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Edinburgh-based property portal ESPC has revealed the top-performing Edinburgh postcodes in terms of rental yields, for the second quarter of 2024. The...

A council says it’s secured the first banning order in its area, securing a stop on a rogue letting agent renting...

The Law Society claims over 29,000 eviction claims in recent months leave “tens of thousands at risk of losing their homes.” The...

New figures show the average inheritance tax (IHT) bill in 2021/22  rose to a new high of £215,000.  The number of estates...

The Propertymark Trust is to help agents donate orphaned funds to support charitable causes, thanks to support from CRM suppliers across...

Scotland needs to match Labour’s English housebuilding target to tackle the country’s housing emergency according to a high profile lettings agency...

High end lettings agency Hamptons has launched a new international department to woo overseas investors and tenants seeking rental properties in...

Thousands of homes in central London may have been lost to Airbnb and other short let platforms, a Labour candidate claims. Rachel...

A review of Edinburgh’s controversial short term lets licensing will take place this summer. City councillors agreed to publicly consult on the...

The embattled short let and holiday let industry has hit out at what it calls the “rampant hypocrisy” of councils when...

Energy Performance Certificates can be riddled with inaccuracies and give unhelpful advice to property owners. That’s the view of consumer service Which? Which?...

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

The Conservatives have this afternoon set out a 78-page manifesto, of which just over two pages are given to housing and...

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

Rightmove has produced five core demands on behalf of the rental sector, which it would like the next government to meet. These...

Campaigning charity Shelter is demanding an overhaul of the Renters Reform Bill, which will shortly begin its passage through the House...

Citra Living, part of Lloyds Banking Group, is to bring more than 150 new family homes to the rental market in...

Half of all private renters would not know where to turn to if a letting agent failed to address a problem...

Michael Gove’s Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities hit back overnight at critics of the government’s Renters Reform Bill. The Bill...

There’s been at most a one per cent reduction in landlords in the buy to let sector, a think tank claims...

NatWest Group has announced a new package of what it calls ”targeted lending and support” to help local councils provide more...

Sharpened rules to double council tax on long term empty properties will come into force from April 1, says the government.  A...

Airbnb - which recently announced it’s sharing some information about its landlord hosts with HMRC - is now sharing data with...

Caerphilly council in Wales has bought privately owned properties to provide housing for families who would otherwise find themselves in temporary...

Corporate student accommodation provider Unite Group has reported a big jump in earnings on the back of a shortage of lets...

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

Propertymark has again urged the UK government to continue with its target of building 300,000 new homes in England a year...

HM Treasury raked in £6.3 billion in inheritance tax receipts in the 10 months from April 2023 to January 2024 according...

Ukrainians who came to the UK following the Russian invasion will be able to apply for 18-month extensions to their visas,...

Labour leader Sir Kier Starmer has confirmed that Awaab’s Law - putting a strict timescale on urgent repairs being done -...

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

A pressure group unhappy about lack of progress on the Renters Reform Bill wants MPs to be bombarded with complaint emails.  Over...

A trades union has slammed the Bank of England over its decision to keep base rate at 5.25 per cent, saying...

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

A managing partner at a letting agency has given an insight into the unique forces which he says is “strangling” the...

Figures released by HMRC show that the Treasury raked in £5.7 billion in inheritance tax receipts in the nine months from...

Airbnb and other short let platforms are from this week required to send data on their clients’ earnings to HMRC. And a...

The latest figures from HM Revenue and Customs show that inheritance tax receipts increased to £5.2 billion in the eight months...

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

Low-income renters will get a boost next spring - but a pressure group wants more government help for this sector. The Chancellor’s...

Campaigning charity Shelter claims there’s a conspiracy amongst MPs, landlords and others in the private rental sector to water down the...

A new report claims that Airbnb has generated tens of thousands of jobs in the UK and enables people to work...

Shelter says there are nearly 139,000 children officially homeless and living in temporary accommodation - and it’s blaming the private rental...

Lloyds Banking Group, which announced back in 2020 that it was to become involved in the private rental sector, is buying...

Changes put forward to the Renters Reform Bill to crack down on rogue landlords, protect vulnerable residents and improve the safety of...

HomeLet claims its new VISTA service will revolutionise the lettings industry by eliminating fraud through the use of detection technology and...

The Scottish Greens - who are in effect the architects of rent controls north of the border - have welcomed a...

The lettings agency Winkworth has taken the unusual step of criticising policies of a series of councils. The councils are all Labour...

A council has launched its own social lettings agency to work with private sector landlords in tackling the record numbers living...

A new manifesto calling for rent controls and a raft of other measures is accusing the current rent rises of being...

Young couples are delaying marriage and starting families until they get out of the rental sector, research by Yorkshire Building Society...

Airbnb has taken the unusual step of buying space on an influential Labour Party website, just ahead of the party’s conference. Amanda...

A prominent agent has called on politicians to scrap the Renters Reform Bill . He says it’s “ill thought-through and would be...

A leading agent has welcomed the dramatic U turn by the government on how it is to meet its net zero...

A lettings agency has removed a video of an apartment where a murder took place, following an approach by a national...

Financial support from family members - not just parents - is expected to help fund 318,400 housing transactions in 2023, according...

Franchise giant Winkworth is opening a new office in West Hampstead, extending its north London footprint from existing offices in neighbouring...

New analysis reveals that other family members beyond parents are increasingly lending their financial support to first-time buyers.   So far this year...

The company which owned and was responsible for a five-storey block of rented flats in Bridlington has been ordered to pay...

Housing legal aid is increasingly out of reach for tenants who need help, the Law Society of England and Wales claims.  Quarterly...

A planning committee meeting discussion on an application for 100 new apartments in Manchester turned into a forum for complaints about...

Crisis, the homelessness charity, has slammed the government over the growing gap between housing benefit levels and even the lower end...

The Co-Op Bank is joining forces with campaigning charity Shelter to argue against Section 21 evictions, and together they have organised...

The BBC says discussions are underway to extend the Renters Reform Bill to specifically outlaw any rental listing banning families and benefit recipients...

Thousands of listing for rental properties on two popular websites explicitly say children or pets are not welcome. A BBC analysis of...

Ukrainians in the UK will be helped into private rental homes as part of a £150m government injection.  The funding will be...

A prominent housing journalist says Labour should fund councils to buy homes directly from private landlords to rapidly increase the size...

A council is pleading with the government to think again about proposals to suspend the need for an HMO licence for...

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

The Cambridge Building Society has opened applications for its unique Rent to Home scheme. Last month it announced that it had invested...

Airbnb is offering a £50 travel voucher to any Liverpool household hosting their first Airbnb guest in a private room in...

A news service claims that in many UK cities there are now more entire homes listed on Airbnb than there are...

A think tank claims one in six young people live in poor quality housing, often in the private rental sector. The claim...

The Cambridge Building Society has invested in two family-sized houses to expand its unique ‘Rent to Home’ rent-return housing scheme. The two...

Lloyds Banking Group and homelessness charity Crisis have joined forces in a new two-year partnership including the establishment of a so-called...

Airbnb is warning the UK government not to be heavy handed in its planning controls restricting the short lets sector. At the...

The new trade body for short lets has reacted angrily to a government plan for AirBnb and other short let hosts...

A London lettings agency has been ordered to pay over £12,000 in a fine and costs for its part in running...

Leaders Romans Group's Suburban Build To Rent team has been appointed to jointly manage and maintain over 100 Build to Rent...

Airbnb says any new rules for short lets in Wales should protect hosts and the benefits they bring to the tourism...

The Property Ombudsman has ruled that a letting agency’s ban on renting to a family with children was discriminatory against women...

The Local Government Association, which comprises 331 of the 333 councils in England and all 22 Welsh unitary councils, is calling on...

A north of England lettings agency has rebranded after two decades. Walton Robinson - which specialises in residential lettings for students, professionals...

Airbnb has come out in favour of a short lets registration scheme across the UK - similar to the one promised...

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

Winkworth is expanding in the south west with a new office opening in the Bishopston area of Bristol, tapping into a...

A new survey by HomeLet and Dataloft shows that of 12,000 tenants questioned, over three quarters are worried about the cost...

The drastic shortage of rental properties will lessen during 2023 according to the Leaders Romans Group - and much of that...

A not-for-profit company that matches rental properties with vulnerable tenants in need of accommodation has partnered with a maintenance firm to...

The large majority of players in the lettings industry wants the rental reform programme outlined by the government, an agent claims. Laura...

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has delivered his long-awaited Autumn Statement - the fiscal event which he says will lead to “all of...

The council in the London borough of Merton will fund an additional payment of £100 per month to residents who host...

The head of the Property Redress Scheme will give agents the lowdown on the recent Fairer Private Rented Sector White Paper...

Increased demand and investor appetite for purpose built Single Family Rental schemes have seen this niche market grow at scale, according...

Private renters’ average floor space per person in England has fallen by 16 per cent over the past 20 years while...

A leading lettings agency has warned the government not to forget the importance of small-scale landlords in its plans for the...

A fast growing five-branch lettings agency now has almost 2,000 properties under management following its latest acquisition. CGT Lettings Limited in Gloucestershire...

Tenants are demanding better quality HMOs according to new research from specialist buy to let lender Paragon Bank. The bank’s survey of...

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