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If Labour wins Thursday’s General Election. expect three major housing announcements within a fortnight. That’s the exclusive claim from the Sunday Times...

Knight Frank is suggesting that a growing degree of uncertainty is hitting the rental market, particularly the high-end sector in the...

The chief executive of Goodlord, the prominent PropTech supplier to the lettings sector, has been revealed as one of the 121...

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...

Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves has told the Labour Party conference that if her party wins the next General Election she will...

Labour’s Lucy Powell, the party’s new housing spokesperson, says she wants to work with the Conservatives to scrap Section 21 eviction...

Housing minister Chris Pincher has entered the row over Labour claiming that the stamp duty holiday announced last week was in...

Labour’s latest suggestion for the private rental sector - a rent holiday for tenants during the Coronavirus crisis - has been...

Labour has dropped its controversial policy under which private tenants would have been able to buy their homes at a discount. Press...

Labour’s controversial proposal to oblige landlords to sell their buy to let properties to tenants who wished to purchase them, unveiled...

A group of landlords in the North East are the latest to criticise Labour's plans to introduce a Right to Buy...

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

A leading PropTech chief says there is nothing inherently wrong with private tenants being given the right to buy their property,...

A Labour think tank considered on the right wing of the party says it wants rent controls that make a difference...

More details have emerged about Labour’s controversial proposal to allow private rental tenants that right to buy their landlord’s property, at...

As the row over Labour’s proposal rumbles on the think tank Centre for Policy Studies - which has previously argued that...

The Association of Residential Lettings Agents appears to have joined the chorus of criticism against Labour’s controversial right to buy policy...

Labour has this morning pledged to introduce a shock new policy if it wins the next general election - giving private...

Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell has made a clear pledge to tighten regulations surrounding the private rental sector. In an interview with The...

There has been a sharp and rapid rebuttal of comments made by new shadow chancellor John McDonnell suggesting that private sector...

Given that I wrote my last article on the day of the General Election but well before the result was known,...

The new shadow chancellor has said that he is against a ‘crack down’ on letting agencies and rent controls.  Labour’s Chris Leslie,...