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What we publish here is mostly the working out: tribunal decisions read in full, survey data from renters, and what the enforcement numbers actually show once you look at them.

For the practical how-to, the renters' rights guides are the better starting point. This is the research and the record.

Rent repayment order cases

We write up First-tier Tribunal decisions as they come through, so renters can see what a successful claim actually looks like rather than being told the route exists in the abstract. Almost every one turns on the same thing: a property that needed a licence and did not have one.

The pattern across thousands of decisions is in what rent repayment order data really shows, including the finding that the share of claimed rent tenants actually recover has fallen from 72% to 41%.

Renters' Pulse

A quarterly survey of how renters felt about repairs, security of tenure, financial security, mental health and rent. It ran for ten editions from 2023 to the end of 2025. The final edition carries the full two-year trend.

Enforcement and housing data

How councils find unlicensed HMOs, overcrowded properties and empty homes, and what happens to renters when enforcement lands. Much of this comes out of the data work we do with local authorities. More on that.

Comment

Occasional argument about where the private rented sector is going, plus republished analysis from academics working on housing. Where a post is not ours, it says so and carries the original author's name.

If you would rather have this as it is published, or you are writing about renting and want the underlying data, get in touch.