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Renting

With a whole age group now lumped into 'Generation Rent', it's clear that more of us are having to do so than ever before. So, here’s all the latest news about renting – including house and property news, government updates, stories on the reality of being a tenant, and peeks inside rental homes and properties in the UK and around the globe.

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A 'for sale' sign outside a house on a residential street.

What changes to mortgages for first-time buyers means for you

Channel: Politics Politics 21 hours ago By Craig Munro
Play Video EMB 2PM Tenant from hell leaves 3,000 beer cans after only paying rent once in seven years SWNS

Tenant left mountain of 3,000 beer cans in flat and only paid rent once

Channel: UK UK 2 days ago By Sarah Hooper
Play Video A man wearing a grey shirt speaking ahead of an exposed patch of wall.

Brit 'outraged' at £3,000 fine for bad reviews about black mould at rental home

Channel: UK UK July 7, 2025 By Alex Daniel

These estate agent's demands are ‘ridiculous’ — but are they legal?

Channel: Property Property July 2, 2025 By Alice Giddings
Frustrated concerned young couple calculating overspend budget, doing paperwork job at laptop, talking about financial problems, insurance, mortgage, fees, loan conditions, bankruptcy, economic inflation

My boyfriend wants to split bills 50/50 — I think he's being tight-fisted

Channel: Money Money June 24, 2025 By Sarah Davidson
The device found in the downstairs bathroom of the property

Woman finds 'hidden camera' inside rented home's bathroom smoke alarm

Channel: UK UK June 14, 2025 By Ryan Prosser
A person carries a small house on their back against a pink background.

This is how much more single people pay to live alone in London

Channel: Money Money June 12, 2025 By Eleanor Noyce
THE MONEY PROBLEM - I'm trapped in a pricey heat network and can?t switch to a cheaper energy supplier.

I'm trapped on a pricey heat network and can’t switch to a cheaper energy supplier

Channel: Money Money June 9, 2025 By Sarah Davidson
Diverse commuters walk past a London Overground train at the Walthamstow Central station platform

The cheapest London station to live near — where rents are £835 less than average

Channel: Property Property June 8, 2025 By Eleanor Noyce

Nearly half of landlords plan to raise rents by £888 this year

Channel: UK UK June 4, 2025 By Katie Boyden
Black mould on a wet wall

I'm on benefits - landlords refuse to rent to me

Channel: Property Property June 4, 2025 By Anonymous
Estate agent and a couple in the kitchen of a new house.

Six things you should check when viewing a house for the first time

Channel: Property Property May 30, 2025 By Jessica Hamilton
Jake Savino and Maxwell Braun sit on the sofa inside their one-bedroom flat in Sidcup, London.

What I Rent: We pay £1,500 for our south London one-bed — now we want to buy it

Channel: Property Property May 27, 2025 By Eleanor Noyce

I'm a 40-year-old divorcee — this is exactly what I spend in a month

Channel: Money Money May 20, 2025 By Elizabeth Anderson
I swapped London renting for a narrowboat ? it's a lifestyle of extreme highs and lows

I swapped London renting for a £21,000 narrowboat — it's a life of extreme highs and lows

Channel: Property Property May 19, 2025 By Jessica Lindsay
Britain's High Streets Face Worst Recession in a Generation

The 'trendy' suburb Londoners are flocking to — while it's still affordable

Channel: Property Property May 21, 2025 By Eleanor Noyce
Close-up of hand over of house key in new home.

The ‘unusual’ way you can build your credit score as a renter

Channel: Money Money May 16, 2025 By Eleanor Noyce
Carla Denyer - mould flats

Landlords are leaving tenants in unlivable conditions - then raising rents

Channel: UK UK May 15, 2025 By Carla Denyer
Couple holding hands with the keys to their new house.

A nice woman rented my room - then I discovered her boyfriend's identity

Channel: Property Property May 10, 2025 By Geoff Sober
(Original Caption) Tenants' Rent Strike In Stepney Tenants of Langdale Mansions, just off Commercial Road, Stepney, came out on strike today when the agent called for the rent. Some of them paraded with posters while others were placed on"picket duty".----Tenants with one of their posters on the balcony of the mansions. (Photo by ?? Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

How fed up Londoners dealt with the rental crisis in the 1930s

Channel: Property Property May 10, 2025 By Sarah Ingram