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Nationwide has taken the unusual step of using its buy to let lending arm - The Mortgage Works - to make...

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

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

The Advertising Standards Authority has stepped in to investigate allegations about advertising for shared ownership homes.  In 2021 an advertisement appeared on...

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

Last week Shelter and the National Housing Federation took a swipe at lettings agents, and now Citizens Advice has joined the...

The ongoing debate over some letting agents and landlords allegedly refusing to accept tenants in receipt of housing benefit has now...

The National Approved Lettings Scheme has issued a sharp rebuke to Shelter and the National Housing Federation following their controversial ‘End...

Lettings agents’ representatives have hit back at an accusation of discrimination made against the industry. A report by Shelter and the National...

Up to 500,000 so-called Baby Boomers have been hit by allegedly unaffordable rents and a lack of appropriate housing for older...

The National Landlords Association has come out fighting in response to a weekend report by the National Housing Federation suggesting buy...

The amount of housing benefit going to private landlords has more than doubled in the past decade according to the National...

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...

An opinion poll's findings, released to back up a call for tougher controls in the private rental sector, suggests 71 per...

Private rents in the UK are the highest in Europe despite having amongst the least secure tenancies - that it the...

The pressure group Generation Rent - which has been sharply critical of letting agents, landlords and the private rental sector in...