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A Conservative MP is suggesting that there could be a ’25 mile limit’ imposed around certain rental properties to ensure they...

The government has released more details of the powers being given to local authorities to levy additional taxes on second homes.  The...

Leaks from government ahead of this morning’s Queen’s Speech suggest that second homes which are not let out are likely to...

Homes headed by a person over the age of 45 will account for at least half of all privately renting households...

The activist group Acorn is lobbying a local council to deny people the right to buy a second home or let...

The increasingly shrill anti-landlord rhetoric from some politicians is making it harder for tenants, claims a leading industry spokesman. John Blackwood, chief...

Figures obtained by ITV News suggest that one of the country's most popular tourist locations has as many Airbnbs listed as...

Politicians who express concern over the number of holiday lets and Airbnbs in tourist areas miss one major point - if...

The Liberal Democrats have proposed sharp restrictions on holiday rentals at the heart of the party’s plans to solve the housing...

Only 15 per cent of adults are confident the housing crisis will be resolved in their lifetime. New research among 2,000 individuals...

A think tank says it would take a major policy change to fulfil Boris Johnson’s goal to turn generation rent into...

A prominent consultancy advising the Build To Rent sector has identified one British city as the prime location for investment in 2022. BNP...

A leading agent and member of the Propertymark board says London’s letting agencies and private rental sector need government help -...

A new call has come for government action to stop the hemorrhage of properties shifting from long term rental to Airbnb...

A prominent industry supplier is warning the government not to damage the private rental sector in its push to promote ever-more...

Propertymark has joined four so-called ‘action groups’ advocating housing policy changes including the setting up of a national landlord register and...

A letter from a tenant’s union is demanding that a Labour councillor “publicly explain” his actions as an accountant advising investors...

A town with one of the UK’s heaviest concentrations of holiday homes is clamping down on future purchases by outsiders who...

Cornish MPs have spoken up in the House of Commons to highlight what they claim is the danger of having too...

A leading banking and wealth management company says a growth area for the rental sector in the years to come will...

A report in the Financial Times over the weekend suggests that Lloyds Bank is poised to become a major residential landlord,...

Government intervention, which in recent years has seen scores of legal and regulatory changes to the private rental sector, may be...

A high profile former estate agent who was a major figure on the London sales market for over three decades has...

Nearly four out of 10 landlords believe that tenant demand will rise this year, according to a study by high-profile buy...

Home ownership is increasingly out of reach for British consumers, who say the market has become expensive and inaccessible and that...

Higher housing costs - including private sector rents - have reduced incomes and increased inequality as the poorest families have borne...

Around 40 per cent of tenants currently in the private rental sector believe they will never be able to buy their...

A collective of activist renter groups has set out a manifesto of what it wants from the winner of next month’s...

UK-wide rental prices are up 2.0 per cent annually to £876 – a three-year high – according to a new quarterly...

The majority of the UK’s private renters don’t want to purchase a home according to new research, coming just as the...

Private tenants are being disadvantaged because of the government’s focus on boosting homeownership. According to the latest figures from the Royal Institution...

Legal & General, one of the largest specialist builders of so-called retirement communities for the over-55s, is now going to let...

A European law firm has set out a critique of the driving forces behind Build To Rent - and it says...

There’s been a dramatic 37 per cent rise in rental instructions for prime properties in the capital during the first quarter...

A property management chief is arguing that rent controls would restrict mortgage loans to buy to let investors and drive existing...

A new survey suggests that long-term renting could be substantially less expensive than a mortgage. The study, for Ocean Finance, has analysed...

Home ownership rates for families aged 25 to 34 are rising for the first time in 30 years but high barriers...

Research by franchise lettings agency company Belvoir suggests that landlords are continuing to exit the property market, although not at the...

A third of tenants are happy to rent long-term and have no plans to purchase a property in the future, new...

A rental sector supplier claims huge numbers of tenants are extremely ignorant of the health and safety issues surrounding their rental...

Belvoir has published what it calls ‘a decade of data’ tracking the changes in the private rental sector since 2008, when...

An influential think tank is calling on government to radically reform the private rental sector because a generation of young people...

A trade group says diminishing rates of home ownership amongst younger people shows the need to have a thriving private rental...

New research claims that as many as 78 per cent of young adults aged 18 to 30 fear they will never...

Over two thirds of landlords are reluctant to invest in new properties as a result of the stamp duty surcharge on...

A tenant survey conducted by an online letting agent suggests that almost nine out of 10 tenants are not currently looking...

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

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

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

Analysis of the government's latest English Housing Survey figures shows that there’s been a further decline in the home ownership rate...

  Renters are spending half their wages keeping a roof over their head, are twice as likely as homeowners to have no...

Government leaks to the Observer newspaper suggest that the Housing White Paper will show a huge policy shift towards renting - and may...

The Residential Landlords Association has been quick off the mark to issue what it calls a seven point wish list to...

The Resolution Foundation, a think tank, claims that home ownership is far lower than is widely believed to be the case...

The government must urgently deliver 1.8m new rental homes as new figures from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors reveal a...

Kevin Hollinrake - the founder of franchise agency Hunters and now a Conservative MP - is calling for a cut in...

No fewer than 86 per cent of renters - the equivalent of over six million households - have less than a...

Much publicity has been given to the Resolution Foundation’s report into falling home ownership - but the flip side is that...

The long-term aspiration of most Britons to own their home has not been deterred by the Brexit vote, according to the...

The combination of falling home ownership and rising costs in the private rented sector mean that today’s younger generation will have...

All regions of the UK will see falling owner-occupation levels and more private renting over the next decade, with particular rises...

A new report from the independent Social Market Foundation think tank has found that almost two million more people have been...

The housing ladder is disappearing for most young working households on modest incomes who are obliged to rent for the indefinite...

The government’s initiatives to try to increase house building and owner occupation will not stop demand for rented homes rising by...

Prime Minister David Cameron has dismissed out of hand appeals and comments from Letting Agent Today readers to reconsider the recent...

The National Apartment Association, the organisation that represents the Build To Rent sector in the US, has just hosted a UK...

As the Conservative Party conference continues, a leading Tory has warned that "there is much further to go" on removing buy...

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

Labour’s onslaught on the private rental sector continues, with the party now setting out how it will implement its rent controls...