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The trade union UNISON has partnered with activist group Generation Rent to demand root-and-branch reform of the private rental sector. Four key...

Labour MP Matthew Pennycook has been named as the principal housing minister in the new government. He was shadow housing minister when...

The deputy chief executive of an organisation funded by the Nationwide Foundation claims to have suffered “horrendous exploitation” at the hands...

A ban on so-called bidding wars, which Labour now proposes, would have to include letting agents as well as landlords a...

The latest residential market survey from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors is raising a red flag over what it calls...

A pro-tenant group wants the next government to take Right To Buy properties back to public ownership when they come up...

Campaigning charity Shelter is demanding an overhaul of the Renters Reform Bill, which will shortly begin its passage through the House...

London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan says he will build 6,000 “affordable” rental homes by 2030 - with their rents capped. Khan, standing...

Tenant groups and charities reacted angrily over the Easter weekend to the proposed changes to the Renters Reform Bill being advocated...

A national newspaper says the Renters Reform Bill is “on the brink of collapse” as Tory MPs are divided on their...

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

Shelter is asking for public support for radical changes to the Renters Reform Bill, now going through Parliament. The campaigning charity is...

A prominent rental activist is tomorrow going to tell a House of Lords committee about the need to regulate letting agents. Conor...

Respected energy industry consultancy Cornwall Insight says the price cap for the April to June period this year - to be...

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...

Controversy surrounds a government idea - floated over the weekend - to allow renters to secure mortgages with just one per...

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...

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

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

The Centre for Ageing Better claims older tenants will benefit most from some of the provisions in the Renters Reform Bill. As...

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

Renters are being offered a 100 per cent mortgage by the Skipton Building Society - the first time such a product...

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

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

The activist group Generation Rent is backing a call by MPs for the government to tighten up proposals to scrap Section...

The private rented sector has an important economic and social role to play across the country, according to a new report...

Demographic data from the latest Census suggests that the Private Rental Sector now provides homes for 20.3 per cent of the...

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

A so-called Renters Union is organising a day of action after claiming letting agents are behind recent rent rises. London Renters Union...

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

The government may be changing its mind on scrapping Section 21 eviction powers according to a bombshell story in The Times. Outlining what...

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

It has emerged that Generation Rent and Shelter are amongst the charities that have written to Conservative leadership contenders Liz Truss...

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

A lettings platform has joined forces with - wait for it - an astrologer, to find ideal places for people with...

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

A leading light in the Generation Rent group is disputing the findings of a Propertymark survey of letting agents.  Agents from businesses...

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...

Shelter has made an outspoken attack on a government proposal to extend Right To Buy to housing association tenants. The idea -...

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

The leader of the Generation Rent campaign group has accused Chancellor Rishi Sunak of “stacking the economy against private renters who...

It’s now been made clear that there will be a detailed White Paper in the spring explaining radical changes to the...

How can agents improve their position in society? A report has been published following a roundtable discussion between prominent agency figures...

A think tank says it would take a major policy change to fulfil Boris Johnson’s goal to turn generation rent into...

‘Generation rent’ was a term first coined in 2011 by the Halifax in a survey on the future of homeownership. It...

There are fewer than 70 tickets left for December 7's rescheduled 25th ARLA Propertymark Conference and Exhibition. Originally due to take place in...

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

The House of Lords will today discuss the apparently-growing Sex for Rent scandal. Campaigners say a search on websites such as Craigslist...

Baroness Alicia Kennedy, the director of Generation Rent, is to be one of the speakers in a debate at the ARLA...

Labour has joined with campaign groups Generation Rent and Shelter in calling for the speediest possible ending of Section 21 eviction...

The Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities says the long-awaited Rental Reform White Paper will now not be published until...

Two recent calls for the introduction of a national mandatory landlord register in England have been rebuffed by agents’ trade body...

Councils across Scotland have been given £10m to provide grants to tenants who have Covid-related arrears and risk eviction. The grants will...

Campaign group Generation Rent, led by former Labour Baroness Alicia Kennedy, has renewed its call for the scrapping of Section 21...

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

A tenant who says his former rental property has been turned into an Airbnb has set up a petition demanding Chancellor...

A prominent member of the House of Lords and a rental activist are calling for an immediate suspension of all Section...

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

A PropTech company says sloppy referencing by agents and landlords effectively means that around a third of prospective tenants are discriminated...

Baroness Alicia Kennedy has accused the government of hypocrisy over its diverging approach to evictions for commercial and residential tenants. On Wednesday...

ARLA Propertymark says letting agents have a vital role to play in highlighting the rights of private rental sector tenants. The comment...

There have been just 17 First Tier Tribunal cases involving allegations of fees charged to tenants in contravention of the Tenants...

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

The activist group Generation Rent is urging tenants to scrutinise the paperwork they get from agents to use against possible eviction.  Failure...

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...

The most vocal campaign group for tenants, Generation Rent, has warned government that renters have already been waiting two years for...

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

A group of rental campaign bodies have come together to claim that some 694,000 tenants apparently face eviction when the current...

Acorn, a prominent campaign group targeting letting agency offices for protests, says the latest eviction ban extension doesn't go far enough. While...

Campaigning charity Shelter has criticised Chancellor Rishi Sunak for allegedly leaving “far more people on the brink of homelessness than homeownership.”  Chief...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents says it’s disappointed the Budget failed to address the funding of the private rental sector.  “Extending...

An online petition which appears to inaccurately say private tenants can still be evicted “for no reason” has won 30,000 signatures...

Labour says the latest extension to the ban on bailiff-enforced evictions doesn’t go far enough to help tenants. The extension to the...

New research suggests even those renters who want to be owner occupiers are likely to remain in the lettings sector in the...

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

The Prime Minister has told MPs that the eviction ban effectively in place now but scheduled to expire on January 11...

Generation Rent’s campaign for more public funds for private tenants continues unabated with a call on Chancellor Rishi Sunak to increase...

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

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...

An organisation that wants rent controls, the scrapping of Section 21 and what it calls “indefinite tenancies” claims to have 4,000...

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

Government intervention, which in recent years has seen scores of legal and regulatory changes to the private rental sector, may be...

The government has accused campaign group Generation Rent of peddling “unreliable and misleading” figures about potential evictions in the private rental...

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

Campaigners against evictions during the Coronavirus crisis have launched a last-ditch call for the government to grant another extension to the current...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is urging its members to write to their MPs over the provision of cash help...

ARLA and the NRLA have teamed up with charities - some usually critical of letting agents and landlords - to lobby...

The Generation Rent campaign group has written to Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick demanding answers to five questions regarding the eviction extension...

The new director of campaign group Generation Rent says the government has caused “untold mental stress” to thousands of tenants. Commenting on...

The Generation Rent pressure group has made a last-ditch argument in favour of keeping the evictions ban, which will lapse at the...

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