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Are UK buy-to-let landlords dying out – and should we care?

Higher taxes and tougher regulations have led to the disappearance of tens of thousands of rental properties

The Guardian - UK

‘My family is being evicted at Christmas, I had to tell my children we couldn’t afford presents this year’

From May, landlords will be banned from using Section 21 notices under Labour’s new Renter’s Rights Act. Until then, they can still administer these ‘no-fault’ notices to remove a tenant without reason at two months’ notice

The Independent UK

Budget 2025: Renters braced for price hikes after Rachel Reeves hits landlords with tax increase

The Conservative leader says Rachel Reeves’s plan to increase taxes on rental income will force landlords out of the market and leave tenants paying the price

The Independent UK

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Homes now ‘unaffordable’ for most people – even for some of the highest earners

Even the top 10 per cent of earners in London are priced out of affordable home ownership, latest national data shows, with the average house price in England over seven times higher than income

The Independent UK

The impossible cost of getting on the housing ladder revealed – and why Gen-Z may never own a home

SPECIAL REPORT : Research by the Independent shows first-time buyers are forking out 10 times more cash for home deposits than they were 30 years ago, while average rents eat up half the average income. Alicja Hagopian reports

The Independent UK

English councils pay private landlords millions in incentives to house homeless families

Exclusive: Data gathered by Generation Rent shows 37 councils spent £31m in 2024-25 in one-off payments to individual landlords

The Guardian - UK

'No-fault' evictions at highest level for eight years as wait for Renters' Rights Bill continues

For thousands of tenants, a ban on Section 21 evictions won’t come soon enough

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The self-storage boom: lifestyle choice or indictment of UK housing crisis?

Lock-ups are being reinvented and marketed as more than just storage amid overcrowding and record rent rises

The Guardian - UK

London rents 'out of control' with a record-breaking 11 per cent rise in a year

Rental increases have far outstripped wage growth according to latest figures

Evening Standard

Bank boss sparks fury after saying it’s ‘not that difficult’ to buy a home in cost-of-living crisis hit U.K.

Critics called NatWest chair Davies's comment a “staggering demonstration of the disconnect between bankers and reality in this country.”

Fortune

British millennials still bearing scars of 2008 financial crisis, says research

Generation Y counterparts in the US have closed living standards gap on previous generations

The Guardian - UK

Average London rental costs may soar to £2,700 a month, figures suggest

‘Spiraling’ rental costs are driving families into poverty, a campaign group said.

The Independent UK

Rent prices hit new record as tenants facing ‘crisis like never before’

Rightmove finds record high rates in and out of London

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