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Some 79 per cent of landlords are only servicing the interest on their mortgages, not paying down their loans, according to...

The agency industry has reacted in a broadly downbeat way at the relatively few housing-related proposals that were announced in yesterday’s...

The Independent online newspaper says Conservative MP Gary Streeter will tomorrow meet with Prime Minister Theresa May and urge her to...

Over 70% of Conservative councillors and housing leads have indicated that £2 billion pledged for affordable housing is not enough to...

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

Experts suggest that Build To Rent is likely to be heavily promoted when the government announces its latest revamp to the...

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

Legal & General - one of the country’s largest players in the burgeoning Build To Rent sector - has made a...

The National Landlords’ Association says the extra £2 billion in funding made available by the government for additional affordable housing may...

Almost one in seven private renters are spending more than half of their total income on rent, in stark contrast to...

Research by data company Propcision has revealed that across London typical Airbnb rental rates for apartments are double that of long-term rental...

The Welsh Government - which now has additional fiscal powers allowing it to be more independent from Westminster - has chosen...

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...

Jeremy Corbyn’s plans for rent controls and “secure tenancies” in the private rented sector would spell disaster for tenants, reducing the...

In one of the first signals that new London Mayor Sadiq Khan backs Build To Rent, his deputy responsible for housing...

Campaigning charity Shelter claims that in some areas of the country no fewer than one-in-23 private rental sector tenants are apparently...

The influencial cross-party Commons Treasury Committee says the whole economy could suffer is George Osborne’s fiscal measures against the private rental...

The managing director of the mortgages division of deVere Group, one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory organisations, says George...

The British Property Federation is urging the government to focus on delivery of all housing tenures, not just owner-occupation. The call came...

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

The local council in the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea is starting an investigation into the private rental sector within...

There has been much debate in recent years about Britain’s desperate need for more housing stock. Demand has been outstripping supply...