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A prominent lettings agent says banning agents and landlords conducting bidding wars for a rental property is not addressing the real...

David Cox, the former chief executive of ARLA Propertymark and now a senior executive at Rightmove, says it’s unlikely we’ll see...

The resignation of Labour’s First Minister of Wales has raised alarm with Propertymark. Vaughan Gething quit yesterday after the Welsh Housing Secretary...

Propertymark has struck a lukewarm tone in its response to Labour’s housing ambitions. The trade body says that to meet its manifesto...

Labour’s proposed planning reforms indicates that the new government is serious about change and grasping the nettle on housebuilding. That’s the view...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has congratulated Labour on forming the next government but says it must move quickly to...

Labour is likely to make rental sector reform and regulation a priority - at least partly because it will be low-cost...

Angharad Trueman, the group lettings director of Andrews Group, is the new President of ARLA Propertymark.  She says her role as President...

A ban on so-called bidding wars, which Labour now proposes, would have to include letting agents as well as landlords a...

Letting agents’ trade body Propertymark has backed a call by consumer group Which? for radical reforms to Energy Performance Certificates. Yesterday we...

Leasehold reform still has a long way to run, according to the Association of Leasehold Enfranchisement Practitioners (ALEP). The major party manifestos...

Shelter has spoken out in favour of what it calls “bold” commitments by Labour on the private rental sector and house...

Labour’s manifesto, just released, makes a pledge to enact the “immediate” abolition of Section 21 eviction powers, along with other private...

Mandatory smoke, heat and carbon monoxide alarms will be introduced to private rented sector properties in Northern Ireland.    Under the Smoke, Heat...

In an early General Election skirmish, London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan has been accused of failing to enact key private rental...

Four fifths of developers believe that the next government needs to do more to support first time buyers, according to the...

The agents’ trade body says many in the industry will be pleased that the Renters Reform Bill has bitten the dust...

The International Monetary Fund has suggested that the British economy could accommodate three interest rate cuts this year, with Kate cuts...

Propertymark wants Northern Ireland’s Department for Communities to regulate property agents via professional bodies such as itself. The Department for Communities is...

Housing minister Lee Rowley will be taking centre stage at the largest property agency conference in the UK this summer, Propertymark...

A lawyer says radical rental reforms proposed for Scotland - which could be a model for change in England and Wales...

Law firm Bishop & Sewell is hosting a webinar to give leaseholders information and advice about the Right to Manage, a...

An influential Labour website says a raft of proposed reforms for the private rental sector will be unveiled next month -...

London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan says he will build 6,000 “affordable” rental homes by 2030 - with their rents capped. Khan, standing...

The substantial majority of tenants are completely unaware of the Renters Reform Bill, it’s been alleged. A survey of over 2,000 private...

Agents have expressed their anger at permanent rent controls proposed by the SNP and Green Party politicians running the Scottish Government. The...

The politician widely regarded as being the architect of rent controls in Scotland says he will shortly present a wider package...

It’s not easy for anyone - even professionals like lettings and estate agents - to keep up with the blizzard of...

The new Labour leader in Wales, Vaughan Gething, has received an early shot across the bows from Propertymark. Gething was elected Welsh...

New and past landlords tempted back to Buy to Let have been warned - passive income from property isn’t easy.  This is...

Propertymark has welcomed proposed reforms to evict tenants who show persistent anti-social behaviour.   In 2018, a Northern Ireland Department of Justice consultation...

Companies House has new powers from this week to combat fraud. These are measures under the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act...

Labour has waded into the increasingly-fractious debate over the Renters Reform Bill. Activists in groups such as the Renters Reform Coalition and...

Shelter is warning that the government’s failure to abolish Section 21 evictions will backfire and that “renters will remember who stood...

The Building Research Establishment - which undertakes research, advice, training, testing, certification and standards-setting for the housing sector - is calling...

The Renters Reform Bill cannot succeed without proper engagement with letting agents and landlords, Propertymark argues.    According to a Freedom of Information...

Scottish councils must engage with letting agents and landlords if radical rental reforms have any chance of working. Propertymark argues that the...

Propertymark's latest research report suggests some letting agents want radical changes to the Renters Reform Bill now going through Parliament.  The aim...

Agents’ trade body Propertymark says the current debate on the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill is another example of how agent...

Propertymark has listed a string of legal reforms it wants as part of the government’s modernisation of the court process -...

Propertymark has urged the government to do more to help the country’s most vulnerable citizens heat their homes.   Office for National Statistics...

Former housing minister Rachel Maclean - the victim of a shock sacking by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak last month - has...

Data from London-focussed lettings agency Foxtons has found that rent is up eight per cent year-on-year, with the London average now...

Measures contained in the Renters Reform Bill will fail without sufficient resources to ensure they can be enforced. The warning comes from...

Propertymark has set out its pro-agency position on a range of issues contained in the Renters Reform Bill, currently trundling through...

I think we can all agree that the National Trading Standards Material Information reforms are a good thing for the property...

The Generation Rent activist group has come out against an amendment to the Renters Reform Bill which reversed the threat of...

The prospect of a long-term eviction ban appears to have been lifted in one part of the UK. The Welsh Government is...

A row has broken out over Section 21 between Michael Gove’s Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, and an all-party...

A senior Propertymark official will today tell MPs of the industry’s concerns about the Renters Reform Bill. The Bill has reached the...

Propertymark wants Housing Secretary Michael Gove to continue with ground rent reforms for leaseholders following the launch of a consultation into this...

Propertymark has welcomed the pledge by Housing Secretary Michael Gove not to introduce rent controls in England. The trade body says such...

A lettings and property management platform has broken ranks with much of the industry over the Renters Reform Bill.  While most agents...

The government has pledged that section 21 repossessions will not be scrapped until improvements have been made to the way courts...

A lettings agency - Leaders Romans Group - claims that landlords are not quitting the private rental sector in droves after...

Propertymark has urged Labour to licence letting agents under its plans to ‘fundamentally reform the private rented sector’. The trade body also...

A prominent industry supplier is urging agents and landlords to lobby MPs to suggest improvements to the Renters Reform Bill.  PayProp UK...

A lettings trade body is urging the government to make clear how it will help courts tackle a growing backlog of...

A new report on the state of the lettings industry suggests figures are growing fearful of the impact of the Renters...

Parliament resumes today following its summer recess but there is still a lack of detail on aspects of the Renters Reform...

A lettings industry trade body has written to the government urging fundamental reform of the court system to prevent it grinding...

Millions of UK landlords will be adversely affected by the Renters Reform Bill, a solicitor warns - the latest law expert...

Propertymark has branded the plans by Housing Secretary Michael Gove to increase housebuilding “disappointing”. Nathan Emerson, Propertymark chief executive, says: “The UK...

Housing Secretary Michael Gove has this morning said his government should ‘relax the pace’ of EPC reforms expected from private landlords. In...

The increasing likelihood that the private rental sector will be obliged to allow more pets into lets simply demonstrates the need...

It appears almost certain that the Second Reading of the Renters Reform Bill - expected some weeks ago - will not...

The head of a consultancy that handles lettings agency acquisition has given her views on what a General Election might mean...

A survey of nearly 700 letting agents from across England has revealed that the abolition of Section 21 continues to be...

The Renters Reform Bill can be the perfect opportunity for the industry to become more professional - just so long as...

According to new research from Mortgage Advice Bureau, two-fifths of landlords believe that new EPC requirements are important for the environment and will...

The pro-tenant anti-landlord Renters Reform Bill has at last been published by the government which first promised it in 2019. It has...

In a surprise move, Housing Secretary Michael Gove has given the stand-in leader of activist group Generation Rent a prime role...

The main landlord body wants more details behind the soundbite rhetoric of the Renters Referm Bill, launched today in Parliament. Ben Beadle,...

The government has back-tracked on its decision to publish the long-awaited Renters Reform Bill this week. The Mirror newspaper reports that “procedural issues”...

  The Renters’ Reform Bill is finally due to be published and introduced into Parliament next week. Housing Secretary Michael Gove has told Sky...

A prominent lettings agent in the north of England has written to Housing Secretary Michael Gove urging him to cease attacking...

Propertymark has hit out at a proposal from a group of MPs that there should be a single Ombudsman covering the...

Agents’ body Propertymark wants more government action to boost housing supply - and it wants the views of the industry on...

The Labour Party is to launch a major review of the private rental sector, led by the head of a London...

Long-standing lettings expert Kate Faulkner has been given an OBE in King Charles’ first New Year Honours list. Faulkner is well known...

Agents have expressed their anger at the government effectively scrapping any meaningful house building targets. Housing Secretary Michael Gove scrapped the mandatory...

The government has made a general commitment to work with those who want council tax reforms for Homes in Multiple Occupation. Earlier...

The large majority of players in the lettings industry wants the rental reform programme outlined by the government, an agent claims. Laura...

Labour’s new housing spokesperson, Matthew Pennycook, says his party would go further than the government on the subject of private rental...

Propertymark’s head of policy and campaigns, Timothy Douglas, will explain how investment in the private rented sector can be better incentivised when...

The time taken to introduce legislation reforming the private rented sector is triggering an exodus of landlords, a lettings industry chief...

There seems to be an industry-wide sigh of relief that Rishi Sunak has become Prime Minister. His coronation marks the end of...

Rishi Sunak has won the Conservative leadership campaign and is set to become Prime Minister tomorrow. Over the summer Sunak set out...

The new Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, says the limited cut in stamp duty in England and Northern Ireland announced in the mini-Budget...

Private renters’ average floor space per person in England has fallen by 16 per cent over the past 20 years while...

A new survey shows a significant majority of investors believe buy to let has lost its shine. Investment platform Shojin’s survey -...

* Angels Media and Letting Agent Today are deeply saddened by the passing of HM Queen Elizabeth II * - Rightmove will host...

A leading lettings agency has warned the government not to forget the importance of small-scale landlords in its plans for the...

Propertymark has once again hit out at reforms to the private rental sector being implemented by the Scottish Government. The government -...

Uncertainty over the coming recession, wholesale reforms of the rental sector, higher interest rates and National Insurance payments are all reasons...

It’s been confirmed that the controversial Renters Reform Bill will still be introduced by the end of this session of Parliament,...

A recent suggestion by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation charity, for government help to allow private tenants to buy their landlords’ homes,...

Agents are being dragged into a debate over whether locals should be given priority to rent or buy, as a result...

A prominent trade body is warning Tory leadership candidates not to put rental reform on the back burner and add to...

Agents have only four weeks to respond to a committee of MPs’ ‘call for evidence’ ahead of an investigation into the...