The fearsome prospect of rent controls is being raised. Nigel Lewis says the Government should stop now and listen to an MP who knows the score – Kevin Hollinrake.
Last month, former estate agent and Hunters founder Kevin Hollinrake stood up in Parliament to warn fellow MPs about the dangers of rent controls. Recounting his time working in York as an agent during the 1980s, before Hunters became the behemoth it is today, Hollinrake remembered not-so fondly how the limits on how much and how often landlords could increase rents damaged the local private rented sector.