landlords

Finding a rented home ‘easier than it has been for six years’ despite landlord exodus fears
a hand putting a key into another hand
RENTING

Finding a rented home ‘easier than it has been for six years’ despite landlord exodus fears

Zoopla found demand for rental properties has fallen by 14% in a year while the number of homes available increased 11%. Rent campaigners said the news means warnings of a landlord exodus due to new laws should be ‘taken with a pinch of salt’
Meet the community group taking on 'absentee landlords' to put empty building in hands of artists
A placard reading Bradford needs cash not cuts
Activism

Meet the community group taking on 'absentee landlords' to put empty building in hands of artists

Letters: Every nursery and school should have free training and more funding for SEND
Letters

Letters: Every nursery and school should have free training and more funding for SEND

Swooning over Heathcliff? Let’s not forget, he’s a really terrible landlord
Film

Swooning over Heathcliff? Let’s not forget, he’s a really terrible landlord

Letters: I was homeless once. Now I'm filled with gratitude for how my life turned out
Letters

Letters: I was homeless once. Now I'm filled with gratitude for how my life turned out

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Renting with pets: Know your rights
a woman sitting on a bed using a laptop, with a golden retriever lying beside her
renting

Renting with pets: Know your rights

Haunted houses are a classic horror trope – but are they scarier than damp, mould and landlords?
Horror homes

Haunted houses are a classic horror trope – but are they scarier than damp, mould and landlords?

Labour deputy hopeful Lucy Powell on benefit cuts, landlords and Farage: 'There's no quick fix'
Lucy Powell in House of Commons
Politics

Labour deputy hopeful Lucy Powell on benefit cuts, landlords and Farage: 'There's no quick fix'

Here's what would happen if the UK abolished landlords overnight
Renters angry at no-fault evictions, Renters Reform Bill delay and a lack of rent controls
Landlords

Here's what would happen if the UK abolished landlords overnight

My baby brother died after falling from a high-rise window. His life could have been saved
Exodus Eyob who died after falling from a seventh-floor flat
Housing

My baby brother died after falling from a high-rise window. His life could have been saved

Comedian Vittorio Angelone: 'Landlords should have to look you in the eye when they take your rent'
Big Questions

Comedian Vittorio Angelone: 'Landlords should have to look you in the eye when they take your rent'

How taxing private landlords helped 1.1 million renters become first-time buyers
a row of UK houses
RENTING

How taxing private landlords helped 1.1 million renters become first-time buyers

Renters' Rights Bill must become law 'as soon as possible', housing minister says
Labour housing minister Matthew Pennycook in a Renters' Rights Bill parliamentary debate
Renting

Renters' Rights Bill must become law 'as soon as possible', housing minister says

Zarah Sultana calls for MPs to be banned from being landlords
placards reading 'Power to the Renters' and 'Homes 4 All'
Housing

Zarah Sultana calls for MPs to be banned from being landlords

Renters make last-ditch plea for Labour to cap sky-high rents in Renters’ Rights Bill
Labour deputy prime minister and housing secretary Angela Rayner
RENTING

Renters make last-ditch plea for Labour to cap sky-high rents in Renters’ Rights Bill

Letters: The far right needs to accept asylum seekers aren't just going to disappear
Letters

Letters: The far right needs to accept asylum seekers aren't just going to disappear

Public service means putting people first. Government ministers shouldn't be landlords
Former homelessness minister Rushanara Ali and housing campaigner Kwajo Tweneboa
Kwajo Tweneboa

Public service means putting people first. Government ministers shouldn't be landlords

Average rent now £400 per month higher than five years ago, Rightmove says: 'Another new record'
A UK housing estate and surrounding fields
Renting

Average rent now £400 per month higher than five years ago, Rightmove says: 'Another new record'

Gen Z Londoners are handing out ‘awards’ to the organisations they blame for the housing crisis
Two activists pictured with a Youth Home Owner Award
Housing

Gen Z Londoners are handing out ‘awards’ to the organisations they blame for the housing crisis

Rise of the good landlords: Inside the movement to make the private rental sector tackle homelessness
Good Place Lettings boss Ben Rayner
RENTING

Rise of the good landlords: Inside the movement to make the private rental sector tackle homelessness

Fury over secret recording of landlords joking about using renters as 'target practice'
Renters from the Acorn Norwich branch confront a landlord in protest at a landlord conference
RENTING

Fury over secret recording of landlords joking about using renters as 'target practice'

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Letters: Landlords should be made illegal to fix the housing market
Letters

Letters: Landlords should be made illegal to fix the housing market

Are landlords really selling up? Number of new homes available for rent, revealed by Rightmove
a landlord's hand holding keys on a stairway
RENTING

Are landlords really selling up? Number of new homes available for rent, revealed by Rightmove

One in four renters struggle to get full deposit back from landlord: 'We're getting a raw deal'
house keys being passed between hands of renters and landlord
Renting

One in four renters struggle to get full deposit back from landlord: 'We're getting a raw deal'

Tenants win more than £250,000 of rent back from billionaire landlord in five-year legal battle
Somerford Grove Renters in Hackney
Renting

Tenants win more than £250,000 of rent back from billionaire landlord in five-year legal battle

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