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Rigorous government targets to improve EPC ratings in the private rental sector and the wider housing stock won’t be met without...

An Office of National Statistics survey shows that the top three issues facing the UK are still the cost-of-living crisis (89%),...

New analysis by insurance giant Aviva reveals that one in every 13 new homes built in England in the last decade...

The Welsh Housing Minister has committed to a Housing Survey to assist its policies for the private rental sector. Propertymark has been...

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

More people are struggling to pay their rent according to a new government survey. The study, by the Office for National Statistics,...

Kamma - the PropTech firm which until now has been best known for monitoring rental sector licensing regimes - is now...

A Leaders branch office revamp has been launched with claims of it being fully sustainable. The Lewes branch of Leaders - part...

According to new research from Mortgage Advice Bureau, two-fifths of landlords believe that new EPC requirements are important for the environment and will...

One of the UK governments has backed a call for private landlords to get cash help to meet new Minimum Energy...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has accused the government of lacking ambition in its new energy strategy. The government's revised strategy,...

Leaders lettings agency has launched its new sustainable office in Aylesbury. The company insists that by 2030 all of its branches will...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has accused the government of lacking ambition in its new energy strategy. The government's revised strategy,...

A new tool is being marketed by industry supplier Landmark with the claim that it helps agents “assess climate change risk.” The...

The director of a property development firm says Labour leader Sir Kier Starmer must do more to boost housing supply as...

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

The controversial Boiler Upgrade Scheme - which Propertymark say is so complex many people don’t think it’s worth applying to -...

A new scheme offering landlords the opportunity to lease property through a local authority has been launched.   Leasing Scheme Wales: Gwynedd gives...

The Lettings Industry Council, a group of rental industry chiefs, has joined with other property professionals to reveal what they see...

Propertymark has set up a working group of experts, agents, landlords and stakeholders in response to radical reforms to the private...

A property investment company says Build To Rent is key to helping Britain meet its current housing and climate change challenges...

One of the most high profile members of the Welsh Parliament has hit back at calls from the controlling Labour and...

Airbnb is giving away £100 vouchers to anyone in the UK who shifts into the short lets sector for the first...

An independent agency in London has ditched its company cars and gone over to e-bikes instead when it’s representatives attend viewings. Taylor...

Many people - including agents, landlords and tenants - are unprepared for the domestic heating revolution on its way to Britain. That’s...

A senior Welsh politicians has urged anyone who has fallen behind in paying rent because of the pandemic to contact their...

Propertymark has strongly opposed a proposal by the Scottish Government to radically reform the private rental sector. The proposals put out for...

The lettings agency boss at the centre of a major industry takeover has fired a warning shot about rent controls and...

Scotland’s controversial Green Party housing chief - who is part of a governing arrangement with Nicola Sturgeon’s Scottish National Party -...

PropTech investment platform Houzen has raised concerns over the government’s Heat and Buildings Strategy. This is the satrategy that offers rental sector...

Landlords in Wales have been told that rules giving tenants six months’ notice to vacate a property will remain in place...

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

There’s a warning today that office-to-resi conversions - popular with landlords in recent years - are at an increased risk of...

One of the UK’s largest agency groups has launched a partnership with an environmental organisation to plant one tree for every...

A new £10m scheme to help renters with Covid-related arrears has been launched in Wales.  Called the Tenancy Hardship Grant, and introduced...

Propertymark says new figures detailing the costs of energy efficiency improvements in the private rental sector show the need for a...

Online lettings agency Accommodation has pledged to plant a new tree for every property let - it has already planting 1,190...

A new £10m grant will be introduced in part of the UK to help private rented tenants struggling to pay rent...

Agents managing properties with halogen or high-energy fluorescent lights will have to switch in the near future. The government is to ban...

ARLA Propertymark says there should be a long term appropriately funded strategy to help the private rental sector and home owners...

The initiative which the government hoped would transform energy efficiency in the private rental sector is being axed this week. The Green...

Lettings management service Ringley Group has teamed up with a utility broker, 001 Ltd. It says this sources and identifies economies of...

An online petition is voicing opposition to government calls for ever-improving EPCs in the private rental sector.  Nottingham landlord Tricia Urquhart has started the...

One of the country’s largest Build To Rent players, Legal & General, says it’s started work on 6,000 residential units in...

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....

A new proposal from the government says agents and portals will be banned from advertising rental properties with non-compliant Energy Performance...

The Association of Residential Lettings Agents has given a warm welcome to this week’s news that buy to let investors as...

A property management firm says the private rental sector is effectively disadvantaged in the fight against climate change because it does...

One might have thought that if private rental tenants were as badly treated as some people suggest, housing would be their...

A Plymouth sales and letting agency has taken a number of measures to help raise awareness of climate change in its...

Lettings chiefs have responded with disappointment to the government’s announcement that it is scrapping the Green Deal.  The scheme offered cashbacks and...