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A housing group is launching a campaign to recruit more young people to the property industry in general and the building...

Kate Davies, executive director of the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA), says rent controls are not the magic answer to problems...

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

Propertymark has urged Scotland’s new First Minister to end the country’s housing emergency. John Swinney is now First Minister and says he...

A coalition of higher education and student housing organisations have called on the government to make further changes to the Renters...

A national newspaper says the Renters Reform Bill is “on the brink of collapse” as Tory MPs are divided on their...

New research suggests that a majority of the British public believe the government should be doing more to support students find...

Labour has waded into the increasingly-fractious debate over the Renters Reform Bill. Activists in groups such as the Renters Reform Coalition and...

Shelter is asking for public support for radical changes to the Renters Reform Bill, now going through Parliament. The campaigning charity is...

The long-awaited Third Reading of the controversial Renters Reform Bill will not happen this week according to the Leader of the...

The first meeting has been held of the Housing Coalition, a new group including Propertymark and some landlord bodies. A statement from...

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

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

The political alliance between the Scottish National Party and the Scottish Greens is likely to stay in place until 2026. Arguably the...

Housing Secretary Michael Gove is being lobbied to take urgent action over the growing problem of abandoned tenancies. Propertymark chief executive Nathan...

In a surprise move, Housing Secretary Michael Gove has given the stand-in leader of activist group Generation Rent a prime role...

Shelter is telling the government it “must deliver” on the revolution it pledges under the Renters Reform Bill. Chief executive Polly Neate...

A coalition of tenant activists has called a Day of Action to protest at delays in the government’s rental reform agenda. The...

A so-called Renters Union is organising a day of action after claiming letting agents are behind recent rent rises. London Renters Union...

It’s being reported in Scotland that Propertymark, along with other lettings sector trade bodies, are seeking legal advice on that country’s...

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

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

An activist at the centre of a controversy involving a London letting agent has used a left-wing website to explain how...

Airbnb has backed the Scottish Government's backtrack on pledges to exercise more centralised regulation over short let properties. The country’s ruling SNP-Green coalition...

A group of rental campaign bodies have come together to claim that some 694,000 tenants apparently face eviction when the current...

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

One of the industry’s leading trade bodies has revealed that the number of laws creating an obligation on landlords in the...

The Mirror newspaper says eight members of the new Boris Johnson-led Cabinet are buy to let investors - and it accuses...

Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt have been given a message from a consortium of groups this morning - Scrap Right To...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is one of many industry groups in a new coalition calling for S21 repossessions to be...

There is a warning that the HMRC’s Let Property campaign, which received huge publicity and attention for some years, has so...

There are now well over 125 pieces of legislation and regulations - most introduced in modern times - governing the private...

The Conservatives should introduce rent controls to kick-start a seaside town renaissance, suggests an organisation set up originally by the David Cameron...

The campaigners against planned changes to mortgage interest tax relief - set to come into effect from April, phased over four...

The landlords behind the failed attempt to seek a Judicial Review of legislation reducing the mortgage interest tax relief for landlords...

The two landlords mounting a legal challenge to the mortgage interest tax changes proposed by Chancellor George Osborne have released a...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has teamed up with 62 other property bodies to launch “a global consultation on ethics...

As the Conservative Party conference continues, a leading Tory has warned that "there is much further to go" on removing buy...

The hearing that will determine whether there will be a judicial review of another council’s landlord licensing scheme will take place...

Nominations for Labour’s deputy leadership race close at midday today with Stella Creasy, an MP who has campaigned fiecely against letting...

The government’s apparent opposition to council-wide landlord licensing schemes will be put to the test in the coming weeks following a...

The head of lettings at Carter Jonas has warned the government not to rush ahead with a national rollout of immigration...

Airbnb is letting out a two-bedroom floating house on the Thames to publicise the changes in short term letting rules in...

The quick-off-the-mark Residential Landlords Association appeared to earn brownie points for the entire private rental sector by sending a congratulatory message...

With the Conservatives now having an overall majority, there is speculation that the pilot immigration checks which letting agents and landlords...

After a night of remarkable election results, it looks likely that much of the residential property industry - which was strongly...

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

The pressure group Generation Rent - which has been sharply critical of letting agents, landlords and the private rental sector in...