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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...

Any lingering hope of a pre-election interest rate cut by the Bank of England has been hurt by the government’s Office...

There’s been at most a one per cent reduction in landlords in the buy to let sector, a think tank claims...

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

New data released by insurance firm HomeLet claims that average rents have fallen now for three months on the bounce. The past...

A survey by one of the industry’s deposit alternative services, flatfair, shows that - unsurprisingly - over 61 per cent rank...

Attention estate agents: if you're looking for a bumper Christmas bonus, then maintaining your marketing spend throughout December might just be...

The latest edition of the HomeLet Rental Index shows a near double-digit average annual rent rise across the UK. Renters can now...

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

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

Shelter has published what it calls a General Election manifesto with rent controls at its heart. Called The Way Home: a manifesto to...

The relatively good news over inflation delivered by the government yesterday will not stop a 15th successive base rate rise from...

Finances have never been more stretched in the UK, with almost every bill and expense soaring for employees and employers alike,...

A comparison website has compiled a list of what it claims to be the most common lies on tenancy applications -...

The property market could be emerging from the downturn, Zoopla says.  Annual house price growth remains just 3.0 per cent according to...

New figures from the Ministry of Justice show that between October and December last year, across England and Wales, there were...

The government has been accused of pushing up the cost of home insulation because of a poorly timed public campaign. The National...

A senior lettings industry figure says the Bank of England should delay future base rate rises to allow the housing market...

The National Audit Office has made scathing criticisms of government efforts to build more affordable housing. The public spending watchdog says the...

A prominent lettings agency chief says a consultation looking at changes to private renting proposed by the Scottish Government is merely...

The number of prospective tenants asked to provide guarantors ahead of renting has risen by a huge 36 per cent over...

Labour shadow housing secretary Lucy Powell has resuscitated the eviction ban, this time for furloughed workers whose government support ends in...

A letting agency has appeared on a ‘name and shame’ list of companies which failed to pay staff the minimum wage. Tetsuo...

The government has updated its guidance for agents, landlords and tenants to explain the possession action process in the county courts...

Zoopla says rents outside London are rising at an average three per cent per year, the highest level since late 2018. However...

Housing charity Crisis says government statistics show almost one in five private renters in England in arrears or likely to fall...

Campaign group Generation Rent says thousands of tenants in areas of the country under Tier 3 Coronavirus restrictions are in danger...

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

Move iQ, the consumer-facing property service led by Phil Spencer, has teamed up with a lettings sector insurance provider which could...

A leading PropTech entrepreneur is warning agents to prepare for increased rent arrears from as soon as next month. Neil Cobbold, chief...

A lettings sector trade body, acting with homelessness charities, is urging the government to do more as young people in rented...

Research from franchise giant Belvoir is the latest to show what may be rapidly changing aspirations from private tenants. “The results confirm...

Tenants paid a UK average monthly rent of £775 during the first quarter of this year according to the Deposit Protection...

The government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme will be essential to keeping payments flowing through the rental sector, according to a leading...

A campaign group is urging its members to write to landlords asking them to “suspend” rent demands until the Coronavirus crisis...

All court possession orders are being suspended from today as part of the changes to the private rental sector to cope...

The growing number of companies offering support services to hosts and agencies that operate short lets on Airbnb and similar platforms...

Almost three quarters of Belvoir’s lettings franchisees anticipate rent increases this year.  In a survey of the franchise firm’s offices across the...

An increasing number of over-60s are now turning to the private rental sector - but, like other demographic sectors, they face...

A PropTech firm says lettings and sales agents are less efficient because software providers and the wider industry have done too...

UK-wide rental prices are up 2.0 per cent annually to £876 – a three-year high – according to a new quarterly...

Average UK rents continued to rise between July and September, but failed to keep up with inflation, according to The Deposit...

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

A controversial new survey claims to have identified the best cities for millennials to live in based on factors such as...

Renting became more affordable in 2018 thanks to a combination of a once-in-a-decade fall in annual rents and wage inflation, according...

Most tenants believe they will never be able to own a home because of the burden of saving for a deposit...

The charity Shelter, which regularly campaigns against lettings agencies and landlords, is bracing itself for a strike next week - and...

Rent increases seen in London this year are likely to continue in 2019 because of the diminishing supply of homes to...

Figures drawn up for the London region of the GMB union claim that across the capital’s 33 boroughs private rents have...

Rent rises in the private rental sector have merely tracked inflation and the Retail Price Index over the past five years...

The GMB trades union has waded in to the debate over whether rents in the private rental sector in London are...

Two million tenants will this year be hit with rent rises totalling a combined £46m a month according to an online...

Belvoir has published what it calls ‘a decade of data’ tracking the changes in the private rental sector since 2008, when...

The new leader of the Labour party in Scotland says his party will introduce “stringent” rent controls if it gains power...

Even those earning average salaries risk being priced out of the lettings market by high rents according to an insurance agency.    Research...

  Renters are spending half their wages keeping a roof over their head, are twice as likely as homeowners to have no...

London is the globe's second most expensive city for renters, according to research by housebuilder Barratt London. The study analysed 20 cities...

Housing minister Gavin Barwell says recent changes to buy to let mortgage interest relief and stamp duty will only affect a...

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

The Daily Telegraph - an outspoken critic of George Osborne’s fiscal changes aimed at extracting more money from the buy to...

The total number of evictions last year reached a record high of 42,728 according to data from the Ministry of Justice.  Whilst...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents wants the government to allocate more spending and greater political priority to housing, after new...

The governor of the Bank of England has ruled out an immediate rise in interest rates because of the turmoil in...

A survey conducted for buy to let lender Landbay claims that a strong lettings market even in winter demonstrates “the shortage...

The rural agency team at Bidwells says it is concerned the Conservative government may - by accident or design - be...

Rents in the private sector have been falling in real terms according to an independent study just published.   The research, commissioned by...

A letting agent who fled Britain to India, leaving landlords and tenants out of pocket and his staff’s wages unpaid, has...