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The political chaos in Scotland presents sensible politicians with an ideal chance to resent housing policies and ditch rent controls. That’s the...

What appears to be another government housing policy U-turn - this time on ground rents - is being hailed as “a...

A think tank is urging the UK government to consider tax perks for private renters to help them save faster for...

Knight Frank has taken the unusual step of suggesting a government proposal for the housing market is high-risk and could even...

Controversy surrounds a government idea - floated over the weekend - to allow renters to secure mortgages with just one per...

The Jackson-Stops agency is warning that the Renters Reform Bill is driving investors away - and making the market worse, not...

Independent polling gives Labour a big lead when it comes to its approach to housing policy. Detailed polling by the Ipsos pollster...

A prominent housing expert has told MPs that letting agents could be used to police the standards off homes made available...

Senior Labour MP Clive Betts says the party’s official house building policy won’t actually solve the shortage of homes. Labour deputy leader...

A mortgage lender has conducted a survey of homeowners which has produced a string of anti-landlord and anti-overseas investor attitudes. Market Financial...

A prominent housing journalist says Labour should fund councils to buy homes directly from private landlords to rapidly increase the size...

New Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf is bad news for the private rental sector, a prominent lettings agent warns. David Alexander -...

A prominent lettings agent has resumed his attack on politicians for failing to build sufficient numbers of social housing properties -...

A prominent lettings agency chief executive has lashed out at the “cheap political points” being scored by politicians in Scotland who...

A prominent lettings Industry figure has slammed Boris Johnson’s latest housing market utterances, branding them “off the cuff” and likely to...

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

A report from the House of Lords has condemned the private rental sector as being ”increasingly unaffordable” as well as being...

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

A leading trade body says the rental sector must not discriminate against tenants on benefits - and has told government it...

ARLA Propertymark is backing a cross-industry call for more information to be provided to politicians who go on to make housing...

Propertymark, which will from later this year combine both the National Association of Estate Agents and the Association of Residential Letting...

The ARLA Propertymark president for the year ahead is a long-standing board member with significant experience in regulation. Angela Davey succeeds Phil...

Generation Rent, a campaign group that is consistently critical of lettings agencies and landlords, says a priority of the new government...

The weekly economic and financial research magazine The Economist has made a scathing attack on rent controls. The publication says rent controls...

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

The Tenant Fees Act comes into effect in England tomorrow - but a senior lettings expert is questioning whether it will...

There has been a massive surge in the volume of lettings properties under construction for the burgeoning Built To Rent sector. Data...

The agency industry has reacted in a broadly downbeat way at the relatively few housing-related proposals that were announced in yesterday’s...

Private rental sector tenants have spent the year so far working only to pay for their accommodation, the BBC claims.  The broadcaster...

Labour insists that if it forms the next government it will introduce ‘living rents’ in a new range of affordable homes...

The Communities and Local Government committee of MPs will on Monday hear their first oral evidence of the year for the...

Beleagured housing minister Alok Sharma has been told by a London council that his decision over an application for a borough-wide...

The latest investigation into the ability of the private rental sector to meet the needs of the population is calling for...

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

ARLA Propertymark says it will launch a campaign against the government’s proposed ban on letting agents’ fees levied on tenants “in...

The Residential Landlords’ Association has welcomed the new Rugg Review into the state of the private rental sector - but few...

There is to be a new high-level and independent review of the private rental sector in England.   The Nationwide Foundation is funding...

A leading mortgage industry spokesman says he hopes Theresa May's "more balanced approach" to housing policy will trigger government support for...

Age UK says the number of older people renting in the private sector is set to soar in the near future...

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

There has been a sharp and rapid rebuttal of comments made by new shadow chancellor John McDonnell suggesting that private sector...

Labour leadership hopeful Andy Burnham is the latest to say he would consider rent controls in the private sector if he...

This week RICS reported a further drop in the number of people putting their homes up for sale; new instructions fell...

It is to the credit of our political parties - and our own industry’s lobbying - that so many housing-related matters...