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In an early General Election skirmish, London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan has been accused of failing to enact key private rental...

Even as he was being elected as Mayor of London for a record-beating third successive time, Sadiq Khan was under pressure...

The Labour-run London Assembly says it is concerned about government plans to allow landlords to house asylum seekers for two years without...

A left-leaning think tank which says it champions ‘left-behind Londoners’ is demanding a turbo-charged version of selective licensing to be run...

The National Audit Office has made scathing criticisms of government efforts to build more affordable housing. The public spending watchdog says the...

It’s been confirmed that the controversial Renters Reform Bill will still be introduced by the end of this session of Parliament,...

The sweeping reforms for the private rental sector announced by the government at the end of last week do not go...

Just over 7,000 households in London have been threatened with homelessness in the past three years alone after being issued with...

The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan wants is introducing a new qualification and training for borough council housing enforcement officers to...

A senior Labour politician in the capital claims that there’s been “a stark rise” in people losing their homes since the...

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

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

A huge trading standards operation clamping down on lettings agents who fail to abide by Client Money Protection rules has been...

Labour claims over 350 households in London alone were issued with a Section 21 notice during the first lockdown in spring...

A foundation which receives substantial funding from trade unions and a charity linked to the Nationwide is calling for rents to...

The Labour head of a special ‘taskforce’ looking at London housing issues in the light of the Coronavirus crisis says he...

Labour is backing new guidelines which ban adverts which can be interpreted as encouraging landlords and home owners to flout restrictions...

Media reports in London suggest that Labour’s hyper-active housing spokesman on the Greater London Assembly may be under threat from Jeremy...

Airbnb and short let management service Hostmaker - at the centre of a dispute involving a landlord trade body and the...

A company appearing to call on landlords to abandon tenants and instead let their properties to short-let visitors is now trying...

The Mayor of London is under pressure to pull advertisements calling on landlords to stop providing homes for Londoners and move...

The scrapping of Section 21 eviction powers has been welcomed by the London Assembly - but apparently it doesn’t go far...

A senior Labour politician claims that “unscrupulous” letting agents are hammering tenants with higher-than-usual charges between now and June 1 when...

Two senior London politicians are backing a campaign to scrap the powers of agents and landlords to evict tenants under Section...

Politicians in London and Scotland are looking at new controls which could be imposed on home owners letting out their properties...

One of London’s leading politicians has created guidelines to help individuals ‘secret shop’ in a bid to expose what she claims...

London politician Sian Berry - who was the Green Party candidate for the Mayoral elections in the capital in May -...

Countrywide is calling on the Greater London Assembly to implement a single landlord licensing scheme which individual borough councils can opt...

Rents in the private sector have been falling in real terms according to an independent study just published.   The research, commissioned by...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has made a detailed case against so-called 'rent stabilisation' measures advocated by some on the...

London Mayor and Tory leadership wannabee Boris Johnson wants rogue operators in the private rental sectors to be banned with repeat...

One of the Labour party’s London Assembly members has criticised Boris Johnson’s London Rental Standard (LRS), saying it is ‘falling private...