The resignation of Labour’s First Minister of Wales has raised alarm with Propertymark. Vaughan Gething quit yesterday after the Welsh Housing Secretary...
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![No explicit pledge to spread rent controls further in Scotland - SNP](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews2-400x310.png)
The Scottish National Party, which as part of an alliance with the Greens introduced controversial rent controls in Scotland in 2022,...
20 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Renting Still Cheaper Than Buying with a 5% Deposit](/upload/images/shutterstock_2322919583.jpg)
Would-be buyers with a 5% deposit face paying £300 per month more in mortgage repayments than if they continued renting, says...
19 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![RICS rings alarm bells over state of lettings market](/upload/images/shutterstock_1313087447.jpg)
The latest residential market survey from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors is raising a red flag over what it calls...
13 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Agents Distinctly Underwhelmed by Tories’ manifesto pledges](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews2-400x310.png)
Agents, and others in the lettings industry, have given a sceptical response to the Conservative manifesto and its varied pledges about...
12 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Word-for-Word - Conservative Rental and Housing Manifesto Pledges](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Taxes-400x310.png)
The Conservatives have this afternoon set out a 78-page manifesto, of which just over two pages are given to housing and...
11 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Prioritise First Time Buyers - demand grows for next government to take action](/upload/images/shutterstock_1460401067.jpg)
Four fifths of developers believe that the next government needs to do more to support first time buyers, according to the...
30 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![Brexit and High Interest Rates pose major challenges to agents](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews1-400x310.png)
Letting agents believe Help to Buy has been the most positive influence to the property market in recent times, while on...
16 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![New Rental Crisis - big rise in countryside lets as rural house prices soar](/upload/images/shutterstock_1438059821.jpg)
England’s county councils want the next government to set out a long-term plan for housing, as a new report claims there’s...
25 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![Beware 1% Deposits - Knight Frank lays into government](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/MortgageRates1_400x310.png)
Knight Frank has taken the unusual step of suggesting a government proposal for the housing market is high-risk and could even...
23 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![Build To Rent investment rockets, focussed on major cities](/upload/images/shutterstock_1141644755(1).jpg)
The latest Build To Rent report prepared by lettings agency Savills claims 2023 saw a total of £4.5 billion of investment...
01 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![Row over government bid to turn renters into first time buyers](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/BuyRent-400x310.png)
Controversy surrounds a government idea - floated over the weekend - to allow renters to secure mortgages with just one per...
22 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Budget date revealed as Gove hints at new housing policies](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/2_MortgageCalculated.png)
The date has been set for the Spring Budget - the last before the General Election. It’s to be on Wednesday March...
28 December 2023
From: Breaking News
![Agents warn of time bomb after lettings agency report](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews1-400x310.png)
Propertymark has urged the government to take the potential Help to Buy ‘timebomb’ seriously. The news comes as London lettings agent Benham...
13 October 2023
From: Breaking News
![Bring back Help To Buy to combat soaring rents - legal call](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews3-400x310.png)
A prominent property law consultancy wants Help To Buy, or similar schemes, to be resurrected. Dutton Gregory Solicitors says that with the...
27 June 2023
From: Breaking News
![Lawyer hits out at court delays and growing anti-rental sentiment](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Legal_Action-400x310.png)
A seasoned property lawyer who has specialised in residential landlord and tenant law for 22 years says she is embarrassed at...
16 June 2023
From: Breaking News
![Prominent agent slams Tories for damaging supply of homes](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/FinanceCalculator-400x310.png)
The government must focus on measures in next week’s Budget that will boost significantly the supply of homes, according to lettings...
09 March 2023
From: Breaking News
![Rent-to-Own PropTech platform wins huge cash injection](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/AdultChildren-400x310.png)
Keyzy, a rent-to-own service aimed at aspiring homeowners, has raised £3m in a seed funding round. The proceeds will accelerate its purchases...
26 January 2023
From: Breaking News
![What do agents want in 2023? New survey reveals all](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Seasonal%20Photos/2023Loading-400x310.png)
This may be 2022’s least surprising research finding - most property professionals want interest rates to fall. A webinar poll undertaken by...
14 December 2022
From: Breaking News
![Buy To Let rental growth to lag behind Build To Rent - claim](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Buy-to-let-2-400x310.png)
The current supply demand imbalance across the UK rental market looks set to endure as fewer households move across into owner...
02 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![More buy to let and Build To Rent new-builds ‘will help developers recover’](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/RentalMarket400x310.jpg)
Savills says an increase in the number of new builds bought for buy to let and other property investment will help...
19 October 2021
From: Breaking News
![Agents tell government - Use Budget to help private rental sector](/img/default/lat.png)
ARLA Propertymark has issued a list of 10 demands for Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s long-awaited Budget on March 3, with a financial...
04 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![Total ban on evictions for three months, with blessing of trade groups](/img/default/lat.png)
The government has announced a complete ban on evictions in the private and social sectors for any tenant affected by the...
19 March 2020
From: Breaking News
![Almost half of renters believe they will never own a home](/img/default/lat.png)
Some 45 per cent of those who don’t yet own a home think they never will, according to a new report. While...
19 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Replacing leasehold with Commonhold – government responds at last](/img/default/lat.png)
While we wouldn’t be so bold as to say the government gets its daily fix of property news from the Today...
18 July 2019
From: Breaking News
![Replacing leasehold with commonhold: government fails to respond](/img/default/lat.png)
Throughout April and May, we ran a high-profile campaign across our sites, Landlord Today, Estate Agent Today, Letting Agent Today and...
15 July 2019
From: Breaking News
![Searing criticism of agents and landlords by leading consumer group](/img/default/lat.png)
A prominent consumer group claims that one in 10 tenants currently renting say they have at some point been evicted “for...
05 June 2019
From: Breaking News
![Quiz The Minister: send questions on replacing leasehold with commonhold](/img/default/lat.png)
In recent weeks our campaign to replace leasehold with commonhold has continued to gather momentum both in the press and across...
01 May 2019
From: Breaking News
![Stolen: £1.3m of tenants’ cash pilfered by rogue agents and landlords](/img/default/lat.png)
A rental campaigner claims the amount of money stolen this year by crooked lettings agents and landlords has topped the £1.3m...
20 December 2018
From: Breaking News
![Crooked agents and landlords pocket almost £1m in just six months](/img/default/lat.png)
Crooked letting agents and landlords have so far this year been convicted of illegally pocketing over £900,000 of tenant’s cash – and there’s...
17 July 2018
From: Breaking News
![Deposits mean tenants 'miss out on £80m in interest' - claim](/img/default/lat.png)
Academic research suggests tenants in England and Wales are missing out on £80m of interest to tenancy deposit schemes every single...
03 April 2018
From: Breaking News
![Over 80% of Help To Buy: Equity Loan purchasers are first timers](/img/default/lat.png)
Over 112,000 properties have been purchased through the Help to Buy: Equity Loan scheme since its launch in 2013 - and...
31 March 2017
From: Breaking News
![Government should create 'Help To Rent' says homelessness charity](/img/default/lat.png)
Half of England’s local authorities claim it is ‘very difficult’ to assist homeless applicants into privately rented accommodation, according to a...
22 March 2017
From: Breaking News
![Industry group welcomes House of Lords' swipe at Build To Rent](/img/default/lat.png)
The Residential Landlords Association has welcomed a report by the House of Lords that institutional investors behind the Build To Rent...
19 July 2016
From: Breaking News
![Figures show why private rental sector is dominated by young tenants](/img/default/lat.png)
The housing ladder is disappearing for most young working households on modest incomes who are obliged to rent for the indefinite...
17 February 2016
From: Breaking News
![Private renting has grown by 17,000 households a month in England claim](/img/default/lat.png)
The government’s initiatives to try to increase house building and owner occupation will not stop demand for rented homes rising by...
03 February 2016
From: Breaking News
![Agency guru wants more social housing after year of attacks on buy to let](/img/default/lat.png)
Dorian Gonsalves, director of commercial and franchising at Belvoir, is urging the government to dramatically increase the availability of social housing...
07 January 2016
From: Breaking News
![Investor guru says it's not Buy To Let that's unstable, it's Help To Buy](/img/default/lat.png)
The chief executive of property investment company Assetz says it’s not Buy To Let that threatens the stability of the housing...
31 December 2015
From: Breaking News
![Letting agents and landlords angry at buy to let stamp duty 'surcharge'](/img/default/lat.png)
There’s been an angry reaction from letting agents and landlords to the shock news that an additional three per cent stamp...
26 November 2015
From: Breaking News
![Osborne's property industry Autumn Statement announcements](/img/default/lat.png)
- From April 2016 buy to let landlords and people buying second or holiday homes will have to pay an additional...