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Landlord leader calls for peace talks with tenant campaigners
Ben Beadle of the NRLA has written to renter groups to find 'common ground', and stop them fighting with landlords.
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The great reformer
The Renters (Reform) Bill is intended to make private sector renting fairer. Robyn Hall reviews the proposed legislation as begins its journey through Parliament.
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Call for two-year rent freeze as London rents ‘spiral out of control’
London Mayor Sadiq Khan warns that out-of-control rents are increasing risk of homelessness as 160,000 Londoners fall behind with payments.
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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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‘Devastating’: Generation Rent calls for English rent freeze
Lobby group ups the ante after Conservative MP comes under fire for saying extraordinary economic circumstances justify freeze.
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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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Generation Rent presses Ministers to increase notice period to four months
Generation Rent's Baroness Kennedy tells Radio 4 listeners that tenants need more time to move home, particularly if they have children in a local school.
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