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An influential Labour website says a raft of proposed reforms for the private rental sector will be unveiled next month -...

Activists are beginning to pile pressure on London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan, claiming the public will be disappointed if he toes...

The Generation Rent activist group is placing its hopes for pro-renter policies on newly-elected Metro Mayors, who will be elected on...

A think tank based in central London says landlords would not quit the sector if much tougher - and more expensive...

Labour leader Sir Kier Starmer and the party’s controversial Mayor of London Sadiq Khan are at loggerheads over rent controls. Khan has...

A newspaper reports that Housing Secretary Michael Gove is willing to rely on Labour votes to pass the Renters Reform Bill...

A prominent Green Party politician is arguing for rent controls - and accuses Labour of watering down its commitment to the...

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...

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,...

A Labour politician has returned to the subject of rent controls - even though the party has officially abandoned this as...

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

London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan and the leader of activist group Generation Rent have teamed up for an anti-damp and mouldy...

London’s Labour mayor Sadiq Khan wants 10,000 private homes in the capital to be brought into the social rental sector within...

Shadow housing secretary and Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner has accused the government of “foot dragging” over the slow progress of...

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

In an unusual move, London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan says home owners in dire financial difficulties should be able to switch...

London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan and the Labour-supporting leader of the Generation Rent pressure group have starred in a lengthy social...

London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan and activist group Generation Rent have issued a joint appeal for rent controls in the capital. Khan’s...

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

Housing Secretary Michael Gove has this morning said his government should ‘relax the pace’ of EPC reforms expected from private landlords. In...

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...

London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan has returned to his demand for powers to control rents in the private sector, citing a...

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

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, wants new powers to impose higher tax on empty homes - and even seize them...

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

Both the Generation Rent activist group and London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan have issued a joint attack on private rental sector...

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...

A host of local Labour leaders including mayors Andy Burnham and Sadiq Khan are leading a call for an immediate private...

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 -...

The leader of the Generation Rent activist group says that the shortage of homes to rent means no private sector tenant...

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...

A senior figure at the right wing magazine The Spectator has slammed landlords for blatant profiteering. The magazine’s assistant online editor says...

London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan wants private landlords letting ex-council properties to consider selling the properties to local councils.  Since launching in...

London’s Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan has claimed credit for many of the measures contained in the government’s Fairer Private Rented Sector...

London’s Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan wants to know the views of individuals on letting out homes in the capital via short...

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 Mayor of London Sadiq Khan wants rogue landlords to pay bigger fines and more compensation to tenants. He is also introducing...

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, wants the government to put a stop to the capital being used for international money...

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...

Labour councils in London have backed the initiative from Mayor Sadiq Khan to buy back ex-council houses now in the private...

London’s Labour Mayor, Sadiq Khan, and the Baroness leading the Generation Rent campaign have called for powers to control rents. Khan claims...

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

Only 39 rogue landlords and letting agents have been hit with banning orders in the first three years of their existence. The...

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

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

A landlord who let out a former bank vault as an illegal flat described by the local council as “dangerous” has...

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...

Pressure groups attacking landlords and letting agents are usually on the other side of the fence from property industry professionals but...

London’s Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan has launched a new tool for tenants to check on their landlords - and possibly claim...

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

Sadiq Khan’s proposal to introduce rent controls in London risks reducing the number of private homes available for rent, as landlords...

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

The mayor of London has called for additional powers so he can introduce rent controls in the capital. Sadiq Khan believes greater...

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...

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...

There was a significant increase in the number of landlords exiting the rental market in December 2018 as rents increased for...

The mayor of London Sadiq Khan is developing rent control proposals as part of his 2020 re-election bid in the hope...

The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) has warned that growing speculation the mayor of London Sadiq Khan is considering introducing rent controls...

The increase of London Living Wage to £10.55 per hour and UK Living Wage to £9 per hour has been welcomed...

Criminal landlords across London will be named and shamed on an online database after all London boroughs signed up to a rogue...

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

The mayor of London Sadiq Khan yesterday launched a new public online database which ‘names and shames’ dodgy landlords and letting...

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

The mayor of London Sadiq Khan has vowed to crackdown on criminal landlords by ensuring that they are ‘named and shamed’...

Short-term letting agents in the capital are being urged by the Mayor of London to follow Airbnb’s lead by blocking hosts...

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...

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...