Landlords are facing calls for nationwide rent controls as tribunal backlogs leave some waiting longer for increases that cannot be backdated to before a decision. The London Renters Union (LRU) has told the Guardian that challenging individual increases offered insufficient…
A government minister has rejected claims that rent controls are being introduced in England through the back door via rent tribunals. Posting on social media, housing minister Matthew Pennycook dismissed suggestions that rent controls had returned, describing them as “nonsense…
An attempt to impose strict rent control on any apartment built before 1995 in Redwood City appears to have failed in Tuesday’s election. Returns Wednesday show 8,164 “no” votes compared to 6,348 “yes” votes for a ratio of 56%-44%. Measure E would have reduced…
A bill seeking to regulate rental payments, curb compulsory multiple-year rent demands and standardise housing agency fees in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has scaled second reading in the House of Representatives. The proposed legislation, sponsored by Hon. Paul Nnamchi,…
04 November 2026 4:55 pm WAT Landlords and property management companies in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) could face financial penalties of up to N20m if a proposed legislation regulating rental transactions becomes law. The bill, which has secured passage at second reading in…
Wed, Nov 04, 2026 | Jumada al-Awwal 23, 1448 | Fajr 05:09|DXB 30.5°C A tenant who failed to pay rent even once since the start of a commercial tenancy agreement was ordered to vacate a property in Dubai's Business Bay, despite attempting to settle Dh2.415 million in…
Bulldozers will be used from 14 November to demolish 600 dilapidated EWS (Janata Quarters) houses of the Madhya Pradesh Housing Board in Aishbagh, Bhopal. The Housing Board has issued a final notice directing all residents to vacate the houses and remove their…
Rent control is back in front of voters this election season, with caps tied to inflation appearing on ballots alongside housing bonds and supply reforms. Most of the debate focuses on what renters pay each month. Operators see the more…
The result? Less maintenance, more foreclosures and higher market-rate rents: Socialism delivers its usual disasters, in other words. Lenders, from local community-development nonprofits all the way up to federally chartered mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, are toughening lending…
The Appeals Court previously drew a distinction between those two expenses. It found that ongoing sewer-usage costs could serve as a legitimate basis for rent increases, but it sent the question of the pumping-station betterment charge back to the rent…
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