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The UK’s housing market is increasingly driven by older, affluent home owners with younger generations squeezed out.  That’s the view of data...

Colliers, the agency and property consultancy, has issued another outspoken attack on government policy - this time prompted by a formal...

London’s renters are most at risk from finding their homes either being un-lettable or their landlord selling up due to the...

Campaigning charity Shelter is angry with Chancellor Jeremy Hunt over his Budget  While most in the property industry have expressed relief that there...

A prominent lettings agency chief executive has lashed out at the “cheap political points” being scored by politicians in Scotland who...

A controversial lettings agent who has set up a business to sell rental insurance has accused landlords of not taking their...

An outspoken property investor has launched an online petition on the government website to oppose the threat of rent controls. YouTube influencer...

Real estate as an industry has remained unchallenged throughout all of these years. For the industry worth more than 217 trillion...

Another Labour council wants to introduce a city-wide landlord licensing scheme - a proposal that would require government approval to implement. Last...

The fallout continues over the government’s shock refusal to allow Liverpool council to continue its huge landlord licensing scheme. Yesterday we reported that...

The cost of renting a room in the UK remained steady during Q3, according to SpareRoom. The country's biggest flatsharing site says...

A group of activists has expressed outrage over a council’s private rental licensing scheme, claiming it is too small to catch...

Agents have reacted angrily to the way in which the government released a new set of rental documents updated to include...

There’s been an angry reaction to the suggestion that London’s Labour mayor, Sadiq Khan, is seeking to introduce rent controls in...

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

The government has this afternoon confirmed that the amount tenants have to pay up front to secure a home will be...

A council leader in London, so outraged after a bust of a rogue lettings property, has asked: “What kind of monster...

A campaign opposing the government’s recent tax changes which have penalised buy to let investors has taken a leaf out of...

A second journalist at the London-based financial newspaper City AM has launched an attack on letting agencies - while the furore...

A Birmingham agent has branded the government’s draft Tenant Fees Bill - which proposes a ban on letting agents’ fees on tenants...

The Guardian has accused a branch of Winkworth letting agency in south London of “grubby overcharging” for allegedly asking a new...

Annoying isn’t it. You take on a stunning property, agree a compelling asking price and your Vendor is desperate to get the...

A trade magazine and a national newspaper are reporting anger amongst landlords, tenants and housing groups following the discovery of a...

The landlords behind the failed attempt to seek a Judicial Review of legislation reducing the mortgage interest tax relief for landlords...

The attempt to seek a Judicial Review of legislation reducing the mortgage interest tax relief for landlords has failed. The case was...

Hybrid letting and sales agency Purplebricks is ramping up its attack on high street agents with a claim that prospective tenants...

The property industry has hit out at what appears to be government confusion over a raft of new rules coming into...