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![Call for Starmer to review Energy Performance Certificates](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/GreenHome-400x310.png)
There’s a call from a prominent international building science service for the new Labour government to review the Energy Performance Certificates. EPCs...
10 July 2024
From: Breaking News
![RICS urges Labour to move fast on housing pledges](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/NewBuild-3-400x310.png)
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has congratulated Labour on forming the next government but says it must move quickly to...
08 July 2024
From: Breaking News
![Lloyds Bank rental property initiative signs PropTech deal](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/BTR%20and%20affordable%20housing%20-%20By%20Andy%20Jones%20Property%20Investor%20Today%20BuildToRent-400x310.png)
Citra Living, the Build To Rent offshoot of Lloyds Banking Group, continues with its growth strategy into the private rental sector. Citra...
04 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Beefed Up EPC must be priority for next government - call](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/EPC-2-400x310.png)
Political parties should not allow the lengthy General Election campaign to delay work on a new and beefed-up Energy Performance Certificate...
30 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![Energy Efficiency - new RICS standard for agents to launch this year](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/EPCx400x310.png)
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has launched a new Residential Retrofit Standard in a bid to help the housing industry...
19 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![Nationwide demands four tax changes to help the private rental sector](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Top%20tips%20property%20investment%20rent-calculation-1-400x310.png)
Nationwide has taken the unusual step of using its buy to let lending arm - The Mortgage Works - to make...
05 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![Heating Private Rental Properties - council claims EPC success](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/EPC-3-400x310.png)
The number of private tenants in properties that are hard to heat has fallen, a council claims. As agents will know private...
06 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![Experts want major reforms of EPCs and better trained assessors](/upload/images/Smart_EPC-400x310.png)
The Building Research Establishment - which undertakes research, advice, training, testing, certification and standards-setting for the housing sector - is calling...
01 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![Rental Sector Won't Become Energy Efficient without Incentives - claim](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/_EPC5-400x310.png)
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
From: Breaking News
![EPC Change On The Way? New energy ratings planned by government](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/EPC-2-400x310.png)
The government has launched a public consultation on a radical new UK home energy rating system to replace the long-standing Standard...
18 December 2023
From: Breaking News
![Expensive rental eco-heat scheme needs rethink - top agent](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/Energy_EfficientHome-400x310.png)
A consultation to introduce boilers into homes and the private rented sector needs ‘more carrot than stick’ according to a prominent...
07 December 2023
From: Breaking News
![Agency reveals Management Buy Out and names leadership team](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/BusinessTeam-400x310.png)
The partners of high end agency and property consultancy Cluttons have announced the completion of a management buyout. James Gray continues as...
06 December 2023
From: Breaking News
![Agency group hits eco-target eight years ahead of schedule](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/EPC-2-400x310.png)
Leaders Romans Group claims it reached carbon neutrality in 2022, eight years ahead of its original target of 2030. The firm says...
05 December 2023
From: Breaking News
![Renters Reform Bill part of ‘brighter future for UK’ claims Sunak](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews1-400x310.png)
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says the Renters Reform Bill will be mentioned in today’s King’s Speech - and is part of...
07 November 2023
From: Breaking News
![Sunak slammed for U-turn on private rental energy efficiency](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/_EPC4-400x310.png)
An industry body - the Property Energy Professionals Association - has condemned the Prime Minister’s abandonment of Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards...
02 October 2023
From: Breaking News
![EPC U-turn - Agent welcomes Sunak’s change of heart](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/_EPC4-400x310.png)
The lettings chief in a prominent regional agency says she’s delighted that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has done a dramatic U-turn...
29 September 2023
From: Breaking News
![Hot Stuff! Top agent welcomes Sunak’s eco U-turn](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews1-400x310.png)
A leading agent has welcomed the dramatic U turn by the government on how it is to meet its net zero...
21 September 2023
From: Breaking News
![Foot Off The Gas - boiler ban deadline may be eased](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/BoilerInspection_1-400x310.png)
The Times is reporting that a delay to the controversial ban on gas boilers is being considered by the government as...
20 September 2023
From: Breaking News
![Net Zero - Lettings PropTech firm to provide energy efficiency data](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/_EPC6-400x310.png)
Kamma - the PropTech firm which until now has been best known for monitoring rental sector licensing regimes - is now...
22 August 2023
From: Breaking News
![EPCs and Energy Efficiency - agents to discuss issue this autumn](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/Energy_Efficiency-400x310.png)
A consultation setting out proposals to reform domestic and non-domestic energy performance certificates has been opened by the Scottish Government. It feels...
10 August 2023
From: Breaking News
![Rishi Sunak hints at fundamental reform of EPC system](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/Energy_Efficiency-400x310.png)
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has thrown his weight behind Housing Secretary Michael Gove’s proposals to delay deadlines for EPC improvements in...
27 July 2023
From: Breaking News
![Eco-experiment with zero interest loans for ‘greener’ homes](/upload/images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/GreenEnvironment-400x310.png)
The Nationwide Building Society is embarking on an experiment - at first for owner occupiers only - which may be extended...
22 May 2023
From: Breaking News
![Many renters want government help for first time buyers](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/remortgage_400x310.png)
New research from The Mortgage Lender reveals that 44 per cent of renters would like more cost-of-living support from the government. Specifically...
14 April 2023
From: Breaking News
![RICS slams government over energy strategy “lacking ambition”](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/GreenHome-400x310.png)
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has accused the government of lacking ambition in its new energy strategy. The government's revised strategy,...
13 April 2023
From: Breaking News
![RICS slams government over energy strategy “lacking ambition”](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/_EPC5-400x310.png)
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has accused the government of lacking ambition in its new energy strategy. The government's revised strategy,...
04 April 2023
From: Breaking News
![Speculation grows about future changes to EPCs](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/Energy_Efficiency-400x310.png)
Speculation is growing that the deadline for the private rental sector to meet new Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards for new tenants...
30 March 2023
From: Breaking News
![Tax incentives for rental sector - top agent’s plea to Chancellor](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Tax-400x310.png)
A prominent agent and former RICS residential chairman has made an impassioned plea to the government to help the private rental...
14 March 2023
From: Breaking News
![New EPC every three years, suggests accreditation scheme](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/_EcoHome-400x310.png)
Energy Performance Certificates must change to properly support reaching net zero, tackling fuel poverty and improving buildings, according to an energy...
02 March 2023
From: Breaking News
![Rental property energy efficiency soars - new figures](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/ToLetBoard-400x310.png)
There’s been a 165 per cent increase in the number of private rental homes with an Energy Performance Certificate rating of...
01 March 2023
From: Breaking News
![Letting agents work to be probed by competitions watchdog](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews2-400x310.png)
The Competition and Markets Authority is launching a three month probe into how letting agents operate within the private rental sector. It says...
28 February 2023
From: Breaking News
![Energy Efficiency - industry chiefs demand rental sector action](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/Energy_Efficiency-400x310.png)
The British Property Federation, which typically has relatively little to say about the private rental sector, has issued a series of...
22 February 2023
From: Breaking News
![Energy Efficiency Regs will reduce housing supply - claim](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews3-400x310.png)
Housebuilders have branded a west country council’s decision to ask for all new homes to be net zero as ‘unaffordable' and...
30 January 2023
From: Breaking News
![Net Zero Targets - Why no help for private rental sector to meet them?](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/Low_EPC-400x310.png)
Propertymark is querying why there’s no help for the private rental sector to meet energy efficiency targets expressed in a new...
17 January 2023
From: Breaking News
![Gove leans on competitions watchdog to probe house builders](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/MichaelGove2-400x310.png)
Housing Secretary Michael Gove has sent a letter to the Competitions and Markets Authority saying the watchdog is independent - but...
07 December 2022
From: Breaking News
![John Lewis reveals details of huge rental residential developments](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/ConstructionBlueprints-400x310.png)
The John Lewis Partnership has agreed a £500m multi-decade joint venture with global investment company abrdn to deliver around 1,000 new...
05 December 2022
From: Breaking News
![Solar panel installations boom in push for improved EPCs](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/EPC-2-400x310.png)
As energy prices have increased 70 per cent in the UK this year, so more homeowners have fitted small-scale solar panel...
17 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![Agents tell Truss & Co - “get realistic” over EPC rental targets](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/EPC-3-400x310.png)
The agents’ trade body Propertymark says the government must “get realistic” over the difficulties involved in reaching Net Zero targets when...
17 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
![Private rental sector lacks incentives to hit Net Zero - agents](/upload/images/library/EPCRating-400x310.png)
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
From: Breaking News
![Build To Rent advocate want special treatment for growing niche](/upload/images/BTR%2C%20PBSA%2C%20Co-living/BTL400x310.png)
A property investment company says Build To Rent is key to helping Britain meet its current housing and climate change challenges...
20 June 2022
From: Breaking News
![Low tenant and public awareness over Boiler changes, say MPs](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/BOXTBoilerInstallation-400x310.jpg)
Many people - including agents, landlords and tenants - are unprepared for the domestic heating revolution on its way to Britain. That’s...
04 February 2022
From: Breaking News
![Build To Rent investment to improve rental stock energy efficiency](/upload/images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/green-deal400x310.png)
One of the biggest Build To Rent operators in the UK is investing in new technology with the aim of boosting...
12 January 2022
From: Breaking News
![Agents raise alarm over high cost EPC targets for rental sector](/upload/images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/EnergyEfficiency-2-400x310.jpg)
ARLA Propertymark has fired a shot across the bows of the government as it aims to improve energy efficiency in the...
02 December 2021
From: Breaking News
![Eco-Debate - A One Size Fits All solution won’t work for agents](/upload/images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/green-deal400x310.png)
Propertymark has told the government that imposing the same solution to the Net Zero challenge on all of the private rental...
22 October 2021
From: Breaking News
![New Boiler Ban: Letting agents put the heat on government](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/BOXTBoilerInstallation-400x310.jpg)
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
From: Breaking News
![Net Zero? It’s just box-ticking say many letting agents…](/upload/images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/GreenEnvironment-400x310.png)
Over a quarter of lettings and estate agents say sustainability is just a box-ticking exercise and only one in nine have...
12 August 2021
From: Breaking News
![Agents back campaign for deposit reform and rental register](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/TenancyAgreement-Keys-400x310.jpg)
Propertymark has joined four so-called ‘action groups’ advocating housing policy changes including the setting up of a national landlord register and...
30 July 2021
From: Breaking News
![Lettings register and deposit system demanded in new report](/img/default/lat.png)
A new report calls for large scale reform of the private rental sector, including a national landlord register and changes to...
27 July 2021
From: Breaking News
![New drive to make all rental properties improve energy efficiency](/img/default/lat.png)
A Bill is being introduced into both Houses of Parliament this week which will ramp up the pressure on the private...
20 July 2021
From: Breaking News
![‘Premium Build To Rent’ properties on City of London fringe](/img/default/lat.png)
British Land has announced one of the most prestigious Build To Rent schemes at Aldgate on the edge of the City...
23 June 2021
From: Breaking News
![Government must offer buy to let sector a Green incentive - call](/img/default/lat.png)
The government’s embarrassing axing of the Green Homes Grant means there must now be a replacement to help the private rental...
30 March 2021
From: Breaking News
![Building Renovation Passports - MPs want these for rental sector](/img/default/lat.png)
An influential group of MPs has called for the replacement of “outdated” Energy Performance Certificates with new ‘Building Renovation Passports’. Currently EPCs...
23 March 2021
From: Breaking News
![London agency pays into offset schemes in bid to be “the greenest”](/img/default/lat.png)
Chestertons in London says it wants to become the country’s greenest estate agency and has taken a first step by being...
12 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![Eco-policies to dominate rental sector in 2021 predicts agency](/img/default/lat.png)
Lettings agency Carter Jonas predicts the housing market - for both owner-occupiers and landlords - will become increasingly eco-focussed in 2021. It says...