Khan calls for licensing scheme introduction in London
UK: Sadiq Khan, the current Mayor of London, has added calls for a short-term rental registration scheme in the capital in a bid to alleviate the ongoing housing crisis.
London to move to “high level” Tier Two restrictions from Saturday
UK: The UK Government is placing the City of London under “high level” Tier Two restrictions, effective from midnight on Friday / Saturday morning, affecting around nine million citizens in the capital. Matt Hancock, the UK’s Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, warned the threat of Covid-19 remains “grave and serious” as he […]
TfL publishes guidelines banning short-term rental adverts
UK: Transport for London (TfL) has published a new set of advertising guidelines that forbid adverts on its network from encouraging hosts to flouting the city’s strict planning laws. Earlier this year, London Mayor Sadiq Khan was advised to ban such adverts on the Tube in light of short-term rental management company Hostmaker being forced […]
Calls for London Mayor to ban TfL short-term let adverts
UK: The Mayor of London is being asked to ban adverts on the Transport for London (TfL) network which appear to call on landlords to offer tourist lets only as opposed to homes for Londoners. The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) has put pressure on Sadiq Khan to remove the marketing campaign adverts, which were put […]
Mayor of London calls for property registration system
UK: The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has called on the government to establish a registration system for hosts renting out a property within the 90-night lettings limit in the capital, to maintain sufficient housing for long-term residents. Writing to Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, James Brokenshire, in a letter co-signed […]