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Regulation of lettings and estate agencies must be a priority for the government elected tomorrow, a PropTech entrepreneur demands. Sián Hemming-Metcalfe of...

Labour is likely to make rental sector reform and regulation a priority - at least partly because it will be low-cost...

The Leaders Romans Group lettings agency chain is demanding that the new government elected tomorrow brings back the Renters Reform Bill...

The result of the election isn’t likely to be a gamechanger for the housing market, a prominent business consultancy says.  An analysis...

If Labour wins Thursday’s General Election. expect three major housing announcements within a fortnight. That’s the exclusive claim from the Sunday Times...

Details have emerged of the first major events of the new government, whatever the result of the General Election on Thursday. Probably...

A huge survey involving analysis of over 14,000 properties suggests an urgent need for the next government to help private rental...

The next Government should create a separate Ministry of Housing and encourage MPs of all parties to work together to solve...

The Scottish National Party, which as part of an alliance with the Greens introduced controversial rent controls in Scotland in 2022,...

Fine & Country - the agency which was recently put up for sale - is hosting a webinar next week to...

Leasehold reform still has a long way to run, according to the Association of Leasehold Enfranchisement Practitioners (ALEP). The major party manifestos...

Agents, and others in the lettings industry, have given a sceptical response to the Conservative manifesto and its varied pledges about...

The Conservatives have this afternoon set out a 78-page manifesto, of which just over two pages are given to housing and...

Labour is launching a new Freedom to Buy scheme to get 80,000 young people on the housing ladder, over the next...

The housing market has suddenly become a major part of the General Election campaign as a result of a challenge thrown...

In an unusually outspoken intervention into the election campaign, Rightmove has criticised the absence of debate over housing. The issue has not...

Rightmove has produced five core demands on behalf of the rental sector, which it would like the next government to meet. These...

In an early General Election skirmish, London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan has been accused of failing to enact key private rental...

Political parties should not allow the lengthy General Election campaign to delay work on a new and beefed-up Energy Performance Certificate...

A prominent housing market analyst says people shouldn’t bother reading election literature but instead study interest rates if they want to...

The chief executive of Goodlord, the prominent PropTech supplier to the lettings sector, has been revealed as one of the 121...

The agents’ trade body says many in the industry will be pleased that the Renters Reform Bill has bitten the dust...

If Labour plans to bring in rent controls they won’t work, a property association has warned.  The National Association of Property Buyers...

Around half of letting agents and landlords say they are unsure about how they will vote in the General Election. A joint...

A General Election has been called for July 4. So what happens to the Renters Reform Bill, which has been the subject...

A stamp duty cut in the run up to a General Election would see house prices go up and evictions soar,...

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

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

Shelter is warning that the government’s failure to abolish Section 21 evictions will backfire and that “renters will remember who stood...

Propertymark’s monthly political and government update webinars are set to continue in 2024 - General Election year. A statement from the trade...

Labour says it will keep the controversal Right To Buy policy in England if it wins this year’s General Election. This is...

The date has been set for the Spring Budget - the last before the General Election.  It’s to be on Wednesday March...

Independent polling gives Labour a big lead when it comes to its approach to housing policy. Detailed polling by the Ipsos pollster...