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A coalition of higher education and student housing organisations have called on the government to make further changes to the Renters...

It feels as though the UK housing market is waiting for something to happen. The prevailing mood is one of anticipation with...

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

The Property Institute has welcomed a Labour Party move to introduce the regulation of property agents across much of the sector. Tabled...

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

Airbnb has taken the unusual step of buying space on an influential Labour Party website, just ahead of the party’s conference. Amanda...

The Green Party - which ran the Brighton and Hove council until being swept from office in May’s local elections -...

It looks as if the Labour Party is turning its back on rent controls on England and Wales. In the past year...

Two prominent trade bodies representing elements of the private rental sector are fighting back against the latest attempt to impose rent...

The Labour Party is to launch a major review of the private rental sector, led by the head of a London...

An activist at the centre of a controversy involving a London letting agent has used a left-wing website to explain how...

A prominent agent says the shortage of rental property is now so acute, and like to get still worse, that those...

Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves has told the Labour Party conference that if her party wins the next General Election she will...

Labour shadow housing secretary Lucy Powell has resuscitated the eviction ban, this time for furloughed workers whose government support ends in...

A controversial Labour council that locked horns with the government over landlord licensing is now submitting a new proposal for its...

The Momentum movement on the left wing of the Labour Party is joining forces with housing organisations to argue against private...

A new Labour group - Labour Tenants United - has issued a four-prong attack on the current private rental sector including...

Labour has thrown its weight behind campaigning pressure groups in a general call to avoid what the party’s housing spokeswoman calls...

The campaigning charity Shelter says young adults are more in danger of homelessness than any other age group - and puts...

A foundation which receives substantial funding from trade unions and a charity linked to the Nationwide is calling for rents to...

The three month outright eviction ban pledged to renters last week appears to have been watered down in the Coronavirus Emergency...

A buy to let investor has been hit with a bill of almost £9,500 after being accused of allowing a tenant...

A ginger group that supports the Labour party says the government’s bid to stop pet bans is meaningless and does not...

The Labour party has mocked the government’s £4m new funding for councils to combat rogue agents and landlords as “puny.” A statement...

One might have thought that if private rental tenants were as badly treated as some people suggest, housing would be their...

A leading agent is the latest industry figure to speak out against rent controls, which continue to be advocated by Labour...

It looks likely that the Conservative party is set to formally oppose rent controls when it publishes its manifesto, probably in...

Labour’s controversial proposal to oblige landlords to sell their buy to let properties to tenants who wished to purchase them, unveiled...

The majority of the UK’s private renters don’t want to purchase a home according to new research, coming just as the...

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

Labour is backing new guidelines which ban adverts which can be interpreted as encouraging landlords and home owners to flout restrictions...

A Labour think tank considered on the right wing of the party says it wants rent controls that make a difference...

The Labour Party appears to be entering the arena of organising private rental sector tenants who have grievances. Party leader Jeremy Corbyn...

A short lets management firm which was earlier this year at the centre of an advertisement controversy is now partnering with...

Rents in London are rocketing but a leading market commentator says this is no reason to give in to a “Marxist dystopia”...

Property investors are calling for the government to provide more support to the UK property market. A survey of investors, carried out...

A senior Labour politician has claimed that there is a city in the UK where two out of every 13 residential...

Airbnb has issued a statement distancing itself from controversial advertisements from a short lets management service. Hostmaker - which describes itself as...

A statement issued by short lets management firm Hostmaker about its controversial advertising campaign has been branded “disgusting” by a campaign...

Airbnb and short let management service Hostmaker - at the centre of a dispute involving a landlord trade body and the...

The Labour party has expressed outrage at the news that London councils are spending over £22m each year renting back homes...

The party conferences of the two main political parties threw up some interesting developments with regards to housing and the rental...

The new leader of the Labour party in Scotland says his party will introduce “stringent” rent controls if it gains power...

The Residential Landlords Association says Labour’s proposals to link rent increases to inflation would leave tenants worse off according to official...

It is being reported that the Labour mayor of Newham council - that’s the authority which has introduced stricter controls on...

A trade body says it wants more clarity from the Labour Party on its proposals to allow private sector tenants to...

One of the many firms that has sprung up to manage Airbnb-style short let accommodation says it backs the Labour Party’s...

The chairman of the Residential Landlords Association has written in the Labour-supporting New Statesman magazine about the need for the lettings...

Prime minister Theresa May has repeated that the current government will not introduce rent controls in the private sector. The issue of...

A leading legal firm is staging a free and interactive seminar on sub-letting, aimed at letting agents. The event takes place on...

The housing charity Shelter - which in recent years has been aggressively critical of letting agencies and landlords in the private...

Trade groups have reacted angrily to Labour’s proposal to introduce rent controls if the party enters government.   The announcement, made by Labour...

Jeremy Corbyn has used his leader’s speech at the end of this week’s Labour conference in Brighton to commit the party...

A proposed amendment to the government's Housing and Planning Bill which suggests landlords are required to make homes 'fit for human...

The Labour Party has published its full manifesto for the upcoming General Election on June 8.  Titled 'For the many not the...

A lettings and sales agent in the Midlands has renewed his appeal for help following an apparent arson attack on his...

One of four MP candidates standing for the Labour Party leadership says Right To Buy should be extended - to private...

Given that I wrote my last article on the day of the General Election but well before the result was known,...

The National Landlords Association has issued a briefing note which it says is a warning to Labour’s leadership and deputy leadership...

Nominations for Labour’s deputy leadership race close at midday today with Stella Creasy, an MP who has campaigned fiecely against letting...

One of the Labour party’s London Assembly members has criticised Boris Johnson’s London Rental Standard (LRS), saying it is ‘falling private...

The Labour party’s proposals to cap rent rises with inflation and insist on three year tenancies in the private rental sector...