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27 March 2024
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Despite several fires in rented properties, the government is proposing to double the maximum legal power of e-bikes. A Department of Transport...
08 March 2024
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Nationwide has taken the unusual step of using its buy to let lending arm - The Mortgage Works - to make...
05 March 2024
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A lettings industry supplier claims one in nine renters use foodbanks. A survey of tenants, commissioned by Zero Deposit, found that just...
22 February 2024
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A buying agent claims that rents could finally be tailing off despite some indices showing rises still taking place. According to Rightmove,...
05 February 2024
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A Knight Frank survey of 50 house builders shows a staggering 70 per cent support for Labour to win the next...
29 January 2024
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New research shows there are 36,210 long-term vacant homes across London - that’s around one in every 100 properties. The borough in...
26 January 2024
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Propertymark has urged the government to do more to help the country’s most vulnerable citizens heat their homes. Office for National Statistics...
19 December 2023
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Propertymark has laid out its proposals to the Scottish Government ahead of its 2024-25 Budget next week. The letting agents’ trade body...
15 December 2023
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Leaders Romans Group is calling for a Landlords Reform Bill to balance the challenges and apparent disincentives now deterring landlords from...
30 November 2023
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A business consortium is calling for bold measures to encourage landlords and owner occupiers to retrofit their homes, with the introduction...
24 October 2023
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The chief executive of Propertymark has reiterated his call for the government to make investment in buy to let attractive. Nathan Emerson says:...
21 September 2023
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Propertymark is backing a call for financial help for landlords who improve the energy efficiency of their properties. The think tank E3G...
04 September 2023
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The private rental sector could play a far greater role in helping to end homelessness in Scotland, according to a new...
21 August 2023
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Propertymark has set out a five point plan to improve the status and usefulness of the Energy Performance Certificate and to...
18 August 2023
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Council tax premiums being considered in Wales would be insufficient to persuade short let and holiday home owners to move their...
31 July 2023
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A new analysis by Rightmove suggests it could take literally decades for the private rental sector to conform with stricter energy...
28 July 2023
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Private landlords should hold fire on plans to quit the private rental sector and give the government a chance to incentivise...
25 May 2023
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A new survey of lettings agents and landlords has put the reinstatement of Section 24 mortgage tax relief at the top...
21 April 2023
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Propertymark’s ARLA President is calling on the government to intervene to help boost the flagging stock of rental properties. The call, by...
31 March 2023
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New Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf is bad news for the private rental sector, a prominent lettings agent warns. David Alexander -...
28 March 2023
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A new PropTech tool says it will help agents maximise their chances of handling the sales of properties being disposed of...
24 March 2023
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Campaigning charity Shelter is angry with Chancellor Jeremy Hunt over his Budget While most in the property industry have expressed relief that there...
16 March 2023
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A prominent agent and former RICS residential chairman has made an impassioned plea to the government to help the private rental...
14 March 2023
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The government must focus on measures in next week’s Budget that will boost significantly the supply of homes, according to lettings...
09 March 2023
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A prominent lettings agency chief wants a raft of measures to help the private rental sector and investors in next week’s...
08 March 2023
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Exeter council in Devon is promoting a scheme to private landlords by calling it a “cost-effective solution for landlords who want...
02 March 2023
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The British Property Federation, which typically has relatively little to say about the private rental sector, has issued a series of...
22 February 2023
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Propertymark has told the government it should have three priorities for next month’s Budget. 1. Improving welfare system for vulnerable and low-waged...
02 February 2023
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Propertymark wants to see more energy-efficient homes, but with realistic targets and incentives to act. In its submission to the government ahead...
31 January 2023
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The government has been accused of pushing up the cost of home insulation because of a poorly timed public campaign. The National...
11 January 2023
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A new scheme offering landlords the opportunity to lease property through a local authority has been launched. Leasing Scheme Wales: Gwynedd gives...
16 November 2022
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New figures from property consultancy TwentyCi lay bare the challenges faced by the lettings sector. In the third quarter of 2022 new...
21 October 2022
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The agents’ trade body Propertymark says the government must “get realistic” over the difficulties involved in reaching Net Zero targets when...
17 October 2022
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Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng has announced that stamp duty will be cut. In future there will be no stamp duty on the first...
23 September 2022
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The National Audit Office has made scathing criticisms of government efforts to build more affordable housing. The public spending watchdog says the...
13 September 2022
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A prominent supporter of new Prime Minister Liz Truss has spoken out against rent controls. Veteran Conservative MP Sir John Redwood, who...
08 September 2022
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Winkworth’s latest figures to shareholders show that sales revenues have slumped badly - but lettings have boomed for the moment at...
08 September 2022
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ARLA Propertymark says it’s a strong fan of New Zero ambitions but warns that the private rental sector needs incentives to...
31 August 2022
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A major lettings sector supplier says the industry must do more to appeal to win employees from the TikTok generation. These typically...
23 August 2022
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ARLA Propertymark has released details of its written response to a Parliamentary committee investigating the impact of Airbnb-style short lets on...
09 August 2022
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Propertymark has issued the government with a stark warning - without incentives to landlords, the private rental sector will shrink, rents...
02 August 2022
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MPs on a key Select Committee have been criticised by the letting agents’ trade body for failing to probe how Local...
28 July 2022
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Propertymark has set up a working group of experts, agents, landlords and stakeholders in response to radical reforms to the private...
18 July 2022
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Agents running their own businesses but attracted to the advantages of a corporate are being targeted by a new Business Integration...
20 June 2022
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A property investment company says Build To Rent is key to helping Britain meet its current housing and climate change challenges...
20 June 2022
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Letting agents should consider how the properties they manage can become more energy efficient, says Propertymark. And they should tap into new...
01 June 2022
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An agency in an Airbnb hotspot is offering incentives to landlords who switch from short lets to long-term mainstream letting. Dan Roskilly,...
23 May 2022
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One of the UK’s largest lettings groups has made an outspoken attack on the policies of a political party standing in...
27 April 2022
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ARLA Propertymark is the latest rental industry organisation to hit out at what it calls the “tenant-centred approach” being taken to...
26 April 2022
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The chief executive of ARLA Propertymark has made an outspoken attack on the UK government, accusing it of a “blatant disregard...
20 April 2022
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There’s been a broad welcome from letting agents to the Spring Statement not loading more tax or restrictions on buy to...
24 March 2022
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A major think tank is calling for a radical reform of the private rental sector. A report from the cross-party independent Social...
18 March 2022
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New financial incentives are needed to bring thousands of empty homes back into use and give a much-needed boost to the...
01 March 2022
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Perhaps few letting agents consider giving anything like rewards to tenants, but if they did there might be a case for...
13 December 2021
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ARLA Propertymark has thrown its weight behind a new dispute resolution service as a quicker and less expensive alternative to court...
05 November 2021
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A leading lettings agency wants next week’s Budget to unveil incentives to bolster supply in the long term rental sector. Richard Davies,...
22 October 2021
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ARLA Propertymark has blasted the government over its net zero policy of banning new boilers from 2035 and giving landlords £5,000...
21 October 2021
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A lack of longer term rental accommodation thanks to the growth of Airbnb and other short lets has led to a...
05 October 2021
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The farcical implementation of the government’s Green Homes Grant scheme has been sharply criticised by Propertymark. Timothy Douglas, the organisation’s policy and...
09 September 2021
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Propertymark says new figures detailing the costs of energy efficiency improvements in the private rental sector show the need for a...
16 July 2021
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ARLA Propertymark says there should be a long term appropriately funded strategy to help the private rental sector and home owners...
26 April 2021
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A regional agency group is providing training courses free of charge to members “for the foreseeable future.” The training - usually heavily...
19 April 2021
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The initiative which the government hoped would transform energy efficiency in the private rental sector is being axed this week. The Green...
29 March 2021
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Propertymark has responded to the official consultation on the government proposals called Energy Performance of Privately Rented Homes in England and...
21 January 2021
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The Tenant Fees Act 2019’s 12-month transition period came to an end on 31 May, prohibiting various payments and charges that...
16 December 2020
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A controversial Labour council that locked horns with the government over landlord licensing is now submitting a new proposal for its...
15 December 2020
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ARLA Propertymark wants the government to make the current business rates exemption for High Street branches permanent. The exemption, introduced in the spring...
07 December 2020
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Industry supplier The Letting Partnership is calling for businesses to take on more apprentices and support young people in a challenging...
04 December 2020
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An influential think-tank wants private rental properties to have a minimum EPC rating of B by 2030. The Institute for Public Policy...
20 July 2020
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The chairman of an agency chain is advising landlords to prepare for stock surpluses in some areas and to win tenants...
10 June 2020
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A council wants buy to let landlords with one-bed flats or rooms in shared homes to help it find homes for...
27 May 2020
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A leading property industry figure says Airbnb is attempting to persuade traditional buy to let landlords into going down the short-let...
13 January 2020
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The Association of Residential Letting Agents and the National Association of Estate Agents have issued their manifesto for next month’s General...
05 November 2019
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One of the leading providers of deposit alternatives in the UK wants the government to embrace the option - even to...
31 October 2019
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With the recent introduction of the Tenant Fees Act – which bans upfront fees charged by letting agents and caps security...
19 August 2019
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A rental market expert is urging landlords to be cautious when considering to use short-term lets websites such as Airbnb to...
08 May 2019
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A trade body has welcomed calls by a parliamentary committee for tax incentives for the buy to let sector to improve...
08 April 2019
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Another think-tank has come up with reforms which it wants the government to make to the private rental sector - and...
21 March 2019
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Brexit is not a good reason for delaying buy to let investment, insists a mortgage chief. Andrew Turner is chief executive at...
01 March 2019
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The private rental sector in Wales could be offered incentives and other support to house those most in need, the Welsh...
03 December 2018
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The chief executive of a specialist buy to let mortgage broker is warning that mortgages for landlords are likely to become...
13 November 2018
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A poll of 1,250 landlords suggests that far from being concerned about the profitability of buy to let, almost 80 per...
22 October 2018
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There has been limited support given from some parts of the lettings industry to a proposal offering Capital Gains Tax relief...
09 October 2018
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Media speculation over the weekend has suggested that the government may be about to give tax breaks to landlords agreeing to...
08 October 2018
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The shock findings of a new survey suggest that 32 per cent of landlords would be less likely to buy new...
05 October 2018
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Lettings agents for or against the government’s proposals for longer tenancies have only a very short time left to respond to...
23 August 2018
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Speculation is growing that three year tenancies for private renters - long favoured by the government - could be announced as...
17 August 2018
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Agents and others wishing to respond to the official consultation on government proposals for longer tenancies have only until late evening...
14 August 2018
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No fewer than 93 per cent of landlords financing buy to let property chose a fixed rate mortgage in the second...
27 July 2018
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Yet another leading lettings agent has hit out at the government over its proposals for three year tenancies being the norm...
10 July 2018
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Buy to let landlords are welcoming proposals being considered by the government to provide financial incentives for those offering longer tenancies. In...
03 July 2018
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The government has announced that it is to formally consult on proposals for longer tenancies in the private rental sector. Although there...
18 May 2018
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A leading lettings sector trade body has repeated its call on government to offer a range of incentives to landlords and...
18 April 2018
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A leading Conservative peer says the government should cut taxes for buy to let investors and regard them as part of...
05 April 2018
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Analysis of government figures by the Nationwide suggest that the buy to let sector is still growing despite tax changes and...
05 February 2018
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A senior housing official at Bristol city council says the increasing popularity of Airbnb has had the effect of taking “hundreds”...
30 November 2017
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The industry is awaiting details of the latest government consultation concerning the private rental sector which will consider longer tenancies. The consultation...
23 November 2017
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The will exists in the private rental sector to provide the longer term tenancies advocated by the government, says a trade...