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The pressure on rents for new tenancies in Scotland’s private rented sector have started to ease with all major cities now...
10 May 2024
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The average gross rental yield reported by landlords has reached the highest level since the second quarter of 2018, according to...
03 May 2024
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Property management and facilities firm Pinnacle is to become the leading managing agent for Legal & General Affordable Homes. In recent weeks, the...
16 April 2024
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England’s county councils want the next government to set out a long-term plan for housing, as a new report claims there’s...
25 March 2024
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A former housing minister responsible for the sell off of huge numbers of social homes has told the Prime Minister he...
18 March 2024
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An umbrella group called London Councils has expressed “extreme concern” at the government’s decision to stop letting local authorities keep money...
13 March 2024
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The PropTech sector has mostly agreed with the rest of the industry in its view on yesterday’s Budget - that it...
07 March 2024
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Shelter is calling for the construction of 90,000 rental properties each year for a decade - and it claims this would...
27 February 2024
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Knight Frank has taken the unusual step of suggesting a government proposal for the housing market is high-risk and could even...
23 February 2024
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A council that is buying private properties in second home hotspots to let to local people has struck a new agreement...
16 February 2024
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A managing partner at a letting agency has given an insight into the unique forces which he says is “strangling” the...
30 January 2024
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Controversy surrounds a government idea - floated over the weekend - to allow renters to secure mortgages with just one per...
22 January 2024
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A council is considering borrowing £50m to buy properties to rent on the private market and for affordable housing. West Norfolk council...
08 January 2024
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Propertymark has urged the Scottish Government to build more affordable homes. The latest data from the Scottish Government itself shows that the...
21 December 2023
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Portsmouth and Southsea lettings agency Chinneck Shaw has been appointed to manage the first purpose-built Build to Rent project from Ravelin...
04 December 2023
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The government has changed the way shared ownership rents can be increased. This change will apply to the leases of new shared...
16 October 2023
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Labour deputy leader and shadow housing secretary Angela Rayner has given her party’s conference an outline of future policy plans. She says:...
09 October 2023
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The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors is launching its manifesto at this week’s Tory party conference - and improving the supply...
02 October 2023
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Shelter has published what it calls a General Election manifesto with rent controls at its heart. Called The Way Home: a manifesto to...
25 September 2023
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The private rental sector could play a far greater role in helping to end homelessness in Scotland, according to a new...
21 August 2023
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New research shows a 41 per cent reduction in the number of London properties available for private rent since the Covid-19...
06 July 2023
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A news service claims that in many UK cities there are now more entire homes listed on Airbnb than there are...
03 May 2023
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Lloyds Banking Group and homelessness charity Crisis have joined forces in a new two-year partnership including the establishment of a so-called...
18 April 2023
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The Local Government Association, which comprises 331 of the 333 councils in England and all 22 Welsh unitary councils, is calling on...
02 March 2023
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The Competition and Markets Authority is launching a three month probe into how letting agents operate within the private rental sector. It says...
28 February 2023
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Propertymark has told a UK government to stop ignore the damaging effect of its policies on the private rental sector. An outspoken...
27 January 2023
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Legal & General Capital helped fund over 17,000 new homes last year across a range of tenures, chiefly Build To Rent. Chief...
05 January 2023
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A Labour peer who was to have invested £1 billion in affordable homes has halted his scheme because of the threat...
19 October 2022
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The government may be changing its mind on scrapping Section 21 eviction powers according to a bombshell story in The Times. Outlining what...
11 October 2022
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The Scottish Federation of Housing Associations says its members are key to tackling the cost of living crisis but rent freezes,...
05 October 2022
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The National Audit Office has made scathing criticisms of government efforts to build more affordable housing. The public spending watchdog says the...
13 September 2022
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Labour’s Sadiq Khan wants an increase in Capital Gains Tax for some buy to let investors. The London Mayor made his response...
31 May 2022
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A major holiday let company in one of the country’s prime tourist destinations says more affordable homes should be built to...
09 February 2022
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Politicians who express concern over the number of holiday lets and Airbnbs in tourist areas miss one major point - if...
17 January 2022
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The Liberal Democrats have proposed sharp restrictions on holiday rentals at the heart of the party’s plans to solve the housing...
11 January 2022
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Lloyds Banking Group, which is known to be investing huge sums in the UK private rental sector, has published the results...
10 December 2021
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Shelter - so often critical of the private rental sector - has instead turned its fire on the government over what...
19 November 2021
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New research published by Build To Rent operator L&G reveals what it believes to be a crisis surrounding rental properties, affordable...
21 October 2021
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A part of the country which has seen a severe long term rental stock shortage as a result of switches from...
24 August 2021
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Rent controls are to be introduced into part of the UK as a result of a deal between two political parties. The...
23 August 2021
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Propertymark has joined four so-called ‘action groups’ advocating housing policy changes including the setting up of a national landlord register and...
30 July 2021
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A new report calls for large scale reform of the private rental sector, including a national landlord register and changes to...
27 July 2021
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ARLA Propertymark has hit back at a demand from London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan that he be given the powers to...
12 July 2021
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A politician in one of the poorest parts of the UK wants his local authority to declare a ‘housing emergency’. Cornish councillor...
23 June 2021
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Affordable homes provider Auxesia Homes has appointed residential management firm Touchstone to handle its entire mixed tenure portfolio. Auxesia offers affordable shared...
30 April 2021
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A letting agent in Cornwall has told local TV how she finds herself in ”heartbreaking” situations because of the lack of...
27 April 2021
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Some 39 agents and landlords have had banning orders over the past three years according to a report in The Guardian. Under the...
06 April 2021
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London’s mass transit service, Transport for London, has won consent for 853 homes at a huge scheme in the west of the...
22 January 2021
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A Welsh council has agreed to levy what it calls “a tax premium” on second homes from now until 2027 to...
22 December 2020
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A new Labour group - Labour Tenants United - has issued a four-prong attack on the current private rental sector including...
22 June 2020
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A commission investigating affordable homes in the UK has called for annual private sector rent increases to be limited to a...
05 May 2020
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The Labour head of a special ‘taskforce’ looking at London housing issues in the light of the Coronavirus crisis says he...
29 April 2020
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On the day that Labour launches its proposals to reform the private rental sector, the Tories have announced so-called Lifetime Rental...
21 November 2019
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The Liberal Democrats is the first of the major parties to release its party manifesto for the December 12 manifesto, and...
21 November 2019
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A collective of activist renter groups has set out a manifesto of what it wants from the winner of next month’s...
04 November 2019
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The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has accused Labour of being thin on detail when it comes to the housing policies...
26 September 2019
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A rogue landlord who divided his three-bedroom home in central London into eight flats has ended up with a bill of...
18 September 2019
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Legal & General has exchanged contracts to complete the largest privately funded development in Wales, Cardiff Central Square, which will include...
31 July 2019
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Airbnb has issued a statement distancing itself from controversial advertisements from a short lets management service. Hostmaker - which describes itself as...
07 June 2019
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A statement issued by short lets management firm Hostmaker about its controversial advertising campaign has been branded “disgusting” by a campaign...
07 June 2019
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A local authority has written to purchasers of former council houses and apartments warning them against illegally letting them out -...
30 April 2019
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Over 250 new units constructed by Telford Homes are to be used for Build To Rent according to a deal announced...
20 February 2019
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Labour insists that if it forms the next government it will introduce ‘living rents’ in a new range of affordable homes...
23 April 2018
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An influential think tank is calling on government to radically reform the private rental sector because a generation of young people...
18 April 2018
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The British Property Federation is calling upon more councils to support Build To Rent following the government’s recognition of the sector in...
08 March 2018
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A housing charity has called for the government to build more affordable social homes for rent to help families 'trapped' in...
20 February 2018
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The average rent in England and Wales was £850 in December 2017, an increase of 2.3 per cent in the last...
24 January 2018
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Yet another local authority is considering introducing selective licensing of private rental property. Luton council has issued a statement saying that within...
13 July 2017
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Government leaks to the Observer newspaper suggest that the Housing White Paper will show a huge policy shift towards renting - and may...
06 February 2017
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Phillip Hammond has delivered his first Autumn Statement, tackling amongst other things, what he called “the housing challenge.” The speech made no...
23 November 2016
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The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has announced the first details of his plan to introduce a 'London Living Rent'. This new...
21 September 2016
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The National Landlords Association has come out fighting in response to a weekend report by the National Housing Federation suggesting buy...
23 August 2016
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The amount of housing benefit going to private landlords has more than doubled in the past decade according to the National...
22 August 2016
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A senior mortgage lender is warning that government reforms of the buy to let sector could have wide-ranging and unintended consequences. Richard...
05 July 2016
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A Labour MP has presented Parliament with a petition urging that letting agents’ fees should be capped. There were a modest 1,500...
30 June 2016
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The Association of Residential Letting Agents wants the government to allocate more spending and greater political priority to housing, after new...
12 February 2016
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The government’s initiatives to try to increase house building and owner occupation will not stop demand for rented homes rising by...
03 February 2016
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Stephen Moss, CEO of based Pring.co.uk the UK’s leading property investment search engine, takes a look at the impact of ‘Corbynmania’...
28 October 2015
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Sadiq Khan, Labour’s choice for London mayoral candidate, has set out his housing policies - with possible rent controls high on...
14 September 2015
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Whether you are single or a family, looking to invest in rental property or want to lay down roots of your...
15 June 2015
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Edinburgh is set to become the first local authority in Scotland to move into the private landlord business, building up to...