The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, is calling for the legal power to impose a rent freeze in the capital AND reinstate the minimum EPC requirement for rented homes.
He says that London’s renters could be paying more for their energy bills for years…
The London Mayor is calling for tougher sanctions for private landlords who let out mouldy homes in the capital.
Sadiq Khan wants to see rent rebates doubled if landlords fail to fix mouldy and draughty homes in London.
The BBC has challenged London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s claims that rents in the capital will rise to £2,700 per month – leaving renters to struggle since the average salary is £2,131.
The mayor has called several times for a rent freeze to help …
Lisa Nandy, Labour Party’s shadow housing secretary, has rejected calls for rent controls – despite saying at the Labour Party conference last autumn that she supported them.
Now, she believes that rent controls are a ‘sticking plaste…
The Green Party is calling for the Renters’ Reform Bill to go much further than the government is planning for – and says there should be an ‘immediate rent freeze’.
The party is also urging for councils to get the power to impl…
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has repeated his calls for a rent freeze to help Londoners in the week that the Renters Reform Bill is due to be published.
Mr Khan demanded rent freezing powers last month and in a speech on his delivery of 116,000 affordable h…
Calls by London Mayor Sadiq Khan for a rent freeze in the capital have led one resident to pen an open letter in the hope of a response.
Rob Thomas is a mortgage market researcher, and he was prompted to write to the mayor after reading on Property118 …
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, and Generation Rent have smeared private landlords in a demand for an immediate Government crackdown on those who provide homes for tenants on housing benefit.
Mr Khan says it is ‘a scandal’
It has been a busy time for landlords with several stories that would normally make my blood run cold, but let’s start with a question: ‘Since when did a rent freeze mean no need to pay rent?’
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London Mayor Sadiq Khan has again called for a rent freeze for tenants to be implemented in the capital.
He was responding to a news report that highlighted data from Rightmove that shows the average asking rent in London leapt by 15% over the year to …
The Levelling Up secretary Michael Gove says there won’t be a rent freeze or a rent cap for landlords in England this year as part of the proposed Renters Reform Bill.
He was speaking on the ‘Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg’ show when he was asked about t…
A growing private rental sector crisis in the UK with landlords leaving and rents increasing has seen a growing clamour to introduce rent controls.
However, the experience of renters in Finland shows that this might be the wrong approach.
An open letter has been signed by rent activists, trade unions and several Labour Mayors, including Sadiq Khan, calling for the housing minister Michael Gove to implement a private rent freeze and an eviction ban in England to help tenants in the ‘curr…
Students in Scotland are being forced to live in unsafe purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) and a rent freeze should be reintroduced, a new report reveals.
The National Union of Students in Scotland (NUS) claims that students are being forced t…
Emergency measures that saw a rent freeze and an evictions moratorium being introduced in Scotland will now see rent rises capped at 3% in the private sector from April, the Scottish Government has revealed.
The enforcement of evictions will still be p…
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