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New figures show the scale of the rental supply slump in recent years. The respected Home website, which produces a monthly lettings...

Rents across the UK continue to retreat from their 2023 highs, falling by 2.9 per cent over the last three months,...

A veteran Conservative is calling on his government to clamp down on HMOs and ensure there is better council regulation and...

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

A London borough has been identified as having 42 per cent rental inflation in the past year. Lambeth in the south of...

The landlords’ main trade body is directly challenging a Tory MP who has called for a rent freeze. Natalie Elphicke - in...

An eye-watering annualised rent rise in Greater London of 27.3 per cent has helped pushed the all-UK total yearly hike to...

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

The Home website has produced its latest rental market snapshot - and once again London is the odd region out compared...

An upbeat market snapshot for the lettings sector claims that one region of the UK has seen rent increases in excess...

Rental growth expectations remain “slightly positive” across most of the UK according to the latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors market...

A Tory member has used the Conservative Home website to tell his party that it should introduce interest-free loans to help tenants...

A senior Conservative peer and consumer campaigner has written an article strongly defending the private rental sector, agents and landlords. Baroness Altmann...

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

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

A leading Conservative peer says the government should cut taxes for buy to let investors and regard them as part of...

The Private Members’ Bill that has won government backing - and which would give tenants the right to sue landlords over...

Ian Duncan Smith is the latest Conservative to criticise his own government’s fiscal policies regarding buy to let.   Writing on the Conservative...

On the day of the campaign rally to galvanise support for a bid to win a judicial review of George Osborne’s...

A Liberal Democrat peer has accused the government of being “a bit rich” in its willingness to jail letting agents or...

A Conservative peer and former shadow chief secretary to the Treasury has become the first senior Tory to speak out against...

Labour MP David Lammy and Kevin Hollinrake, the founder of Hunters - and now a Conservative MP - have clashed online...