...
30 July 2019
From: Breaking News
![Industry rages against Labour’s “laughable” rent control plan](/img/default/lat.png)
Calls by Labour’s London Mayor Sadiq Khan to secure powers to implement private sector rent controls are facing increasing opposition. Business organisation...
22 July 2019
From: Breaking News
![London Mayor told: Introduce deluded rent controls and you'll lose votes](/img/default/lat.png)
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has been told by a lettings industry body that he’ll lose votes if he introduces rent controls...
19 July 2019
From: Breaking News
![Airbnb distances itself from controversial short lets management adverts](/img/default/lat.png)
Airbnb has issued a statement distancing itself from controversial advertisements from a short lets management service. Hostmaker - which describes itself as...
07 June 2019
From: Breaking News
![Scrapping S21 isn’t enough - cap rent rises too, say London politicians](/img/default/lat.png)
The scrapping of Section 21 eviction powers has been welcomed by the London Assembly - but apparently it doesn’t go far...
17 April 2019
From: Breaking News
![Shock Labour claim that agents will increase tenant fees until June](/img/default/lat.png)
A senior Labour politician claims that “unscrupulous” letting agents are hammering tenants with higher-than-usual charges between now and June 1 when...
14 February 2019
From: Breaking News
![Rent control: it can work but can also backfire on tenants, says BBC](/img/default/lat.png)
The BBC’s Reality Check service, respected for giving a more realistic assessment of many politicians’ promises, has looked at London mayor...
06 February 2019
From: Breaking News
![Labour rent controls will worsen London landlord exodus warns ARLA](/img/default/lat.png)
Rent controls of the kind which London mayor Sadiq Khan wishes to introduce will worsen what is already a huge exodus...
04 February 2019
From: Breaking News
![Embattled Labour mayor wants rent controls - but has no powers](/img/default/lat.png)
Embattled London Labour mayor Sadiq Khan says he wants rent controls to be introduced in the capital’s private rental sector, but...
12 December 2018
From: Breaking News
![Top London politicians call for scrapping of S21 eviction powers](/img/default/lat.png)
Two senior London politicians are backing a campaign to scrap the powers of agents and landlords to evict tenants under Section...
06 July 2018
From: Breaking News
!['Deposit Passports' won't change key rental problems, warns agent](/img/default/lat.png)
A campaigning lettings agent says proposals to allow renters to transfer tenancy deposits between properties are to be welcomed – but...
17 October 2017
From: Breaking News
![Landlords' group opposes ARLA-approved 'rogue agents register'](/img/default/lat.png)
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
From: Breaking News
![Mayor calls on short-term lets sites to bring in Airbnb-style limit](/img/default/lat.png)
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has written to six short-term lets websites calling on them to introduce a 90-day limit on rentals...
07 March 2017
From: Breaking News
![Trade body rejects London mayor's call for yet more rental licensing](/img/default/lat.png)
The National Landlords Association has rejected a central plank of London mayor Sadiq Khan’s plan for housing - the introduction of yet more...
23 December 2016
From: Breaking News
![Noose tightens around Airbnb 'hosts' who abuse lettings system](/img/default/lat.png)
Local authorities appear to be at the forefront of identifying abuses of the Airbnb short-let platform and have called executives from...
04 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![More Build To Rent flats as Legal & General increases production](/img/default/lat.png)
Another 400 purpose-built Build To Rent apartments have been given the green light by planners in London. Legal & General’s plans for...
26 October 2016
From: Breaking News
![Coup for Fixflo as it joins Sadiq Khan's high-tech trade mission](/img/default/lat.png)
Fixflo has stolen a march over other PropTech companies by being the sole representative from the sector to be invited to...
02 September 2016
From: Breaking News
![Mayor's office gives public support for Build To Rent in London](/img/default/lat.png)
In one of the first signals that new London Mayor Sadiq Khan backs Build To Rent, his deputy responsible for housing...
14 July 2016
From: Breaking News
![Landlords call for cap on letting agents' fees plus greater transparency](/img/default/lat.png)
A survey has revealed that 59 per cent of London landlords support forcing letting agents to publish a breakdown of what...
14 June 2016
From: Breaking News
![Industry body warns Mayor Khan over private rental sector red tape](/img/default/lat.png)
An industry body is warning new London Labour mayor Sadiq Khan not to think he is helping renters by tying up...