Planning permission has been given to the biggest-ever Build To Rent scheme in Milton Keynes. A company under the name PLATFORM_ has...
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![Households will have to invest in Green technology - Carney](/upload/images/EcoHomes-2-400x310.png)
Former Bank of England governor Mark Carney is warning that homeowners, including those serving the private rental sector, will have to...
12 July 2024
From: Breaking News
![Eco-Improvements demanded by most tenants - new bank survey](/upload/images/shutterstock_2208680371.jpg)
A small survey by a bank suggests that almost 100% of buy to let investors surveyed have received requests from tenants...
14 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Proposed Capital Gains Tax rise would hit rental sector](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/TaxCoins-400x310.png)
A political party has proposed that Capital Gains Tax be equalised with Income Tax - meaning landlords and investors who sold...
13 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Beefed Up EPC must be priority for next government - call](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/EPC-2-400x310.png)
Political parties should not allow the lengthy General Election campaign to delay work on a new and beefed-up Energy Performance Certificate...
30 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![City Build To Rent Schemes - two new announcements](/upload/images/shutterstock_1656368827.jpg)
Developer Beech Holdings has secured planning permission for its luxury development of Build To Rent apartments in Sheffield. Sheffield Gardens will include...
17 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Build To Rent hits the suburbs with new eco scheme](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/Energy_EfficientHome-400x310.png)
Legal & General’s suburban Build To Rent business, called LGSBTR, has exchanged on 41 new BTR homes in St Neots, Cambridgeshire. Consisting...
05 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Energy Efficiency - new RICS standard for agents to launch this year](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/EPCx400x310.png)
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has launched a new Residential Retrofit Standard in a bid to help the housing industry...
19 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![Experts want major reforms of EPCs and better trained assessors](/upload/images/Smart_EPC-400x310.png)
The Building Research Establishment - which undertakes research, advice, training, testing, certification and standards-setting for the housing sector - is calling...
01 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![EPC Change On The Way? New energy ratings planned by government](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/EPC-2-400x310.png)
The government has launched a public consultation on a radical new UK home energy rating system to replace the long-standing Standard...
18 December 2023
From: Breaking News
![Expensive rental eco-heat scheme needs rethink - top agent](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/Energy_EfficientHome-400x310.png)
A consultation to introduce boilers into homes and the private rented sector needs ‘more carrot than stick’ according to a prominent...
07 December 2023
From: Breaking News
![New energy efficiency U-turn welcomed by leading agency](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/EPC-2-400x310.png)
It looks like more politicians are preparing a U-turn on energy efficiency rules for the private rental sector. Media reports indicate there...
24 November 2023
From: Breaking News
![Hot Stuff! Top agent welcomes Sunak’s eco U-turn](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews1-400x310.png)
A leading agent has welcomed the dramatic U turn by the government on how it is to meet its net zero...
21 September 2023
From: Breaking News
![Gas Boiler Ban Delay - very few backed original idea](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/BoilerInspection_1-400x310.png)
Fewer than one in five homeowners support the government’s plans to ban gas boilers in new homes by 2025, with 83...
21 September 2023
From: Breaking News
![Foot Off The Gas - boiler ban deadline may be eased](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/BoilerInspection_1-400x310.png)
The Times is reporting that a delay to the controversial ban on gas boilers is being considered by the government as...
20 September 2023
From: Breaking News
![Eco Build To Rent scheme promotes air source heat pumps](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/BuildToRent1-400x310.png)
A Build To Rent scheme is now ready for move-in by tenants, following the completed conversion of an ambulance station into...
18 September 2023
From: Breaking News
![Rishi Sunak hints at fundamental reform of EPC system](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/Energy_Efficiency-400x310.png)
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has thrown his weight behind Housing Secretary Michael Gove’s proposals to delay deadlines for EPC improvements in...
27 July 2023
From: Breaking News
![EPC targets threaten private rental sector if they are unchanged](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/Energy_Efficiency-400x310.png)
Stricter proposals for energy efficiency under review by the government risk damaging the private rental sector if they remain unchanged. That’s the...
26 July 2023
From: Breaking News
![EPC changes to rental properties to be ‘relaxed’ - Gove](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/_EPC5-400x310.png)
Housing Secretary Michael Gove has this morning said his government should ‘relax the pace’ of EPC reforms expected from private landlords. In...
23 July 2023
From: Breaking News
![RICS slams government over energy strategy “lacking ambition”](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/GreenHome-400x310.png)
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has accused the government of lacking ambition in its new energy strategy. The government's revised strategy,...
13 April 2023
From: Breaking News
![RICS slams government over energy strategy “lacking ambition”](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/_EPC5-400x310.png)
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has accused the government of lacking ambition in its new energy strategy. The government's revised strategy,...
04 April 2023
From: Breaking News
![Boiler Upgrade Scheme - half of agents didn’t even know it existed](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/BoilerInspection_1-400x310.png)
It’s been revealed that Propertymark contributed its thoughts to a Parliamentary committee which has slammed the failure of the government’s Boiler...
28 February 2023
From: Breaking News
![Energy Efficiency Regs will reduce housing supply - claim](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews3-400x310.png)
Housebuilders have branded a west country council’s decision to ask for all new homes to be net zero as ‘unaffordable' and...
30 January 2023
From: Breaking News
![Net Zero Targets - Why no help for private rental sector to meet them?](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/Low_EPC-400x310.png)
Propertymark is querying why there’s no help for the private rental sector to meet energy efficiency targets expressed in a new...
17 January 2023
From: Breaking News
!['Post-Covid Lifestyle' pioneered by Build To Rent offering](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/MortgageCalculated_400x310.png)
Legal & General - one of the country’s biggest Build To Rent players - has struck a deal with new build...
11 January 2023
From: Breaking News
![Controversial Boiler Upgrade Scheme to be scrutinised by politicians](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/BoilerService-400x310.png)
The controversial Boiler Upgrade Scheme - which Propertymark say is so complex many people don’t think it’s worth applying to -...
22 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![Agents told to encourage landlords to better energy-efficiency](/upload/images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/EnergyEfficiency-2-400x310.jpg)
Propertymark says the new boiler upgrade scheme, which comes into effect this week, is an opportunity for letting agents to promote...
26 May 2022
From: Breaking News
![Rental properties become more energy efficient, say tenants](/upload/images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/Energyefficiency400x310.jpg)
A survey conducted by financial institutions has found the first suggestion that rental properties are slowly becoming more energy efficient. A study...
09 May 2022
From: Breaking News
![Low tenant and public awareness over Boiler changes, say MPs](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/BOXTBoilerInstallation-400x310.jpg)
Many people - including agents, landlords and tenants - are unprepared for the domestic heating revolution on its way to Britain. That’s...
04 February 2022
From: Breaking News
![New rental homes pledge greater energy efficiency and sustainability](/upload/images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/EnergyEfficiency-1-400x310.jpg)
One of the institutions behind Build To Rent in the UK is pledging to have up to 1,000 new rental homes...
25 November 2021
From: Breaking News
![Heatpump proposals may be hot air, suggests PropTech platform](/upload/images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/GreenEnvironment-400x310.png)
PropTech investment platform Houzen has raised concerns over the government’s Heat and Buildings Strategy. This is the satrategy that offers rental sector...
01 November 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
![Big rise in energy efficiency of private rented homes says government](/img/default/lat.png)
The latest English Housing Survey shows a dramatic rise in the energy efficiency of private rental property. Some 38 per cent of...