Rent-in-advance ban drives rise in guarantor requests
12:01 AM, 24th August 2026, 2 hours ago More than a third of tenants (37%) didn’t know what a guarantor was before being asked to provide one as the Renters’ Rights Act triggers guarantor requests. According to Housing Hand’s Understanding Renters in 2026 report, 31% of renters only learned they needed a guarantor after finding…