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The new Labour leader in Wales, Vaughan Gething, has received an early shot across the bows from Propertymark. Gething was elected Welsh...

Student accommodation booking platform Housemates is expanding overseas. The expansion will cover several major Canadian cities including Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal. Currently Housemates...

A PR exercise has discovered that 89 per cent of UK MPs would not give priority to Build-to-Rent schemes in their...

A Manchester-based company which runs what it calls “an instant booking student accommodation marketplace” has joined forces with Norwegian tech firm...

Propertymark has told the government it should have three priorities for next month’s Budget. 1. Improving welfare system for vulnerable and low-waged...

Propertymark has written to Housing Secretary Michael Gove outlining its concerns about the latest licensing scheme proposal from a local council. The...

The agents’ trade body Propertymark says the government must “get realistic” over the difficulties involved in reaching Net Zero targets when...

HMOs rented by students can be up to £30 a week cheaper than purpose built student accommodation in halls of residence. That’s...

Propertymark is the latest part of the lettings sector to fight back against criticism and claims of extreme evictions made by...

A local authority is launching an investigation into what housing options there are for younger people within its patch, and whether...

ARLA Propertymark has launched a radical programme of reform for the private rental sector - getting in before the government’s own...

Letting agents and landlords in a major city have been requested to see if there is a ‘spare’ four bedroom property that...

Another law firm has sharply criticised the government’s proposals to abolish Section 21 eviction powers for landlords. Devonshires says the government should...

The rental sector needs to prepare for the demographic challenge of an increasingly older population, says the head of a high...

A senior housing official at Bristol city council says the increasing popularity of Airbnb has had the effect of taking “hundreds”...