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Owner occupiers have been competing with landlords in the battle to purchase smaller properties, new figures show. Smaller properties are often preferred...

A business consortium is calling for bold measures to encourage landlords and owner occupiers to retrofit their homes, with the introduction...

More people are struggling to pay their rent according to a new government survey. The study, by the Office for National Statistics,...

Propertymark has set out a five point plan to improve the status and usefulness of the Energy Performance Certificate and to...

An MP says owner occupiers are “scared, unable to sleep at night, worried about their safety and even concerned about whether...

Propertymark has issued another plea to the government to be fair to the private rental sector - this time regarding a...

The new Housing Loss Prevention Advice Service kicks in today - it offers early legal advice, free of charge, to anyone...

A new analysis by Rightmove suggests it could take literally decades for the private rental sector to conform with stricter energy...

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is today charing a crisis meeting of mortgage lenders, as calls mount for him to take action to...

The Nationwide Building Society is embarking on an experiment - at first for owner occupiers only - which may be extended...

Interest rates may be on the way up right now following the latest Bank of England decision but there’s good news...

The tax on property purchased in one part of the UK has reached a new record figure - and a top...

As energy prices have increased 70 per cent in the UK this year, so more homeowners have fitted small-scale solar panel...

There’s a warning that renters are likely to endure a less affluent retirement than owner occupiers.  Business consultancy Hargreaves Lansdown says 16.3...

OnTheMarket Group says new functionality coming in the autumn will improve letting agents’ client relationships while generating leads and developing their...

Propertymark says the new boiler upgrade scheme, which comes into effect this week, is an opportunity for letting agents to promote...

The coming year should be about promoting harmony in the lettings market says the head of an agency that’s now part of a...

PropTech investment platform Houzen has raised concerns over the government’s Heat and Buildings Strategy. This is the satrategy that offers rental sector...

As energy efficiency becomes increasingly key for the private rental sector and owner occupiers alike, new data from PropTech firm Sprift...

There’s been a 21 per cent rise in demand for properties from buy to let investors according to a new analysis...

Propertymark says new figures detailing the costs of energy efficiency improvements in the private rental sector show the need for a...

The latest English Housing Survey shows a dramatic rise in the energy efficiency of private rental property. Some 38 per cent of...

A new analysis of the private rental sector suggests it was reducing in size for some years before the pandemic. Nationwide’s specialist...

A letting agent in Cornwall has told local TV how she finds herself in ”heartbreaking” situations because of the lack of...

Agents and other industry players have penned an open letter to government demanding a radical overhaul of targets for energy efficiency in the...

New research suggests even those renters who want to be owner occupiers are likely to remain in the lettings sector in the...

The Scottish Parliament has postponed new fire and smoke alarm legislation for 12 months. This move, by its local government committee, follows...

A specialist buy to let mortgage broker is urging prospective investors to buy sooner rather than later if they want to...

The Association of Residential Lettings Agents has given a warm welcome to this week’s news that buy to let investors as...

The government has announced a complete ban on evictions in the private and social sectors for any tenant affected by the...

A prominent member of the House of Lords has given a surprising insight into how the fiscal and regulatory clampdown on...

There’s been an angry response by the rental sector following the latest attack by campaigning charity Shelter. The organisation claims that private...

Some 45 per cent of those who don’t yet own a home think they never will, according to a new report.  While...

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

Around 40 per cent of tenants currently in the private rental sector believe they will never be able to buy their...

A trade body says the private rental sector is facing a major crisis - more landlords are selling properties than buying...

The rental sector needs to prepare for the demographic challenge of an increasingly older population, says the head of a high...

It may seem as if governments and councils are falling over themselves to change the private rental sector to win the...

The government’s new redress system, announced last week and to be implemented later this year, must be free for renters to...

The man who is arguably Britain’s most controversial landlord - Fergus Wilson - is likely to be issuing up to 90...

Former owner occupiers who want to be ‘chain-free’ if they buy again are pouring into the private rental sector according to...

The Republic of Ireland has adopted new policies requiring owners in 'high housing demand areas' to secure planning consent if they...

The second reading of the Creditworthiness Assessment Bill is to take place in the House of Commons on November 23 -...

Generation Rent, the controversial pressure group campaigning alongside Shelter and others for the scrapping of landlords’ rights to evict under Section...

An online property platform that last year said tenants prefer to deal directly with landlords has returned to the theme with...

The government says that later this year it will allocate a further £1.4m to PropTech firms looking at how tenants’ rent...

The average landlord who sold their rental property in 2017 did so for £86,651 more than they paid for it, having...

Lord John Bird, the founder of Big Issue, is tomorrow launching his own Bill in the House of Lords in a...

The Nationwide has set out a comprehensive study of how migrstion impacts on housing demand in the UK, especially in the...

The increasing number of renters and low interest rates for existing home owners mean that the total rent bill is now...

The number of mortgage products has more than doubled over the past two years, according to new data released by sourcing...

Letting Agent Today’s Conor Shilling was in the audience of The Great Buy To Let Debate - always one of the...

The campaigners against planned changes to mortgage interest tax relief - set to come into effect from April, phased over four...

The proportion of private landlords in arrears is substantially under half the proportion of owner occupiers in the same position according...

Earlier this month we reported on Belfast council’s decision to open a public consultation on whether To Let boards should be...

A major survey has given a vote of confidence to buy to let despite the wave of fiscal, political and economic...

Housing minister Brandon Lewis has backed the raft of measures seen by many as anti-buy to let, including the restriction on...

A Conservative peer has criticised the government's ongoing attacks on the private lettings industry saying that the Cameron administration should be...

All regions of the UK will see falling owner-occupation levels and more private renting over the next decade, with particular rises...

It appears almost certain that the Bank of England is preparing for new mortgage controls in a bid to dampen what...

The chairman of Choices letting agency says the government is wrong to say its proposed tax changes will create a level...

The private rental sector accounts for 22 per cent of all households in the UK according to a think tank.  In an...

Nearly 40 per cent of all homes sold under Right To Buy in England have gone on to become buy to...

Lettings chiefs have responded with disappointment to the government’s announcement that it is scrapping the Green Deal.  The scheme offered cashbacks and...

Alex Hilton - a fiercely outspoken critic of the property establishment, especially letting agents - is stepping down tomorrow from his...