Generation Rent
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Claims that most landlords are rejecting rent waiver requests are ‘untrue’
Landlords and agents ARE supporting tenants across the UK and Generation Rent research is wide of the mark, says association.
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BBC investigation slams agents who offer alternative deposits over ‘lack of transparency’
Report into providers includes warnings from industry and campaigning groups that agents are not being clear enough about how alternative deposits work.
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Building trust in room renting platforms
As more tenants choose ‘lifestyle renting’, what’s needed to make the online room rental experience both seamless and secure?
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The rental market must evolve with renters’ lifestyles
We are fast becoming a nation of renters. New figures show that almost half of all babies born today are starting their lives in rented accommodation...
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Generation Rent set to transform UK rentals – and the High Street
‘Generation Rent’ Is transforming the UK rental market, driving change in rental property whilst providing real hope for revitalisation of the High Street...
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Twitter campaign to end ‘no fault’ evictions and expose bad landlords and agents goes viral
A campiagn launched by lobbying group Generation Rent has gone viral on Twitter as it tries to get Section 21 no fault evictions outlawed.
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Tenant Fees Bill is last thing sector needs, Residential Landlords Association tells MPs
A group of MPs leading an investigation into the private rented sector and the draft Tenant Fees Bill got more than they bargained for yesterday afternoon when David Smith (pictured, right), Policy Director at the Residential Landlords Association (RLA) came in to give evidence. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government Select Committee had convened to hear from the RLA but also the National Landlords Association, a build-to-rent company called PlaceFirst, campaigning group Generation Rent and Citizen’s Advice about how best to police the private rental sector. It’s other task was to find out what the wider world thinks of the proposed lettings fees ban Blunt language David Smith, during a sometimes tour-de-force performance, told the MPs – who included former housing minister Mark Prisk – his views in sometimes blunt language during a two-hour session. His main points, some of which were echoed by the other people giving evidence, were: Fees charged by agents are charged at different levels and employed in varying ways all around the UK, so a blanket ban will be a blunt tool. It’s not true to say fees have been banned in Scotland – they’re now just post-loaded into tenancies, rather than being…
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Generation Rent worries
Campaigning group Generation Rent is worried that Theresa May’s manifesto promise of a letting fees ban is likely to be ‘kicked into the long grass’ by the hung parliament and the pressures of Brexit negotiations.
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Rental market reform needs to go much further, say tenants
Three quarters of all tenants say banning fees should be just the start in the process of much needed rental market reform. Research by online letting agency LetBritain reveals that 67% of the 2,000 tenants it canvassed don’t believe the current government can do anything to help them get on the property ladder, and that 70% said banning letting fees was “just the tip of the iceberg” and that more should be done. Three fifths of those canvassed also believed the government still isn’t doing anything to help Generation Rent become owners, and a similar number believe the rental market is going to get more difficult over the next five years. The research also revealed that half of all tenants in London rent properties much better than they could ever afford to own. Nearly 40% of tenants outside the capital also rent higher calibre properties than they could afford to buy. Landlord tenants LetBritain also uncovered a new breed of renter who could be a lucrative opportunity for networked agents – a quarter of those who rent said they wanted to purchase buy-to-let property outside the area they live in and get on the property ladder, but stay as tenants…
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Letting fees ban will be forgotten, says Generation Rent
Campaigning group Generation Rent says it is worried that Theresa May’s manifesto promise of a letting fees ban is likely to be kicked into the long grass by the hung parliament and the pressures of Brexit negotiations. The government’s consultation on the ban closed on 2nd June. Generation Rent says it is concerned that, despite all-party support for a lettings fee ban, is believes the legislation is likely to “fall down the political agenda”. General Election It also says renters were a key reason for the Conservative’s poor performance during Thursday’s General Election. It has looked at the results and concluded that 20 of the 32 seats that the Government lost were areas where there is an above-average proportion of voters who are renters. This includes some of the election’s more high-profile upsets such as Portsmouth South, Reading East, Battersea and Croydon Central, where former housing minister Garvin Barwell’s lost his seat. Barwell didn’t have to worry about getting a job after the election, though, unlike many other Conservative MPs voted out during the election. He is now Theresa May’s new Chief of Staff. “As the Prime Minister prepares her legislative programme, she should bear in mind that most of the…
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