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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...

Politicians who express concern over the number of holiday lets and Airbnbs in tourist areas miss one major point - if...

The Liberal Democrats have proposed sharp restrictions on holiday rentals at the heart of the party’s plans to solve the housing...

Lloyds Banking Group, which is known to be investing huge sums in the UK private rental sector, has published the results...

Shelter - so often critical of the private rental sector - has instead turned its fire on the government over what...

New research published by Build To Rent operator L&G reveals what it believes to be a crisis surrounding rental properties, affordable...

A part of the country which has seen a severe long term rental stock shortage as a result of switches from...

Rent controls are to be introduced into part of the UK as a result of a deal between two political parties. The...

Propertymark has joined four so-called ‘action groups’ advocating housing policy changes including the setting up of a national landlord register and...

A new report calls for large scale reform of the private rental sector, including a national landlord register and changes to...

ARLA Propertymark has hit back at a demand from London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan that he be given the powers to...

A politician in one of the poorest parts of the UK wants his local authority to declare a ‘housing emergency’. Cornish councillor...

Affordable homes provider Auxesia Homes has appointed residential management firm Touchstone to handle its entire mixed tenure portfolio.  Auxesia offers affordable shared...

A letting agent in Cornwall has told local TV how she finds herself in ”heartbreaking” situations because of the lack of...

Some 39 agents and landlords have had banning orders over the past three years according to a report in The Guardian. Under the...

London’s mass transit service, Transport for London, has won consent for 853 homes at a huge scheme in the west of the...

A Welsh council has agreed to levy what it calls “a tax premium” on second homes from now until 2027 to...

A new Labour group - Labour Tenants United - has issued a four-prong attack on the current private rental sector including...

A commission investigating affordable homes in the UK has called for annual private sector rent increases to be limited to a...

The Labour head of a special ‘taskforce’ looking at London housing issues in the light of the Coronavirus crisis says he...

On the day that Labour launches its proposals to reform the private rental sector, the Tories have announced so-called Lifetime Rental...

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

A collective of activist renter groups has set out a manifesto of what it wants from the winner of next month’s...

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

A rogue landlord who divided his three-bedroom home in central London into eight flats has ended up with a bill of...

Legal & General has exchanged contracts to complete the largest privately funded development in Wales, Cardiff Central Square, which will include...

Airbnb has issued a statement distancing itself from controversial advertisements from a short lets management service. Hostmaker - which describes itself as...

A statement issued by short lets management firm Hostmaker about its controversial advertising campaign has been branded “disgusting” by a campaign...

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

Over 250 new units constructed by Telford Homes are to be used for Build To Rent according to a deal announced...

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

An influential think tank is calling on government to radically reform the private rental sector because a generation of young people...

The British Property Federation is calling upon more councils to support Build To Rent following the government’s recognition of the sector in...

A housing charity has called for the government to build more affordable social homes for rent to help families 'trapped' in...

The average rent in England and Wales was £850 in December 2017, an increase of 2.3 per cent in the last...

Yet another local authority is considering introducing selective licensing of private rental property. Luton council has issued a statement saying that within...

Government leaks to the Observer newspaper suggest that the Housing White Paper will show a huge policy shift towards renting - and may...

Phillip Hammond has delivered his first Autumn Statement, tackling amongst other things, what he called “the housing challenge.” The speech made no...

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has announced the first details of his plan to introduce a 'London Living Rent'. This new...

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...

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

A Labour MP has presented Parliament with a petition urging that letting agents’ fees should be capped. There were a modest 1,500...

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

The government’s initiatives to try to increase house building and owner occupation will not stop demand for rented homes rising by...

Stephen Moss, CEO of based Pring.co.uk the UK’s leading property investment search engine, takes a look at the impact of ‘Corbynmania’...

Sadiq Khan, Labour’s choice for London mayoral candidate, has set out his housing policies - with possible rent controls high on...

Whether you are single or a family, looking to invest in rental property or want to lay down roots of your...

Edinburgh is set to become the first local authority in Scotland to move into the private landlord business, building up to...

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