Generation Rent
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Section 21 WILL be abolished as Renters’ Reform Bill finally published
Government introduces landmark reforms to deliver fairer Private Rented Sector for tenants and landlords who will be able to recover their properties more easily from anti-social tenants.
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Home Office consults on plans to beef-up ‘sex for rent’ laws
A new law would put the squeeze on predatory landlords exploiting vulnerable people for sex in return for free or discounted rent.
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Winkworth defends itself ahead of ‘day of action’ by renters union in London
A tenants’ union demanding rent controls in the capital similar to those already operating in Scotland has now threatened two top estate agency firms with action on December 3.
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London estate agents braced for day of ‘activist action’ over rent
London estate agents are being threatened with “a day of action” on December 3 by a union demanding rent controls in the capital.
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Features
Levelling up the PRS
Nigel Lewis ploughs through 80 pages of the ‘Renters’ Reform Bill’ White Paper and asks the industry what they make of it.
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Campaigner rebuts Propertymark’s big ‘rental shortage’ claims
Dan Wilson Craw of campaign group Generation Rent disagrees with several of the key points claimed by agents in the report.
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UPDATED: Ministers reveal more details about looming Renters Reform Bill
Full details are due in the much-anticipated White Paper due out next month, but the Queen's Speech has provided some updates.
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‘Stop all rent rises and evictions’ demands influential campaigning group
Generation Rent has published half a dozen demands that it says will help tenants survive the ongoing cost of living crisis.
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