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Confidence under pressure: will government regulations deter investment in UK real estate?

The upward-only rent review ban and looming Budget regulations could undermine industry
Leona Ahmed. (Taylor Wessing)
Leona Ahmed. (Taylor Wessing)
By Leona Ahmed
Taylor Wessing
September 5, 2025 | 7:05 AM

The English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill had its second reading this week. Nothing further seems to have come out on the ban on upward-only rent review clauses from the reading perhaps because there has been such a backlash from the industry on what the driver has been and the lack of consultation with the BPF and other institutional landlords.

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