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23 August 2023
From: Breaking News
![Message to Gove: EPC rule changes “devastating” for rental sector](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/Energy_EfficientHome-400x310.png)
A lettings agency chief says tighter EPC targets will be “devastating” for the private rental sector. Ben Quaintrell - managing director of...
14 April 2023
From: Breaking News
![Speculation grows about future changes to EPCs](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/Energy_Efficiency-400x310.png)
Speculation is growing that the deadline for the private rental sector to meet new Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards for new tenants...
30 March 2023
From: Breaking News
![Reinstate Mortgage Interest Tax Relief - agents’ plea to government](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/FinanceCalculator-400x310.png)
Propertymark has told the government it should have three priorities for next month’s Budget. 1. Improving welfare system for vulnerable and low-waged...
02 February 2023
From: Breaking News
![Energy Efficiency - agents say new schemes must be rental-friendly](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/EnergyEfficiency_Savings-400x310.png)
Propertymark wants the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy to widen access to cash help to those that need it...
30 December 2022
From: Breaking News
![Solar panel installations boom in push for improved EPCs](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/EPC-2-400x310.png)
As energy prices have increased 70 per cent in the UK this year, so more homeowners have fitted small-scale solar panel...
17 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![Propertymark forecasts the 2022 rental market and issues](/upload/images/Logos/NAEA-ARLA-Propertymark-400x310.jpg)
Propertymark chief executive Nathan Emerson has given his prediction as to what the big issues will be in the 2022 lettings...
14 December 2021
From: Breaking News
![New Boiler Ban: Letting agents put the heat on government](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/BOXTBoilerInstallation-400x310.jpg)
ARLA Propertymark has blasted the government over its net zero policy of banning new boilers from 2035 and giving landlords £5,000...
21 October 2021
From: Breaking News
![Government told off by Propertymark over Green Homes Grant farce](/upload/images/Logos/NAEA-ARLA-Propertymark-400x310.jpg)
The farcical implementation of the government’s Green Homes Grant scheme has been sharply criticised by Propertymark. Timothy Douglas, the organisation’s policy and...
09 September 2021
From: Breaking News
![EPC law change may create havoc across rental sector - warning](/upload/images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/Energyefficiency400x310.jpg)
An analysis of new government legislation on energy efficiency suggests it may lead to chaos in the private rental sector. Geospatial technology...
17 August 2021
From: Breaking News
![Climate Change Targets: Agents demand cash help for rental sector](/upload/images/library/CoinsHouses-2019-400x310.jpg)
Propertymark says new figures detailing the costs of energy efficiency improvements in the private rental sector show the need for a...
16 July 2021
From: Breaking News
![Government reveals true scale of Green Homes Grant farce](/img/default/lat.png)
ARLA Propertymark says there should be a long term appropriately funded strategy to help the private rental sector and home owners...
26 April 2021
From: Breaking News
![Government must offer buy to let sector a Green incentive - call](/img/default/lat.png)
The government’s embarrassing axing of the Green Homes Grant means there must now be a replacement to help the private rental...
30 March 2021
From: Breaking News
![Blow to lettings sector as Green Homes Grant axed](/img/default/lat.png)
The initiative which the government hoped would transform energy efficiency in the private rental sector is being axed this week. The Green...
29 March 2021
From: Breaking News
![Councils can’t enforce energy efficiency regs in rental sector - claim](/img/default/lat.png)
Propertymark has responded to the official consultation on the government proposals called Energy Performance of Privately Rented Homes in England and...
21 January 2021
From: Breaking News
![Eco-policies to dominate rental sector in 2021 predicts agency](/img/default/lat.png)
Lettings agency Carter Jonas predicts the housing market - for both owner-occupiers and landlords - will become increasingly eco-focussed in 2021. It says...
30 December 2020
From: Breaking News
![EPCs should last just five years and not 10 - property group](/img/default/lat.png)
A collective of government appointed accreditation schemes has called on the government to do more to improve energy efficiency in the...
16 December 2020
From: Breaking News
![Warm welcome for eco-grants given by lettings trade body](/img/default/lat.png)
The National Residential Landlords Association is giving the thumbs up to the government’s Green Homes Grant, which it claims has taken...
05 August 2020
From: Breaking News
![Give tenants power to trigger energy improvements - Generation Rent](/img/default/lat.png)
Campaign group Generation Rent says private tenants could miss out on an energy efficiency drive if they are not given the...
31 July 2020
From: Breaking News
![Agents' warm welcome for £5,000 Green Homes Grant scheme](/img/default/lat.png)
The Association of Residential Lettings Agents has given a warm welcome to this week’s news that buy to let investors as...