Landlords Are Jacking up Advertised Rents to Dodge New Tenants’ Rights Law

Landlords across London are advertising massively inflated rents to get around a new law that forbids charging tenants more than the publicly listed price.  Investigative outlet London Centric, which uncovered the practice, dubbed it an “inverse bidding war” – where tenants are compelled to make lower offers than the advertised rent, rather than trying to…