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Propertymark is lobbying Housing Secretary and Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner to suggest that letting agents have a vital role to...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has given a warm welcome to Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner’s planning reforms. This week Rayner...

Deputy Prime Minister and Housing Secretary Angela Rayner has launched a comprehensive review of the National Planning Policy Framework. The objective is...

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

ARLA Propertymark and a number of other property industry bodies wants Housing Secretary Angela Rayner to regulate letting and sales agents. An...

Propertymark has warned Labour’s Deputy Prime Minister against scrapping Section 21 eviction powers without an adequate replacement. If Angela Rayner does fulfil...

The term “Levelling Up” - introduced by ex-Prime Minister Boris Johnson - has been ditched by the new deputy Prime Minister,...

Knight Frank says the incoming Labour government faces a potential clash between what is politically desirable and economically possible, in terms...

Angela Rayner has been appointed Levelling Up Secretary with responsibility for housing - a role she has in addition to being...

A lettings agency which has given broad support to the Renters Reform Bill now says it’s concerned that shadow housing Secretary...

A ban on so-called bidding wars, which Labour now proposes, would have to include letting agents as well as landlords a...

Labour has stepped up its programme clamping down on what it calls “unscrupulous landlords strangling growth.” Specifically this means ending bidding wars,...

Labour is launching a new Freedom to Buy scheme to get 80,000 young people on the housing ladder, over the next...

The housing market has suddenly become a major part of the General Election campaign as a result of a challenge thrown...

Despite once claiming it would abolish Section 21 evictions “on its first day in office”, Labour appears to have gone cool...

London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan says he will build 6,000 “affordable” rental homes by 2030 - with their rents capped. Khan, standing...

Propertymark has used its website and link with a property inspection service to urge letting agents to work with private tenants...

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

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

A prominent housing market commentator says Labour would introduce a tougher version of the Renters Reform Bill if it forms the...

Homelessness charity Crisis says the long-standing government pledge to scrap Section 21 eviction powers can’t come soon enough. The charity has backed...

Senior Labour MP Clive Betts says the party’s official house building policy won’t actually solve the shortage of homes. Labour deputy leader...

Propertymark has fired a broadside at Labour saying it must provide agents with a proper court system to handle evictions. Labour deputy leader...

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

Labour’s new shadow Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Secretary, Angela Rayner, says she will put council Housing at the heart of...

Labour says it will enact a law banning company bosses from contacting staff outside working hours. The Financial Times reported over the weekend that party...