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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...

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

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...

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,...

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

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 -...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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”...

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...

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...

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...