Author Generation Rent

As much as poll tax, right to buy is viewed as one of the defining policies of Thatcher’s time in office. From the moment of its introduction on 3 October 1980, right to buy has been a divisive and contr...

An interesting take on economics of austerity and housing bubbles... British public life has always been riddled with taboos, and nowhere is this more true than in the realm of economics. You can say anythin...

With all the talk of how bad rent controls are here's a story of how good they actually could be. The UK could learn much from the Swedish policy on housing, after all the government seems wildly keen to adop...

Headline news in The Guardian this morning, however it comes as no surprise. To be honest this has been an issue for far longer than this PwC report suggests. It is to be welcomed that there's comment on impr...

Rents in England are almost half of tenants’ average take-home pay, according to an official report on the state of the country’s housing. Figures in the latest English Housing Survey, based on research ...

Berlin’s brand new rent control laws are already bringing down costs. That is the conclusion announced yesterday by Germany’s number one real estate site after tallying its latest figures. Barely a month...

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Britain will soon have a generation of "pensioner landlords", experts have predicted after official figures showed a rising number of people believe buying property is the best way to save for retirement. A ...

George Osborne is to raise social housing rents for hundreds of thousands of tenants by £70 a week writes Nigel Nelson in the Sunday People. Those in council homes and housing association properties will be...

Capping rents could force landlords out of the market and make life harder for tenants if it is done too bluntly, the housing charity Shelter has warned. In a report commissioned by the charity and shared wi...