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Propertymark says the new Labour leader in Wales, Baroness Eluned Morgan, should make an early stand against rent controls for the...

The resignation of Labour’s First Minister of Wales has raised alarm with Propertymark. Vaughan Gething quit yesterday after the Welsh Housing Secretary...

The Scottish National Party, which as part of an alliance with the Greens introduced controversial rent controls in Scotland in 2022,...

Would-be buyers with a 5% deposit face paying £300 per month more in mortgage repayments than if they continued renting, says...

The latest residential market survey from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors is raising a red flag over what it calls...

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...

Four fifths of developers believe that the next government needs to do more to support first time buyers, according to the...

Letting agents believe Help to Buy has been the most positive influence to the property market in recent times, while on...

England’s county councils want the next government to set out a long-term plan for housing, as a new report claims there’s...

Knight Frank has taken the unusual step of suggesting a government proposal for the housing market is high-risk and could even...

The latest Build To Rent report prepared by lettings agency Savills claims 2023 saw a total of £4.5 billion of investment...

Controversy surrounds a government idea - floated over the weekend - to allow renters to secure mortgages with just one per...

The date has been set for the Spring Budget - the last before the General Election.  It’s to be on Wednesday March...

Propertymark has urged the government to take the potential Help to Buy ‘timebomb’ seriously. The news comes as London lettings agent Benham...

A prominent property law consultancy wants Help To Buy, or similar schemes, to be resurrected.  Dutton Gregory Solicitors says that with the...

A seasoned property lawyer who has specialised in residential landlord and tenant law for 22 years says she is embarrassed at...

The government must focus on measures in next week’s Budget that will boost significantly the supply of homes, according to lettings...

Keyzy, a rent-to-own service aimed at aspiring homeowners, has raised £3m in a seed funding round.  The proceeds will accelerate its purchases...

This may be 2022’s least surprising research finding - most property professionals want interest rates to fall. A webinar poll undertaken by...

The current supply demand imbalance across the UK rental market looks set to endure as fewer households move across into owner...

Savills says an increase in the number of new builds bought for buy to let and other property investment will help...

ARLA Propertymark has issued a list of 10 demands for Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s long-awaited Budget on March 3, with a financial...

The government has announced a complete ban on evictions in the private and social sectors for any tenant affected by the...

Some 45 per cent of those who don’t yet own a home think they never will, according to a new report.  While...

While we wouldn’t be so bold as to say the government gets its daily fix of property news from the Today...

Throughout April and May, we ran a high-profile campaign across our sites, Landlord Today, Estate Agent Today, Letting Agent Today and...

A prominent consumer group claims that one in 10 tenants currently renting say they have at some point been evicted “for...

In recent weeks our campaign to replace leasehold with commonhold has continued to gather momentum both in the press and across...

A rental campaigner claims the amount of money stolen this year by crooked lettings agents and landlords has topped the £1.3m...

Crooked letting agents and landlords have so far this year been convicted of illegally pocketing over £900,000 of tenant’s cash – and there’s...

Academic research suggests tenants in England and Wales are missing out on £80m of interest to tenancy deposit schemes every single...

Over 112,000 properties have been purchased through the Help to Buy: Equity Loan scheme since its launch in 2013 - and...

Half of England’s local authorities claim it is ‘very difficult’ to assist homeless applicants into privately rented accommodation, according to a...

The Residential Landlords Association has welcomed a report by the House of Lords that institutional investors behind the Build To Rent...

The housing ladder is disappearing for most young working households on modest incomes who are obliged to rent for the indefinite...

The government’s initiatives to try to increase house building and owner occupation will not stop demand for rented homes rising by...

Dorian Gonsalves, director of commercial and franchising at Belvoir, is urging the government to dramatically increase the availability of social housing...

The chief executive of property investment company Assetz says it’s not Buy To Let that threatens the stability of the housing...

There’s been an angry reaction from letting agents and landlords to the shock news that an additional three per cent stamp...

- From April 2016 buy to let landlords and people buying second or holiday homes will have to pay an additional...

George Osborne has announced a shock additional 3.0 per cent stamp duty on second homes and buy to let properties. Details are...