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Scotland’s new Housing Bill - introducing a laborious eviction process and rent caps across the country - will ‘compound the mistakes’...

The controversial proposal for permanent rent controls in Scotland, published just ahead of the Easter holiday, doesn’t go far enough for...

The Scottish Government’s Housing Bill allows SNP and Green politicians to create rent control areas, triggered by local authorities, and this...

The Scottish Government says rent controls - already existing as a so-called emergency measure - will become permanent. Scottish First Minister Humza...

The Scottish Government, despite being in the middle of electing a new First Minister, is pressing ahead with legislation for long-term...

Three more social housing landlords have been ‘named and shamed’ by Housing Secretary Michael Gove. The trio - two of which are...

Plans to extend tenants’ rights that were introduced as an emergency measure during pandemic will have a ‘devastating’ effect on the...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? My name is Giles Atkinson and I’m one part of...

The UK’s first Minister for Tenants’ Rights says he will introduce rent controls because renters currently “pay way over the odds”. Although...

The Housing and Planning Bill, which includes measures to tackle criminal landlords and letting agents, should also address the issue of...

A tenants’ campaign group claims the Starter Homes scheme will help just 200,000 first-timer buyers, leaving 2 million aspiring home owners...

Campaign group Generation Rent is calling for tenants who are served notice to leave a property to be compensated by landlords.  The...

Conservative MPs have defeated a Labour amendment to the government’s housing and planning bill to require landlords to ensure their properties...

The Government is poised to introduce tough new laws for landlords this week – with fines of up to £30,000 for...

Private housing tenants from across income scales are living in unsafe homes that fail to meet basic legal standards, a report...

Vulnerable tenants will find it more difficult to access housing following the passing of the Welsh Government’s Renting Homes Bill, according...

Local councils are being urged to drop landlord licensing schemes following the publication of new laws showing that they are not...

Rogue landlords will be banned from letting property under new measures to be brought in under the Housing and Planning Bill. The...

The tiny number of landlord convictions is no deterrent to the worst landlords, Generation Rent has said, as it calls on...

The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) is calling on ministers to take action to find and root out the criminals who bring...