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Knight Frank has set out its forecast for the rental sector for the rest of 2024 - notwithstanding political uncertainty. In the...

New Freedom of Information (FOI) data from the Financial Conduct Authority shows that Labour’s plan to introduce a ‘Freedom to Buy’...

Just as the prospect of tax rises in the Budget is causing uncertainty in the prime London sales market, so Labour’s...

The veteran founder of Hunters, Kevin Hollinrake, is reported to be in the race to be Conservative Party leader.  He is MP...

Agents, and others in the lettings industry, have given a sceptical response to the Conservative manifesto and its varied pledges about...

Rental growth in prime London postcodes has narrowed to levels last seen in the summer of 2021, says Knight Frank.  Average rents...

A former housing minister responsible for the sell off of huge numbers of social homes has told the Prime Minister he...

While most agents remain relatively tight lipped about party politics, the chief executive of Purplebricks has said the Tories should take...

New data released by insurance firm HomeLet claims that average rents have fallen now for three months on the bounce. The past...

Two former housing ministers are at war with each other after an attack on Rishi Sunak’s premiership in today’s Daily Telegraph. Sir...

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

Housing Secretary Michael Gove will address the main Conservative party Conference on Tuesday morning next week - but perhaps his most...

The Financial Times, using sources in the Parliamentary Conservative party, are blaming some Tory MPs for blocking the route of the...

The man behind a new survey of tenants’ voting intentions claims the Conservatives need to worry about losing support amongst young...

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

If housing really is seen by Prime Minister Boris Johnson as one of his key policy goals, there must be uncertainty...

The former president of ARLA Propertymark has made an outspoken attack on the government for failing to regulate the agency industry. Maxine...

A leading lettings sector commentator believes today’s local elections may not directly change the private rental sector but could have a...

It’s now been made clear that there will be a detailed White Paper in the spring explaining radical changes to the...

A former Conservative councillor has used a leading party website to call on the government to restrict the purchase of buy...

‘Generation rent’ was a term first coined in 2011 by the Halifax in a survey on the future of homeownership. It...

The Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities says the long-awaited Rental Reform White Paper will now not be published until...

Government intervention, which in recent years has seen scores of legal and regulatory changes to the private rental sector, may be...

The director of renters’ campaign group Generation Rent says the long-running scandal of a planning decision made by the Housing Secretary...

A prominent figure in the lettings industry has warned that any extension to the current evictions ban would risk hurting the...

The National Landlords’ Association says the new Conservative government must do two things in its early phase in office. The NLA, which...

A trade body suggests that the votes of private landlords could decide the results in over 100 constituencies in next week’s...

The Black Brick agency, which operates with high net worth clients, is forecasting that 2020 will see the arrival of a...

It looks likely that the Conservative party is set to formally oppose rent controls when it publishes its manifesto, probably in...

An outspoken Conservative party figure says government policies such as the scrapping of Section 21 will play into the hands of...

A leading trade body is urging the candidates to lead the Conservative Party to adopt a more positive approach to the...

The party conferences of the two main political parties threw up some interesting developments with regards to housing and the rental...

A Tory activist has made an outspoken attack on the government’s policies towards the private rental sector on the pages of...

One of the government’s three approved official redress providers says companies operating in the Rent-to-Rent sector should be obliged to join...

The will exists in the private rental sector to provide the longer term tenancies advocated by the government, says a trade...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has welcomed the government commitment to introduce regulation for agencies - but it is warning...

Housing minister Alok Sharma has once again confirmed that the ban on lettings’ agents fees levied on tenants in England will...

Former Conservative Party leader and Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith is set to speak at a lettings sector event...

In a blog which appears - perhaps surprisingly - to be supportive of Theresa May’s General Election manifesto, campaigning charity Shelter...

It’s been a long time coming but the government’s White Paper on Housing - tipped to contain major reforms affecting the...

On October 6 2015 we published an article concerning Clever Student Lets Ltd, entitled “Agents back political probe into deal between...

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The private rental sector accounts for 22 per cent of all households in the UK according to a think tank.  In an...

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

Given that I wrote my last article on the day of the General Election but well before the result was known,...

There has been much debate in recent years about Britain’s desperate need for more housing stock. Demand has been outstripping supply...

A little over four weeks ago I was here musing what impact the impending general election might have on the property...