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What appears to be another government housing policy U-turn - this time on ground rents - is being hailed as “a...

Propertymark is joining a growing chorus demanding an annual uprate of working age benefits and Local Housing Allowance. LHA rates have been...

New figures from lenders trade body UK Finance show a massive fall in buy to let loans for those aged 55...

The Department for Work and Pensions will recommence the Private Rented Sector Universal Credit Engagement Group next month, following a concerted...

Propertymark is urging the government to use next month’s Autumn Statement to support low-income households in the private rented sector in...

Social housing provider Caridon Property is hosting a series of free seminars to prepare letting agents for the migration of Housing...

At a time when the agency industry is being wooed by new self employed business models, a new survey suggests most...

Propertymark has set out the case for an increase in benefits for private tenants. Timothy Douglas, Propertymark's Head of Policy and Campaigns...

Propertymark has told a group of MPs that many benefit recipients are excluded from the private rented sector due to the...

Legal & General Capital helped fund over 17,000 new homes last year across a range of tenures, chiefly Build To Rent.  Chief...

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

MPs on a key Select Committee have been criticised by the letting agents’ trade body for failing to probe how Local...

The agency operated by the immediate past president of ARLA Propertymark has received a government award for its work with apprentices.  Maxine...

A major Select Committee of MPs has launched an enquiry into so-called exempt rental sector accommodation - a niche sector that...

Airbnb has issued a lengthy statement in response to a recent raft of criticisms about the effects of soaring numbers of...

One of the country’s largest Build To Rent players, Legal & General, says it’s started work on 6,000 residential units in...

A leading lettings sector trade body has set out reasons why the eviction ban should be lifted - which may help...

A  buy to let investor has been sentenced to two years in prison after claiming income support despite being a professional portfolio...

A senior Conservative peer and consumer campaigner has written an article strongly defending the private rental sector, agents and landlords. Baroness Altmann...

ARLA Propertymark and other organisations from across the housing sector have joined forces to support tenants and landlords facing rent arrears...

A lettings agency has given a full apology after a letter - not approved by the company - was sent out...

Boris Johnson or Jeremy Hunt will face an immediate crisis in the private rented sector if government doesn’t rethink its plans to...

A holiday lets and short-term lettings market boom can be put down to a combination of four reasons, according to specialist...

The chief executive of Hunters has told MPs there are 19 properties on its books which specify ‘No DSS’ - but...

Senior lettings agency figures are amongst those who will this morning give evidence to a committee of MPs investigating so-called ‘DSS...

The Nationwide is the latest lender to say it will not insist its buy to let borrowers enforce a No DSS...

The lettings industry has welcomed news that reforms to Universal Credit will include a new online system for private landlords to...

The number of people renting a home aged between 35 and 54 has risen by 15 per cent in the last...

The ownership of buy to let property is much more evenly split between women and men than amongst other forms of...

An influential think tank is calling on government to radically reform the private rental sector because a generation of young people...

New figures appear to show that younger people may prefer investing in property over pensions - giving new hope to the...

MPs today discuss the impact of Universal Credit on the private rented sector, in a debate prompted by the Liberal Democrat’s...

There has been a warm welcome for government changes to Universal Credit by the Residential Landlords Association.  The Department for Work and...

A change to the operation of Universal Credit has been welcomed by a trade body which has described it as good...

The impact of recent changes to the way buy to let properties are taxed could create the next pension crisis, a...

Former Conservative Party leader and Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith is set to speak at a lettings sector event...

A buy to let property in London is going to be “very difficult to make viable” in the near future unless...

A trade body is warning that the government’s new Universal Credit payments could have a disastrous impact on private lettings with...

The changes introduced to the tax and stamp duty levied on buy to let income and property appears not to have...

A Liberal Democrat peer has accused the government of being “a bit rich” in its willingness to jail letting agents or...

A series of raids on privately let properties in the westcountry appear to have taken place as a way of holding...

“Unthought-through”, “unfair and unreasonable” and leading to “extreme confusion” - those are the thoughts of Britain’s leading professional accounting body on...

New industry research shows that of those existing buy to let investors with a pension in place, just five per cent...

Under new pension freedom reforms, people aged 55 and over can access as much of their savings from their defined contributions...