Tag: housing crisis

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

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

21st August 2025, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 months ago | 2

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

Residents slam housing association over bed bug epidemic

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

11th August 2025, 8 months ago | 0

One of the largest housing associations in the UK has come under fire after residents allege they have had to...

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

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

8th August 2025, 9 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, 9 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, 9 months ago | 8

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

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

Author: David Coughlin - Landlord Sales Agency

18th July 2025, 9 months 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, 9 months 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, 9 months 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, 9 months 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, 10 months 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, 10 months 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, 10 months 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, 10 months ago | 18

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

Generation Rent dismisses landlord exodus claiming landlords can just leave

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

26th June 2025, 10 months ago | 22

Generation Rent claims “it’s no problem if landlords want to leave the market,” despite the ongoing housing crisis. Chief executive,...

Tenants lose fight as council can evict families to house homeless

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

25th June 2025, 10 months ago | 64

Tenants have lost a legal challenge against a Labour-run council after they were served eviction notices to make way for...

Housing activists urge mayors to champion rent control powers

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

25th June 2025, 10 months ago | 2

A coalition of housing campaigners is appealing to England’s mayors to push for authority over rent controls for private tenants...

Landlords are not cash cows – but we are caught up in the EPC net

Author: Landlord Crusader

20th June 2025, 10 months ago | 21

Are there any other landlords who are fed up with the narrative that we are swimming in wealth, ready to...