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The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has given a warm welcome to Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner’s planning reforms. This week Rayner...

The latest edition of the English Housing Survey reveals precisely how relatively rarely Section 21 is used. Data from the survey analysed...

New analysis from the British Property Federation (BPF) shows a dramatic slump in the number of Build To Rent units started. Although...

ARLA Propertymark and a number of other property industry bodies wants Housing Secretary Angela Rayner to regulate letting and sales agents. An...

The latest residential market survey from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors is raising a red flag over what it calls...

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

A pro-tenant group wants the next government to take Right To Buy properties back to public ownership when they come up...

Propertymark wants Northern Ireland’s Department for Communities to regulate property agents via professional bodies such as itself. The Department for Communities is...

Political parties should stop bickering and instead work together to improve the private rental sector. That’s the view of the Lettings industry...

Legal & General’s suburban Build To Rent business, called LGSBTR, has exchanged on 41 new BTR homes in St Neots, Cambridgeshire.   Consisting...

England’s county councils want the next government to set out a long-term plan for housing, as a new report claims there’s...

The new Labour leader in Wales, Vaughan Gething, has received an early shot across the bows from Propertymark. Gething was elected Welsh...

Labour leader Sir Kier Starmer has confirmed that Awaab’s Law - putting a strict timescale on urgent repairs being done -...

The Property Institute has welcomed a Labour Party move to introduce the regulation of property agents across much of the sector. Tabled...

Propertymark has laid out its proposals to the Scottish Government ahead of its 2024-25 Budget next week. The letting agents’ trade body...

An estimated seven million UK households are struggling to keep up with their rent or mortgage payments, Which? warns, with millions...

Propertymark has given advice to the new Scottish National Party leader and Scotland’s First Minister, Humza Yousaf. The trade group’s head of...

Agents’ body Propertymark wants more government action to boost housing supply - and it wants the views of the industry on...

Propertymark has told a UK government to stop ignore the damaging effect of its policies on the private rental sector. An outspoken...

Demographic data from the latest Census suggests that the Private Rental Sector now provides homes for 20.3 per cent of the...

Legal & General Capital helped fund over 17,000 new homes last year across a range of tenures, chiefly Build To Rent.  Chief...

Agents have expressed their anger at the government effectively scrapping any meaningful house building targets. Housing Secretary Michael Gove scrapped the mandatory...

A prominent agency lettings chief is alerting the industry that new smoke and carbon monoxide alarm rules are changing from October 1. Since...

The John Lewis Partnership has revealed the first three locations where it will build new rental homes. The properties “would offer the...

ARLA Propertymark is the latest rental industry organisation to hit out at what it calls the “tenant-centred approach” being taken to...

The industry’s main trade body for lettings agents is telling its members to let the BBC know if they believe the...

The chief executive of ARLA Propertymark has made an outspoken attack on the UK government, accusing it of a “blatant disregard...

Agents are being urged to prepare for  changes to the Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm Regulations which may come in this...

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

Property management specialist Pinnacle Group has strengthened its digital offer for customers across its residential portfolio, signing a three-year deal with...

New research commissioned by the landlords’ trade body shows that the UK needs almost 230,000 new private rented homes a year...

The latest English Housing Survey shows a dramatic rise in the energy efficiency of private rental property. Some 38 per cent of...

ARLA Propertymark is warning politicians fighting elections this spring that rent controls should be firmly off the agenda. The organisation traditionally sets...

Nearly four out of 10 landlords believe that tenant demand will rise this year, according to a study by high-profile buy...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors wants the government to implement recent recommendations to regulate the agency industry, starting with the...

A leading industry trade body says the latest English Housing Survey report proves that criticisms of the private rental sector’s costs...

A lettings sector trade body has put the blame firmly on government for the scale of poverty amongst those who privately...

The government’s new redress system, announced last week and to be implemented later this year, must be free for renters to...

There’s been broad support from the lettings sector for the wide-ranging reform of the redress system announced yesterday by housing secretary...

Some 79 per cent of landlords are only servicing the interest on their mortgages, not paying down their loans, according to...

The private rental sector can help reduce smoking according to a report from Action on Smoking and Health, a pressure group. The...

Belvoir says more landlords are selling up and fewer newcomers are investing in the private rental sector because of increased legislation...

The government’s announcement that it will bring in mandatory electrical checks in the private rented sector has been welcomed - perhaps...

The British Property Federation says there are now 124,037 Build To Rent homes complete, under construction and in planning across the...

A leading lettings sector trade body has repeated its call on government to offer a range of incentives to landlords and...

Policy makers concerned with the private rental sector ignore the needs of older tenants who are regarded as “invisible”. That’s the claim...

At least one trade body has expressed an apparent scepticism about whether the rebranding of the Department of Communities and Local...

The cost of private rented housing is roughly mirroring changes in earnings across England - but in the social rented sector...

A senior mortgage lender is warning that government reforms of the buy to let sector could have wide-ranging and unintended consequences. Richard...

Legal & General Capital, which is set to be one of the biggest names in the burgeoning Build To Rent sector...

MPs and members of the House of Lords want private sector tenants to be given clearer up-front information on the cost...

Returns from buy to let properties have risen to their highest level in over a year.  Data from Your Move and Reeds...

The chairman of Berkeley Homes is warning that George Osborne’s latest three per cent stamp duty hike for buy to let...

Savills says mainstream UK rents are likely to rise by an average of 16.5 per cent by the end of 2020...

The British Property Federation is urging the government to focus on delivery of all housing tenures, not just owner-occupation. The call came...