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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
![Mick Lynch and Labour Mayors accuse agents of pushing up rents](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyStats-400x310.png)
RMT rail union leader Mick Lynch and Labour leaders including Andy Burnham and Sadiq Khan are leading a call for an...
24 February 2023
From: Breaking News
![Sadiq Khan’s ‘rental summit’ excludes agents and landlords](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/SadiqKhan-4-400x310.jpg)
Labour’s Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, held a summit yesterday about the capital’s private rental sector - but he did not...
15 November 2022
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
![Shock as lettings PropTech firm backs Labour call for rent freeze](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/Labour-logo400x310.png)
A PropTech supplier to the lettings industry that has just signed a deal with OnTheMarket has come out in support of...
11 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
![Clampdown on agents by council officers with qualifications](/upload/images/Locations/GreaterLondon-400x310.jpg)
The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan wants is introducing a new qualification and training for borough council housing enforcement officers to...
17 February 2022
From: Breaking News
![Labour and Generation Rent join forces again for rent controls](/img/default/lat.png)
The Generation Rent campaign group and Labour are again uniting to argue in favour of rent controls in London. Just last week...
15 July 2021
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
![Labour demands powers to control private rents](/img/default/lat.png)
London’s Labour Mayor, Sadiq Khan, has made a new call for power to cap private rents. He’s claimed that rents in the...
08 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
![Labour says rent controls for UK cities could be based on London](/img/default/lat.png)
Labour’s candidate for London Mayor wants to control private rents - and he wants the capital to be a template for...
06 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
![Banning Orders: just 39 issued, three years after implementation](/img/default/lat.png)
Some 39 agents and landlords have had banning orders over the past three years according to a report in The Guardian. Under the...
06 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
![2,500 activists ‘on rent strike’ as Labour Mayor comes under attack](/img/default/lat.png)
A group of activists in London claim as many as 2,500 tenants are on a rent-strike during the Coronavirus crisis. The number is...
01 June 2020
From: Breaking News
![Lettings body backs Labour call for private rents to have ‘benefit cover’](/img/default/lat.png)
The new National Residential Landlords Association has backed calls from the Labour Mayor of London to ensure the benefits system covers...
23 April 2020
From: Breaking News
![Labour’s new rent control plan is “a disaster for tenants” - claim](/img/default/lat.png)
Labour’s London Mayor, Sadiq Khan, has put his call for powers to control private rents at the heart of his campaign...
04 March 2020
From: Breaking News
![Rent Controls debate: more criticism aimed at Labour’s Sadiq Khan](/img/default/lat.png)
The appeal by Labour’s Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, to be given powers to introduce rent controls have been dealt a...
15 November 2019
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
![Conservatives likely to oppose rent controls in election manifesto](/img/default/lat.png)
It looks likely that the Conservative party is set to formally oppose rent controls when it publishes its manifesto, probably in...
11 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![London Labour Mayor repeats his call for rent controls](/img/default/lat.png)
London’s Labour Mayor, Sadiq Khan, has returned to his campaign to win powers which would allow him to impose rent controls. Khan...
08 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
![Oops - tenants less likely to vote, despite politicians wooing Generation Rent](/img/default/lat.png)
It may seem as if governments and councils are falling over themselves to change the private rental sector to win the...
23 August 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
![Lettings expert sounds Airbnb warning to landlords](/img/default/lat.png)
A rental market expert is urging landlords to be cautious when considering to use short-term lets websites such as Airbnb to...
08 May 2019
From: Breaking News
![Airbnb backs call for mandatory registration system for short let properties](/img/default/lat.png)
The Mayor of London is calling on government to introduce a new registration system for anyone wishing to rent out a...
24 April 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
![Outrage at Labour bid to introduce rent controls in London](/img/default/lat.png)
There’s been an angry reaction to the suggestion that London’s Labour mayor, Sadiq Khan, is seeking to introduce rent controls in...
24 January 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
![Major milestone as all London boroughs sign up to ‘rogue database’](/img/default/lat.png)
This week marks a major milestone in Mayor of London Sadiq Khan's efforts to crack down on the capital's rogue letting...
23 May 2018
From: Breaking News
![Deposit cap: Mayor repeats claim that government bottled it](/img/default/lat.png)
London’s Labour Mayor, Sadiq Khan, has repeated his criticism of the government’s decision to cap security deposits at the level of...
06 November 2017
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
![Clampdown on rogue agents and landlords welcomed by PropTech firm](/img/default/lat.png)
PropTech firm PayProp has welcomed the latest measures to clamp down on rogue elements within the lettings industry - but warns...
11 October 2017
From: Breaking News
![NALS wants 'rogues database' extended to include more agents](/img/default/lat.png)
The National Approved Lettings Scheme has called for the London Mayor’s new rogue agents’ database to be extended to include those...
28 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![Named and shamed - ARLA backs Mayor's rogue agents database](/img/default/lat.png)
Letting agents who have broken the law are set to be ‘named and shamed’ by the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan,...
27 April 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
![Airbnb responds to critics by stopping London 'hosts' after 90 days](/img/default/lat.png)
AirBnB is to stop hosts in London from letting their properties for more than 90 days a year without official consent...
02 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
![Sadiq Khan backs Build To Rent and more landlord licensing](/img/default/lat.png)
London mayor says the private rental sector will play an increasing part in solving the capital’s housing shortage - but insists...
25 October 2016
From: Breaking News
![MP raises concerns over Airbnb's impact on London market](/img/default/lat.png)
An MP has written to the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, raising concerns over the effect short-term lets regulations are having...
22 September 2016
From: Breaking News
![Sadiq Khan sets out first details of 'London Living Rent'](/img/default/lat.png)
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has announced the first details of his plan to introduce a 'London Living Rent'. This new...
21 September 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...
09 June 2016
From: Breaking News
![Boris knew agent accreditation scheme was doomed to fail, says new Mayor](/img/default/lat.png)
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has criticised Boris Johnson's handling of the London Rental Standard, an accreditation scheme for landlords...
02 June 2016
From: Breaking News
![Mayor Khan's private rental licensing proposal under fire already](/img/default/lat.png)
Before new London mayor Sadiq Khan has had his first working day in office, his proposals for a private rental sector...
09 May 2016
From: Breaking News
![Agency chief tells new London mayor: 'treat rental sector as an ally'](/img/default/lat.png)
The outgoing director of the Your Move chain of lettings agents says the new London mayor - whether Sadiq Khan or...
06 May 2016
From: Breaking News
![Letting agent angered by Lib Dem canvassing email](/img/default/lat.png)
A London letting agent has expressed their dismay with a canvassing email sent by Liberal Democrat London mayoral candidate Caroline Pidgeon. The...
14 March 2016
From: Breaking News
![Labour calls for control on agents' fees and new landlord register](/img/default/lat.png)
Labour’s candidate for the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has published his manifesto which returns to the party’s recent themes of...
10 March 2016
From: Breaking News
![Labour's London mayoral candidate threatens rent controls](/img/default/lat.png)
Sadiq Khan, Labour’s choice for London mayoral candidate, has set out his housing policies - with possible rent controls high on...