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The Fine & Country Foundation says it’s reached almost £1m since its inception in 2014.  Jon Cooke, trustee of the foundation, says:...

Property makeover queen and former estate agency owner Sarah Beeny is a late booking for Propertymark One on Friday. Beeny has in recent...

Tenant groups and charities reacted angrily over the Easter weekend to the proposed changes to the Renters Reform Bill being advocated...

Leaders Romans Group claims to have achieved carbon neutrality for a second consecutive year.  A statement claims LRG has undertaken “several notable...

The Chancellor has used his Budget to confirm a 2p cut in National Insurance, from April 6. This will take it...

Seventeen housing organisations have sent an open letter to the government rejecting its idea of prioritising British families when it comes...

Plans for leasehold reform face a major early stumbling block as analysis shows plans to retrospectively introduce a cap on ground...

The Fine & Country Foundation’s Annual Carols by Candlelight concert, held in collaboration with King's College Cambridge, has raised £21,061. This will...

Propertymark has donated £5,200 to the industry charity Agents Giving, which works with lettings and estate agents to encourage, support and...

The Renters Reform Coalition - a collection of some 20 activist groups and charities demanding changes to the private rental sector...

A prominent lettings agent has called for a wider reform of eviction rules. This follows a demand by a group of...

The new Housing Loss Prevention Advice Service - introduced this month - will make possession court case delays even worse. That’s the...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Ross Nichols, and it says i’m Co-Founder at Just Move...

Two animal charities - Cats Protection and Dogs Trust - have started recruiting MPs to their campaign in favour of pets...

A charity is claiming that new powers to evict anti-social private tenants could lead to more homelessness, while those already living...

Propertymark’s showcase event this year is to be addressed by a person who is a chartered psychologist, neuroscientist, science communicator, author...

RMT rail union leader Mick Lynch and Labour leaders including Andy Burnham and Sadiq Khan are leading a call for an...

One of the most controversial subjects affecting letting agents, tenants and landlords alike is back on the agenda. Two of the UK’s...

The government is, as expected, scaling back support for businesses with energy bills from April. Under the new and less expensive scheme,...

Labour’s Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, held a summit yesterday about the capital’s private rental sector - but he did not...

The latest update from industry discussions about allowing more pets in private rental properties suggests there’s not been a solution yet...

Agencies and other businesses are to receive help facing soaring energy costs in measures outlined this morning by the government. Through a...

It has emerged that Generation Rent and Shelter are amongst the charities that have written to Conservative leadership contenders Liz Truss...

A lettings agency is celebrating winning the obstruction to let and manage a 63 unit Build To Rent scheme for students...

Owners of some rental properties, and agents acting on their behalf, can now apply for grants to contribute towards the cost...

A major Select Committee of MPs has launched an enquiry into so-called exempt rental sector accommodation - a niche sector that...

A new call has come for government action to stop the hemorrhage of properties shifting from long term rental to Airbnb...

Propertymark has joined a series of charities and a landlord body to warn about the poverty risk of expected changes to...

Propertymark has joined forces with the likes of Generation Rent and Shelter to step up the campaign for the provision of...

An industry partner has donated more than £10,000 to local charities and community good causes over the past 18 months. Former journalist...

'Forward in Unity' is a mural painted by Gent48, a renowned Birmingham street artist. It's situated in the centre of Digbeth...

There’s been great work by Auction House over the past year, working with local charities at the heart of communities thrown...

An MP who says no one should have to give up their pet to live in a rental property insists that...

There are growing calls for so-called ‘exempt accommodation’ to face the same controls that are exerted over the rest of the...

You don’t need to be Greta Thunberg to know that climate change is a big issue that’s impacting our day-to-day lives....

The Resolution Foundation has added its voice to that of many charities and other think tanks demanding more government support for...

Several pet charities are supporting an attempt by an MP to reform lettings regulations to permit more pets in private rental...

One of the country’s first specialist residential property fund managers has named the agency to handle its latest Build To Rent...

A definitive document has been published by the House of Commons library listing every eviction-related measure taken by UK governments during...

ARLA and the NRLA have teamed up with charities - some usually critical of letting agents and landlords - to lobby...

The new director of campaign group Generation Rent says the government has caused “untold mental stress” to thousands of tenants. Commenting on...

The chief executive of campaigning charity Shelter says she is expecting a “deluge” of cases when the eviction ban ends, but...

A lettings sector trade body, acting with homelessness charities, is urging the government to do more as young people in rented...

Labour has thrown its weight behind campaigning pressure groups in a general call to avoid what the party’s housing spokeswoman calls...

Welsh housing minister Julie James is to address agents, landlords and other property professionals at the Residential Landlord Association’s Future Renting...

Two housing charities have called for the government to invest more in housing benefit so it rises in line with private...

The automated lettings payment platform PayProp has revealed that it comes from charitable roots. PayProp is part of Humanstate, a private technology...

An angry lettings agent has emailed Cabinet minister James Brokenshire to show his disgust at the government’s U-turn over deposit caps. In...

The National Landlords Association has revealed a seven-point plan which would allow the Welsh Government greater powers over the private rental...

London’s Labour Mayor, Sadiq Khan, has repeated his criticism of the government’s decision to cap security deposits at the level of...

A group of letting agencies in Yorkshire have proposed to the government a radical alternative to the proposed fees ban -...

Two charities that have been at the forefront of campaigns to have a ban on letting agents’ fees on tenants have...

The most common reason people give for not writing a will is that they “haven’t got around to it yet”. Sound...

A London letting agent has expressed their dismay with a canvassing email sent by Liberal Democrat London mayoral candidate Caroline Pidgeon. The...

An initiative between the Residential Landlords Association and the Tenancy Deposit Scheme Charitable Foundation will help charities and other organisations offer...

A think-tank is calling for the creation of ‘social’ letting agencies with staff who not only find housing but also get...

The charity Crisis is warning that an unintended consequence of the controversial Right To Rent legislation which became law this week...

The Charity Commission is to probe the links between a letting agency that has allegedly been paid more than £5.5m in...

The BBC is investigating a letting agency that has allegedly been paid more than £5.5m in housing benefit after its owner...

This month has marked a real change in the way the private lettings sector is perceived - and it’s a perception...

The Mirror newspaper has taken the extraordinary step of naming the landlords - some of them letting agencies or private individuals...