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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...

Some 51% of young first-time buyers are willing to consider so-called ‘non-traditional routes’ to move out of renting and onto the...

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

Leasehold reform still has a long way to run, according to the Association of Leasehold Enfranchisement Practitioners (ALEP). The major party manifestos...

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

Young people in London are taking on second jobs to get onto the property ladder, it’s claimed. Of the first-time buyers in...

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

A mortgage lender claims many potential first time buyers are missing out because they don’t understand the concept of shared ownership. Just...

Propertymark has stepped into the row over whether there should be more controls over second homes, holiday lets and people from...

A deposit alternative service claims the cost of rent has outpaced salary growth by 5.2% over the past 10 years, leaving...

For first time buyers, renting is cheaper than buying in most of the UK according to new data from the Halifax.  London, the...

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

The PropTech sector has mostly agreed with the rest of the industry in its view on yesterday’s Budget - that it...

The letting agents’ trade body Propertymark has made the unexpected move of calling on banks to cut mortgage rates. Rates are typically...

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

There were 12,000 first time buyers over the age of 50 in the UK in 2022, the latest figures available. This means...

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

A mandatory short lets registration and licensing scheme is to be introduced in part of the UK, described as a system...

A series of lenders have slashed their buy to let mortgage rates in a bid to win business. These include: - LendInvest Mortgages...

Propertymark has stepped into the row over a bank chief’s comments on first time buyers. Sir Howard Davies, chairman of NatWest, responded...

One of the UK’s leading lettings agents is bemoaning what he calls “the missed opportunity “ to help the rental sector...

Former housing minister Rachel Maclean - the victim of a shock sacking by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak last month - has...

The long-term shortage of rental accommodation is now addressed by a short-term clampdown on second homes and empty properties, a leading...

Propertymark has told politicians that an additional homes tax will not succeed in increasing housing supply. Timothy Douglas, head of policy and...

Connells has launched what it calls a “pioneering” Rent to Buy scheme to shift apartments in a 163-unit scheme. The agency likens...

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

Renters are being offered a 100 per cent mortgage by the Skipton Building Society - the first time such a product...

The cost of coastal homes in Britain more than doubled - rising 56 per cent - between 2012 and 2022 says...

Trade bodies have been trying to shore up investor confidence after the latest house price index, by the Nationwide, showing another...

The Bank of England has raised base rate by 0.25 per cent to 4.25 per cent - the highest level since...

It appears likely that Rachel Maclean is set to become the sixth housing minister in 12 months, replacing Lucy Frazer. In the...

The way to solve the rental sector supply shortage is through Build To Rent, a leading agency claims.  Leaders Romans Group says...

Demographic data from the latest Census suggests that the Private Rental Sector now provides homes for 20.3 per cent of the...

One of the politicians backing a tax surcharge on the purchase of second homes and buy to lets has been put...

Over the last decade, the proportion of people aged 24 to 64 living in their own home has fallen and the...

Trends in the lettings market “do not bode well for renters on low incomes” according to an analyst. Jack Godby of lettings...

The growth of the Build To Rent sector is a symbol of a changing Britain, in says one of the players...

As the Rishi Sunak government’s lower ranks finally take shape, the junior ministers working with Housing Secretary Michael Gove have been...

Rishi Sunak has won the Conservative leadership campaign and is set to become Prime Minister tomorrow. Over the summer Sunak set out...

The owners of second homes in a key short lets and tourist hotspot are set to have to pay a premium...

A building society which has taken the unprecedented step of stopping lending on second homes has been sharply criticised by a...

Activists are calling on the government to impose swingeing taxes on some lettings properties “to bring them back into the residential...

A Conservative MP is suggesting that there could be a ’25 mile limit’ imposed around certain rental properties to ensure they...

The government has released more details of the powers being given to local authorities to levy additional taxes on second homes.  The...

Leaks from government ahead of this morning’s Queen’s Speech suggest that second homes which are not let out are likely to...

Homes headed by a person over the age of 45 will account for at least half of all privately renting households...

The activist group Acorn is lobbying a local council to deny people the right to buy a second home or let...

The increasingly shrill anti-landlord rhetoric from some politicians is making it harder for tenants, claims a leading industry spokesman. John Blackwood, chief...

Figures obtained by ITV News suggest that one of the country's most popular tourist locations has as many Airbnbs listed as...

Politicians who express concern over the number of holiday lets and Airbnbs in tourist areas miss one major point - if...

The Liberal Democrats have proposed sharp restrictions on holiday rentals at the heart of the party’s plans to solve the housing...

Only 15 per cent of adults are confident the housing crisis will be resolved in their lifetime. New research among 2,000 individuals...

A think tank says it would take a major policy change to fulfil Boris Johnson’s goal to turn generation rent into...

A prominent consultancy advising the Build To Rent sector has identified one British city as the prime location for investment in 2022. BNP...

A leading agent and member of the Propertymark board says London’s letting agencies and private rental sector need government help -...

A new call has come for government action to stop the hemorrhage of properties shifting from long term rental to Airbnb...

A prominent industry supplier is warning the government not to damage the private rental sector in its push to promote ever-more...

Propertymark has joined four so-called ‘action groups’ advocating housing policy changes including the setting up of a national landlord register and...

A letter from a tenant’s union is demanding that a Labour councillor “publicly explain” his actions as an accountant advising investors...

A town with one of the UK’s heaviest concentrations of holiday homes is clamping down on future purchases by outsiders who...

Cornish MPs have spoken up in the House of Commons to highlight what they claim is the danger of having too...

A leading banking and wealth management company says a growth area for the rental sector in the years to come will...

A report in the Financial Times over the weekend suggests that Lloyds Bank is poised to become a major residential landlord,...

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

A high profile former estate agent who was a major figure on the London sales market for over three decades has...

Nearly four out of 10 landlords believe that tenant demand will rise this year, according to a study by high-profile buy...

Home ownership is increasingly out of reach for British consumers, who say the market has become expensive and inaccessible and that...

Higher housing costs - including private sector rents - have reduced incomes and increased inequality as the poorest families have borne...

Around 40 per cent of tenants currently in the private rental sector believe they will never be able to buy their...

A collective of activist renter groups has set out a manifesto of what it wants from the winner of next month’s...

UK-wide rental prices are up 2.0 per cent annually to £876 – a three-year high – according to a new quarterly...

The majority of the UK’s private renters don’t want to purchase a home according to new research, coming just as the...

Private tenants are being disadvantaged because of the government’s focus on boosting homeownership. According to the latest figures from the Royal Institution...

Legal & General, one of the largest specialist builders of so-called retirement communities for the over-55s, is now going to let...

A European law firm has set out a critique of the driving forces behind Build To Rent - and it says...

There’s been a dramatic 37 per cent rise in rental instructions for prime properties in the capital during the first quarter...

A property management chief is arguing that rent controls would restrict mortgage loans to buy to let investors and drive existing...

A new survey suggests that long-term renting could be substantially less expensive than a mortgage. The study, for Ocean Finance, has analysed...

Home ownership rates for families aged 25 to 34 are rising for the first time in 30 years but high barriers...

Research by franchise lettings agency company Belvoir suggests that landlords are continuing to exit the property market, although not at the...

A third of tenants are happy to rent long-term and have no plans to purchase a property in the future, new...

A rental sector supplier claims huge numbers of tenants are extremely ignorant of the health and safety issues surrounding their rental...

Belvoir has published what it calls ‘a decade of data’ tracking the changes in the private rental sector since 2008, when...

An influential think tank is calling on government to radically reform the private rental sector because a generation of young people...

A trade group says diminishing rates of home ownership amongst younger people shows the need to have a thriving private rental...

New research claims that as many as 78 per cent of young adults aged 18 to 30 fear they will never...

Over two thirds of landlords are reluctant to invest in new properties as a result of the stamp duty surcharge on...

A tenant survey conducted by an online letting agent suggests that almost nine out of 10 tenants are not currently looking...

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

The Labour Party has published its full manifesto for the upcoming General Election on June 8.  Titled 'For the many not the...

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

Analysis of the government's latest English Housing Survey figures shows that there’s been a further decline in the home ownership rate...

  Renters are spending half their wages keeping a roof over their head, are twice as likely as homeowners to have no...

Government leaks to the Observer newspaper suggest that the Housing White Paper will show a huge policy shift towards renting - and may...

The Residential Landlords Association has been quick off the mark to issue what it calls a seven point wish list to...

The Resolution Foundation, a think tank, claims that home ownership is far lower than is widely believed to be the case...

The government must urgently deliver 1.8m new rental homes as new figures from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors reveal a...

Kevin Hollinrake - the founder of franchise agency Hunters and now a Conservative MP - is calling for a cut in...

No fewer than 86 per cent of renters - the equivalent of over six million households - have less than a...

Much publicity has been given to the Resolution Foundation’s report into falling home ownership - but the flip side is that...