Tag: housing crisis

London boroughs face soaring homeless costs of over £5 million a day

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

1st October 2025, 10 months ago | 2

London boroughs are spending more than £5 million a day on temporary accommodation to house the homeless. Analysis by London...

Housing Secretary accused of hypocrisy over blocking flats in his own constituency

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

26th September 2025, 10 months ago | 3

Despite the Housing Secretary’s mantra of “build, baby, build,” the Telegraph reveals Steve Reed tried to block a housing development...

National Insurance on rental income is the ‘final nail in the coffin’ for landlords

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

2nd September 2025, 11 months ago | 11

A Labour proposal to apply National Insurance contributions to rental income could be the ‘final nail in the coffin’ for...

Surge in rental scams targeting young tenants

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

1st September 2025, 11 months ago | 0

Young tenants are being warned about a sharp rise in rent scams with scammers increasingly targeting them amid a growing...

Labour MP calls for end to Section 21 as property manager defends eviction process

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

21st August 2025, 11 months ago | 3

Despite a landlord helping to rehouse tenants after serving them with a Section 21 notice, a Labour MP is calling...

Shelter blames delayed Section 21 ban for thousands of evictions

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

15th August 2025, 12 months ago | 16

Despite pledging to ban no-fault evictions on day one of a Labour government, new figures reveal 11,400 households were removed...

Former Tory Minister defends landlords charging market rent amid calls for rent controls

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

14th August 2025, 12 months ago | 3

A former Tory cabinet minister has defended landlords renting out their properties at market price. David Gauke, former Justice Secretary,...

Older renters fear homelessness due to rising costs claims charity

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

13th August 2025, 12 months ago | 2

A charity has claimed one in five older people want to retire but are unable to due to housing costs....

Right-to-Buy has worsened housing crisis claims think tank

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

8th August 2025, 12 months ago | 3

A think tank claims that Right-to-Buy has become “England’s biggest housing disaster”, costing taxpayers £200 billion. A report by the...

Industry body urges government to offer incentives to landlords amid soaring demand

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

7th August 2025, 12 months ago | 4

An industry body is calling for incentives to support landlords as demand continues to outstrip supply. Propertymark’s housing insight report...

Landlord warns government legislation will leave tenants homeless

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

1st August 2025, 12 months ago | 8

A landlord in Andover warns government legislation will make tenants homeless as landlords leave the private rented sector. Speaking to...

Tenants face becoming ‘lifetime renters’

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

28th July 2025, 1 year ago | 1

Around 2.2 million would-be first-time buyers have been locked out of the property market since 2006, research reveals. According to...

Selling 5 houses to purchase 10: buyers are chomping off Landlords’ hands

Author: David Coughlin - Landlord Sales Agency

18th July 2025, 1 year ago | 0

We’re already over half way through 2025. It’s hard to believe that in the blink of an eye we’ll be...

Converting empty homes into HMOs could help solve housing crisis

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

15th July 2025, 1 year ago | 17

Thousands of empty homes could become Houses of Multiple Occupation (HMOs) according to new research. Property management platform COHO, claim...

Oh dear, Angela Rayner. What can landlords do to help you on LHA?

Author: Landlord Crusader

11th July 2025, 1 year ago | 13

As Ronan Keating once said: “You say it best, when you say nothing at all”,  Angela’s appearance in front of...

OBR warns older renters pose financial risk as Generation Rent calls for rent caps

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

11th July 2025, 1 year ago | 5

Older private renters represent a fiscal risk for the Treasury, warns the Office of Budget Responsibility (OBR). A report by...

What problem is the Renters’ Rights Bill addressing?

Author: Readers Question

7th July 2025, 1 year ago | 17

By not fully understanding a problem, the risk of putting in a bad fix is magnified. We are seeing example...

The disconnect between tenant groups and landlords is shameful

Author: Landlord Crusader

4th July 2025, 1 year ago | 4

Sometimes a story lands that shows the true colours of critics and this week Generation Rent (yes, them again) say...

Landlords slam how the media portrays them

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

1st July 2025, 1 year ago | 4

There’s widespread discontent among landlords over media depictions of them and the PRS – it’s now fallen to just 9%...

Why the Renters’ Rights Bill will create a ‘perfect’ tenant crisis for Labour

Author: Landlord Crusader

27th June 2025, 1 year ago | 18

As the Renters’ Rights Bill heads back to the Lords next week, I fear there is now real potential to...