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

The political chaos in Scotland presents sensible politicians with an ideal chance to resent housing policies and ditch rent controls. That’s the...

The Liberal Democrats have called on the government to bring in an emergency ban on no fault evictions and banks repossessing people’s homes...

The UK lettings market, after experiencing recent surges in prices, is now displaying signs of returning to its seasonal patterns.  This is...

The latest edition of the HomeLet Rental Index shows a near double-digit average annual rent rise across the UK. Renters can now...

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

The National Union of Students is urging the government not to give in to what it calls “exploitative” private rental sector...

A letting platform says what it calls “the rental chaos” of the current market has now end in sight. New data from...

Students face chaos as government plans to reform the rental market threaten to cause widespread uncertainty as to whether housing will...

A financial expert says the latest house price index, showing the biggest monthly fall for over two years, is the “first...

Love to Rent, which describes itself as “the first and only digital marketing platform for the Build to Rent sector”, has written...

Campaigners who turned on the Prime Minister on Tuesday were cock-a-hoop just 24 hours later when Liz Truss did another U-turn...

Rising interest rates are eroding the profitability of buy to let for mortgaged landlords, says Connells-owned agency Hamptons.   It says that its...

* Angels Media and Letting Agent Today are deeply saddened by the passing of HM Queen Elizabeth II * - The controversial rent...

A Build To Rent promotional website appears to be ruing the day that Boris Johnson sacked Michael Gove from his role...

A prominent trade body is warning Tory leadership candidates not to put rental reform on the back burner and add to...

New research predicts a record year for holiday home owners in the UK with more people than ever planning to staycation...

Another analysis of the lettings market by PropTech firm Goodlord has shown that the intense heat is not confined to the...

Within two hours of Greg Clarke being appointed by Boris Johnson as the new Housing Secretary, the leader of Generation Rent...

Comprehensive rental reform requires the buy in and understanding of letting agents and landlords from the outset - and not as...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Alexander Siedes, CEO and Founder of Homeppl What is Homeppl and...

An analysis of new government legislation on energy efficiency suggests it may lead to chaos in the private rental sector. Geospatial technology...

With one of the world’s most successful vaccine rollout programmes under way in the UK, the chances of a complete lockdown...

The head of industry recruitment consultancy Property Personnel is calling on agencies to be more tolerant of the struggles working parents...

A Labour MP and a newspaper have joined forces to campaign against so-called ‘exempted rental accommodation’. One of Birmingham’s MPs - Jack...

Labour’s housing spokeswoman says “after the incompetent handling of the exams fiasco, the government must act now to avoid more chaos...

Confusion over Electrical Inspection Condition Reports, created by inaccurate statements from the government, has been slammed by a housing law expert.  Last...

The arrival of mandatory enhanced electrical checks so soon after the chaos of the Coronavirus pandemic represents a perfect storm for...

A lettings sector trade body says EU citizens may face problems getting private rented accommodation after Brexit. And the body - the...

A controversial Labour-controlled local authority which already has 91 per cent of its private rental properties inside licensing schemes is now...

Local press reports say that one of the country’s most controversial buy to let licensing schemes has seen thousands of applications...

There’s less than a week to go to the introduction of new rules broadening the range of houses including in mandatory HMO...

Britain’s most controversial buy to let investor, Fergus Wilson, has hit back and given his side of events on a series...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is reminding its members to tell landlord clients that they have only a month to...

The government is being criticised for its latest consultation exercise on the new Minimum Energy Efficient Standards - because it ends...