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The architect of the controversial rent control policies in Scotland has left the government. It is not known what long-term implication this...

The latest official government rent index shows that average private rents across the UK as a whole increased by 9.2% in...

Rental growth in Britain has slowed says lettings agency Hamptons, with the average newly let rent rising 6.7% over the past...

An activist group says any future Labour government should introduce a beefed-up version of the Renters Reform Bill - whether or...

Landlords and renters’ activists are at either end of the spectrum reacting to a controversial report on the private rental sector. Yesterday...

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

The popular narrative may have been that first time buyers have been priced out of the market, partly by landlords: but...

Rental growth continued to cool in February, says the latest market snapshot from lettings agency Hamptons.   Last month, the average rent on...

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

Newly released data by flatshare website SpareRoom reveals average rental prices in Greater London have seen a drop. Average rental prices in...

Towns within commuting distance of big cities have seen some of the UK’s largest rent rises in recent years, says Zoopla. The...

The latest Rental Index from PropTech supplier Goodlord has recorded a rent rise and a reduction in void lengths over the...

Analysis by Zoopla says rent controls introduced in Scotland have directly led to higher rents. The property portal’s research team has analysed...

A prominent London-focused agent and property consultant says landlords are prioritising long term ‘tenant quality’ over short term yields. Jo Eccles, founder...

Paul Johnson - a director of the Institute of Fiscal Studies since 2011 and a visiting economics professor at University College...

The government’s Office for National Statistics is introducing a new way of measuring rent rises from the spring. It will double the...

As we all now know, the Government has acknowledged that the ban on Section 21 eviction notices cannot not come into...

Shelter has issued new claims about homelessness triggered in part by private rents, as it prepares for its annual festive fundraising...

One of the first forecasts for the rental market for 2024 suggests that strong growth will continue. Property consultancy JLL says that...

The Deposit Protection Service is the latest part of the industry to try to quantify how many landlords are implementing rent...

A housing analyst says student rent increases should be capped in the same way as social housing rents are. Rory Hughes, writing...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Louis Musgrove – Group Managing Director   What is Southernbrook Lettings and...

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

An agency chain is urging the Tories to stop in-fighting at their party conference and instead increase supply in the private...

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

A Conservative politician has named an individual who he claims is responsible for high rent rises and increasing homelessness. Murdo Fraser, the...

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

The average UK rental price hits another all-time high of £1,261 pcm, increasing a further 1.4 per cent from last month.  Excluding...

Campaigning charity Shelter claims that half the working private renters in England have too little saved to pay rent for more...

Authoritative new research suggests that there’s been a 91,000 rise in student numbers to 2.3m - yet in major student cities...

The lack of available housing stock is creating huge problems throughout the Private Rented Sector, including the supply chain. We all know...

There’s a blunt warning to renters from the man behind the monthly lettings market snapshot from the Royal Institution of Chartered...

Activist group Generation Rent is now demanding a change to the Renters Reform Bill to help tenants with energy bills. The group...

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

The Renters Reform Coalition - an umbrella body which includes direct action groups Acorn and the Renters Rights London - has ...

A pressure group is calling on the government to introduce in-tenancy restrictions on how much rents can be raised, and claims...

A charity claims some landlords are using what it calls “excessive” rent rises to effectively evict tenants. Citizens Advice says the Renters...

There’s a new warning this morning that rents are set to soar as landlords struggle with much higher interest rate payments...

The Nationwide Foundation - a charitable foundation founded by the Nationwide Building Society - says the Renters Reform Bill should be...

The latest lettings market index shows another big rise - with London at its highest-ever level. HomeLet says the average UK rent...

The latest lettings market index shows another big rise - with London at its highest-ever level. HomeLet says the average UK rent...

A Labour MP who last held shadow office under the party leadership of Jeremy Corbyn has attacked the government for having...

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

Most landlords are no better off now, even after substantial rent increases over recent years.  Rightmove recently reported that national average asking...

Politicians have rejected calls for rent controls, open ended tenancies and slower evictions - although this has not happened on the...

The latest edition of a housing market measure has suggested that one borough of London has seen rent rises of 33...

Recently the government once again committed to banning 'no-fault' evictions, with the new government housing minister Rachel Maclean promising the ban on...

A survey of 2,000 tenants in England and Wales shows that some 23 per cent claim to be struggling to pay...

After a hectic period of rent rises it appears that the lettings market is at a standstill according to PropTech firm...

Politicians in the Scottish Parliament have backed a controversial cap which means rent rises for private tenants mid-tenancy cannot exceed 3.0...

A perfect storm is brewing in the lettings market with rents spiralling driven by increasing demand fuelled by workers returning to...

A nine-page legal document outlining landlords’ arguments has effectively stopped a controversial housing minister and campaigning organisations giving evidence to a...

Labour controlled Nottingham council is introducing a new licensing scheme - and tells landlords not to raise rents to pay the...

Ruling politicians in Scotland have agreed that from April private rents can rise by 3.0 per cent in a 12 month period...

Bristol councillors who are landlords have been told they cannot speak in a debate on rent controls.  Earlier this week we explained...

Activist groups say landlords are being pressured by their letting agents into increasing rents. Generation Rent, led by Baroness Alicia Kennedy, and...

A new market snapshot shows that tenants in London have seen bigger rent price increases than anywhere else in the UK...

The latest rental market index from Goodlord shows rents down over the past month, with voids inching up.  All seven English regions...

The charity Crisis says rising rents are a contributing factor to the homelessness crisis. The comment come as  new data from the...

A lettings network is urging landlords to back a campaign to abolish council tax re-banding for shared houses. Platinum Property Partners says...

Tenants should brace themselves for soaring rents in the New Year, a property expert warns.  The National Association of Property Buyers predicts...

Rent rises are predicted to outpace house price growth over the next five years.  This is according to Nicky Stevenson, managing director...

A former lettings agent who’s turned poacher is now claiming students are faced with what he calls “rip-off renting”. Ajay Jagota, who...

Rent rises could finally be set to slow down because more housing stock is becoming available due to the cost of...

Nine out of 10 respondents to a new survey of landlords have either already increased rents, or intend to increase them.  This...

Labour is backing a rent freeze in Scotland and flirting with one in England - but it’s just stopped one being...

As I write this, the Chancellor of the Exchequer has gone back on his mini budget plan to abolish the 45p...

Things are looking up in prime London with landlords enjoying both higher rents and lower void periods. That’s the news from investment...

Shelter claims that almost 1.1m private renters in England – one in seven – had their rent increased in the last...

Generation Rent, the activist group led by Baroness Alicia Kennedy, is staging a Renters Rights Awareness week in October. It was originally...

Grainger, the UK’s largest landlord and a huge player in the Build To Rent sector, says it’s going to implement only...

Rents have increased by 3.4 per cent across the UK on average over the past year - rather less than the...

The controversial rent freeze policy in Scotland has been described as being “in chaos” by a top lettings agency chief. In a...

An emergency rent freeze in the private and public sectors has been announced this afternoon in Scotland. It will last until...

A senior Conservative has made a surprise plea for a two year rent freeze in the private rental sector with no...

Rents across Great Britain rose by an average of 8.3 per cent over the last 12 months, marking a gradual slowdown...

A row is brewing on the Channel Island of Jersey over the make-up of a Rent Control Tribunal. Although the island’s landlords...

Campaign group Generation Rent is staging a Renters’ Rights Awareness Week from September 17 to 22 inclusive. “Whether you’re new to renting,...

The continuing rent rises seen across much of the country are outpacing increases in interest rates, it’s been claimed.  Property website Home,...

Rents rose by an average of 2.8 per cent during June, taking the average cost of a rental property in England...

Rents are up year-on-year across all regions, according to the property website Home.   The mix-adjusted average rise across the UK is a...

A business analyst at a prominent consultancy says landlords who resist the temptation to quit the sector are “in a position...

The support package to help combat soaring fuel bills and the cost of living crisis - introduced at the end of...

The cost of living crisis and soaring fuel bills mean landlords may have to rethink the concept of all-inclusive rents. That’s the...

The surge in rents will subside and the market will normalise before the end of the year. That’s the prediction from Zoopla...

Average UK rents have increased for the sixth consecutive quarter - but some tenants are paying above the going rate to...

Annual rental growth in prime London reached 11.1 per cent in the first quarter of this year, following a 3.4 increase...

A property company director is telling landlords to show compassion when they consider rent rises, because of the cost of living...

In this weekend feature, Daniel Evans, chair of the Association of Independent Inventory Clerks (AIIC) and the managing director of Home...

A prominent Conservative has branded the rush towards rent controls by some politicians as “heavy-handed and economically illiterate”. Janet Finch Saunders, an...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors’ latest index suggests there’s no end in sight to rent rises in 2022. RICS’ monthly sentiment...

Rents are rising at around twice the level of a year ago according to the latest market snapshot by lettings agency...

Official government data suggests that rents are rising by 1.8 per cent a year - but a prominent analyst has gone...

Private landlords get it in the neck for allegedly-high rents but 4.75m families living in social housing in England are facing...

A leading market forecaster has described the level of rent rises in one part of the country as “going ballistic”. “The London...

Propertymark chief executive Nathan Emerson has given his prediction as to what the big issues will be in the 2022 lettings...

Landlords are benefitting from widespread rent rises across the UK - with even London seeing a turnaround.  This is according to lettings...

Earlier this week Zoopla released some rather healthy statistics on the UK rental market. In recent months, the rental market has been...

John McDonnell, who until 15 months ago was the shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, has called for all tenants to be...

Rents across Britain continue to bounce back according to the Hamptons agency.  The average rent of a new let rose 7.4 per...