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Propertymark is demanding equal treatment with the social housing sector. Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove intends to boost standards in social housing...

Propertymark has welcomed proposed reforms to evict tenants who show persistent anti-social behaviour.   In 2018, a Northern Ireland Department of Justice consultation...

Labour has waded into the increasingly-fractious debate over the Renters Reform Bill. Activists in groups such as the Renters Reform Coalition and...

A respected property lawyer is accusing the government of helping nuisance tenants at the expense of the weak and vulnerable. Ian Narberth,...

The pro-tenant anti-landlord Renters Reform Bill has at last been published by the government which first promised it in 2019. It has...

The main landlord body wants more details behind the soundbite rhetoric of the Renters Referm Bill, launched today in Parliament. Ben Beadle,...

The letting agent’s trade body Propertymark is concerned that the court system could buckle if eviction case numbers rise as a...

A charity is claiming that new powers to evict anti-social private tenants could lead to more homelessness, while those already living...

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

Landlords and agents acting on their behalf are to be given more powers to evict unruly tenants who ruin neighbours’ lives...

A prominent businessman has told the Scottish media that the country’s rent freeze policy has led to two major housing schemes...

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

The government has released the full details of what it calls the Fairer Private Rented Sector White Paper. This is to form...

Lower income households, often found in the private rental sector, are set to bear the brunt of the rising inflation and...

A property investment platform has taken the unusual approach of accusing the government of driving up homelessness through its policy of...

A senior Conservative peer and consumer campaigner has written an article strongly defending the private rental sector, agents and landlords. Baroness Altmann...

Landlords have expressed disappointment at the government decision to extend the ban on evictions by a further two months.  It will be...

You may be forgiven for thinking that rent takes up an ever-greater proportion of tenants’ income - but new figures out...

The New Forest district council in Hampshire is appealling to letting agents and private tenants to sign up to its Private...

A housing charity has called for the government to build more affordable social homes for rent to help families 'trapped' in...

The myth has been broken - tenants in the private rental sector are more satisfied with their accommodation than those in...

The Labour Party has published its full manifesto for the upcoming General Election on June 8.  Titled 'For the many not the...

New legislation designed to reform Scotland’s private rental sector could make it harder for agents and landlords to tackle anti-social behaviour...