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Research by insurance firm Aviva suggests private tenants are now more pessimistic about being able to buy their own home. In December,...

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

The chairman of Hunters estate agency, who is also a Conservative MP, has hit out at the government over its handling...

New figures show why the rental market is seeing such strong demand. The data shows that some 28 per cent of Britons...

A new study has revealed that the average Briton rents four years longer than they initially planned to, because of stubbornly-high...

A trade body says the country faces a net loss of 133,000 homes for private rent over the next year -...

Analysis of the government's latest English Housing Survey figures shows that there’s been a further decline in the home ownership rate...

The Residential Landlords Association has been quick off the mark to issue what it calls a seven point wish list to...

The Resolution Foundation, a think tank, claims that home ownership is far lower than is widely believed to be the case...

Buy to let activity has contracted by over an eighth in the past 12 months according to Connells Group's survey and...

A senior mortgage lender is warning that government reforms of the buy to let sector could have wide-ranging and unintended consequences. Richard...

Data produced by Scottish lettings agency DJ Alexander Lettings appears to show a growing trend towards long-term letting over buying. The agency,...

The three per cent stamp duty surcharge being imposed on buy to let and other properties is set to hurt tenants...

The government’s initiatives to try to increase house building and owner occupation will not stop demand for rented homes rising by...

A third of private tenants have put their plans to buy on hold and have stayed in rented accommodation longer than...

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