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Propertymasrk has thrown its weight behind Lloyds Banking Group making £2 billion of lending available to first time buyers borrowing more...

Reapit has launched a new feature to help agents comply with material information guidelines from the National Trading Standards Estate and...

Young people in London are taking on second jobs to get onto the property ladder, it’s claimed. Of the first-time buyers in...

The Conservatives have this afternoon set out a 78-page manifesto, of which just over two pages are given to housing and...

A mortgage lender claims many potential first time buyers are missing out because they don’t understand the concept of shared ownership. Just...

Property management and facilities firm Pinnacle is to become the leading managing agent for Legal & General Affordable Homes. In recent weeks, the...

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

A survey from property portal Share to Buy suggests that over three quarters of buyers believe they cannot afford to purchase...

Propertymark’s property auction division - NAVA - has given ringing endorsement to the Material Information changes demanded under new Trading Standards...

Winchester council is setting up its own agency to let and manage privately rented homes. Venta Living pledges to provide “high quality,...

The government has changed the way shared ownership rents can be increased. This change will apply to the leases of new shared...

Propertymark has issued another plea to the government to be fair to the private rental sector - this time regarding a...

The new Housing Loss Prevention Advice Service kicks in today - it offers early legal advice, free of charge, to anyone...

The Advertising Standards Authority has stepped in to investigate allegations about advertising for shared ownership homes.  In 2021 an advertisement appeared on...

The new material information requirements recently announced by the National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agency Team will be the topic...

Affordable homes provider Auxesia Homes has appointed residential management firm Touchstone to handle its entire mixed tenure portfolio.  Auxesia offers affordable shared...

London’s mass transit service, Transport for London, has won consent for 853 homes at a huge scheme in the west of the...

While we wouldn’t be so bold as to say the government gets its daily fix of property news from the Today...

The agency industry has reacted in a broadly downbeat way at the relatively few housing-related proposals that were announced in yesterday’s...

The government has outlined increases in powers it wants to give social housing tenants - but no details of increases in social housing building. The...

A London council has set up a system to allow council tenants to buy into a shared ownership scheme which it...

The government’s initiatives to try to increase house building and owner occupation will not stop demand for rented homes rising by...

- From April 2016 buy to let landlords and people buying second or holiday homes will have to pay an additional...

George Osborne has announced a shock additional 3.0 per cent stamp duty on second homes and buy to let properties. Details are...