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Kate Davies, executive director of the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA), says rent controls are not the magic answer to problems...

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...

An influential Labour website says a raft of proposed reforms for the private rental sector will be unveiled next month -...

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

Over £100m has been invested into a new site that will offer purpose b built accommodation for 713 students beds in...

Rents across the UK continue to retreat from their 2023 highs, falling by 2.9 per cent over the last three months,...

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...

London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan is calling on the government to allow him to levy effectively uncapped council tax bills on...

Airbnb has issued a statement responding to the call for a clampdown on short lets demanded by Labour’s outspoken London Mayor,...

Housing Secretary Michael Gove has this morning said his government should ‘relax the pace’ of EPC reforms expected from private landlords. In...

It looks as if the Labour Party is turning its back on rent controls on England and Wales. In the past year...

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

Labour’s Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, held a summit yesterday about the capital’s private rental sector - but he did not...

With the campaign for rent controls gathering momentum from London Mayor Sadiq Khan and sympathetic pressure groups, a right wing Conservative-backing...

Last month’s local election results could yet impact on the private rental sector, a prominent industry supplier claims. The Association of Independent...

Labour’s Sadiq Khan wants an increase in Capital Gains Tax for some buy to let investors. The London Mayor made his response...

The Labour Mayor of Bristol has spoken out about the threat to the mainstream rental sector posed by the proliferation of...

A PropTech supplier to the lettings industry that has just signed a deal with OnTheMarket has come out in support of...

Propertymark has hit back at the latest demand by politicians for rent controls. The London mayor Sadiq Khan renewed his call for...

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

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

ARLA Propertymark has hit back at a demand from London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan that he be given the powers to...

London’s Labour Mayor, Sadiq Khan, has made a new call for power to cap private rents. He’s claimed that rents in the...

An outspoken property investor has launched an online petition on the government website to oppose the threat of rent controls. YouTube influencer...

Labour’s candidate for London Mayor wants to control private rents - and he wants the capital to be a template for...

Letting agents body ARLA Propertymark has joined the criticism of London Mayor Sadiq Khan who wants to be given the power...

Some 39 agents and landlords have had banning orders over the past three years according to a report in The Guardian. Under the...

Rent controls are being discussed again as candidates prepare for May's local elections. In London Green Party mayoral candidate Sian Berry -...

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

The National Residential Landlords Association (NRLA) has slammed London Mayor Sadiq Khan's call for a rent freeze in the capital. Yesterday, ahead...

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has been accused of causing needless fear for renters by claiming all those in arrears due to...

London Mayor Sadiq Khan, has told the government of “illegal evictions by letting agents” - without specifying the incidents he refers...

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 new National Residential Landlords Association has backed calls from the Labour Mayor of London to ensure the benefits system covers...

Labour’s London Mayor, Sadiq Khan, has put his call for powers to control private rents at the heart of his campaign...

The appeal by Labour’s Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, to be given powers to introduce rent controls have been dealt a...

Another think tank has come up with proposals to scrap Section 21 eviction powers and cap rents - and it also...

It looks likely that the Conservative party is set to formally oppose rent controls when it publishes its manifesto, probably in...

London’s Labour Mayor, Sadiq Khan, has returned to his campaign to win powers which would allow him to impose rent controls. Khan...

Rent controls similar to those demanded by Labour in London and other major cities in the UK do not work, and...

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

It may seem as if governments and councils are falling over themselves to change the private rental sector to win the...

Rents in London are rocketing but a leading market commentator says this is no reason to give in to a “Marxist dystopia”...

The right wing Adam Smith Institute is the latest organisation to voice its strong opposition to Labour’s proposed rent controls for...

Calls by Labour’s London Mayor Sadiq Khan to secure powers to implement private sector rent controls are facing increasing opposition. Business organisation...

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has been told by a lettings industry body that he’ll lose votes if he introduces rent controls...

Airbnb has issued a statement distancing itself from controversial advertisements from a short lets management service. Hostmaker - which describes itself as...

A rental market expert is urging landlords to be cautious when considering to use short-term lets websites such as Airbnb to...

The Mayor of London is calling on government to introduce a new registration system for anyone wishing to rent out a...

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...

The BBC’s Reality Check service, respected for giving a more realistic assessment of many politicians’ promises, has looked at London mayor...

Rent controls of the kind which London mayor Sadiq Khan wishes to introduce will worsen what is already a huge exodus...

There’s been an angry reaction to the suggestion that London’s Labour mayor, Sadiq Khan, is seeking to introduce rent controls in...

Embattled London Labour mayor Sadiq Khan says he wants rent controls to be introduced in the capital’s private rental sector, but...

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

This week marks a major milestone in Mayor of London Sadiq Khan's efforts to crack down on the capital's rogue letting...

London’s Labour Mayor, Sadiq Khan, has repeated his criticism of the government’s decision to cap security deposits at the level of...

A campaigning lettings agent says proposals to allow renters to transfer tenancy deposits between properties are to be welcomed – but...

PropTech firm PayProp has welcomed the latest measures to clamp down on rogue elements within the lettings industry - but warns...

The National Approved Lettings Scheme has called for the London Mayor’s new rogue agents’ database to be extended to include those...

Letting agents who have broken the law are set to be ‘named and shamed’ by the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan,...

The Residential Landlords Association has broken ranks with the Association of Residential Letting Agents by opposing an ARLA-backed public database of...

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has written to six short-term lets websites calling on them to introduce a 90-day limit on rentals...

The National Landlords Association has rejected a central plank of London mayor Sadiq Khan’s plan for housing - the introduction of yet more...

AirBnB is to stop hosts in London from letting their properties for more than 90 days a year without official consent...

Local authorities appear to be at the forefront of identifying abuses of the Airbnb short-let platform and have called executives from...

Another 400 purpose-built Build To Rent apartments have been given the green light by planners in London.    Legal & General’s plans for...

London mayor says the private rental sector will play an increasing part in solving the capital’s housing shortage - but insists...

An MP has written to the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, raising concerns over the effect short-term lets regulations are having...

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has announced the first details of his plan to introduce a 'London Living Rent'. This new...

Fixflo has stolen a march over other PropTech companies by being the sole representative from the sector to be invited to...

In one of the first signals that new London Mayor Sadiq Khan backs Build To Rent, his deputy responsible for housing...

A survey has revealed that 59 per cent of London landlords support forcing letting agents to publish a breakdown of what...

An industry body is warning new London Labour mayor Sadiq Khan not to think he is helping renters by tying up...

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has criticised Boris Johnson's handling of the London Rental Standard, an accreditation scheme for landlords...

Before new London mayor Sadiq Khan has had his first working day in office, his proposals for a private rental sector...

The outgoing director of the Your Move chain of lettings agents says the new London mayor - whether Sadiq Khan or...

A London letting agent has expressed their dismay with a canvassing email sent by Liberal Democrat London mayoral candidate Caroline Pidgeon. The...

Labour’s candidate for the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has published his manifesto which returns to the party’s recent themes of...

Sadiq Khan, Labour’s choice for London mayoral candidate, has set out his housing policies - with possible rent controls high on...

One of five people vying for selection as Labour’s candidate in the 2016 London Mayoral election says private sector rents can...