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Campaigning charity Shelter is demanding an overhaul of the Renters Reform Bill, which will shortly begin its passage through the House...

Five Labour MPs have put forward an Early Day Motion in the House of Commons calling for rent controls - even...

There’s been at most a one per cent reduction in landlords in the buy to let sector, a think tank claims...

London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan says he will build 6,000 “affordable” rental homes by 2030 - with their rents capped. Khan, standing...

Average UK private rents increased by 9.0% in the 12 months to February 2024 according to the Office for National Statistics. This...

Today’s new market snapshot from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors shows tenant demand rising but at a rather more modest...

Shelter is calling for the construction of 90,000 rental properties each year for a decade - and it claims this would...

Renters are less financially resilient than recent remortgagers according to an analysis by business consultants Hargreaves Lansdown. It says over two thirds...

Shelter says there are nearly 139,000 children officially homeless and living in temporary accommodation - and it’s blaming the private rental...

The Renters Reform Coalition - a collection of some 20 activist groups and charities demanding changes to the private rental sector...

Shelter has published what it calls a General Election manifesto with rent controls at its heart. Called The Way Home: a manifesto to...

Private rents have continued to soar in Scotland according to DJ Alexander, the largest lettings agency in the country.  It says rental...

A prominent housing journalist says Labour should fund councils to buy homes directly from private landlords to rapidly increase the size...

The U-turn by politicians in Scotland who ended a complete rent freeze doesn’t go far enough, says Propertymark. At the end of...

Private rents rose by 4.2 per cent in the year to December according to official government figures released this week -...

Ruling politicians in Scotland have agreed that from April private rents can rise by 3.0 per cent in a 12 month period...

Activists say they are planning protests outside lettings agency offices this weekend. Activists in the London Renters Union and Greater Manchester Tenants...

In Scotland - where a rent freeze kicked in last weekend - Scottish private rents have fallen nearly 15 in real...

London faces a possible homelessness spike this winter due to the cost-of-living crisis and increases in private rents, a group of...

A PropTech supplier to the lettings industry that has just signed a deal with OnTheMarket has come out in support of...

Politicians across the UK appear to be growing more vocal in their support for rent controls. The Welsh nationalist party Plaid Cymru...

Shelter claims that women are impacted by homelessness more than men, and says rising private rents are a contributory factor. In a...

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

ARLA Propertymark has hit back at a demand from London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan that he be given the powers to...

London’s Labour Mayor, Sadiq Khan, has made a new call for power to cap private rents. He’s claimed that rents in the...

Labour’s candidate for London Mayor wants to control private rents - and he wants the capital to be a template for...

International research suggests that short lets - Airbnb and similar platforms - cause housing shortages and push up private rents. Research by...

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

The campaigning charity Shelter says young adults are more in danger of homelessness than any other age group - and puts...

Private rents are expected to fall across the UK in the coming three months, but stabilise over the course of the...

The new National Residential Landlords Association has backed calls from the Labour Mayor of London to ensure the benefits system covers...

Labour’s London Mayor, Sadiq Khan, has put his call for powers to control private rents at the heart of his campaign...

Controversial housing charity Shelter claims that private renters are collectively paying out £11 billion more a year – around £425 a...

Labour has given shocking new details of its proposals for the private rental sector including £100.000 fines if properties are deemed...

UK-wide rental prices are up 2.0 per cent annually to £876 – a three-year high – according to a new quarterly...

Data published by the Office for National Statistics shows private rental prices paid by tenants in the UK rising by 1.3...

A think tank is blaming high rents for apparently stopping Millennials moving to better paying parts of the country. A report from...

The scrapping of Section 21 eviction powers has been welcomed by the London Assembly - but apparently it doesn’t go far...

You may be forgiven for thinking that rent takes up an ever-greater proportion of tenants’ income - but new figures out...

Private rental sector tenants in England stay an average of 4.1 years in their property - casting doubt over the justification...

Figures drawn up for the London region of the GMB union claim that across the capital’s 33 boroughs private rents have...

Latest government figures show that private rents paid by tenants in Great Britain rose by 0.9 per cent in the 12...

The GMB trades union has waded in to the debate over whether rents in the private rental sector in London are...

A housing charity has called for the government to build more affordable social homes for rent to help families 'trapped' in...

Government proposals to ban letting agent fees levied on tenants next year are unlikely to make renting cheaper as new research...

Research by independent fact-checking organisation Full Fact has revealed that there are 12 local authority areas in the UK where a...

Almost one in seven private renters are spending more than half of their total income on rent, in stark contrast to...

There was a sigh of relief amongst the lettings industry that yesterday's Budget introduced no new property taxes - but concern...

Rents rose by a year-on-year average of 0.8 per cent at the end of last month - while inflation in the...

The cost of private rented housing is roughly mirroring changes in earnings across England - but in the social rented sector...

Average private rents in Scotland at the national level recorded an uncharacteristic dip in the final quarter of 2016, down 0.9...

Government policy to improve the energy efficiency of the UK’s housing stock will increase rents for tenants. New laws mean that from...

A study published by the GMB union claims that London’s well-documented high private rents are now leading to other steep rises...

The average rent paid by private tenants across Great Britain increased by 2.6% in the twelve months to April 2016, according...

Almost all landlords are considering increasing rents to pay for the higher taxes they now face. According to a survey by the...

Rents in the private sector have been falling in real terms according to an independent study just published.   The research, commissioned by...

More and more agents are witnessing increases in the cost of renting, according to the Association of Residential Letting Agents. Its latest...

Private rents in the UK are the highest in Europe despite having amongst the least secure tenancies - that it the...