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Despite once claiming it would abolish Section 21 evictions “on its first day in office”, Labour appears to have gone cool...

Labour has waded into the increasingly-fractious debate over the Renters Reform Bill. Activists in groups such as the Renters Reform Coalition and...

A pressure group unhappy about lack of progress on the Renters Reform Bill wants MPs to be bombarded with complaint emails.  Over...

Seventeen housing organisations have sent an open letter to the government rejecting its idea of prioritising British families when it comes...

A group of rental activists claims that police in England are disproportionately using a 19th century law that criminalises rough sleeping...

The Generation Rent activist group has come out against an amendment to the Renters Reform Bill which reversed the threat of...

The Scottish Greens - who are in effect the architects of rent controls north of the border - have welcomed a...

The Renters Reform Coalition - a collection of some 20 activist groups and charities demanding changes to the private rental sector...

A new manifesto calling for rent controls and a raft of other measures is accusing the current rent rises of being...

The Metropolitan Police has been advised by tenant activists and the London Mayor on developing rule changes for evictions. The changes include a presumption against...

The Green Party - which ran the Brighton and Hove council until being swept from office in May’s local elections -...

Millions of UK landlords will be adversely affected by the Renters Reform Bill, a solicitor warns - the latest law expert...

The issue of ‘rent for sex’ - tenants offered free or discounted rent in return for sexual favours - is now...

A franchise lettings agency is reported to have agreed to stop potential tenants bidding against each other to secure rental properties. The...

A campaign group of activists says there have been only “few reports of dodgy behaviour” by agents and landlords in the...

In a surprise move, Housing Secretary Michael Gove has given the stand-in leader of activist group Generation Rent a prime role...

Shelter is telling the government it “must deliver” on the revolution it pledges under the Renters Reform Bill. Chief executive Polly Neate...

An activist group claims that 54 per cent of students are currently living with damp and mould. The group - Students Organising...

A group of activists is trying to raise £15,000 to campaign for local councils to clampdown on AirBnb and other short...

Location, Location, Location star Phil Spencer says it’s time for agents to go for the ‘hard sell’ on Buy To Let,...

RMT rail union leader Mick Lynch and Labour leaders including Andy Burnham and Sadiq Khan are leading a call for an...

A coalition of tenant activists has called a Day of Action to protest at delays in the government’s rental reform agenda. The...

The anti-agent pro-renter group Acorn has protested outside some agents’ offices in Bristol demanding an end to rival bids for properties...

A campaign group has protested outside letting agencies in Bristol, protesting against what they describe as “bidding wars” between rival tenants. The...

Activist groups which previously focussed much of their fire on landlords are now attacking letting agents, accusing them of encouraging higher...

Activists say they are planning protests outside lettings agency offices this weekend. Activists in the London Renters Union and Greater Manchester Tenants...

Purplebricks’ board has announced that a general meeting of shareholders will be held on December 19 - and it involves a...

Campaigners who turned on the Prime Minister on Tuesday were cock-a-hoop just 24 hours later when Liz Truss did another U-turn...

Activist renters want Liz Truss to follow Scotland’s lead and introduce a rent freeze and eviction ban.  The emergency measures - announced...

A Labour MP says the government should introduce emergency rent controls as part of a package of measures to combat the...

Within two hours of Greg Clarke being appointed by Boris Johnson as the new Housing Secretary, the leader of Generation Rent...

Speculation in national newspapers suggests that the government is considering giving local mayors some powers over parts of the private rented...

The famous seaside town of Whitby in Yorkshire has voted in a referendum considering a ban on new build properties being...

Activists are calling on the government to impose swingeing taxes on some lettings properties “to bring them back into the residential...

A claim by the activists running the Generation Rent group has been branded as “misleading” by Propertymark. Generation Rent claims its research...

The government is widely expected to announce that Section 21 eviction powers will be scrapped in new legislation coming to Parliament...

An activist group claims that homeless cases arising from Section 21 evictions are now at their highest level since records began...

An activist at the centre of a controversy involving a London letting agent has used a left-wing website to explain how...

The mainstream media today is reporting that a group of anti-landlord/anti-agent activists called an agent a “w*****” at a protest. This apparently prompted...

Activists in the Acorn campaign group are lobbying a council in a bid to - in its words - “ban slum...

An activist group in London has launched a scathing attack on councils which it claims have been ineffective in regulating rogue...

One of the country’s major regional newspapers has launched a campaign for the urgent introduction of rent controls. The Bristol Evening Post,...

Politicians across the UK appear to be growing more vocal in their support for rent controls. The Welsh nationalist party Plaid Cymru...

A petition calling on Chancellor Rishi Sunak to increase tax on holiday lettings has still not hit its 45,000-signature target. Former long...

Baroness Alicia Kennedy, director of the Generation Rent campaign, says rents in Wales, Scotland and South West England have soared thanks...

The Generation Rent campaign group and Labour are again uniting to argue in favour of rent controls in London. Just last week...

A lettings agency has apologised after a campaign by activists about the condition of a rental property it manages. Protesters outside the...

The narrative from some activists and pressure groups is that private renting is some kind of ordeal endured by those who...

Propertymark has joined forces with the likes of Generation Rent and Shelter to step up the campaign for the provision of...

Campaign group Generation Rent has set out a 10-point plan for reform of the private rental sector in favour of tenants. Its...

The head of the tenants’ campaign group Generation Rent has condemned the government as “reckless” for ending the eviction ban on May...

Activists from the Acorn renters' campaign group have held a protest outside a branch of Chancellors in Oxford. The group says the...

Councils are failing to protect tenants in three out of four cases where they discover rental homes are unsafe, according to...

Local media in the Homes Counties report that two arrests were made after police were called by a lettings agency where...

Activists from a range of pressure groups have reacted angrily to what they call a half-baked eviction ban announced by the...

A lettings agency has called in the police after a protest involving anti-agent activists demanding compensation for past tenants. The Eastern Daily...

Activists are attempting to build rent strike momentum amongst students who rent property across the country. ‘Rent Strike” is a national network...

The Generation Rent campaign has renewed its call for public money to be allocated to clear at least some rent arrears...

Activists from the so-called renters’ union Acorn have held a protest outside the office of a lettings agency in Oxford. A photograph...

The main trade body representing lettings agents has described the government’s latest eviction ban as “a further blow” for the sector. At...

Campaign group Generation Rent says thousands of tenants in areas of the country under Tier 3 Coronavirus restrictions are in danger...

It’s a year today since the closure of the formal government consultation into scrapping Section 21 powers for agents and landlords. In last...

Activists from the controversial renters’ group Acorn have picketed the headquarters of a national rental firm in a dispute over a...

One of the most outspoken campaign groups against the end of the eviction ban has staged a series of so-called ‘boot...

The anti-letting agent group ACORN is to stage protests in 10 to 15 UK cities this weekend according to an activists’...

Activists who praised the government for its eviction ban in recent months have now turned on it in a last-ditch attempt...

A group of activists in London claim as many as 2,500 tenants are on a rent-strike during the Coronavirus crisis. The number is...

The possibility of an extended mortgage holiday being introduced, for landlords as well as home owners, has been sharply criticised by...

Activists in a body called the London Renters Union has returned to the theme of calling for tenants to not pay...

A mailing list operated by the left wing activists’ group Momentum has been used to win support for a rent strike...

Three groups of rental activists have demanded the government scrap all rent payments immediately and cancel all arrears - but mystery...

A group of private rental activists says Labour proposals to give tenants two years to repay arrears accrued during the virus...

A campaign group is urging its members to write to landlords asking them to “suspend” rent demands until the Coronavirus crisis...

Two lettings agencies have been vandalised by activists who defied the Coronavirus lockdown to damage property. Local media reports in Cheltenham say...

Activists with a record of opposing agents and landlords want a blanket ban on rent rises and evictions in the current virus...

Pressure group Generation Rent claims half of London’s councils did not fine any landlords for letting out unsafe homes in the...

The controversial Acorn group of anti-letting agent activists has been accused of intimidation of female staff during a protest outside and...

A pet care company claims that millions of private renters are being denied the benefits of pet ownership because of landlords...

Generation Rent - an outspoken organisation sharply critical of lettings agents and many aspects of the private rental sector - is...

A campaign group that has held protests outside letting agents’ branches and has been fiercely critical of fees, says it’s seen a...

A protest has been held outside a lettings agency in Manchester by tenants demanding that the firm ‘sacks’ one of its...

A Labour council serving one of the largest private rental communities in the country is reported to have failed to have...

A collective of activist renter groups has set out a manifesto of what it wants from the winner of next month’s...

An activists’s group which in the past has held protests immediately outside letting agents’ offices is appealing for £10,000 to develop...

A group of activists has expressed outrage over a council’s private rental licensing scheme, claiming it is too small to catch...

A collection of rental sector protest organisations is getting together to campaign against S21 powers under which landlords or agents on...

It is being reported that the Labour mayor of Newham council - that’s the authority which has introduced stricter controls on...

Bristol council is resuscitating a so-called ‘rental standard’ which it expects local letting agents to meet. Back in January 2016 Letting Agent...

A Tory MP has taken to the internet to warn against what he calls the “unintended consequences” of a ban on...

A campaign group has been refocussed with the objective of making the government honour its Autumn Statement pledge to ban letting...

A community group that has in the past staged protests at letting agents’ offices in Bristol has now organised a petition...

The controversial campaign group ACORN, which has made headlines by protesting outside letting agency offices in Bristol, is launching a new...

A campaign group which last year held protests outside letting agents’ offices in Bristol is claiming victory in persuading the city’s...

A so-called 'ethical lettings charter' established by a group that has campaigned against some letting agencies, is set to be adopted...

A group of renters who have formed the Acorn group in Bristol - which has already held protests against letting agents...