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An activist group is demanding that the lower Capital Gains Tax should apply only to landlords who sell with sitting tenants. In...

A controversial proposal for a £300m tax grab on landlords appears to closely follow a policy suggestion put forward by activists...

Supporters of council selective licensing start rearguard action  Some of those involved in local councils have started a campaign to save selective...

The controversial Renters Reform Coalition - a band of campaigners including the Acorn and Generation Rent ginger groups - claims public...

Activist’s Twitter war of words continues  It appears as if Suella Braverman is not the only figure making a personal attack in...

Claims on social media by a leader of the Renters Reform Coalition - who is also a contributor to a Labour-supporting website...

Battersea, the charity behind the Pet Friendly Properties campaign, says the Renters Reform Bill must become law as soon as possible. Battersea...

There’s been a strong personal attack on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak by anti-landlord activists over the subject of energy efficiency. The Generation...

A row has broken out over a statement made by housing minister Rachel Maclean at the Conservative Party Conference. She told a...

Activists in the Generation Rent group are running what they call Renters’ Rights Awareness Week in the second half of October.   “Whether...

News that a ban on oil and LPG boiler installations has been pushed back 10 years has been welcomed by the...

The Generation Rent activist group is urging its supporters to email MPs to protest about delays in the parliamentary progress of...

A charity claims that apparent delays to the Renters Reform Bill, which has yet to get a Second Reading in the...

Whereas it’s likely that every single landlord has seen higher costs over the past year, two out of five tenants have...

Activists who at one time appeared broadly happy with the pro-tenant Renters Reform Bill now appear to have changed their mind. Over...

A new petition has been launched on the UK Parliament website to reverse the move towards Periodic Tenancies contained in the...

A Labour MP has told the House of Commons that “families are being turfed out of their private rented homes under...

The government may already have dismissed it, but the petition wanting landlords to be able to offset mortgage interest against tax...

Labour leader Sir Kier Starmer has set out a radical programme of devolution to local authorities at city and county level...

Half of private renters have faced a rent increase in the last year, it’s claimed.  Activists in Generation Rent claims of those...

Tenants planning to cancel direct debits in protest at rising fuel bills could face “paying the price for many years” a...

The Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities has been packed with MPs loyal to outgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson, as...

With the (eventual) departure of Boris Johnson, the next question for landlords and indeed much of the property industry is: What’s going...

Activists from pressure groups and London-focussed tenants’ bodies have handed in a letter to 10 Downing Street asking the Prime Minister...

A campaign group wants local candidates fighting elections in London next month sign up to a set of policies including rent...

The government is expected to announce the introduction of a national landlord register in England on Wednesday as part of its...

A respected political website claims that over 30 MPs from a range of political parties have written to the Housing Secretary...

A Bill is being introduced into both Houses of Parliament this week which will ramp up the pressure on the private...

The Momentum movement on the left wing of the Labour Party is staging a series of protests this weekend targeting landlords...

The chief executive of the National Residential Landlords Association has admitted in a newspaper article that some landlords do misuse their...

The Generation Rent campaign says a mandatory landlord register is necessary - and would have stopped the actions of a rogue...

The government has been slammed for attempting to shift the responsibility for renters in need onto landlords.  Chris Town a landlord and...

The so-called housing charity, Shelter, targeted Ludlow Thompson a few months back, asking its supporters to block the letting agent’s telephone...

Draker letting agents hosted an exclusive charity film screening of Studio 54 at the Soho Hotel for 100 landlords last week....

Plans to introduce a new rental complaints system to help support private tenants who are forced to live in shoddy housing...

A community-spirited buy-to-let landlord is preparing to saddle up for an epic 3,000 mile coast to coast bike ride from the...

Richard Leonard, the Scottish Labour leadership candidate backed by supporters of Jeremy Corbyn, has called for ‘stringent’ rent controls to be...

The Conservatives have announced a range of housing policies designed to help them win the general election, including pledging to build...

More than twice as many people (47%) support the second home 3% stamp duty surcharge than oppose it (18%), according to...

A legal campaign to fight punitive tax relief changes for buy-to-let landlords has progressed to the next stage. Two landlords, Steve...

Generation Rent has raised enough money to keep campaigning for private renters across the UK, amassing nearly £18,000 in donations. The organisation...