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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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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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City centre demand returns for new generation of young renters
Report by Savills suggests transport hubs are once again a priority for a new, young, mobile workforce.
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