Sentence examples for reduce rents from inspiring English sources

He was also told that local councils currently have very few negotiating levers to use to reduce rents in the private rented sector, as he proposes.

Labour had pledged to limit rent rises but not to reduce rents.

"There hasn't been a lot of competitive price pressure," he said, meaning the company has not had to reduce rents.

The government had hoped the housing benefit reforms would force landlords to reduce rents to within cap limits.

Setting up a London lettings agency to reduce rents by cutting out the profits of "rip-of letting agents".

Head of city centre and markets Cath Follin said it 'wouldn't be fair' to reduce rents for market traders alone.

Meanwhile, the coming rise in rents — maybe 4 or 5 percent a year, for the next few years — will reduce rent ratios even if prices don't fall.

She has also been working to agitate for a state law that would reduce rent burdens of poor people with AIDS.

Under chancellor George Osborne's latest edict, councils and housing associations will be compelled to reduce rent by 1% a year for the next four years.

Two company voluntary arrangements in 2009 and 2011 – legal agreements designed to reduce rent costs for struggling retailers – shrank the store portfolio but failed to save the business.

One problem – which affected Bearpark personally and also led to a flood of angry letters – lay with landlords refusing to reduce rent like they were supposed to, which sent tenants' costs soaring.