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09 July 2024
From: Breaking News
![Labour’s Housing Policies - next five years start today](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/AgentHouseInHand_400x310.png)
The biggest rental sector headline from Labour’s manifesto may well be its pledge for the “immediate” abolition of Section 21 eviction...
05 July 2024
From: Breaking News
![Section 21 to be scrapped by Labour immediately](/upload/images/shutterstock_2189665543.jpg)
Labour’s manifesto, just released, makes a pledge to enact the “immediate” abolition of Section 21 eviction powers, along with other private...
13 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Bank aims to support building of new rental homes](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/NewBuild-3-400x310.png)
NatWest Group has announced a new package of what it calls ”targeted lending and support” to help local councils provide more...
27 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![Private rental demand to soar if bankrupt council ends social housing](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews3-400x310.png)
Birmingham’s Labour council is considering closing its social housing waiting list to new applicants - and this is likely to trigger...
12 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![Data Protection - agency advice from the Information Commissioner’s Office](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/PropTech/Software-400x310.png)
The Information Commissioner’s Office has issued advice to agencies on how to comply with data protection law. The UK data protection regulator...
06 December 2023
From: Breaking News
![Rayner slams Tory rental “failures” but light on Labour policy details](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews-400x310.png)
Labour deputy leader and shadow housing secretary Angela Rayner has given her party’s conference an outline of future policy plans. She says:...
09 October 2023
From: Breaking News
![Gove tells agents to identify and remedy damp and mould issues](/upload/images/shutterstock_2135683647.jpg)
New directives issued by the government put the emphasis firmly on private landlords and their letting agents to take responsibility for...
11 September 2023
From: Breaking News
![Awaab Tragedy - Damp awareness course for agents](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/UnhappyTenants-400x310.png)
Following the recent inquest into the tragic death of two-year old Awaab Ishak in Rochdale, agents are being offered free awareness...
30 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![Rent Controls Fail Worldwide - agent lists disastrous consequences](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Rent_Freeze1-400x310.png)
A lettings agency chief has listed how rent controls have failed across the world. Writing in The Scotsman, David Alexander - chief...
14 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![Rent controls crush hopes for thousands of affordable homes](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/BuildToRent1-400x310.png)
A Labour peer who was to have invested £1 billion in affordable homes has halted his scheme because of the threat...
19 October 2022
From: Breaking News
![Rent freeze threatens social housing too, say housing associations](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/RentFreeze-400x310.png)
The Scottish Federation of Housing Associations says its members are key to tackling the cost of living crisis but rent freezes,...
05 October 2022
From: Breaking News
![Starmer’s Labour issues threat to buy to let with new restrictions](/upload/images/library/Labour-logo400x310.png)
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer picked on the buy to let and holiday home sectors as targets for future restrictions, in...
28 September 2022
From: Breaking News
![Huge number of rented homes won’t make new EPC targets](/upload/images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/utility%20bills%20-400x310.png)
Forty per cent of privately rented homes in England are unlikely to achieve the energy efficiency rating target set to become...
25 July 2022
From: Breaking News
![Politician wants Airbnb hosts to switch properties to long-term rentals](/upload/images/Logos/AirbnbLogo-400x310.jpg)
A politician has called on Airbnb hosts in his local area to switch their properties to long-term rentals. Isle of Wight councillor...
19 July 2022
From: Breaking News
![Right To Buy extension plans criticised as “laughable … unworkable”](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/EvictionNotice-400x310-min.jpeg)
A selection of property industry figures have spoken out against the government’s latest proposals to extend Right To Buy to housing...
10 June 2022
From: Breaking News
![Shelter leads opposition to new tenant Right To Buy proposal](/upload/images/Logos/shelter-logo400x310.png)
Shelter has made an outspoken attack on a government proposal to extend Right To Buy to housing association tenants. The idea -...
03 May 2022
From: Breaking News
![High-level enquiry into ‘exempt’ rental accommodation](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/rental-sector26615.png)
A major Select Committee of MPs has launched an enquiry into so-called exempt rental sector accommodation - a niche sector that...
09 December 2021
From: Breaking News
![New calls to stop rental homes switching to Airbnb](/upload/images/Logos/airbnb-logo400x310.png)
A new call has come for government action to stop the hemorrhage of properties shifting from long term rental to Airbnb...
06 October 2021
From: Breaking News
![Take that! Labour chief hits back at buy to let attack by tenants](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/Labour-logo400x310.png)
A Labour council leader has hit after being attacked for his support for buy to let and property investment. Last week we...
02 August 2021
From: Breaking News
![Vets want pets in lets - and they want them now](/img/default/lat.png)
A leading veterinary body - the National Office of Animal Health, or NOAH - wants pets to be allowed in private rental...
23 April 2021
From: Breaking News
![PropTech link for outsourced viewing service and fledgling portal](/img/default/lat.png)
Fledgling portal Homesearch has partnered with outsourced viewing service Viewber in a new PropTech teaming. Under the deal, agents who receive an...
29 September 2020
From: Breaking News
![Rental sector highly vulnerable to younger worker unemployment, stats show](/img/default/lat.png)
Research shows that half of those in the private rental sector are aged 16 to 34, making the lettings industry vulnerable...
29 May 2020
From: Breaking News
![Buy to lets should be sold “at knockdown prices” - renters group](/img/default/lat.png)
A pressure group representing private tenants wants government to help housing associations purchase buy to let properties “at knockdown prices.” A blog...
04 May 2020
From: Breaking News
![Cashback app allows tenants to ‘pay rent as they shop’](/img/default/lat.png)
A new free-to-download app called My Rent Rewards claims to allow tenants to save towards their rent when they shop. The app,...
25 February 2020
From: Breaking News
![Lifetime Rental Deposits backed by Tories as Labour revamps council housing](/img/default/lat.png)
On the day that Labour launches its proposals to reform the private rental sector, the Tories have announced so-called Lifetime Rental...
21 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Housing association appeals to private landlords for help](/img/default/lat.png)
The housing association Cadwyn is calling for private sector landlords with properties in Cardiff to lease their houses to those on...
15 August 2019
From: Breaking News
![Shelter launches £600k fund to find solutions to PRS problems](/img/default/lat.png)
Housing charity Shelter has announced the launch of a £600,000 fund it is hosting, with the aim of improving the private...
09 May 2019
From: Breaking News
![Trading Standards launches bid to lift energy standards in rental sector](/img/default/lat.png)
TrustMark, the government-backed quality kite mark scheme for tradespeople, is launching a pilot with Trading Standards to improve the quality and...
18 March 2019
From: Breaking News
![More red tape? Labour gives top-level support for 'mandatory register'](/img/default/lat.png)
Shadow housing minister John Healey has given his backing to a Labour MP’s attempt to introduce a mandatory national register for...
11 September 2018
From: Breaking News
![Housing minister wants agents to say what they think of White Paper](/img/default/lat.png)
Housing minister Gavin Barwell is organising a series of regional meetings for property professionals to give him their view of his...
20 February 2017
From: Breaking News
![Longer tenancies will NOT apply to Buy To Let properties](/img/default/lat.png)
The government has stepped in to clear up misunderstandings emerging from the Housing White Paper following its high profile call for...
09 February 2017
From: Breaking News
![Shelter says government must deliver on longer tenancies](/img/default/lat.png)
Shelter - the campaigning charity many feel has had influence on government policies for the lettings sector - has now turned around and...
09 February 2017
From: Breaking News
![Two more big city Build To Rent schemes announced](/img/default/lat.png)
The largest Build To Rent deal in Bristol has been announced. Grainger, the UK's largest listed residential landlord, will forward fund, acquire...
29 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![Mortgage chief demands government support for rental sector](/img/default/lat.png)
A leading mortgage industry spokesman says he hopes Theresa May's "more balanced approach" to housing policy will trigger government support for...
09 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![Sadiq Khan sets out first details of 'London Living Rent'](/img/default/lat.png)
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has announced the first details of his plan to introduce a 'London Living Rent'. This new...
21 September 2016
From: Breaking News
![Industry groups push rental training for landlords and tenants](/img/default/lat.png)
An initiative between the Residential Landlords Association and the Tenancy Deposit Scheme Charitable Foundation will help charities and other organisations offer...
08 March 2016
From: Breaking News
![Trade union wades into row over privately-let ex-council flats](/img/default/lat.png)
The Right To Buy policy “has turned into a rich harvest for the greedy elite” according to a trades union. The GMB...
16 February 2016
From: Breaking News
![Build To Rent may feature in Transport for London property plans](/img/default/lat.png)
Transport for London - which last year admitted it may enter the fast-emerging Build To Rent sector - has listed 13...
05 February 2016
From: Breaking News
![Big majority for Right To Buy compromise as government response awaited](/img/default/lat.png)
There is reported to be a substantial majority amongst housing associations for the compromise deal over the government's controversial Right To...
06 October 2015
From: Breaking News
![London housing associations backing Right To Buy compromise](/img/default/lat.png)
G15, the largest group of London housing associations, says its members unanimously back a controversial Right to Buy compromise proposal. Under the...
30 September 2015
From: Breaking News
![Government waters down housing association Right To Buy](/img/default/lat.png)
The government is watering down its controversial new Right To Buy policy, by giving housing associations one week to sign up...
25 September 2015
From: Breaking News
![LibDems will try to block Right To Buy extension to housing associations](/img/default/lat.png)
The Liberal Democrat party says it will use its members in the House of Lords to try to block the government's...