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If Labour plans to bring in rent controls they won’t work, a property association has warned.  The National Association of Property Buyers...

Propertymark wants Labour to come clean on its rent control policy, as the party repeatedly flip-flops on the issue. The agents’ body...

A Labour MP is calling for rent controls to be introduced, with powers for councils to tweak them as they see...

The pressure on rents for new tenancies in Scotland’s private rented sector have started to ease with all major cities now...

Propertymark has urged Scotland’s new First Minister to end the country’s housing emergency. John Swinney is now First Minister and says he...

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

A prominent lettings agency operator says he hopes the “toxic” attitude to the private rental sector by the Scottish Government may...

An amendment is expected to be made by the government to its Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill. The Bill, put forward by...

A lawyer says radical rental reforms proposed for Scotland - which could be a model for change in England and Wales...

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

Agents have expressed their anger at permanent rent controls proposed by the SNP and Green Party politicians running the Scottish Government. The...

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

The politician widely regarded as being the architect of rent controls in Scotland says he will shortly present a wider package...

Propertymark has urged the Scottish Government to resolve the country’s ongoing housing emergency. The news comes as Scottish Labour MSP Mark Griffin...

The new Labour leader in Wales, Vaughan Gething, has received an early shot across the bows from Propertymark. Gething was elected Welsh...

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

Propertymark has urged its members who feel frustrated by the changes to the Scottish Government’s so-called Cost of Living regulations ending...

The controversial minister who steered rent controls through the Scottish Parliament has contacted Propertymark to reveal details of the next stage. Patrick...

Independent polling gives Labour a big lead when it comes to its approach to housing policy. Detailed polling by the Ipsos pollster...

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

Propertymark says it’s delivering a powerful message to the Scottish Government - despite losing a recent key legal case. The agents trade...

There’s been widespread dismay in the industry as the outcome of a Judicial Review has backed the Scottish Government’s objective of...

A controversial consultation document about rent controls is proposing that Build To Rent operators be exempt from the caps which may...

Proposals for rent controls made in a government consultation document have been slammed by a prominent industry commentator and PropTech entrepreneur. The...

The Green Party - which ran the Brighton and Hove council until being swept from office in May’s local elections -...

The Scottish Government looks set to extend its rent cap for yet another six months, despite widespread opposition from the lettings...

A franchise network boss has sharply criticised both Labour and the Tories for their pro-tenant policies. Dominic Agace, chief executive of Winkworth,...

Property portal Citylets says average rents in Scotland rose 12.4 per cent in the past year to £1,007 per month -...

One of Scotland’s largest lettings agencies is voicing concern over what it calls “the lack of balance” in the Scottish government’s...

Scottish rents in the private sector rose at a faster rate than the rest of Britain according to analysis by DJ...

A seminar is to be held to look at the impact of rent controls on the burgeoning Build To Rent sector. Private...

Numbers of possessions have soared in Scotland since the introduction of a rent cap and eviction ban according to DJ Alexander,...

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

The housing crisis will be made worse by rent caps, two property experts have said. Various activist groups, much of the Green...

Ruling politicians in Scotland have agreed that from April private rents can rise by 3.0 per cent in a 12 month period...

An influential housing body has criticised the Green and SNP politicians behind the Scottish Government’s rent cap, which has been renewed...

The controversial ban on private rental sector rent rises and evictions is to continue in Scotland for another six months at...

Agents have only until the end of tomorrow, December 2, to feed into Propertymark’s response to a new consultation on the...

A lettings agency in Scotland has played down the impact of the emergency rent freeze and eviction ban which have been...

There’s been a wide range of angry reactions to the Scottish Government’s passing of an emergency rent freeze and eviction ban...

Headline-grabbing demands for more regulation and rent freezes risk frightening buy to let investors away, a leading analyst warns. Doug Shephard is...

With the campaign for rent controls gathering momentum from London Mayor Sadiq Khan and sympathetic pressure groups, a right wing Conservative-backing...

A council is launching a form on online letting agency which wants to push agents and landlords into agreeing two year...

One of the country’s major regional newspapers has launched a campaign for the urgent introduction of rent controls. The Bristol Evening Post,...

A 68-page academic report urges governments not to adopt hard controls that simply freeze rents - even though it acknowledges that...

Campaigners against letting agents and landlords appear to suggest that the issue of rising rents is uniquely confined to the UK...

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

Almost 40,000 people have signed a petition urging rent caps for private tenants and hefty tax rises for second home owners. The...

An outspoken property investor has launched an online petition on the government website to oppose the threat of rent controls. YouTube influencer...

A renters’ union in Scotland claims a proposal to cap rents in the country doesn’t go far enough. The Scottish Parliament’s Local...

An organisation that wants rent controls, the scrapping of Section 21 and what it calls “indefinite tenancies” claims to have 4,000...

A leading PropTech figure says a political issue north of the border demonstrates the advantages of voluntary industry codes of practice over...

A Bill which would have introduced a general cap on rent increases in the private rental sector has been abandoned by...

The Generation Rent pressure group is wrong to claim that the majority of landlords are failing to support tenants needing help...

Labour’s policies for the private rental sector are “too extreme ... unrealistic and will be hugely damaging to housing supply in...

As the battle of political policies continues ahead of next month’s General Election, now Labour has unveiled a raft of initiatives...

It looks likely that the Conservative party is set to formally oppose rent controls when it publishes its manifesto, probably in...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has accused Labour of being thin on detail when it comes to the housing policies...

Rents in London are rocketing but a leading market commentator says this is no reason to give in to a “Marxist dystopia”...

Second home owners, landlords and property investors are being urged to beware a “dramatic change” to the current capital gains tax...

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

Generation Rent, the controversial pressure group campaigning alongside Shelter and others for the scrapping of landlords’ rights to evict under Section...

A large shake up of the private rental sector begins in Scotland tomorrow with the introduction of Private Residential Tenancies replacing...

The shadow housing minister, John Healey, has started to flesh out the details of Labour's proposed rent controls, announced by Jeremy...

The housing charity Shelter - which in recent years has been aggressively critical of letting agencies and landlords in the private...

Almost 60% of the 500 tenants surveyed by an online letting agent said they would rather rent rises were capped instead...

The controversial campaign group ACORN, which has made headlines by protesting outside letting agency offices in Bristol, is launching a new...

Typical rents in Scotland are down from £757 per month to £747 according to Citylets - just as the Private Housing...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has made a detailed case against so-called 'rent stabilisation' measures advocated by some on the...

The rise and rise of Airbnb - the global online short-lets system that could be used by landlords to short-circuit letting...

One of the Labour hopefuls for the 2016 mayoral election in London has called for the introduction of rent caps in...

Earlier this week the housing charity Shelter confounded many in the private rented sector by concluding on its website that tough rent...

Campaigning charity Shelter appears for the first time to have acnowledged that rent caps may backfire and end up harming tenants...

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A new director of The Property Ombudsman in Scotland and chief executive of one of that country’s major letting agencies ia...

An umbrella organisation representing parts of the private rented sector is to be put before the Scottish parliament in a bid...

Belvoir remains unrepentant after criticism from some quarters over an email sent to tenants last week intimating that a vote for...

Around 40 developers, property consultants and block managers have sent an open letter to the new government - being elected today...

The chief executive of the Scottish Association of Landlords - which represents letting agents as well as landlords north of the...

Property industry figures opposed to Labour plans to impose three year tenancies and rent caps should lobby candidates in a bid...

While much of the lettings industry protests against Labour proposals for rent controls and three year tenancies, an influential pressure group...

There are “advantages all round” in the certainty that three-year tenancies and even rent controls can offer, according to the head...