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

The new Labour government is to bring in so-called ‘hardship tests’ to make it tougher to evict tenants, a newspaper claims. The...

A lettings agency which has given broad support to the Renters Reform Bill now says it’s concerned that shadow housing Secretary...

Labour has stepped up its programme clamping down on what it calls “unscrupulous landlords strangling growth.” Specifically this means ending bidding wars,...

Agents, and others in the lettings industry, have given a sceptical response to the Conservative manifesto and its varied pledges about...

In an unusually outspoken intervention into the election campaign, Rightmove has criticised the absence of debate over housing. The issue has not...

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

Two former housing ministers are at war with each other after an attack on Rishi Sunak’s premiership in today’s Daily Telegraph. Sir...

Controversy surrounds a government idea - floated over the weekend - to allow renters to secure mortgages with just one per...

Knight Frank has taken the unusual step of warning that Tory splits over Rwanda and immigration could force an early election...

Newspaper report claims some 710 properties have been put into the private rental market by the government - and they are...

The Liberal Democrats have called on the government to bring in an emergency ban on no fault evictions and banks repossessing people’s homes...

Former housing minister Rachel Maclean - the victim of a shock sacking by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak last month - has...

A senior Propertymark official will today tell MPs of the industry’s concerns about the Renters Reform Bill. The Bill has reached the...

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says the Renters Reform Bill will be mentioned in today’s King’s Speech - and is part of...

The Renters Reform Bill is to get its long awaited Second Reading on Monday, October 23. The claim comes from today’s Financial...

Labour deputy leader and shadow housing secretary Angela Rayner has given her party’s conference an outline of future policy plans. She says:...

An industry body - the Property Energy Professionals Association - has condemned the Prime Minister’s abandonment of Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards...

The lettings chief in a prominent regional agency says she’s delighted that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has done a dramatic U-turn...

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has thrown his weight behind Housing Secretary Michael Gove’s proposals to delay deadlines for EPC improvements in...

Airbnb has issued a statement responding to the call for a clampdown on short lets demanded by Labour’s outspoken London Mayor,...

A mortgage lender has conducted a survey of homeowners which has produced a string of anti-landlord and anti-overseas investor attitudes. Market Financial...

A proposal to introduce a national register of Airbnb hosts in a bid to curb rowdy behaviour by guests has been...

It appears likely that Rachel Maclean is set to become the sixth housing minister in 12 months, replacing Lucy Frazer. In the...

Love to Rent, which describes itself as “the first and only digital marketing platform for the Build to Rent sector”, has written...

The Financial Times has an exclusive saying allowances on property taxes such as Capital Gains and Inheritance will be frozen -...

There’s widespread concern that the Bank of England’s monetary policy committee, which meets tomorrow, is to unveil a 0.75 per cent...

Knight Frank says it expects house prices to drop in the coming year - but only to those levels seen in...

As the Rishi Sunak government’s lower ranks finally take shape, the junior ministers working with Housing Secretary Michael Gove have been...

Famous London agency Foxtons has enjoyed a shares boost on the back of a 25 per cent spike in revenue in...

There seems to be an industry-wide sigh of relief that Rishi Sunak has become Prime Minister. His coronation marks the end of...

Rishi Sunak has won the Conservative leadership campaign and is set to become Prime Minister tomorrow. Over the summer Sunak set out...

It has emerged that Generation Rent and Shelter are amongst the charities that have written to Conservative leadership contenders Liz Truss...

A Labour MP says the government should introduce emergency rent controls as part of a package of measures to combat the...

A prominent trade body is warning Tory leadership candidates not to put rental reform on the back burner and add to...

The leader of the Generation Rent campaign group has accused Chancellor Rishi Sunak of “stacking the economy against private renters who...

A petition calling on Chancellor Rishi Sunak to increase tax on holiday lettings has still not hit its 45,000-signature target. Former long...

The head of a lettings agency has drawn up a wish list for Chancellor Rishi Sunak to address in his Budget...

The lettings agents’ group Propertymark has told Chancellor Rishi Sunak that unless the private rented sector is overhauled many landlords will...

Private tenants and landlords across the country face a cliff edge as the end of furlough coincides with cuts to benefit...

The chancellor Rishi Sunak has been urged to make it more attractive for landlords to invest in the private rental sector. Sunak...

Baroness Alicia Kennedy, director of the Generation Rent campaign, says rents in Wales, Scotland and South West England have soared thanks...

A tenant who says his former rental property has been turned into an Airbnb has set up a petition demanding Chancellor...

The extended stamp duty holiday is having a significant positive impact on the rental market, according to new research. In a survey...

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

Campaigning charity Shelter has criticised Chancellor Rishi Sunak for allegedly leaving “far more people on the brink of homelessness than homeownership.”  Chief...

Rightmove’s David Cox - formerly of the Association of Residential Letting Agents - is to talk through the Budget fallout for...

A property lawyer is forecasting a surge in buy to let purchasing in the coming months as the stamp duty extension...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents says it’s disappointed the Budget failed to address the funding of the private rental sector.  “Extending...

This afternoon's Budget has seen dramatic announcements from Chancellor Rishi Sunak referring to the private rental sector. For landlords buying properties, the stamp...

A leading tax expert is forecasting that Chancellor Rishi Sunak will duck making any changes to CGT in tomorrow’s Budget and...

A leading PropTech expert says the lettings industry hopes next week’s Budget will provide clarity on taxes - but he’s also...

A prominent industry figure is warning Chancellor Rishi Sunak not to use property taxes to bail out the government over the costs...

An agency is warning that possible Capital Gains Tax changes are now a cause of major worry to their landlord customers.  Barrows and...

A call has gone out for the longer-term buy to let rental sector to have a similar tax regime as the largely-unregulated...

ARLA Propertymark has issued a list of 10 demands for Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s long-awaited Budget on March 3, with a financial...

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

A leading property law expert says there is now pressure on Chancellor Rishi Sunak to raise stamp duty on buy to...

A warning has been issued by one of the most acquisitive letting agencies that future mergers and takeovers could be hit...

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

There’s widespread concern that a freeze on the Local Housing Allowance will worsen rental arrears. Although Chancellor Rishi Sunak failed to mention...

ARLA Propertymark is one of seven trade and charity groups calling on the government to help bail out private renters with...

Generation Rent’s campaign for more public funds for private tenants continues unabated with a call on Chancellor Rishi Sunak to increase...

ARLA Propertymark has issued a warning to government not to use Capital Gains Tax reform to further punish the private rental...

A prominent agent and industry commentator says the threat of higher Capital Gains Tax risks forcing yet more investors to quit...

The new trade group representing short lets operators is asking the government to make sure the short lets sector is specifically...

The fledgling trade association representing short lets companies wants public cash and other forms of aid to help the sector through winter. Merilee...

A leading trade body has broadly welcomed the Winter Economy Plan outlined by Chancellor Rishi Sunak yesterday, but says this still...

A leading figure in the private rental sector says the lettings industry has been largely ignored once again by Chancellor Rishi...

ARLA and the NRLA have teamed up with charities - some usually critical of letting agents and landlords - to lobby...

Campaign group Generation Rent says private tenants could miss out on an energy efficiency drive if they are not given the...

A lettings agent comparison website, Rentround, says the stamp duty holiday has spurred existing and would-be landlords to search for new...

Propertymark is the latest industry body to warn the government against Capital Gains Tax changes that may disincentivise landlords. A joint statement...

There’s a warning that buy to let investors will simply hold on to properties and not sell them if rumoured Capital...

Chancellor Rishi Sunak has requested a review of Capital Gains Tax rules from the Office for Tax Simplification - leading to...

Former Labour Baroness Alicia Kennedy, the new director of the campaign group Generation Rent, claims 500,000 renters are in arrears as...

Three groups of rental activists have demanded the government scrap all rent payments immediately and cancel all arrears - but mystery...

Part of the controversial Spicerhaart empire want the government to guarantee that some landlords receive 80 per cent of their usual...

A trade group’s submission to the Treasury ahead of next month’s Budget includes a call for the new Chancellor to slash...

MPs have proposed a series of amendments to the Tenant Fees Bill as part of its Report Stage and Third Reading...

The government has written to two senior MPs in a bid to clarify two detailed provisions in the Tenants Fees Bill,...