Violet had lived in Manchester all her life. When her employer offered her a transfer to their London office, she did the maths on the train home — and the…

Conrad had given notice on his flat in Leeds and had four weeks before he had to be out. He had never rented on his own before, and the one…

Cora moved into a three-bedroom house in Leeds in November, with a neat lawn, trimmed hedges and tidy borders. By the following June the lawn was knee-high, the borders were…

Daphne is 34, renting a two-bedroom flat in Bristol, and she has just had a confusing month. Her landlord served a rent increase notice, mentioned a new "landlord database", and…

Lydia pays £1,250 a month in rent for a two-bedroom flat in Manchester. Every month she tells herself she will start saving for a deposit, and every month the rent,…

Renting a New-Build Home: Mira had been flat-hunting in Leeds for six weeks when a letting agent showed her something different: a two-bedroom flat that still smelled faintly of fresh…

Kit had just been offered a three-month contract in London. The job started in four weeks, his flat in Leeds was already let, and he needed somewhere to live from…

Jemima is 29, works full-time as a care assistant in Leeds, and has never missed a rent payment in four years. Yet every letting agent she applies to comes back…

Elin had rented in England for years, so when she found a bright two-bedroom flat in Cardiff for £750 a month, she assumed she knew the drill: sign an assured…

Aodhan had just moved to Belfast for a new job and found a tidy two-bedroom flat near the city centre for £800 a month. He paid the deposit, signed the…