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12 August 2024
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New figures published by HMRC show a 7% rise in Capital Gains Tax liabilities on the sale of residential property in...
05 August 2024
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There’s a call from a prominent international building science service for the new Labour government to review the Energy Performance Certificates. EPCs...
10 July 2024
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Knight Frank says the incoming Labour government faces a potential clash between what is politically desirable and economically possible, in terms...
08 July 2024
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The incoming Labour government has a social mandate to support the next generation of homeowners in the UK, says financial PropTech...
05 July 2024
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Knight Frank says tenancies agreed in June for properties asking over £1,000 per week were at a level below the asking...
04 July 2024
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A ban on so-called bidding wars, which Labour now proposes, would have to include letting agents as well as landlords a...
24 June 2024
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Leasehold reform still has a long way to run, according to the Association of Leasehold Enfranchisement Practitioners (ALEP). The major party manifestos...
17 June 2024
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Shelter has spoken out in favour of what it calls “bold” commitments by Labour on the private rental sector and house...
14 June 2024
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Labour is launching a new Freedom to Buy scheme to get 80,000 young people on the housing ladder, over the next...
07 June 2024
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A pro-tenant group wants the next government to take Right To Buy properties back to public ownership when they come up...
05 June 2024
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The Property Institute - a body for the residential property management sector - has announced the appointment of a Labour baroness...
04 June 2024
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A Labour MP is calling for rent controls to be introduced, with powers for councils to tweak them as they see...
17 May 2024
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A coalition of higher education and student housing organisations have called on the government to make further changes to the Renters...
26 April 2024
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It feels as though the UK housing market is waiting for something to happen. The prevailing mood is one of anticipation with...
15 April 2024
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A think tank is urging the UK government to consider tax perks for private renters to help them save faster for...
20 March 2024
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The Property Institute has welcomed a Labour Party move to introduce the regulation of property agents across much of the sector. Tabled...
25 January 2024
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Independent polling gives Labour a big lead when it comes to its approach to housing policy. Detailed polling by the Ipsos pollster...
21 December 2023
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Airbnb has taken the unusual step of buying space on an influential Labour Party website, just ahead of the party’s conference. Amanda...
27 September 2023
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The Green Party - which ran the Brighton and Hove council until being swept from office in May’s local elections -...
25 August 2023
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It looks as if the Labour Party is turning its back on rent controls on England and Wales. In the past year...
29 June 2023
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Two prominent trade bodies representing elements of the private rental sector are fighting back against the latest attempt to impose rent...
09 June 2023
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The Labour Party is to launch a major review of the private rental sector, led by the head of a London...
30 January 2023
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An activist at the centre of a controversy involving a London letting agent has used a left-wing website to explain how...
25 April 2022
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A prominent agent says the shortage of rental property is now so acute, and like to get still worse, that those...
24 January 2022
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Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves has told the Labour Party conference that if her party wins the next General Election she will...
28 September 2021
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Labour shadow housing secretary Lucy Powell has resuscitated the eviction ban, this time for furloughed workers whose government support ends in...
12 August 2021
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A controversial Labour council that locked horns with the government over landlord licensing is now submitting a new proposal for its...
15 December 2020
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The Momentum movement on the left wing of the Labour Party is joining forces with housing organisations to argue against private...
09 September 2020
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A new Labour group - Labour Tenants United - has issued a four-prong attack on the current private rental sector including...
22 June 2020
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Labour has thrown its weight behind campaigning pressure groups in a general call to avoid what the party’s housing spokeswoman calls...
17 June 2020
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The campaigning charity Shelter says young adults are more in danger of homelessness than any other age group - and puts...
03 June 2020
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A foundation which receives substantial funding from trade unions and a charity linked to the Nationwide is calling for rents to...
15 May 2020
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The three month outright eviction ban pledged to renters last week appears to have been watered down in the Coronavirus Emergency...
24 March 2020
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A buy to let investor has been hit with a bill of almost £9,500 after being accused of allowing a tenant...
26 February 2020
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A ginger group that supports the Labour party says the government’s bid to stop pet bans is meaningless and does not...
08 January 2020
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The Labour party has mocked the government’s £4m new funding for councils to combat rogue agents and landlords as “puny.” A statement...
06 January 2020
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One might have thought that if private rental tenants were as badly treated as some people suggest, housing would be their...
18 November 2019
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A leading agent is the latest industry figure to speak out against rent controls, which continue to be advocated by Labour...
13 November 2019
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It looks likely that the Conservative party is set to formally oppose rent controls when it publishes its manifesto, probably in...
11 November 2019
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Labour’s controversial proposal to oblige landlords to sell their buy to let properties to tenants who wished to purchase them, unveiled...
06 November 2019
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The majority of the UK’s private renters don’t want to purchase a home according to new research, coming just as the...
24 September 2019
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The weekly economic and financial research magazine The Economist has made a scathing attack on rent controls. The publication says rent controls...
23 September 2019
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Labour is backing new guidelines which ban adverts which can be interpreted as encouraging landlords and home owners to flout restrictions...
19 September 2019
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A Labour think tank considered on the right wing of the party says it wants rent controls that make a difference...
17 September 2019
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The Labour Party appears to be entering the arena of organising private rental sector tenants who have grievances. Party leader Jeremy Corbyn...
19 August 2019
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A short lets management firm which was earlier this year at the centre of an advertisement controversy is now partnering with...
08 August 2019
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Rents in London are rocketing but a leading market commentator says this is no reason to give in to a “Marxist dystopia”...
07 August 2019
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Property investors are calling for the government to provide more support to the UK property market. A survey of investors, carried out...
05 July 2019
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A senior Labour politician has claimed that there is a city in the UK where two out of every 13 residential...
25 June 2019
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Airbnb has issued a statement distancing itself from controversial advertisements from a short lets management service. Hostmaker - which describes itself as...
07 June 2019
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A statement issued by short lets management firm Hostmaker about its controversial advertising campaign has been branded “disgusting” by a campaign...
07 June 2019
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Airbnb and short let management service Hostmaker - at the centre of a dispute involving a landlord trade body and the...
04 June 2019
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The Labour party has expressed outrage at the news that London councils are spending over £22m each year renting back homes...
21 January 2019
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The party conferences of the two main political parties threw up some interesting developments with regards to housing and the rental...
06 November 2018
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The new leader of the Labour party in Scotland says his party will introduce “stringent” rent controls if it gains power...
13 March 2018
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The Residential Landlords Association says Labour’s proposals to link rent increases to inflation would leave tenants worse off according to official...
15 February 2018
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It is being reported that the Labour mayor of Newham council - that’s the authority which has introduced stricter controls on...
15 February 2018
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A trade body says it wants more clarity from the Labour Party on its proposals to allow private sector tenants to...
14 February 2018
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One of the many firms that has sprung up to manage Airbnb-style short let accommodation says it backs the Labour Party’s...
06 February 2018
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The chairman of the Residential Landlords Association has written in the Labour-supporting New Statesman magazine about the need for the lettings...
22 January 2018
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Prime minister Theresa May has repeated that the current government will not introduce rent controls in the private sector. The issue of...
14 December 2017
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A leading legal firm is staging a free and interactive seminar on sub-letting, aimed at letting agents. The event takes place on...
27 October 2017
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The housing charity Shelter - which in recent years has been aggressively critical of letting agencies and landlords in the private...
29 September 2017
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Trade groups have reacted angrily to Labour’s proposal to introduce rent controls if the party enters government. The announcement, made by Labour...
28 September 2017
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Jeremy Corbyn has used his leader’s speech at the end of this week’s Labour conference in Brighton to commit the party...
27 September 2017
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A proposed amendment to the government's Housing and Planning Bill which suggests landlords are required to make homes 'fit for human...
15 June 2017
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The Labour Party has published its full manifesto for the upcoming General Election on June 8. Titled 'For the many not the...
17 May 2017
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A lettings and sales agent in the Midlands has renewed his appeal for help following an apparent arson attack on his...
09 July 2015
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One of four MP candidates standing for the Labour Party leadership says Right To Buy should be extended - to private...
26 June 2015
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Given that I wrote my last article on the day of the General Election but well before the result was known,...
19 June 2015
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The National Landlords Association has issued a briefing note which it says is a warning to Labour’s leadership and deputy leadership...
18 June 2015
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Nominations for Labour’s deputy leadership race close at midday today with Stella Creasy, an MP who has campaigned fiecely against letting...
17 June 2015
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One of the Labour party’s London Assembly members has criticised Boris Johnson’s London Rental Standard (LRS), saying it is ‘falling private...