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Deputy prime Angela Rayner will tomorrow unveil a new National Planning Policy Framework in a move that will strengthen requirements for...

The trade union UNISON has partnered with activist group Generation Rent to demand root-and-branch reform of the private rental sector. Four key...

Labour’s proposed planning reforms indicates that the new government is serious about change and grasping the nettle on housebuilding. That’s the view...

The biggest rental sector headline from Labour’s manifesto may well be its pledge for the “immediate” abolition of Section 21 eviction...

An insurance firm’s analysis of official figures show there are now no fewer than 760,821 vacant properties in England, Scotland and...

Some 8,000 people were forced to sleep rough for the first time in London last year, an increase of 25% on...

Shelter has spoken out in favour of what it calls “bold” commitments by Labour on the private rental sector and house...

Labour’s manifesto, just released, makes a pledge to enact the “immediate” abolition of Section 21 eviction powers, along with other private...

The Conservatives have this afternoon set out a 78-page manifesto, of which just over two pages are given to housing and...

A pro-tenant group wants the next government to take Right To Buy properties back to public ownership when they come up...

Propertymark has stepped into the row over whether there should be more controls over second homes, holiday lets and people from...

If Labour plans to bring in rent controls they won’t work, a property association has warned.  The National Association of Property Buyers...

Propertymark wants Labour to come clean on its rent control policy, as the party repeatedly flip-flops on the issue. The agents’ body...

A third of homes currently for sale can be bought with a mortgage and monthly repayments that cost less than the...

The pressure on rents for new tenancies in Scotland’s private rented sector have started to ease with all major cities now...

The average gross rental yield reported by landlords has reached the highest level since the second quarter of 2018, according to...

Property management and facilities firm Pinnacle is to become the leading managing agent for Legal & General Affordable Homes. In recent weeks, the...

England’s county councils want the next government to set out a long-term plan for housing, as a new report claims there’s...

A former housing minister responsible for the sell off of huge numbers of social homes has told the Prime Minister he...

An umbrella group called London Councils has expressed “extreme concern” at the government’s decision to stop letting local authorities keep money...

The PropTech sector has mostly agreed with the rest of the industry in its view on yesterday’s Budget - that it...

Shelter is calling for the construction of 90,000 rental properties each year for a decade - and it claims this would...

Knight Frank has taken the unusual step of suggesting a government proposal for the housing market is high-risk and could even...

A council that is buying private properties in second home hotspots to let to local people has struck a new agreement...

A managing partner at a letting agency has given an insight into the unique forces which he says is “strangling” the...

Controversy surrounds a government idea - floated over the weekend - to allow renters to secure mortgages with just one per...

A council is considering borrowing £50m to buy properties to rent on the private market and for affordable housing. West Norfolk council...

Propertymark has urged the Scottish Government to build more affordable homes. The latest data from the Scottish Government itself shows that the...

Portsmouth and Southsea lettings agency Chinneck Shaw has been appointed to manage the first purpose-built Build to Rent project from Ravelin...

The government has changed the way shared ownership rents can be increased. This change will apply to the leases of new shared...

Labour deputy leader and shadow housing secretary Angela Rayner has given her party’s conference an outline of future policy plans. She says:...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors is launching its manifesto at this week’s Tory party conference - and improving the supply...

Shelter has published what it calls a General Election manifesto with rent controls at its heart. Called The Way Home: a manifesto to...

The private rental sector could play a far greater role in helping to end homelessness in Scotland, according to a new...

New research shows a 41 per cent reduction in the number of London properties available for private rent since the Covid-19...

A news service claims that in many UK cities there are now more entire homes listed on Airbnb than there are...

Lloyds Banking Group and homelessness charity Crisis have joined forces in a new two-year partnership including the establishment of a so-called...

The Local Government Association, which comprises 331 of the 333 councils in England and all 22 Welsh unitary councils, is calling on...

The Competition and Markets Authority is launching a three month probe into how letting agents operate within the private rental sector. It says...

Propertymark has told a UK government to stop ignore the damaging effect of its policies on the private rental sector. An outspoken...

Legal & General Capital helped fund over 17,000 new homes last year across a range of tenures, chiefly Build To Rent.  Chief...

A Labour peer who was to have invested £1 billion in affordable homes has halted his scheme because of the threat...

The government may be changing its mind on scrapping Section 21 eviction powers according to a bombshell story in The Times. Outlining what...

The Scottish Federation of Housing Associations says its members are key to tackling the cost of living crisis but rent freezes,...

The National Audit Office has made scathing criticisms of government efforts to build more affordable housing. The public spending watchdog says the...

Labour’s Sadiq Khan wants an increase in Capital Gains Tax for some buy to let investors. The London Mayor made his response...

A major holiday let company in one of the country’s prime tourist destinations says more affordable homes should be built to...

Politicians who express concern over the number of holiday lets and Airbnbs in tourist areas miss one major point - if...

The Liberal Democrats have proposed sharp restrictions on holiday rentals at the heart of the party’s plans to solve the housing...

Lloyds Banking Group, which is known to be investing huge sums in the UK private rental sector, has published the results...

Shelter - so often critical of the private rental sector - has instead turned its fire on the government over what...

New research published by Build To Rent operator L&G reveals what it believes to be a crisis surrounding rental properties, affordable...

A part of the country which has seen a severe long term rental stock shortage as a result of switches from...

Rent controls are to be introduced into part of the UK as a result of a deal between two political parties. The...

Propertymark has joined four so-called ‘action groups’ advocating housing policy changes including the setting up of a national landlord register and...

A new report calls for large scale reform of the private rental sector, including a national landlord register and changes to...

ARLA Propertymark has hit back at a demand from London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan that he be given the powers to...

A politician in one of the poorest parts of the UK wants his local authority to declare a ‘housing emergency’. Cornish councillor...

Affordable homes provider Auxesia Homes has appointed residential management firm Touchstone to handle its entire mixed tenure portfolio.  Auxesia offers affordable shared...

A letting agent in Cornwall has told local TV how she finds herself in ”heartbreaking” situations because of the lack of...

Some 39 agents and landlords have had banning orders over the past three years according to a report in The Guardian. Under the...

London’s mass transit service, Transport for London, has won consent for 853 homes at a huge scheme in the west of the...

A Welsh council has agreed to levy what it calls “a tax premium” on second homes from now until 2027 to...

A new Labour group - Labour Tenants United - has issued a four-prong attack on the current private rental sector including...

A commission investigating affordable homes in the UK has called for annual private sector rent increases to be limited to a...

The Labour head of a special ‘taskforce’ looking at London housing issues in the light of the Coronavirus crisis says he...

On the day that Labour launches its proposals to reform the private rental sector, the Tories have announced so-called Lifetime Rental...

The Liberal Democrats is the first of the major parties to release its party manifesto for the December 12 manifesto, and...

A collective of activist renter groups has set out a manifesto of what it wants from the winner of next month’s...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has accused Labour of being thin on detail when it comes to the housing policies...

A rogue landlord who divided his three-bedroom home in central London into eight flats has ended up with a bill of...

Legal & General has exchanged contracts to complete the largest privately funded development in Wales, Cardiff Central Square, which will include...

Airbnb has issued a statement distancing itself from controversial advertisements from a short lets management service. Hostmaker - which describes itself as...

A statement issued by short lets management firm Hostmaker about its controversial advertising campaign has been branded “disgusting” by a campaign...

A local authority has written to purchasers of former council houses and apartments warning them against illegally letting them out -...

Over 250 new units constructed by Telford Homes are to be used for Build To Rent according to a deal announced...

Labour insists that if it forms the next government it will introduce ‘living rents’ in a new range of affordable homes...

An influential think tank is calling on government to radically reform the private rental sector because a generation of young people...

The British Property Federation is calling upon more councils to support Build To Rent following the government’s recognition of the sector in...

A housing charity has called for the government to build more affordable social homes for rent to help families 'trapped' in...

The average rent in England and Wales was £850 in December 2017, an increase of 2.3 per cent in the last...

Yet another local authority is considering introducing selective licensing of private rental property. Luton council has issued a statement saying that within...

Government leaks to the Observer newspaper suggest that the Housing White Paper will show a huge policy shift towards renting - and may...

Phillip Hammond has delivered his first Autumn Statement, tackling amongst other things, what he called “the housing challenge.” The speech made no...

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has announced the first details of his plan to introduce a 'London Living Rent'. This new...

The National Landlords Association has come out fighting in response to a weekend report by the National Housing Federation suggesting buy...

The amount of housing benefit going to private landlords has more than doubled in the past decade according to the National...

A senior mortgage lender is warning that government reforms of the buy to let sector could have wide-ranging and unintended consequences. Richard...

A Labour MP has presented Parliament with a petition urging that letting agents’ fees should be capped. There were a modest 1,500...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents wants the government to allocate more spending and greater political priority to housing, after new...

The government’s initiatives to try to increase house building and owner occupation will not stop demand for rented homes rising by...

Stephen Moss, CEO of based Pring.co.uk the UK’s leading property investment search engine, takes a look at the impact of ‘Corbynmania’...

Sadiq Khan, Labour’s choice for London mayoral candidate, has set out his housing policies - with possible rent controls high on...

Whether you are single or a family, looking to invest in rental property or want to lay down roots of your...

Edinburgh is set to become the first local authority in Scotland to move into the private landlord business, building up to...

With another hung parliament looking increasingly likely, the so-called ‘challenger parties’ look set to have a major say in who forms...