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The UK’s largest multi-disciplinary property conference - Propertymark One in association with Rightmove - is in June and the organisers claim...

The chief executive of Propertymark has made an outspoken attack on the government in response to its latest attempt to extract...

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

A prominent industry expert says lettings agents and other property sector insiders should be extra-vigilant over cybersecurity breaches. Neil Cobbold, managing director...

The excessive enforcement of council rules on private landlords while social housing is so poorly run will be ‘the next Post...

Two former housing ministers are at war with each other after an attack on Rishi Sunak’s premiership in today’s Daily Telegraph. Sir...

An online lettings platform is attacking agents for their fees, which it describes as a “waste” of landlord funds. Hello Neighbour, a...

The government should “just get on with implementing the Renters Reform Bill” an industry figure says.  Jonathan Rolande of the National Association...

Millions of UK landlords will be adversely affected by the Renters Reform Bill, a solicitor warns - the latest law expert...

Colliers, the agency and property consultancy, has issued another outspoken attack on government policy - this time prompted by a formal...

Propertymark has put forward a six-point plan to slash economic crime in the property sector. The trade body says a series of...

Lettings agents within The Guild of Property Professionals think that the Renters Reform Bill could cause many landlords to quit.  Graham Wood,...

A holiday lettings agency has come out fighting on behalf of its clients. Following calls by local leaders in Cornwall and Devon...

A lack of direction and constant shifts in planning policy at local and national government level is putting a block on...

A group of activists is trying to raise £15,000 to campaign for local councils to clampdown on AirBnb and other short...

As the unending attack on landlords continues, many are succumbing to the pressures of increased taxes, interest rates rising, regulations becoming...

A prominent lettings agent in the north of England has written to Housing Secretary Michael Gove urging him to cease attacking...

A council is set to renew its war on To Let boards. In summer 2018, Leciester council brought into effect a new...

An agent claims that if Labour wins the next General Election there will be what he calls “misguided meddling” across the...

A lettings agency says it’s vital that the government reconsiders the new laws and regulations seen as attacking landlords. The Leaders Romans...

A prominent lettings agent has resumed his attack on politicians for failing to build sufficient numbers of social housing properties -...

A warning letter signed by 330 major players in the private rental sector has been delivered to Housing Secretary Michael Gove. The...

Activist groups which previously focussed much of their fire on landlords are now attacking letting agents, accusing them of encouraging higher...

A prominent letting agent has written an open letter to Housing Secretary Michael Gove, calling for a halt on government attacks...

A Labour MP has attacked Airbnb hosts and others in the short lets business, accusing them of “this exploitation of housing...

The Association of Independent Inventory Clerks is hosting a webinar this evening for letting agents and other industry employers responsible for...

A lettings agency chief has listed how rent controls have failed across the world. Writing in The Scotsman, David Alexander - chief...

Another political party is calling for a winter eviction ban as the first part of a reform programme for the private...

What many believe to have been one of the nastiest TV adverts in recent years - Purplebricks’ attack on traditional agents’...

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer picked on the buy to let and holiday home sectors as targets for future restrictions, in...

A high profile agent has renewed his attack on politicians. David Alexander - who heads up DJ Alexander, part of the Lomond...

A company claims that some 18 per cent of property firms have seen a rise in criminals attempting to launder money...

AirBnb says proposed changes to short let rules in Wales should be aimed at property speculators, not ordinary people. The Welsh Government...

The former president of ARLA Propertymark has made an outspoken attack on the government for failing to regulate the agency industry. Maxine...

A prominent Labour politician in Scotland has made an outspoken attack on the private landlord sector in her call for an...

Propertymark has made an uncharacteristically strong attack on the campaigning charity Shelter for its portrayal of letting agents. Ahead of yesterday’s Queen’s...

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

One of the UK’s largest lettings groups has made an outspoken attack on the policies of a political party standing in...

An activist at the centre of a controversy involving a London letting agent has used a left-wing website to explain how...

The industry’s main trade body for lettings agents is telling its members to let the BBC know if they believe the...

The chief executive of ARLA Propertymark has made an outspoken attack on the UK government, accusing it of a “blatant disregard...

Lettings accreditation and training service Safeagent is calling on the government to make more public cash available for councils to exercise...

An activist group in London has launched a scathing attack on councils which it claims have been ineffective in regulating rogue...

A prominent lettings agency chief says a consultation looking at changes to private renting proposed by the Scottish Government is merely...

An agency has issued a statement strongly rejecting the negative mood music surrounding the private rental sector. Chris Wood and Ross McDonald...

Property fraud is on the rise and early in 2022 agents will have an opportunity to attend a webinar featuring a...

A lettings agent who also runs a tenant complaint insurance service has renewed his attack on landlords and local authorities. Ajay Jagota...

Let Tech Solutions, a PropTech firm which now works with more than half of all property managers in Scotland, is expanding...

Earlier this week Propertymark revealed it had co-signed an open letter criticising proposed government cuts to benefits.  That open letter was co-signed...

A Labour council leader has hit after being attacked for his support for buy to let and property investment. Last week we...

A prominent London Conservative MP has made a scathing attack on the current rental sector’s structure, saying it is skewed in...

Activists from the Acorn renters' campaign group have held a protest outside a branch of Chancellors in Oxford. The group says the...

Local media in the Homes Counties report that two arrests were made after police were called by a lettings agency where...

A trades union claims that lettings software provider Goodlord is slashing some staff salaries by a quarter - that’s £6,000 per...

Many agents will be closed on New Year’s Day - the last Bank Holiday for some months and at the start...

Shelter has returned to the attack on the private rental sector. In a new report it claims a third of tenants in England...

Government intervention, which in recent years has seen scores of legal and regulatory changes to the private rental sector, may be...

The government has accused campaign group Generation Rent of peddling “unreliable and misleading” figures about potential evictions in the private rental...

The author of a book described as being about “insecure renters haemorrhaging cash” has used her newspaper column to make a...

A series of fake scams allegedly advertising apartments to rent have appeared on Zoopla and other property websites. The Edinburgh Live news...

Media reports from Gateshead claim two brothers opened fire on a lettings agency with an air pistol when they were told they...

Propertymark is the latest industry body to warn the government against Capital Gains Tax changes that may disincentivise landlords. A joint statement...

The militantly pro-tenant Generation Rent group says it’s working with local councils to have a new “tenants’ charter” introduced. The new director...

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

A group of activists in London claim as many as 2,500 tenants are on a rent-strike during the Coronavirus crisis. The number is...

Government advice to local authorities to sit tight with new licensing proposals during the Coronavirus pandemic appears to have been ignored...

The director of the website Home says that investment in buy to let will look like a highly attractive safe haven...

The Budget has failed tenants by doing nothing to increase the supply of private rental property according to two lettings sector...

The private rental sector has come under attack for its conditions and costs to tenants in a report looking into health...

A newspaper in Liverpool has sharply criticised the government for refusing to allow the city council to continue a huge landlord...

There’s been an angry response by the rental sector following the latest attack by campaigning charity Shelter. The organisation claims that private...

A leading property industry figure says Airbnb is attempting to persuade traditional buy to let landlords into going down the short-let...

Politicians from several parties say they want their local council in Bristol to have the powers to regulate the number and...

The chief executive of Shelter - the campaigning charity which has been sharply critical of letting agents in the past -...

Controversial housing charity Shelter claims that private renters are collectively paying out £11 billion more a year – around £425 a...

One might have thought that if private rental tenants were as badly treated as some people suggest, housing would be their...

Another think tank has come up with proposals to scrap Section 21 eviction powers and cap rents - and it also...

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has launched his party’s General Election campaign with an attack on what he describes as “dodgy landlords.” He...

A leading PropTech chief says there is nothing inherently wrong with private tenants being given the right to buy their property,...

The weekly economic and financial research magazine The Economist has made a scathing attack on rent controls. The publication says rent controls...

As expected, the Liberal Democrats’ conference in Bournemouth has backed a motion calling for the scrapping of Section 21 - effectively...

Members of the industry’s two major landlord bodies have backed a merger which will now take place on January 1. Members of...

An influential think tank says Capital Gains Tax on buy to let properties and second homes should be levied at the...

The government has been criticised yet again for what is described as its “incoherent” approach to the private rental sector. David Miles,...

More details have emerged about Labour’s controversial proposal to allow private rental tenants that right to buy their landlord’s property, at...

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

One in six landlords is seeking to reduce the size of their portfolio in the next 12 months and around half...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents made a short sharp attack on the government last night, over freedom of movement and...

Campaigning charity Shelter has made a remarkable attack on a lettings agency, accusing it of “an abuse of power” over its...

A rental provider specialising in property for older tenants has attacked what he calls “hidden costs” involved when people buy purpose-built...

A trade body has accused the government of going back on its promise not to introduce a national register of landlords. The...

A call by Shelter for England to adopt Scotland’s model of indefinite tenancies in the private rented sector has been attacked...

A trade body has hit out at government policy following a think tank’s claims that young people are less mobile because of...

The Tenant Fees Act comes into effect in England tomorrow - but a senior lettings expert is questioning whether it will...

The head of a firm that seeks investors to put money into residential property funds rather than individual homes for tenants...

Only one in six private landlords say they would support the Conservatives in an election according to a new poll. Buy to...

A study claims as many as a fifth of private renters in the UK have developed an illness due to issues...

The government is back to business attacking the lettings sector with an extraordinary claim by a minister that many students are...

A legal firm has renewed its criticism of local authority licensing schemes, accusing them of “persecuting” landlords. David Kirwan, managing partner at...

A leading landlord has hit out at a lettings agency’s portrayal of buy to let tax changes.  Rosalind Beck, a campaigning landlord...