East London residents have refused to pay service charges for their flats in protest against rising costs. Residents of Charles Dickens House in Bethnal Green voted for a service charge strike after... Read more »
Average UK rents have increased for the sixth consecutive quarter – but some tenants are paying above the going rate to secure a property. The Deposit Protection Service says that average rents... Read more »
An East London MP has called on the government to take action after residents saw their rent and service charges soar. Residents living in Tower Hamlets Community Housing said they are seeing... Read more »
Residents living in a southeast London estate have been left furious after a sign was put up claiming extra repairs could not be carried out due to the tenant’s unpaid rent. The... Read more »
Connells-owned lettings agency Hamptons is warning that the record-breaking rental growth of the past year has seen tenants pay a rocketing proportion of their income just to keep a roof over their... Read more »
Some London landlords and estate agents are allegedly renting properties strictly to “white/female tenants”, an online social media post has suggested. In a Reddit post from last night, an individual claimed that... Read more »
People who are seeing soaring prices for food and fuel are also seeing a steep jump in the price of renting their home. The price of privately renting a property is rising... Read more »
East London landlord who harassed tenants and left them to sleep next to rodent droppings fined £45k
A rogue East London landlord who left his tenants living in “atrocious conditions” including sleeping next to rodent droppings, has been fined £45,000. Arbab Ahmed, from Ilford, was found by Stratford Magistrates... Read more »
A guest at a controversial housing awards ceremony was caught on camera laughing at a social housing activist trying to highlight the ‘squalor’ many tenants are living in. Social housing activist and... Read more »
The CEO of a controversial housing association where tenants living in squalid conditions are put up in hotels for months has earned an annual bonus of more than £50,000. Clare Miller, who... Read more »
