Gurinder Singh Josan is one of nine local MPs who own rental properties, most of them Labour
13:05, 09 Aug 2025Updated 13:08, 09 Aug 2025
Several local MPs make money renting out homes(Image: yujie chen via Getty Images)
Smethwick’s Labour MP Gurinder Singh Josan is the second biggest housing landlord in Parliament, co-owning eight homes in Birmingham and Sandwell that are rented out.
The MP co-owns three of the properties with relatives and is a co-owner in five others, with each of the homes bringing in rental income of at least £10,000 a year.
Birmingham Perry Barr Independent MP Ayoub Khan co-owns three properties in Birmingham.
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Light has been shone on the housing interests of sitting MPs following the resignation of Labour’s homelessness minister Rushnara Ali after she was found to have evicted tenants from her London property, and then later re-listed the property with a higher rent. Campaigners have said it undermines the government’s credibility in its efforts to reform the rental sector.
In Birmingham and the Black Country, there is desperate concern particularly about the rocketing number of HMOs and exempt properties, with thousands of former family homes converted into units housing six or more individuals so landlords can max out their rental income.
Thousands of children are currently living in B&Bs and temporary housing because of a shortage of family homes, while thousands more families are on council waiting lists because they can’t meet private rents.
Josan, elected last year, has a housing portfolio equal to former chancellor Jeremy Hunt, Cons. They both boast eight rental properties. Only one MP, Jas Athwal, MP for Ilford South, has more – he rents out 15 residential and three commercial properties in London.
Of all Westminster MPs, one in eight declared a rental income from property in the last year, according to a recent Guardian analysis.
The official register of interests, which shows any additional earnings and interests held by MPs, reveals that Josan owns five properties in Sandwell and Birmingham, and also co-owns with relatives another three properties in Sandwell.
We have reached out to Josan to ask him if any of the properties are either HMOs or are leased as exempt supported accommodation – we had not received a response at the time of publication.
But we can also reveal that several other MPs in Birmingham and the Black Country are in the private rentals business.
Tahir Ali, Labour MP for Hall Green and Moseley, owns a rental property that he declares makes a rental income of more than £10,000 a year. It is a single property in Birmingham, according to the register.
Saqib Bhatti, Conservative MP for Meriden and Solihull East, declares ownership of a property in Walsall that he has a 25% share in, and a second property in Walsall.
Al Carns, Labour MP for Birmingham Selly Oak, declares a property in Aberdeen that he co-owns with his spouse that generates rental income to him.
Sarah Coombes, Labour MP for West Bromwich, declares a flat she rents out in London.
Warinder Juss, Labour MP for Wolverhampton West, declares owning two rental properties – a flat and a house – in Wolverhampton.
Ayoub Khan, Independent MP for Birmingham Perry Barr, declares his co-ownership of three properties, all in Birmingham. He says one is co-owned by him and his company; and two others are ‘co-owned with a family member’.
Sonia Kumar, Labour MP for Dudley, also declares a single property, in Birmingham, that she rents out.
Wendy Morton, Conservative MP for Aldridge-Brownhills, does not own rental housing but does declare receiving rental income from small industrial units on a business park in North Yorkshire owned by a company DM Electronics.