Fergus moved to Glasgow for a job in the city centre and assumed the hardest part would be finding a flat he liked. It was not. The hardest part was…

Ffion rents a two-bedroom flat in Swansea and dreads the same moment every year: the first cold snap, the heating on, and the meter spinning faster than her pay can…

Lewis had a job offer in Aberdeen and a problem every newcomer to the Granite City knows well: he had no idea what a fair rent looked like, which areas…

Rhona had rented in Manchester for years and assumed moving to Edinburgh would be a simple swap: same country, same tenancy rules. Within a week she had learned otherwise. Her…

Idris had lived in Swindon for three years, but the commute was eating his evenings. When a better role came up in central Bristol, he started looking at flats near…

Elowen had finished her degree in Leeds and landed her first proper job in Liverpool, near the waterfront. She knew the city from weekend visits, but visiting and renting are…

Imani is 34, works full-time in Leeds, and has just moved out after a possession order. She has paid most of her arrears and is staying in a friend's spare…

Henrik is 68, rents a one-bedroom flat in Sheffield for £720 a month, and has just been told Housing Benefit "doesn't exist anymore". It does — but the rules about…

You have found the house. The rooms are right, the rent looks affordable, and you are already picturing where the sofa goes. Then the letting agent sends the payment schedule,…

Maren had the keys, the boxes and a first night in her new flat planned down to the last detail. What she had not planned was a week with no…