live hand-to-mouth; the landlord’s purse was generally longer and his command of knowledge and counsel far greater than the tenant’s. In short, it was held, the constriction of the market and the inequality of bargaining power enabled the landlord to dictate contractual terms which did not necessarily operate to the general benefit of society. It was to counteract this descried constriction of the market and to redress this descried inequality of bargaining power that the law - specifically, in the shape of legislation - came to intervene repeatedly to modify freedom of contract between landlord and tenant.’ Bankway Properties Ltd v Pensfold-Dunsford [2001] 1 WLR 1369, Arden LJ, [42]-[44] Right to repairs Bruton v London & Quadrant Housing Trust [1999] UKHL 26 Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 Security of tenure Security of tenure exists for business tenancies under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954. It was abolished for most residential properties by the Housing Act 1988. However, it remains for some people who live in council houses. Protection from Eviction Act 1977 Assured tenancy Assured shorthold tenancy Rental price controls The Rent Act 1977 was the last piece of legislation in England and Wales to place limits on how much landlords could raise prices for residential homes. It was substantially repealed by the Housing Act 1988. Regulators and Ombudsman The Property Ombudsman See also English land law Rent regulation Vernon v Bethell (1762) 28 ER 838 Rent-seeking Land tenure in England Notes References R Arnott, ‘Time for Revisionism on Rent Control?’ (1995) 9(1) Journal of Economic Perspectives 99 A Anas, ‘Rent Control with Matching Economies: A Model of European Housing Market Regulation’ (1997) 15(1) Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics 111–37 S Bright, "Avoiding Tenancy Legislation: Sham and Contracting Out Revisited" [2002] CLJ 146 S Bright, Landlord and Tenant Law in Context (2007) T Ellingsen and P Englund, 'Rent regulation: An introduction' (2003) 10 Swedish Economic Policy Review 3 M Haffner, M Elsinga and J Hoekstra, 'Rent Regulation: The Balance between Private Landlords and Tenants in Six European Countries' (2008) 8(2) International Journal of Housing Policy 217 H Lind, 'Rent Regulation: A Conceptual and Comparative Analysis' (2001) 1(1) International Journal of Housing Policy 41 C Rapkin, The Private Rental Housing Market in New York City (1966) G Sternlieb, The Urban Housing Dilemma (1972) P Weitzman, 'Economics and Rent Regulation: A Call for a New Perspective' (1984-1985) 13 NYU Review