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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...

Deputy Prime Minister and Housing Secretary Angela Rayner has launched a comprehensive review of the National Planning Policy Framework. The objective is...

The biggest rental sector headline from Labour’s manifesto may well be its pledge for the “immediate” abolition of Section 21 eviction...

Labour’s manifesto, just released, makes a pledge to enact the “immediate” abolition of Section 21 eviction powers, along with other private...

A political party has proposed that Capital Gains Tax be equalised with Income Tax - meaning landlords and investors who sold...

Agents, and others in the lettings industry, have given a sceptical response to the Conservative manifesto and its varied pledges about...

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

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

A former housing minister responsible for the sell off of huge numbers of social homes has told the Prime Minister he...

An umbrella group called London Councils has expressed “extreme concern” at the government’s decision to stop letting local authorities keep money...

Shelter is calling for the construction of 90,000 rental properties each year for a decade - and it claims this would...

While most agents remain relatively tight lipped about party politics, the chief executive of Purplebricks has said the Tories should take...

Seventeen housing organisations have sent an open letter to the government rejecting its idea of prioritising British families when it comes...

Labour says it will keep the controversal Right To Buy policy in England if it wins this year’s General Election. This is...

Independent polling gives Labour a big lead when it comes to its approach to housing policy. Detailed polling by the Ipsos pollster...

A new manifesto calling for rent controls and a raft of other measures is accusing the current rent rises of being...

A prominent housing journalist says Labour should fund councils to buy homes directly from private landlords to rapidly increase the size...

A recent suggestion by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation charity, for government help to allow private tenants to buy their landlords’ homes,...

A prominent lettings Industry figure has slammed Boris Johnson’s latest housing market utterances, branding them “off the cuff” and likely to...

A selection of property industry figures have spoken out against the government’s latest proposals to extend Right To Buy to housing...

A leading lettings sector commentator believes today’s local elections may not directly change the private rental sector but could have a...

The head of a prominent brand in a fast-expanding lettings and sales agency group has given a cautious welcome to government...

Shelter has made an outspoken attack on a government proposal to extend Right To Buy to housing association tenants. The idea -...

The activist group Acorn is lobbying a local council to deny people the right to buy a second home or let...

A PropTech supplier to the lettings industry that has just signed a deal with OnTheMarket has come out in support of...

A leading trade body says the rental sector must not discriminate against tenants on benefits - and has told government it...

It’s been reported that a London council is considering spending £10m on purchasing 25 former council homes it previously sold off...

The Property Ombudsman has expelled five agencies, mostly for failures to honour awards: four of them are lettings operations and one...

A London council tenant who for a period of seven years failed to disclose that he owned three houses, has been...

The Liberal Democrats is the first of the major parties to release its party manifesto for the December 12 manifesto, and...

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 majority of the UK’s private renters don’t want to purchase a home according to new research, coming just as the...

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...

There’s been a fierce outcry from Conservative MPs and the lettings industry in response to Labour’s threat to give private rental...

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

A local authority has written to purchasers of former council houses and apartments warning them against illegally letting them out -...

A buy to let investor has lost possession of his flat after converting it into an Illegal House in Multiple Occupation...

The Labour party has expressed outrage at the news that London councils are spending over £22m each year renting back homes...

Labour insists that if it forms the next government it will introduce ‘living rents’ in a new range of affordable homes...

Specialist lender Together has lowered interest rates across a range of products including right to buy - and it’s making a...

It is 50 years since the Leasehold Reform Act 1967 became law and now a firm speciaising in enfranchisement extension wants the government...

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

It started off as an idea from Jeremy Corbyn’s campaign to become Labour leader but today it’s being backed by a...

The Right To Buy policy “has turned into a rich harvest for the greedy elite” according to a trades union. The GMB...

A group of MPs is raising concerns about a claim that 40 per cent of homes sold through the Right To...

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

There is reported to be a substantial majority amongst housing associations for the compromise deal over the government's controversial Right To...

G15, the largest group of London housing associations, says its members unanimously back a controversial Right to Buy compromise proposal. Under the...

The government is watering down its controversial new Right To Buy policy, by giving housing associations one week to sign up...

The Liberal Democrat party says it will use its members in the House of Lords to try to block the government's...

Nearly 40 per cent of all homes sold under Right To Buy in England have gone on to become buy to...

Competition is hot among home buyers in my part of southern England to take ownership of properties that come onto the...

One of four MP candidates standing for the Labour Party leadership says Right To Buy should be extended - to private...

I write this article on the day of the General Election so you’ll forgive the political analogies. In particular, how any...

With another hung parliament looking increasingly likely, the so-called ‘challenger parties’ look set to have a major say in who forms...