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A prominent lettings agency operator says he hopes the “toxic” attitude to the private rental sector by the Scottish Government may...

There’s a huge number of amendments to the Renters Reform Bill, which has its Third Reading in the House of Commons...

The government has written to Conservative MPs promising changes to the Renters Reform Bill to ease concerns over its anti-landlord bias. Jacob...

Propertymark has issued a no-holds-barred plea to the politician who has been named as the new housing minister in Wales -...

Propertymark has emphasised the importance of retaining fixed term tenancies under the Renters Reform Bill. Propertymark chief executive Nathan Emerson met Housing...

A former housing minister responsible for the sell off of huge numbers of social homes has told the Prime Minister he...

Labour has waded into the increasingly-fractious debate over the Renters Reform Bill. Activists in groups such as the Renters Reform Coalition and...

While most agents remain relatively tight lipped about party politics, the chief executive of Purplebricks has said the Tories should take...

Scottish councils must engage with letting agents and landlords if radical rental reforms have any chance of working. Propertymark argues that the...

A law professor has dismissed a Labour call for agents to have qualifications as “eye poppingly silly” and “snobby.” Labour’s shadow housing...

Two former housing ministers are at war with each other after an attack on Rishi Sunak’s premiership in today’s Daily Telegraph. Sir...

Labour is using a Bill currently going through Parliament as a backdoor method to introduce the regulation of lettings, estate and...

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

Agents’ trade body Propertymark says the current debate on the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill is another example of how agent...

Former housing minister Rachel Maclean - the victim of a shock sacking by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak last month - has...

New housing minister Lee Rowley has spoken out in favour of Build To Rent. At the inaugural Build To Rent Innovators conference...

A row has broken out over Section 21 between Michael Gove’s Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, and an all-party...

A senior Propertymark official will today tell MPs of the industry’s concerns about the Renters Reform Bill. The Bill has reached the...

The new Housing Minister is Lee Rowley - who was a former housing minister during the short lived premiership of Liz Truss. Rowley...

The Welsh Housing Minister has committed to a Housing Survey to assist its policies for the private rental sector. Propertymark has been...

Housing Secretary Michael Gove will address the main Conservative party Conference on Tuesday morning next week - but perhaps his most...

Parliament resumes today following its summer recess but there is still a lack of detail on aspects of the Renters Reform...

The Renters Reform Bill will cost letting agents over £275m in the next decade as fewer landlords use their services. That’s the...

The Scottish Government does not intend to abandon its licensing scheme for Airbnbs and other short term lets, nor to delay...

It appears almost certain that the Second Reading of the Renters Reform Bill - expected some weeks ago - will not...

It appears that a “wider range of behaviours” are likely to be taken into account in future when tenants are considered...

Propertymark has given details of how it believes the Scottish Government rent control system has backfired and works against the interests...

The Renters Reform Bill is being discussed by MPs this afternoon - although not as part of its long-running passage through...

The BBC says discussions are underway to extend the Renters Reform Bill to specifically outlaw any rental listing banning families and benefit recipients...

Two animal charities - Cats Protection and Dogs Trust - have started recruiting MPs to their campaign in favour of pets...

Propertymark says it’s going to send a briefing on behalf of letting agents to every MP and member of the House...

Labour is considering raising the buy to let and holiday home stamp duty surcharge above the current three per cent if...

Propertymark has given advice to the new Scottish National Party leader and Scotland’s First Minister, Humza Yousaf. The trade group’s head of...

It appears likely that Rachel Maclean is set to become the sixth housing minister in 12 months, replacing Lucy Frazer. In the...

The U-turn by politicians in Scotland who ended a complete rent freeze doesn’t go far enough, says Propertymark. At the end of...

Ruling politicians in Scotland have agreed that from April private rents can rise by 3.0 per cent in a 12 month period...

Housing Secretary Michael Gove is being asked to take urgent action over housing conditions across social and private rental sectors.  Following the...

As the Rishi Sunak government’s lower ranks finally take shape, the junior ministers working with Housing Secretary Michael Gove have been...

The advocates of Build To Rent have made another ambitious target for the sector’s growth.  Research from the British Property Federation and...

A Labour peer who was to have invested £1 billion in affordable homes has halted his scheme because of the threat...

Campaigners who turned on the Prime Minister on Tuesday were cock-a-hoop just 24 hours later when Liz Truss did another U-turn...

The government may be changing its mind on scrapping Section 21 eviction powers according to a bombshell story in The Times. Outlining what...

Shadow housing minister Lisa Nandy has unveiled a Charter for Renters which she says will be implemented within 100 days of...

In a late night announcement it was confirmed by the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities that Lee Rowley MP...

Lee Rowley is the new housing minister, specifically responsible for taking charge of the government’s rental reform agenda. The government has confirmed...

A Build To Rent promotional website appears to be ruing the day that Boris Johnson sacked Michael Gove from his role...

A prominent trade body is warning Tory leadership candidates not to put rental reform on the back burner and add to...

Propertymark has set up a working group of experts, agents, landlords and stakeholders in response to radical reforms to the private...

The Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities has been packed with MPs loyal to outgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson, as...

Within two hours of Greg Clarke being appointed by Boris Johnson as the new Housing Secretary, the leader of Generation Rent...

If housing really is seen by Prime Minister Boris Johnson as one of his key policy goals, there must be uncertainty...

The former president of ARLA Propertymark has made an outspoken attack on the government for failing to regulate the agency industry. Maxine...

Airbnb says that its so-called ‘party ban’ - introduced in 2020 at the height of the pandemic - is being made...

Housing minister Eddie Hughes has categorically stated that the government is not considering rent controls in England. In a written reply to...

ARLA Propertymark is warning the government that it should not delay further on its long-awaited Renters Reform Bill, because of the...

Agents are being urged to prepare for  changes to the Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm Regulations which may come in this...

Agents and landlords are being warned by a government minister not to charge all-inclusive HMO tenants more than necessary in a...

Letting agents are to be quizzed to establish the true cost of damages to rental accommodation by tenants. The “What’s the damage?”...

A prominent industry supplier has hit out at what he calls “the merry go round of housing ministers” following yet another...

Housing ministers come and go with brutal frequency in UK governments of all colours, so yesterday’s departure of Chris Pincher -...

It’s now been made clear that there will be a detailed White Paper in the spring explaining radical changes to the...

Propertymark, the main industry trade body, has this evening updated its guidance on Covid safety for letting and estate agents in England.  - Isolation...

Housing minister Chris Pincher has written an open letter to all landlords and agents in England, telling them how to enact the...

The UK Association of Letting Agents says it welcomes new rules for alarms which put the social and private rental sectors...

‘Generation rent’ was a term first coined in 2011 by the Halifax in a survey on the future of homeownership. It...

The Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities says the long-awaited Rental Reform White Paper will now not be published until...

Letting agents in England with tenants in rent arrears because of Covid are to be helped via a council-run £65m rent fund. Although...

A council has written to Housing Minister Chris Pincher calling for a new approach to the short lets issue. Oxford council leader...

Agents say not enough is being done to help tenants with Covid-related problems - and that’s despite the issue repeatedly being...

A politician is stepping up his bid to ban buy to let purchasers acquiring any units at a 150-home scheme. ITV News...

Propertymark has joined forces with the likes of Generation Rent and Shelter to step up the campaign for the provision of...

Labour’s Lucy Powell, the party’s new housing spokesperson, says she wants to work with the Conservatives to scrap Section 21 eviction...

The ban on bailiff-enforced evictions is now finally at an end and from today there is a change to the notice...

The government has announced changes to tenancy notice periods in line with the phased easing of the pandemic restrictions.  Whilst some notice...

New modular homes built to rent have been delivered to Northstowe, a new town in Cambridgeshire.  Each Town House home has been...

ARLA Propertymark says its disappointed over the latest extension to an eviction ban and the requirement for six months notice to tenants. The latest...

Scotland’s official clampdown on short lets is gathering pace with the country’s housing minister advocating a licensing regime and so-called ‘control...

Letting agents have been told to document all arranging, planning and scheduling of work related to electrical checks in a bid...

One of the housing ministers with responsibility for the introduction of the controversial Renters Reform Bill in the near future has...

Two Labour MPs have made extensive claims about the number of evictions from the private rental sector likely to happen if...

Only 0.3 per cent of all tenancies in England and Wales ended with a dispute over the deposit in the six...

A leading property law expert says there is now pressure on Chancellor Rishi Sunak to raise stamp duty on buy to...

The Scottish Parliament has postponed new fire and smoke alarm legislation for 12 months. This move, by its local government committee, follows...

ARLA Propertymark has written to the government to voice fears that letting agents will not be able to comply with new...

The UK Association of Lettings Agents is recommending transparency in relation to the disclosure of referral fees to landlord clients. Last month...

Agents have another 12 months to make referral fees more transparent according to an update from the National Trading Standards Estate and Letting...

The government is urging agents and landlords to be “considerate” when deciding whether to accept tenants on the basis of their...

It appears lettings agents may have escaped the recommended demands for referral fees to be made more transparent to customers. A statement...

It appears that the Renters Reform Bill - a key measure in the 2019 Conservative General Election manifesto - has been...

The government has revealed the dates of its so-called Christmas eviction truce. Agents will not be able to instruct bailiffs to complete...

A Liberal Democrat Baroness says she is to make a last-ditch bid in the House of Lords tomorrow to stop evictions...

A consultation process by the Scottish Government may herald stricter restrictions on Airbnb and similar short let platforms north of the border. The...

Housing Minister Chris Pincher says the eviction ban is formally over but the situation remains under “constant review” as the second...

Labour’s housing spokeswoman has accused the government of wasting the last four weeks before the eviction ban ended by putting its...

Ahead of the evictions ban being lifted on Sunday, ARLA Propertymark has written to Housing Minister Robert Jenrick, setting out a...

A scheme providing interest-free loans to tenants with Covid-related arrears should be offered across the UK. That’s the view of David Alexander...

A leading politician is calling for a rethink of the six month possession period which has been imposed in Wales. Mark Isherwood,...

A Liberal Democrat bid is underway to accelerate the government timetable to scrap Section 21. The Renters’ Rights Bill put forward by government...

The Welsh Government has temporarily increased the notice period landlords must provide from three months to six months to end Assured...

The housing minister says the resumption of eviction possession court cases at the end of next month must be done in...