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Rigorous government targets to improve EPC ratings in the private rental sector and the wider housing stock won’t be met without...

A regional independent lettings agency has launched a new profit share scheme for its staff - but it’s keeping quiet on...

Propertymark says stricter rules for EPC ratings in the private rental sector must be backed up with incentives and financial support. The...

Figures from the National House Building Council show that housebuilding is currently running at only half the rate the new Labour...

Rightmove says the number of available rental properties is currently 14% higher than this time last year, while tenant demand is...

New figures from lettings agency Hamptons suggest that investors purchasing buy to let properties are increasingly looking to the north of...

The right wing think tank the Adam Smith Institute has launched something called the Cost Of Rent Day. The institute has calculated...

The latest snapshot of the rental market from Rightmove reveals that average advertised rents for tenants outside of London have reached...

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

A huge survey involving analysis of over 14,000 properties suggests an urgent need for the next government to help private rental...

The next Government should create a separate Ministry of Housing and encourage MPs of all parties to work together to solve...

As a result of an announcement back in March, in the government’s final Budget, a major change to stamp duty comes into...

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

A council-run lettings agency called YorHome is offering new incentives to woo private landlords away from conventional agents. Besides offering what it...

A lettings agent who is also on the executive of Propertymark claims one of Britain’s tourist hotspots has been over-run with...

The Housing Secretary in Wales says that nation is unlikely to follow the example of Scotland by introducing rent controls. At a...

The political chaos in Scotland presents sensible politicians with an ideal chance to resent housing policies and ditch rent controls. That’s the...

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

Despite several fires in rented properties, the government is proposing to double the maximum legal power of e-bikes. A Department of Transport...

Nationwide has taken the unusual step of using its buy to let lending arm - The Mortgage Works - to make...

A lettings industry supplier claims one in nine renters use foodbanks. A survey of tenants, commissioned by Zero Deposit, found that just...

A buying agent claims that rents could finally be tailing off despite some indices showing rises still taking place. According to Rightmove,...

A Knight Frank survey of 50 house builders shows a staggering 70 per cent support for Labour to win the next...

New research shows there are 36,210 long-term vacant homes across London - that’s around one in every 100 properties. The borough in...

Propertymark has urged the government to do more to help the country’s most vulnerable citizens heat their homes.   Office for National Statistics...

Propertymark has laid out its proposals to the Scottish Government ahead of its 2024-25 Budget next week. The letting agents’ trade body...

Leaders Romans Group is calling for a Landlords Reform Bill to balance the challenges and apparent disincentives now deterring landlords from...

A business consortium is calling for bold measures to encourage landlords and owner occupiers to retrofit their homes, with the introduction...

The chief executive of Propertymark has reiterated his call for the government to make investment in buy to let attractive. Nathan Emerson says:...

Propertymark is backing a call for financial help for landlords who improve the energy efficiency of their properties. The think tank E3G...

The private rental sector could play a far greater role in helping to end homelessness in Scotland, according to a new...

Propertymark has set out a five point plan to improve the status and usefulness of the Energy Performance Certificate and to...

Council tax premiums being considered in Wales would be insufficient to persuade short let and holiday home owners to move their...

A new analysis by Rightmove suggests it could take literally decades for the private rental sector to conform with stricter energy...

Private landlords should hold fire on plans to quit the private rental sector and give the government a chance to incentivise...

A new survey of lettings agents and landlords has put the reinstatement of Section 24 mortgage tax relief at the top...

Propertymark’s ARLA President is calling on the government to intervene to help boost the flagging stock of rental properties. The call, by...

New Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf is bad news for the private rental sector, a prominent lettings agent warns. David Alexander -...

A new PropTech tool says it will help agents maximise their chances of handling the sales of properties being disposed of...

Campaigning charity Shelter is angry with Chancellor Jeremy Hunt over his Budget  While most in the property industry have expressed relief that there...

A prominent agent and former RICS residential chairman has made an impassioned plea to the government to help the private rental...

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

A prominent lettings agency chief wants a raft of measures to help the private rental sector and investors in next week’s...

Exeter council in Devon is promoting a scheme to private landlords by calling it a “cost-effective solution for landlords who want...

The British Property Federation, which typically has relatively little to say about the private rental sector, has issued a series of...

Propertymark has told the government it should have three priorities for next month’s Budget. 1. Improving welfare system for vulnerable and low-waged...

Propertymark wants to see more energy-efficient homes, but with realistic targets and incentives to act. In its submission to the government ahead...

The government has been accused of pushing up the cost of home insulation because of a poorly timed public campaign. The National...

A new scheme offering landlords the opportunity to lease property through a local authority has been launched.   Leasing Scheme Wales: Gwynedd gives...

New figures from property consultancy TwentyCi lay bare the challenges faced by the lettings sector. In the third quarter of 2022 new...

The agents’ trade body Propertymark says the government must “get realistic” over the difficulties involved in reaching Net Zero targets when...

Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng has announced that stamp duty will be cut.  In future there will be no stamp duty on the first...

The National Audit Office has made scathing criticisms of government efforts to build more affordable housing. The public spending watchdog says the...

A prominent supporter of new Prime Minister Liz Truss has spoken out against rent controls.  Veteran Conservative MP Sir John Redwood, who...

Winkworth’s latest figures to shareholders show that sales revenues have slumped badly - but lettings have boomed for the moment at...

ARLA Propertymark says it’s a strong fan of New Zero ambitions but warns that the private rental sector needs incentives to...

A major lettings sector supplier says the industry must do more to appeal to win employees from the TikTok generation. These typically...

ARLA Propertymark has released details of its written response to a Parliamentary committee investigating the impact of Airbnb-style short lets on...

Propertymark has issued the government with a stark warning - without incentives to landlords, the private rental sector will shrink, rents...

MPs on a key Select Committee have been criticised by the letting agents’ trade body for failing to probe how Local...

Propertymark has set up a working group of experts, agents, landlords and stakeholders in response to radical reforms to the private...

Agents running their own businesses but attracted to the advantages of a corporate are being targeted by a new Business Integration...

A property investment company says Build To Rent is key to helping Britain meet its current housing and climate change challenges...

Letting agents should consider how the properties they manage can become more energy efficient, says Propertymark. And they should tap into new...

An agency in an Airbnb hotspot is offering incentives to landlords who switch from short lets to long-term mainstream letting. Dan Roskilly,...

One of the UK’s largest lettings groups has made an outspoken attack on the policies of a political party standing in...

ARLA Propertymark is the latest rental industry organisation to hit out at what it calls the “tenant-centred approach” being taken to...

The chief executive of ARLA Propertymark has made an outspoken attack on the UK government, accusing it of a “blatant disregard...

There’s been a broad welcome from letting agents to the Spring Statement not loading more tax or restrictions on buy to...

A major think tank is calling for a radical reform of the private rental sector. A report from the cross-party independent Social...

New financial incentives are needed to bring thousands of empty homes back into use and give a much-needed boost to the...

Perhaps few letting agents consider giving anything like rewards to tenants, but if they did there might be a case for...

ARLA Propertymark has thrown its weight behind a new dispute resolution service as a quicker and less expensive alternative to court...

A leading lettings agency wants next week’s Budget to unveil incentives to bolster supply in the long term rental sector. Richard Davies,...

ARLA Propertymark has blasted the government over its net zero policy of banning new boilers from 2035 and giving landlords £5,000...

A lack of longer term rental accommodation thanks to the growth of Airbnb and other short lets has led to a...

The farcical implementation of the government’s Green Homes Grant scheme has been sharply criticised by Propertymark. Timothy Douglas, the organisation’s policy and...

Propertymark says new figures detailing the costs of energy efficiency improvements in the private rental sector show the need for a...

ARLA Propertymark says there should be a long term appropriately funded strategy to help the private rental sector and home owners...

A regional agency group is providing training courses free of charge to members “for the foreseeable future.” The training - usually heavily...

The initiative which the government hoped would transform energy efficiency in the private rental sector is being axed this week. The Green...

Propertymark has responded to the official consultation on the government proposals called Energy Performance of Privately Rented Homes in England and...

The Tenant Fees Act 2019’s 12-month transition period came to an end on 31 May, prohibiting various payments and charges that...

A controversial Labour council that locked horns with the government over landlord licensing is now submitting a new proposal for its...

ARLA Propertymark wants the government to make the current business rates exemption for High Street branches permanent. The exemption, introduced in the spring...

Industry supplier The Letting Partnership is calling for businesses to take on more apprentices and support young people in a challenging...

An influential think-tank wants private rental properties to have a minimum EPC rating of B by 2030. The Institute for Public Policy...

The chairman of an agency chain is advising landlords to prepare for stock surpluses in some areas and to win tenants...

A council wants buy to let landlords with one-bed flats or rooms in shared homes to help it find homes for...

A leading property industry figure says Airbnb is attempting to persuade traditional buy to let landlords into going down the short-let...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents and the National Association of Estate Agents have issued their manifesto for next month’s General...

One of the leading providers of deposit alternatives in the UK wants the government to embrace the option - even to...

With the recent introduction of the Tenant Fees Act – which bans upfront fees charged by letting agents and caps security...

A rental market expert is urging landlords to be cautious when considering to use short-term lets websites such as Airbnb to...

A trade body has welcomed calls by a parliamentary committee for tax incentives for the buy to let sector to improve...

Another think-tank has come up with reforms which it wants the government to make to the private rental sector - and...

Brexit is not a good reason for delaying buy to let investment, insists a mortgage chief. Andrew Turner is chief executive at...

The private rental sector in Wales could be offered incentives and other support to house those most in need, the Welsh...

The chief executive of a specialist buy to let mortgage broker is warning that mortgages for landlords are likely to become...

A poll of 1,250 landlords suggests that far from being concerned about the profitability of buy to let, almost 80 per...