Tag: rent freeze

Why Finland shows that rent controls don’t work

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

8th March 2023, 4 years ago | 6

A growing private rental sector crisis in the UK with landlords leaving and rents increasing has seen a growing clamour...

Call for a rent freeze because ‘landlords can afford it’

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

24th February 2023, 4 years ago | 79

An open letter has been signed by rent activists, trade unions and several Labour Mayors, including Sadiq Khan, calling for...

Scotland’s PBSA is ‘unfit for purpose’

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

7th February 2023, 4 years ago | 4

Students in Scotland are being forced to live in unsafe purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) and a rent freeze should be...

Scotland hits landlords with a 3% rent cap

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

20th January 2023, 4 years ago | 24

Emergency measures that saw a rent freeze and an evictions moratorium being introduced in Scotland will now see rent rises...

Scotland looks set to extend rent freeze and eviction ban

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

13th January 2023, 4 years ago | 17

Landlords and property investors in Scotland have hit out after the Scottish Government recommended that the current rent freeze and...

Scotland’s rent freeze based on ‘skewed numbers’

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

14th December 2022, 4 years ago | 3

One reason why the Scottish Government imposed its controversial rent freeze and ban on evictions was a belief that rent...

Scotland set to see exodus of landlords

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

12th December 2022, 4 years ago | 2

Letting agents in Scotland say that 85% of their landlord clients are planning to leave the private rented sector (PRS)...

Greens demand rent freeze and eviction ban

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

28th November 2022, 4 years ago | 17

An immediate cap on rent increases and a ban on no-fault evictions until at least the end of March 2023...

Why a rent freeze in England just took a giant step forwards

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

4th November 2022, 4 years ago | 27

Where to begin? With the media buzzwords? With various organisations calling for a rent cap in England? Or the real...

Northern Ireland report rejects rent controls

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

4th November 2022, 4 years ago | 1

The Northern Ireland Assembly has published independent research on what a rent decrease of up to 10% and/or a rent...