This much we know for sure; where demand for rented homes is high, rents are racing upwards ever upwards. Elsewhere, i.e. the country know a...

I’m battling with feeling peeved that it took some media outlets years to wake up to the fact that renting is frequently horrific. I’m pleas...

Too many people can't pay their rent. Due to a noxious combination of low wages, high rents, soaring utilities, job insecurity (zero hou...

They’re back. The firm. The management. You know – the men who help ‘persuade tenants to leave.’ I was reminded of this sinister phrase by t...

Being lost, and about to be homeless is the sad and inevitable consequence of the housing catastrophe we live in. Many people are googling, ...

I visited a friend in Barcelona. She lives in the old quarter, close to the shore. Her flat is amazing, with a terrace straight out of an Al...

Back in the olden days, sinning was simple, there were seven – meaning we had clarity. Nowadays, it’s complicated: miscreants are pelted wit...

Everyone reaches the stage where they can no longer cope with flatmates (or ‘sly, noisy, milk thieves’ as they are better known to me). One ...

All tenants have a bizarre and tenuous relationship with the people who sleep in our bed. We are serial divan-hoppers, and I have no idea wh...

Recently, a deceptively simple comment from a friend living in Los Angeles revealed all that is wrong with renting in the UK. She replied to...

I have always believed that cities were invented to save us all from the horror of living in the countryside, but others disagree with my se...

I believe in the property pixies, and so should you. If we ever stop believing in the property pixies, then they will die, and we renters mu...

Hello everyone! I am honoured to have won the Users Best Blog Prize in The Prime Location Property blog awards. It won't change me, or g...

Last week, I emailed my Letting Agents stating firmly but politely that they mustn’t come round if I was out. They had (if you recall) left ...

Last Thursday, whilst sucking at an oxygen tank, sick with altitude fever after traipsing up the many flights of stairs, I realised the rubb...

Yep – letting agents again. I’ve written before about these mythical monsters and wondered if I’d been too harsh. Then I thought: what if I’...

So here I am again, flat hunting once more, encountering my own bad news. Letting agents really have taken over a massive wedge of the renta...

According to some readers, I have a bad attitude. People see me as an unreasonable, no holds-barred landlord loather, spoiling for a fight. ...

Whenever I write about bad landlords, the good landlords get angry. They pout with indignation and claim to be doing a great job, while assu...

Relocating to another city is a precarious time for tenants. When I was last in that tricky situation, I alternated between sofa-surfing and...