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Housing minister Lee Rowley will be taking centre stage at the largest property agency conference in the UK this summer, Propertymark...

The number of private tenants in properties that are hard to heat has fallen, a council claims. As agents will know private...

Propertymark is querying why there’s no help for the private rental sector to meet energy efficiency targets expressed in a new...

Propertymark wants the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy to widen access to cash help to those that need it...

The controversial Boiler Upgrade Scheme - which Propertymark say is so complex many people don’t think it’s worth applying to -...

The government’s Boiler Upgrade Scheme application process is so complex property agents and their landlords do not think it is worth...

Lee Rowley is the new housing minister, specifically responsible for taking charge of the government’s rental reform agenda. The government has confirmed...

Just as COP26 is drawing to a close, so one of the lettings industry’s leading legal voices is warning that the...

Almost £300,000 has been awarded to a consortium of councils to improve energy efficiency in the private rental sector. York council will lead...

ARLA Propertymark says there should be a long term appropriately funded strategy to help the private rental sector and home owners...

One of the housing ministers with responsibility for the introduction of the controversial Renters Reform Bill in the near future has...

Anger continues to mount over government plans to make rental properties more energy efficient, with one agent advising his landlords to make...

A call to action has been sent to letting agents to make their voices heard about new EPC proposals from the Department...

The government has published an independent assessment of its Tenants Fees Bill proposal - the ban on fees levied by letting...

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has selected a software supplier to handle some of the exceptions to the...

The CLA says the energy efficiency regulations for the lettings sector coming into effect in April are “fundamentally flawed” when it...

The Residential Landlords’ Association has been told in no uncertain terms by the government that changes to Energy Performance Certificate scheduled...

There is growing concern over a predicted £5,000 cost to make some buy to let properties energy-efficient under new government plans.   An...