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Michael Gove’s Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities hit back overnight at critics of the government’s Renters Reform Bill. The Bill...

There’s a huge number of amendments to the Renters Reform Bill, which has its Third Reading in the House of Commons...

Political parties should stop bickering and instead work together to improve the private rental sector. That’s the view of the Lettings industry...

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

A national newspaper says the Renters Reform Bill is “on the brink of collapse” as Tory MPs are divided on their...

A pressure group unhappy about lack of progress on the Renters Reform Bill wants MPs to be bombarded with complaint emails.  Over...

Shelter is warning that the government’s failure to abolish Section 21 evictions will backfire and that “renters will remember who stood...

Propertymark’s property auction division - NAVA - has given ringing endorsement to the Material Information changes demanded under new Trading Standards...

The UK Apartment Association - effectively a trade body for the Build To Rent sector - is beefing up its top...

A new manifesto calling for rent controls and a raft of other measures is accusing the current rent rises of being...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors is launching its manifesto at this week’s Tory party conference - and improving the supply...

Housing Secretary Michael Gove will address the main Conservative party Conference on Tuesday morning next week - but perhaps his most...

Shelter has published what it calls a General Election manifesto with rent controls at its heart. Called The Way Home: a manifesto to...

The Financial Times, using sources in the Parliamentary Conservative party, are blaming some Tory MPs for blocking the route of the...

Parliament resumes today following its summer recess but there is still a lack of detail on aspects of the Renters Reform...

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

The political alliance between the Scottish National Party and the Scottish Greens is likely to stay in place until 2026. Arguably the...

The pro-tenant anti-landlord Renters Reform Bill has at last been published by the government which first promised it in 2019. It has...

A newspaper says Labour is seeking to woo renter voters by allowing councils to restrict new build homes to first time...

Housing Secretary Michael Gove says the long-awaited Renters Reform Bill, first promised in 2019, will finally be introduced into Parliament this...

A new survey of lettings agents and landlords has put the reinstatement of Section 24 mortgage tax relief at the top...

PropTech supplier Goodlord this week launches what it calls “a manifesto” demanding government help for the lettings industry.  Few details of the...

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 wants to see more energy-efficient homes, but with realistic targets and incentives to act. In its submission to the government ahead...

Letting agents in Scotland are angry at the Scottish Government for increasing the tax surcharge on buyers of buy to lets...

Land and Buildings Transaction Tax - the Scottish equivalent of stamp duty - has risen to six per cent for all...

Rishi Sunak has won the Conservative leadership campaign and is set to become Prime Minister tomorrow. Over the summer Sunak set out...

Prime Minister Liz Truss says Section 21 eviction powers WILL be scrapped after all. She made the explicit commitment at Prime Minister’s...

One of the UK’s largest lettings groups has made an outspoken attack on the policies of a political party standing in...

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

One of the country’s major regional newspapers has launched a campaign for the urgent introduction of rent controls. The Bristol Evening Post,...

Politicians across the UK appear to be growing more vocal in their support for rent controls. The Welsh nationalist party Plaid Cymru...

The Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities says the long-awaited Rental Reform White Paper will now not be published until...

ARLA Propertymark has voiced its concern over rent controls to a politicians who is leading the charge to introduce them to...

The deal to introduce rent controls in Scotland - the result of a deal between two parties in the Scottish Parliament...

The Generation Rent campaign group and Labour are again uniting to argue in favour of rent controls in London. Just last week...

Campaign group Generation Rent has set out a 10-point plan for reform of the private rental sector in favour of tenants. Its...

Greater Manchester’s Labour Mayor, Andy Burnham, says he wants to clamp down on the private rental sector. In his manifesto for next month’s...

Two Labour MPs have made extensive claims about the number of evictions from the private rental sector likely to happen if...

Labour housing spokesperson Thangam Debbonaire has released details of a letter seeking further clarity and commitments on the rental sector eviction...

An organisation that wants rent controls, the scrapping of Section 21 and what it calls “indefinite tenancies” claims to have 4,000...

It appears that the Renters Reform Bill - a key measure in the 2019 Conservative General Election manifesto - has been...

The Local Government Association, which represents almost all councils in England, is calling on the government to scrap section 21. The call comes...

A commission investigating affordable homes in the UK has called for annual private sector rent increases to be limited to a...

Who are you and what is your role within the company? Steve Rad, Managing Director What is ‘company name’ and what does it...

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

Letting agents can beat the upcoming ban on Section 21 by updating key documentation and automating arrears management to reduce the...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has set out its demands should the governmental go ahead with proposals for lifetime deposits. In...

The government’s Queen’s Speech has confirmed what the industry has effectively been expecting for some months. There will be a new lifetime...

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

The National Landlords’ Association says the new Conservative government must do two things in its early phase in office. The NLA, which...

A prominent industry trade group says the new government must honour its manifesto commitment to strengthen the right of “good landlords”...

Labour’s policies for the private rental sector are “too extreme ... unrealistic and will be hugely damaging to housing supply in...

A broad commitment to strengthen landlords’ rights has been made in the Conservative manifesto - and it’s been welcomed by a...

The Welsh nationalist party Plaid Cymru is pledging tax credits for private tenants whose rent and utilities bills add up to...

Two specific elements of Labour’s tax proposals, outlined in its manifesto, could “drive a nail into the coffin of buy to...

The Conservatives’ new concept of a so-called Lifetime Deposit has been welcomed by the Residential Landlords Association.  Yesterday, Letting Agent Today revealed...

On the day that Labour launches its proposals to reform the private rental sector, the Tories have announced so-called Lifetime Rental...

The Liberal Democrats is the first of the major parties to release its party manifesto for the December 12 manifesto, and...

Labour has dropped its controversial policy under which private tenants would have been able to buy their homes at a discount. Press...

The safeagent accreditation scheme says the next government should not scrap landlord licensing as some trade groups have requested, but should...

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

Citizens Advice wants the next government to radically alter the private rental sector in favour of tenants.  The charity’s 2019 election manifesto,...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents and the National Association of Estate Agents have issued their manifesto for next month’s General...

One of the industry’s leading trade bodies has revealed that the number of laws creating an obligation on landlords in the...

A collective of activist renter groups has set out a manifesto of what it wants from the winner of next month’s...

One of the industry’s leading trade groups has repeated a warning to the Conservatives that they cannot rely on the votes...

One of the leading lettings sector trade bodies has unveiled what it describes as “a positive vision for the private rented...

With the country in febrile election mode, it’s perhaps unsurprising that the Association of Residential Letting Agents has got in on...

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has been told by a lettings industry body that he’ll lose votes if he introduces rent controls...

The Queen’s Speech, outlining the government’s proposals for the next two years, has confirmed a pledge to introduce a ban on...

A trade body wants independent inventories to become mandatory across the lettings sector - and it pledges to mount a campaign...

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

A string of corporate letting agencies plus ARLA Propertymark have again called on the government to reconsider its proposed ban on agents’...

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

The Liberal Democrats want a raft of additional controls on the private rented sector aimed at addressing what it describes as...

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

A senior Labour spokesman has refused to rule out rent controls as a possible manifesto commitment for the June 8 General...

A prominent campaigning letting and sales agent predicts that the Conservatives are likely to put their proposed ban on letting agency...

The National Landlords Association has rejected a central plank of London mayor Sadiq Khan’s plan for housing - the introduction of yet more...

A letting agency says the scale of confusion over letting agents’ fees is such that some tenants actually believe the deposit...

Action is needed to tackle the scandal of ‘buy to leave’ investors who are denying Londoners the homes they need, according...

Labour’s candidate for the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has published his manifesto which returns to the party’s recent themes of...

The energy price comparison website recently acquired by Zoopla, uSwitch, is urging letting agents and landlords to do more to allow...

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

One of five people vying for selection as Labour’s candidate in the 2016 London Mayoral election says private sector rents can...

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

Private sector rents in England and Wales have grown 4.6 per cent year-on-year – the fastest rate of increase since November...

There has been much debate in recent years about Britain’s desperate need for more housing stock. Demand has been outstripping supply...

The Conservatives’ election victory came as a surprise, so much so that television pundits spent all night after the vote rubbishing...

The National Landlords’ Association has set out a table of where the political parties stand on issues of lettings sector reform...

With another hung parliament looking increasingly likely, the so-called ‘challenger parties’ look set to have a major say in who forms...

With only a few weeks to go before polling day, the pre-election frenzy has now reached fever pitch.  As you mull over...