Today, Living Rent and trade unions have said that the Scottish Government needs to introduce an immediate rent freeze covering all private and mid-market rented homes.

Bridgeton members are celebrating their recent win against Touchstone property managers! Tenants in these midmarket blocks were having their rent put up to £900 a month. This was despite a flood in the building...

PLATFORM INTERMEDIATE-MARKET TENANTS CELEBRATE FIRST CAMPAIGN VICTORY! After coming together in May to stop a proposed 24% rent increase, Platform tenants have been offered a significantly reduced 6.4% increase! To put this into perspective, this...

The council want to turn the Keiller Centre into student flats. Purpose built student accommodation (PBSA) is wrecking our city centre. Developers know they can make a killing building exclusive student flats, so they...

Through coming together with other members of Living Rent, Areej won back £6600 after an illegal rent increase. Areej first came into contact with Living Rent when we knocked on her door and asked...

Scottish Water found unsafe levels of lead present in our drinking water in October 2024. Unfortunately, the affected pipes were on our side of the property boundary, which makes it the property owners’ responsibility...

We’ve all been there - the bus is late, there’s a queue of 20 people, it’s raining. Once we’re on, the bus crawls through town, constantly stuck in traffic. Despite the poor quality of...

Felix and Oscar came to Living Rent with concerns about their tenancy. Their landlords had given them a lodging agreement despite living full-time in Inverness, meaning they gave our members the wrong terms of...

Marionville Fire Station has been saved from imminent closure! This is a massive win for our community and wouldn't have happened without the hard fought campaign by the Fire Brigades Union and Living Rent...

Our member Mark recently won repairs through the union. Here's his story: In February my oven door shattered, scattering glass all over the floor. I removed the, correctly oriented, tray to inspect the damage...