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Labour London Mayor Sadiq Khan wants to install ‘mould sensors’ in thousands of rental homes across the capital. In a pledge ahead...

London Mayor Sadiq Khan is demanding the government finally abolish Section 21 eviction powers - and claims over 30,000 households in...

Generation Rent has yet again come out for rent control over the private sector - and wants it to be an...

I’m not especially political and certainly carry no candle for one flavour or another. I might argue that they’re all pretty...

A newly-nominated candidate in this spring’s London Mayoral election has vowed to lower private rents if he wins. Serge Crowbolder, currently a...

Rents across the UK continue to retreat from their 2023 highs, falling by 2.9 per cent over the last three months,...

Generation Rent and London Mayor Sadiq Khan have jointly slammed landlords who do not improve the EPCs of their private rental...

Over a third of private landlords would sell properties if rent controls were introduced in their area, according to a trade...

Airbnb has issued a statement responding to the call for a clampdown on short lets demanded by Labour’s outspoken London Mayor,...

London Mayor Sadiq Khan, who wants the government to give him the powers to impose rent controls, is now demanding licensing...

The National Residential Landlords Associations has expressed relief that Labour appears to be backing away from rent controls. Association chief executive Ben...

The Generation Rent campaign has given its support to a call by London Mayor Sadiq Khan to be given powers to...

The Financial Times says the Labour Party is poised to reject the increasingly shrill calls for rent controls made by the...

Two of the most prominent campaigners over rent controls - albeit one on either side of the argument - have had...

The London Mayor has been told to act urgently against the landlords of so-called ‘exempt accommodation’ in London. This is the largely-unregulated...

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has yet again taken to social media to demand the powers to freeze private sector rents. This has...

A leading property industry figure has exploded the myths that lie behind the calls for private rent controls. Ian Fletcher, director of...

A rant about rent controls by London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan appears to have backfired. Khan - who has repeatedly demanded that...

The perennial shortage of new homes in the capital has now collided with a sharp increase in government regulation, a tripling...

Yes, it’s that time again when the property hoi polloi impose their predictions for the following year on us and so,...

Two councillors have successfully used the London Assembly to push London Mayor Sadiq Khan and the government to do more to...

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has praised tenants in the capital for using a register that names and shames rogue landlords -...

One of the many activist groups in the so-called Renters’ Reform Coalition has pledged to “train people across the country to...

The mini-Budget was always billed as a tax-cutting, growth-generating affair - and so it proved - but Labour has criticised it...

Labour’s London Mayor - buoyed up after the party’s successes in the capital in last week’s elections - has renewed his...

A controversial PropTech rental platform has issued a list of questions and issues to check when tenants rent from a landlord...

The former Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer says rent controls are a vital part of a four-pronged ‘Radical Recovery Programme’. John McDonnell has...

The threat of rent controls in two parts of the country may now be so severe that buy to let landlords...

A Labour Mayor and a former Labour baroness have teamed up to call for rent freezes in London, claiming they slash...

A new calculation suggests London needs almost 85,000 new private rented homes a year to meet its housing needs. And it adds...

The government has been told to raise the landlord cost cap to £10,000 to increase the number of private rental sector...

London Mayor Sadiq Khan wants to buy back former council houses now in the private rental sector. Right to Buy, part of...

The main landlords’ trade body has hit out at a bid by London Mayor Sadiq Khan to secure powers to impose private...

A group of activists at the centre of campaigns for renters’ rights has claimed the police help landlords commit illegal acts. The London...

Activists are aiming to make the eviction ban a central theme in this spring’s local elections. In early May there are elections...

London Mayor Sadiq Khan is to keep a call for rent controls in the capital as a major plank of his...

Activists in a rental reform coalition say court possession hearings should be halted as well as bailiff-led evictions. They say the stress...

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has called for an extension of the eviction ban and a two year rent freeze in the...

Generation Rent, the lobby group that tells the government how it thinks the lettings industry should operate, appears to have a...

London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan wants a £3 billion one-off windfall tax on private developers to fund replacement cladding on affected...

Staff are being recruited by a coalition of groups campaigning for widespread restrictions on landlord powers in 2021. Called the Renters Reform...

One of the candidates for next year’s London Mayoral election wants to put pet-friendly tenancies for the private rental sector as...

London Mayor Sadiq Khan says landlords in the capital could  discriminate against EU citizens living in the UK capital if those...

Rents should be frozen in London to avert mass evictions, city mayor Sadiq Khan has told the government. Khan wants new powers...

Transport for London (TfL) has finally bowed to pressure from campaigners and announced a ban on adverts that promote short-term letting...

Buy-to-let landlords and property enthusiasts will once again descend on the Olympia Conference Centre in London today where they will be...

Hostmaker, which specialises in managing London properties put on to Airbnb and other short-let platforms, has apologised for causing controversy over...

More than 8,300 Londoners have called on London Mayor Sadiq Khan to ban adverts ‘encouraging’ landlords to abandon long-term tenants for...

Ex-London mayor Ken Livingstone will take part in the Future of the UK Housing Market Debate at the National Landlord Investment...

London mayor Sadiq Khan is being urged to pull advertisements encouraging landlords to move into tourist lets. Following a significant drop in...

Around 2 million Londoners, including many renters, live in areas which exceed legal limits for air pollution, fresh figures show. The data...

With 65,000 affordable new homes planned to be built in London per year, it would appear that the capital is offering...

A high number of buy-to-let investors prioritise rental rents over capital gains when making property purchase decisions, and with that in...

Tenants are now spending two-thirds of their disposable income on rent as sky-high prices put even more homes out of reach. The...

The mayor of London’s pledge to publically name ‘bad’ landlords who have been convicted of housing-related offences is supported by the...

The new mayor of London has pledged to get tough on rogue landlords in the capital by introducing a ‘London Landlord...

The new mayor of London Sadiq Khan has pledged to do all in his power to help make London “better” after...

With just a few hours until polls close in London, housing remains the main issue that may help determine who gets to run the...

The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) has set out what it believes should be priorities for the successful London Mayoral candidate in...

Labour's London mayoral candidate Sadiq Khan has launched his election manifesto and pledged to help the capital’s two million renters. Khan’s election...

The Liberal Democrat London mayoral candidate Caroline Pidgeon says she would encourage landlords to offer longer tenancies if she was elected...

London Mayor Boris Johnson has just announced the capital’s first boiler replacement scheme. The London Boiler Cashback Scheme is providing 6,500...

Rent controls and similar policies which are thought to work well in other countries cannot be easily replicated in the UK’s...

A member of Labour’s London Assembly has warned that “Boris Johnson’s system of voluntary self-regulation is failing private renters in Tower...

Victorious housing campaigner Lindsey Garrett from the New Era Estate in Hackney is taking on Labour and the Conservatives for the...