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A property education business says it’s targeting a major expansion with the launch of online additions to its nationwide courses in...

Property investors are calling for the government to provide more support to the UK property market. A survey of investors, carried out...

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has been put on the spot by the person many consider to be the country’s most...

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

New research may explain why the government and Labour appear to be competing with each other to attack landlords and letting...

Labour has outlined its proposals for the private rental sector if it gains power at the next General Election - and...

The government has been told is should simply adopt some Labour rental policies or risk losing the next General Election -...

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

A new analysis by campaigning housing organisation Shelter claims the changes within the private rental sector could indirectly lose the next...

So here it is … a very Merry Christmas from Letting Agent Today and Angels Media, with our very best wishes...

According to recent government figures, the average letting agent’s fee is £223 and 4.3 million householders pay this amount or thereabouts...

Housing minister Alok Sharma has told a major residential conference that rent controls will definitely not be a policy of the...

Political uncertainty across the UK and increased restrictions on buy to let are leading many landlords to raise rents and review...

Activity in the super prime London market, where tenants are prepared to pay £5,000 or more per week for a home,...

A trade body has welcomed a government U-turn on implementing the ‘Making Tax Digital’ initiative - but it says the decision...

The government’s proposal to limit tenancy deposits to one month of rent and reservation fees to one week of rent will...

London rents have fallen by an average 5.0 per cent in the past year according to new data released by Your...

Rents in Scotland dropped 2.3 per cent on average in the month leading up to the General Election according to Your...

After criticism of many younger voters allegedly failing to turn out during the June 2016 EU Referendum, new analysis of voter...

The Queen’s Speech, outlining the government’s proposals for the next two years, has confirmed a pledge to introduce a ban on...

A trade body wants independent inventories to become mandatory across the lettings sector - and it pledges to mount a campaign...

A proposed amendment to the government's Housing and Planning Bill which suggests landlords are required to make homes 'fit for human...

The National Landlords Association (NLA) has launched its Quarter Two Landlords Survey. The research study has been launched hot on the heels...

Former Conservative Party leader and Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith is set to speak at a lettings sector event...

The prospect of today's General Election as well as ongoing uncertainty surrounding Britain's exit from the European Union is having a...

A group of letting agencies in Yorkshire have proposed to the government a radical alternative to the proposed fees ban -...

A string of corporate letting agencies plus ARLA Propertymark have again called on the government to reconsider its proposed ban on agents’...

Conservative peer Lord Flight, a former shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, says the UK needs “a vibrant and growing private...

ARLA Propertymark says the number of properties managed per member increased marginally last month, from 183 to 185 - but there was...

In a blog which appears - perhaps surprisingly - to be supportive of Theresa May’s General Election manifesto, campaigning charity Shelter...

Only just over a week remains before the end of the formal consultation on the government’s proposal to ban letting fees...

The Residential Landlords’ Association is demanding that the new government improves the “slow, complex, and underfunded” system which means that it...

Some 1,500 landlords have responded to a trade group’s campaign calling for them to press General Election candidates to oppose changes...

Hunters says its franchise agents and offices may suffer less than other firms thanks to their sales operations.   Addressing the Hunters Group...

The Liberal Democrats want a raft of additional controls on the private rented sector aimed at addressing what it describes as...

The Labour Party has published its full manifesto for the upcoming General Election on June 8.  Titled 'For the many not the...

A group of rural landlords has called on the government to clarify Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards (MEES) legislation being introduced next...

A Liberal Democrat spokesman has used a lettings sector trade body website to outline his party’s support for a range of...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents says it has so far received over 700 detailed responses to its consultation on the...

The Conservatives should introduce rent controls to kick-start a seaside town renaissance, suggests an organisation set up originally by the David Cameron...

Labour says there would be a ‘consumer rights revolution’ for the private rental sector if the party won the June 8...

A local authority consultation exercise on a licensing system for local landlords has been postponed until June 12, four days after...

A senior Labour spokesman has refused to rule out rent controls as a possible manifesto commitment for the June 8 General...

The anti-letting agency fee pressure group Generation Rent is urging its supporters to participate in the government formal consultation over agents’...

The Residential Landlords Association has repeated its calls for a new housing court “to speed up justice for landlords and tenants.”   The...

Twenty agency groups have backed a call by the Association of Residential Letting Agents urging the government to extend or scrap its...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is calling on the government to either extend the consultation period for the proposed ban...

A trade body has suggested that the General Election on June 8 may lead to a government with new priorities, meaning...

A prominent campaigning letting and sales agent predicts that the Conservatives are likely to put their proposed ban on letting agency...

The Department of Communities and Local Government is scrapping a series of workshops for letting agents to discuss the proposed ban...

The ban on letting agents in England imposing fees on tenants is unlikely to be implemented before late next year according...

Labour’s respected housing expert, John Healey, is now back on the front bench as the party’s housing spokesman after a spat...

Unique summary: What does a potential exit from the EU mean for the UK's property market. Ever since the recession hit much...

G15, the largest group of London housing associations, says its members unanimously back a controversial Right to Buy compromise proposal. Under the...

Labour leadership hopeful Andy Burnham is the latest to say he would consider rent controls in the private sector if he...

Pressure group Generation Rent - a thorn in the side of many property professionals in recent years - has launched a...

Some 19 per cent of MPs in the new parliament are landlords according to their entries in the first Register of...

The government appears to be trying to push its controversial idea to allow much more tenant-led sub-letting of private rented property...

There has been a 94 per cent increase in prime central London tenancies year-on-year claims Lucy Morton of W A Ellis,...

This week will see whether Chancellor George Osborne will give in to calls to close some of the tax breaks given...

Property consultancy Daniel Watney LLP is the latest industry operator to label the government’s Right To Rent immigration checks as unworkable,...

Given that I wrote my last article on the day of the General Election but well before the result was known,...

The government’s apparent opposition to council-wide landlord licensing schemes will be put to the test in the coming weeks following a...

One of London’s high-end letting agents says it has experienced a sharp increase in tenant demand since the election after a...

A little over four weeks ago I was here musing what impact the impending general election might have on the property...

The general election result was greeted with a sigh of relief throughout the lettings industry. Thanks to the Conservatives' victory, the threat...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is the latest industry voice to say that Brandon Lewis, the newly-reappointed housing minister, should...

Alex Hilton - a fiercely outspoken critic of the property establishment, especially letting agents - is stepping down tomorrow from his...

Generation Rent, the pressure group advocating extensive restrictions on letting agents and private landlords, is now offering an alternative Queen’s Speech...

The quick-off-the-mark Residential Landlords Association appeared to earn brownie points for the entire private rental sector by sending a congratulatory message...

The new Conservative government must focus on raising standards across the private renal sector according to one of the industry’s leading...

Belvoir remains unrepentant after criticism from some quarters over an email sent to tenants last week intimating that a vote for...

So, a sigh of relief.  Most agents will be pleased with the election result - even if they are not Tory supporters...

I write this article on the day of the General Election so you’ll forgive the political analogies. In particular, how any...

The agency industry has been acting with delight over the likelihood that there will be a slim overall majority for the...

After a night of remarkable election results, it looks likely that much of the residential property industry - which was strongly...

Around 40 developers, property consultants and block managers have sent an open letter to the new government - being elected today...

Gentrification is a divisive, provocative issue, but why are estate agents (especially Foxtons) appearing to bear the brunt of the public’s...

Letting agents have received another warning from legal experts to familiarise themselves with new legislation introduced just before MPs broke up...

The National Landlords’ Association has set out a table of where the political parties stand on issues of lettings sector reform...

Property industry figures opposed to Labour plans to impose three year tenancies and rent caps should lobby candidates in a bid...

It is to the credit of our political parties - and our own industry’s lobbying - that so many housing-related matters...

Rents across England and Wales are now 15.2 per cent higher than at the time of the last General Election in...