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An influential Labour website says a raft of proposed reforms for the private rental sector will be unveiled next month -...

A local authority in West Sussex is proposing to build its own Airbnb four bedroom house on the site of old...

A lettings agent has been banned from holding office in a company for 11 years for abusing Covid loans - but...

A trade body wants the government to ensure its latest lockdown grants cover short lets businesses. The UK Short Term Accommodation Association...

The Generation Rent campaign has renewed its call for public money to be allocated to clear at least some rent arrears...

Shelter, which routinely criticises lettings agents and landlords, has been slammed for the huge amount of public funding it receives -...

A leading trade body says the government’s latest injection of funds to help local councils root out rogue operators in the...

A Labour council which has become famous for its critical approach to the private rental sector has now been given almost £200,000...

A local authority has written to purchasers of former council houses and apartments warning them against illegally letting them out -...

The government has announced that over £19.5m is to be spent on paying deposits or paying the first month’s rent for...

The council at Brighton & Hove has won an extra £34,820 in public money from the government to help it build...

A council accused of paying over £500,000 to a landlord it had already ruled as unfit to rent out property is...

More than 50 councils across the country will share nearly £2.4m of extra government funding to crack down on rogue landlords. Among...

Housing minister Brandon Lewis has made it clear that Build To Let - the investment by institutions to build and then...