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Michael Gove’s Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities hit back overnight at critics of the government’s Renters Reform Bill. The Bill...

The search for the best of the property industry is underway as nominations are now open for the 2024 Variety North...

Leaders Romans Group claims to have achieved carbon neutrality for a second consecutive year.  A statement claims LRG has undertaken “several notable...

Property professionals have less than 48 hours to submit entries for the Midlands PROPs Awards.  The search for the very best of...

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

Labour leader Sir Kier Starmer has confirmed that Awaab’s Law - putting a strict timescale on urgent repairs being done -...

Insurance giant Aviva is urging consumers to be on their guard after seeing a seven per cent increase in customer claims...

Rhodri Evans, director of land and new homes at Andrews Property Group, has been named as one of several industry figures...

A prominent housing market commentator says Labour would introduce a tougher version of the Renters Reform Bill if it forms the...

Low-income renters will get a boost next spring - but a pressure group wants more government help for this sector. The Chancellor’s...

Michael Gove’s Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill, currently going through Parliament, has won praise from the industry body The Property Institute. There...

Shelter says there are nearly 139,000 children officially homeless and living in temporary accommodation - and it’s blaming the private rental...

Inheritance Tax totalled £4.6 billion for the HM Treasury between April and October - that’s £500,000 up on the same period...

The prospect of a long-term eviction ban appears to have been lifted in one part of the UK. The Welsh Government is...

Hundreds of letting agents from across the UK joined forces at an annual event to raise £40,000 for children with life-limiting...

Changes put forward to the Renters Reform Bill to crack down on rogue landlords, protect vulnerable residents and improve the safety of...

The lettings agency Winkworth has taken the unusual step of criticising policies of a series of councils. The councils are all Labour...

Councils have become increasingly hostile towards agents in recent times, with increased regulation and licensing of the private rental sector in...

Parents and pet owners are paying as much as £460 per month more for rent and bills, it’s claimed. The claim comes...

Young couples are delaying marriage and starting families until they get out of the rental sector, research by Yorkshire Building Society...

The UK’s housing market is increasingly driven by older, affluent home owners with younger generations squeezed out.  That’s the view of data...

A survey of local authorities in some of the poorest areas of the country - bodies which enforce many private rental...

Financial support from family members - not just parents - is expected to help fund 318,400 housing transactions in 2023, according...

Franchise giant Winkworth is opening a new office in West Hampstead, extending its north London footprint from existing offices in neighbouring...

The company which owned and was responsible for a five-storey block of rented flats in Bridlington has been ordered to pay...

New figures suggest soaring numbers of tenants are at risk from criminals taking advantage of the tough rental market. Scammers place fake...

A new northern version of a popular property awards ceremony makes its debut this autumn. The North West PROPS, a northern-focused version...

Crisis, the homelessness charity, has slammed the government over the growing gap between housing benefit levels and even the lower end...

The Co-Op Bank is joining forces with campaigning charity Shelter to argue against Section 21 evictions, and together they have organised...

A landlord who is also the owner of a High Street lettings agency has been fined £17,293 for breaching housing licence...

After numerous stories of councils and letting agencies at each others’ throats over To Let boards, Trading Standards and other controversies,...

The BBC says discussions are underway to extend the Renters Reform Bill to specifically outlaw any rental listing banning families and benefit recipients...

Thousands of listing for rental properties on two popular websites explicitly say children or pets are not welcome. A BBC analysis of...

New research shows that over half of parents charge their adults children for living at home - although the sums involved...

A senior director at Chestertons, one of London’s largest lettings agencies, has warned that tenants in the capital will face an...

A prominent housing journalist says Labour should fund councils to buy homes directly from private landlords to rapidly increase the size...

A council is pleading with the government to think again about proposals to suspend the need for an HMO licence for...

The pro-tenant anti-landlord Renters Reform Bill has at last been published by the government which first promised it in 2019. It has...

A lettings and sales agency that describes itself as “ethical” and has built up strong links with local community groups has...

A lettings agency manager stole nearly £140,000 from her company to help clear her son’s drug debt. Wendy Dare, 57, is now...

Landlords and agents acting on their behalf are to be given more powers to evict unruly tenants who ruin neighbours’ lives...

The Property Ombudsman has ruled that a letting agency’s ban on renting to a family with children was discriminatory against women...

The agency and landlord responsible for letting a two-bedroom flat in Dagenham have been found guilty in court for providing extremely...

Citizens Advice is the latest charity to argue for improved housing standards in the private rental sector. It claims that its research...

The growth of the short term rentals sector has helped create an economy featuring jobs that benefit local communities and fit...

Today we are publishing a letter sent to us regarding the death of a relative who was living in rental accommodation.  We...

The large majority of players in the lettings industry wants the rental reform programme outlined by the government, an agent claims. Laura...

More than a quarter of renters responding to a survey say they are considering leaving the city within the next 12...

The head of the Property Redress Scheme will give agents the lowdown on the recent Fairer Private Rented Sector White Paper...

Increased demand and investor appetite for purpose built Single Family Rental schemes have seen this niche market grow at scale, according...

Private renters’ average floor space per person in England has fallen by 16 per cent over the past 20 years while...

With the debate ranging over pets in lets, a new analysis by comparative website Compare The Market suggests pet damage is...

Zoopla is warning that low-income renters across England are facing a ‘housing black hole’ due to soaring rents and the freeze...

Tenants are demanding better quality HMOs according to new research from specialist buy to let lender Paragon Bank. The bank’s survey of...

Agents are being invited to comment on the government’s Fairer Private Rented Sector White Paper. And unusually the invitation comes not from any...

Agents have only four weeks to respond to a committee of MPs’ ‘call for evidence’ ahead of an investigation into the...

A politician has called on Airbnb hosts in his local area to switch their properties to long-term rentals. Isle of Wight councillor...

A prominent lettings Industry figure has slammed Boris Johnson’s latest housing market utterances, branding them “off the cuff” and likely to...

New details from a survey conducted by industry organisations concerning pets in rental properties show the extent of the problem. Some 537...

It looks as if the private rental sector will contract as a result of the threat of new regulations contained in...

An interesting survey conducted by the Lincolnshire Live news website suggests a lack of support for some proposals in the government’s...

The government has released the full details of what it calls the Fairer Private Rented Sector White Paper. This is to form...

Demand for pied a terres from those working in offices for only three days of the week is fuelling demand for...

Many private renters are misguided on what actually contributes to their credit score and thus may not be taking the correct...

The cost-of-living crisis is leading to further dependence on the Bank of Mum and Dad, following an extended period of support...

A lettings agency is in hot water with advertising regulators for using the phrase “What the flock are you looking at?”...

Letting agents are to be quizzed to establish the true cost of damages to rental accommodation by tenants. The “What’s the damage?”...

A key figure at Propertymark has joined popular lettings agency supplier The Lettings Partnership as commercial director. Sarah Davies’ role at Propertymark...

Renters are amongst the three groups likely to suffer worst as the cost of living crisis unfolds, an analyst has warned.  Sarah...

A senior figure in an industry trade body says lettings agents are going to have their hands full dealing with legislative...

An agency has secured what it calls the fastest ever letting of a mansion on the legendary north London street, Bishops...

The government’s new Levelling Up White Paper, revealed this morning, includes a radical reshaping of the private rental sector. Section 21 eviction...

A senior Welsh politicians has urged anyone who has fallen behind in paying rent because of the pandemic to contact their...

Shelter claims the end of the eviction ban has contributed to creating over 274,000 people who are homeless in England right now, including 126,000 children. Shelter’s interpretation of official...

The once-popular idea of parents buying a property for their offspring to use while at university, and then letting it to other...

All sides of the industry have expressed anger and frustration that yesterday’s Budget effectively ignored the private rental sector. ARLA Propertymark’s policy...

A controversial lettings agent who has set up a business to sell rental insurance has accused landlords of not taking their...

A lettings agency has apologised after a campaign by activists about the condition of a rental property it manages. Protesters outside the...

Police were called to a protect outside a lettings firm in Oxfordshire after a crowd picketed the office over a dispute...

A group of rental campaign bodies have come together to claim that some 694,000 tenants apparently face eviction when the current...

Knight Frank is this year’s headline sponsor of the LandAid Sleep Out, one of the causes many in the industry support. This...

FirstPort, the residential property services provider, has teamed up with The Turing Trust to help equip a new computer lab at...

An agency has been hit with a £330,000 bill after being found guilty of poor management of an HMO. Magistrates have found...

A council says it’s looking for lettings agencies that worked with a rogue landlord who's been issued with a four year banning order. Bristol...

A think tank says large scale intervention in the rental market via loans to tenants is the only way of addressing...

A 24 month community order and 200 hours of unpaid work are the price being paid for an unlawful eviction.  Buy to...

The Guild of Property Professionals has issued tips for agents and other industry professionals having to cope with working from home...

The head of industry recruitment consultancy Property Personnel is calling on agencies to be more tolerant of the struggles working parents...

The Generation Rent campaign has renewed its call for public money to be allocated to clear at least some rent arrears...

A survey claims millions of renter households have concerns about their ability to pay landlords this winter - and the charity...

A heroic lettings agency in the south west of England has stepped up to the plate this half-term week by offering...

Opposition Labour councillors on a local authority says HMOs should only be let if each bedroom has an en suite bathroom.  The...

An organisation that wants rent controls, the scrapping of Section 21 and what it calls “indefinite tenancies” claims to have 4,000...

It’s a year today since the closure of the formal government consultation into scrapping Section 21 powers for agents and landlords. In last...

A Liberal Democrat Baroness says she is to make a last-ditch bid in the House of Lords tomorrow to stop evictions...

A lettings agency that told a prospective tenant it had a policy of not offering tenancies to housing benefit recipients has...

Two London landlords and their lettings agents will have to pay tens of thousands of pounds after a home they were letting...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? My Name is Rob Trotter. I’m married to a vet,...

The so-called King and Queen of Buy To Let, the controversial husband and wife team of Fergus and Judith Wilson, are...

Inventory BaseAcademy has released new online training to address safeguarding issues that may face the lettings industry. Property professionals, especially managers and...