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![Cost Of Rent Day launched by free-market think tank](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/House_pound-400x310.png)
The right wing think tank the Adam Smith Institute has launched something called the Cost Of Rent Day. The institute has calculated...
17 July 2024
From: Breaking News
![Fears grow for rent controls as Labour reviews rental sector](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Property%20Budget.jpg)
A lettings agency chief says there’s growing discussion about rent controls in his area - and he fears this may be...
16 July 2024
From: Breaking News
![Agents fear for future of Private Rental Sector - RICS](/upload/images/shutterstock_714410761(2).jpg)
The latest lettings market snapshot by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors contains a raft of worried statements from agents. A large...
11 July 2024
From: Breaking News
![Taxes and Rent Controls top worries ahead of election - agency survey](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/TaxCoins-400x310.png)
A nationwide survey conducted by Leaders Romans Group shows significant concerns over proposed rent controls, property taxes, and regulatory changes. LRG this...
04 July 2024
From: Breaking News
![Activist claims “horrendous exploitation” by “profiteering” letting agents](/upload/images/shutterstock_2167511393.jpg)
The deputy chief executive of an organisation funded by the Nationwide Foundation claims to have suffered “horrendous exploitation” at the hands...
25 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![No explicit pledge to spread rent controls further in Scotland - SNP](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews2-400x310.png)
The Scottish National Party, which as part of an alliance with the Greens introduced controversial rent controls in Scotland in 2022,...
20 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Proposed Capital Gains Tax rise would hit rental sector](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/TaxCoins-400x310.png)
A political party has proposed that Capital Gains Tax be equalised with Income Tax - meaning landlords and investors who sold...
13 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Jitters: Reform Bill failure and July Election hit lettings market](/upload/images/shutterstock_250676278(1).jpg)
Knight Frank is suggesting that a growing degree of uncertainty is hitting the rental market, particularly the high-end sector in the...
12 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Councils ‘must take over ex-private rental Right To Buy flats’](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews2-400x310.png)
A pro-tenant group wants the next government to take Right To Buy properties back to public ownership when they come up...
05 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Labour Mayor Khan accused of failing over rental sector reforms](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews1-400x310.png)
In an early General Election skirmish, London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan has been accused of failing to enact key private rental...
31 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![Warning To Labour - Rent Controls Just Won’t Work](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Property%20Budget.jpg)
If Labour plans to bring in rent controls they won’t work, a property association has warned. The National Association of Property Buyers...
24 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![Propertymark wants Labour to come clean on rent controls](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/House-pounds_400x310.png)
Propertymark wants Labour to come clean on its rent control policy, as the party repeatedly flip-flops on the issue. The agents’ body...
22 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![Yes to Regulation and No to Rent Controls - Propertymark](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Property%20Budget.jpg)
Propertymark wants Northern Ireland’s Department for Communities to regulate property agents via professional bodies such as itself. The Department for Communities is...
20 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![Labour split as MP defies party policy and calls for rent controls](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews1-400x310.png)
A Labour MP is calling for rent controls to be introduced, with powers for councils to tweak them as they see...
17 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![Politicians should realise how rent controls force landlords out - call](/upload/images/shutterstock_2144683563.jpg)
The pressure on rents for new tenancies in Scotland’s private rented sector have started to ease with all major cities now...
10 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![Stop Killing Market with Rent Controls, agents tell minister](/upload/images/shutterstock_2083876012.jpg)
Propertymark has urged Scotland’s new First Minister to end the country’s housing emergency. John Swinney is now First Minister and says he...
08 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![Sadiq Khan housing tax policies criticised by Left-wingers](/upload/images/shutterstock_2259917245.jpg)
Even as he was being elected as Mayor of London for a record-beating third successive time, Sadiq Khan was under pressure...
07 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![Rent Controls - we’re unlikely to follow Scotland, says housing chief](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Help%20to%20buy%20equity%20loan.jpg)
The Housing Secretary in Wales says that nation is unlikely to follow the example of Scotland by introducing rent controls. At a...
30 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Political Chaos is perfect time to ditch rent controls - housing bodies](/upload/images/shutterstock_2414859941.jpg)
The political chaos in Scotland presents sensible politicians with an ideal chance to resent housing policies and ditch rent controls. That’s the...
29 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Toxic attitude to Private Renting may now change, hopes lettings chief](/upload/images/shutterstock_2406793903.jpg)
A prominent lettings agency operator says he hopes the “toxic” attitude to the private rental sector by the Scottish Government may...
26 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Rent Controls - Call by Labour MPs in defiance of party policy](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Help%20to%20buy%20equity%20loan.jpg)
Five Labour MPs have put forward an Early Day Motion in the House of Commons calling for rent controls - even...
22 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Warning: rental reform could mean rewriting tenancy agreements](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Buy-to-let-400x310.png)
A lawyer says radical rental reforms proposed for Scotland - which could be a model for change in England and Wales...
16 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![“Bold” new Labour reforms for private rental sector coming next month](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews-400x310.png)
An influential Labour website says a raft of proposed reforms for the private rental sector will be unveiled next month -...
08 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Labour pledge to build thousands of “rent control homes”](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Developments/Construction-400x310.png)
London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan says he will build 6,000 “affordable” rental homes by 2030 - with their rents capped. Khan, standing...
08 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Agents Furious at Permanent Rent Controls proposed by politicians](/upload/images/shutterstock_2239146247.jpg)
Agents have expressed their anger at permanent rent controls proposed by the SNP and Green Party politicians running the Scottish Government. The...
28 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![No Rent Controls! Propertymark’s plea to leading politician](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Help%20to%20buy%20equity%20loan.jpg)
Propertymark has issued a no-holds-barred plea to the politician who has been named as the new housing minister in Wales -...
28 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![Rent Control architect threatens new package of ‘reforms’](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/House_pound-400x310.png)
The politician widely regarded as being the architect of rent controls in Scotland says he will shortly present a wider package...
27 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![Warning to Labour leader - no rent controls, yes to lower taxes](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/TaxMan-400x310.png)
The new Labour leader in Wales, Vaughan Gething, has received an early shot across the bows from Propertymark. Gething was elected Welsh...
18 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![Rent controls and EPC laws must be discussed with agents - Propertymark](/upload/images/_EcoHome-400x310.png)
Scottish councils must engage with letting agents and landlords if radical rental reforms have any chance of working. Propertymark argues that the...
31 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Double digit annual rent inflation for five quarters in a row](/upload/images/shutterstock_1338355010.jpg)
Average rents in Scotland for new tenancies in the private rented sector have risen by double digits for the fifth quarter...
19 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Sadiq Khan’s rent controls dismissed as “well-meaning but naive”](/upload/images/shutterstock_1909455316.jpg)
Rents across the UK continue to retreat from their 2023 highs, falling by 2.9 per cent over the last three months,...
16 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Top agent slams latest rent control move as costly and complex](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/AgentsWorking-400x310.png)
New rent control proposals put forward by politicians are unnecessary and too costly according to a leading property expert. David Alexander -...
12 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![No Rent Controls! Agents pledge to continue campaign](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/NB%20-%20M%26P%20March%20blog%201%20-%20No%20budget%20boost%20from%20the%20Chancellor%20but%20it's%20not%20all%20doom%20and%20gloom.jpg)
Propertymark has urged its members who feel frustrated by the changes to the Scottish Government’s so-called Cost of Living regulations ending...
11 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Details emerge of permanent rent control proposal](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Property%20Budget.jpg)
The controversial minister who steered rent controls through the Scottish Parliament has contacted Propertymark to reveal details of the next stage. Patrick...
05 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Agents slam government house building failures as rental supply drops](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/DemandDown-400x310.jpg)
Propertymark has urged the Scottish Government to build more affordable homes. The latest data from the Scottish Government itself shows that the...
21 December 2023
From: Breaking News
![Fairer Rental Sector is key Propertymark demand for Budget](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/HousePrices_balancing-400x310.png)
Propertymark has laid out its proposals to the Scottish Government ahead of its 2024-25 Budget next week. The letting agents’ trade body...
15 December 2023
From: Breaking News
![Agents get angry with pro-rent control politicians](/upload/images/shutterstock_2239146247.jpg)
Propertymark has issued a strongly-worded statement aimed at politicians demanding rent controls. Labour Members of the Scottish Parliament have urged the declaration...
24 November 2023
From: Breaking News
![Agents continue campaign against rent controls despite legal setback](/upload/images/shutterstock_2239146247.jpg)
Propertymark says it’s delivering a powerful message to the Scottish Government - despite losing a recent key legal case. The agents trade...
09 November 2023
From: Breaking News
![Rent Controls - Eco-activists jubilant after agents suffer legal setback](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Legal_Action-400x310.png)
The Scottish Greens - who are in effect the architects of rent controls north of the border - have welcomed a...
06 November 2023
From: Breaking News
![Shock as Rent Controls backed by Judicial Review decision](/upload/images/shutterstock_2239146247.jpg)
There’s been widespread dismay in the industry as the outcome of a Judicial Review has backed the Scottish Government’s objective of...
03 November 2023
From: Breaking News
![Failure! Annual rent rise in double figures despite rent controls](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/RisingRents-400x310.jpg)
Average rents in Scotland for new tenancies in the private sector have risen by double digits for the fourth quarter in a...
31 October 2023
From: Breaking News
![Agents want tax reforms on top of pledge to avoid rent controls](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/TaxCoins-400x310.png)
Propertymark has welcomed the pledge by Housing Secretary Michael Gove not to introduce rent controls in England. The trade body says such...
31 October 2023
From: Breaking News
![No rent controls in England - government confirmation](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/House_pound-400x310.png)
Rent controls as currently in force in Scotland and under consideration in Wales will not be put into effect in England,...
25 October 2023
From: Breaking News
![Rent Control threat - agents warn politicians not to meddle with market](/upload/images/shutterstock_2239146247.jpg)
Propertymark has issued a statement warning politicians not to introduce rent controls by the backdoor through processes which tinker with the...
18 October 2023
From: Breaking News
![Build To Rent ‘may get favourable treatment’ on rent legislation](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/BuildToRent1-400x310.png)
A controversial consultation document about rent controls is proposing that Build To Rent operators be exempt from the caps which may...
13 October 2023
From: Breaking News
![Labour should champion lettings agent regulation - Propertymark](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/3%20CoupleMakingOffer-400x310.png)
Propertymark has urged Labour to licence letting agents under its plans to ‘fundamentally reform the private rented sector’. The trade body also...
09 October 2023
From: Breaking News
![Rayner slams Tory rental “failures” but light on Labour policy details](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews-400x310.png)
Labour deputy leader and shadow housing secretary Angela Rayner has given her party’s conference an outline of future policy plans. She says:...
09 October 2023
From: Breaking News
![Letting agents accused of “profiteering” rent rises](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/HousePrices_pound-400x310.png)
A new manifesto calling for rent controls and a raft of other measures is accusing the current rent rises of being...
06 October 2023
From: Breaking News
![Rent Control proposals slammed by prominent industry commentator](/upload/images/shutterstock_2239146247.jpg)
Proposals for rent controls made in a government consultation document have been slammed by a prominent industry commentator and PropTech entrepreneur. The...
06 October 2023
From: Breaking News
![Rent Controls at heart of Shelter’s General Election manifesto](/upload/images/shutterstock_2239146247.jpg)
Shelter has published what it calls a General Election manifesto with rent controls at its heart. Called The Way Home: a manifesto to...
25 September 2023
From: Breaking News
![Why do politicians pursue failed policy of rent controls? - agent asks](/upload/images/shutterstock_2239146247.jpg)
Private rents have continued to soar in Scotland according to DJ Alexander, the largest lettings agency in the country. It says rental...
11 September 2023
From: Breaking News
![Ousted Green Party still arguing for rent controls in key battleground](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Property%20Budget.jpg)
The Green Party - which ran the Brighton and Hove council until being swept from office in May’s local elections -...
25 August 2023
From: Breaking News
![Epic Fail - rents go UP in Scotland, despite government rent controls](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/New%20Rental%20Index-400x310.png)
Average rents in Scotland for new tenancies in the private rented sector have risen by double digits for the third time...
21 August 2023
From: Breaking News
![Rent Control political coalition likely to stay until 2026](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Property%20Budget.jpg)
The political alliance between the Scottish National Party and the Scottish Greens is likely to stay in place until 2026. Arguably the...
16 August 2023
From: Breaking News
![EPC changes to rental properties to be ‘relaxed’ - Gove](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/_EPC5-400x310.png)
Housing Secretary Michael Gove has this morning said his government should ‘relax the pace’ of EPC reforms expected from private landlords. In...
23 July 2023
From: Breaking News
![Rent Controls backfire - Propertymark speaks out](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/House-pounds_400x310.png)
Propertymark has given details of how it believes the Scottish Government rent control system has backfired and works against the interests...
11 July 2023
From: Breaking News
![Labour turning its back on rent controls once and for all](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews-400x310.png)
It looks as if the Labour Party is turning its back on rent controls on England and Wales. In the past year...
29 June 2023
From: Breaking News
![Renters Reform Bill - webinar teach-in for agents](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/AgentsWorking-400x310.png)
There’s another free webinar for agents to learn about the Renters Reform Bill next week. This one is organised by lettings-focussed PropTech...
19 June 2023
From: Breaking News
![Rent Controls - Agents asked for help building case against](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/LearningAgents-400x310.png)
The National Residential Landlords Association is looking for help from letting agents in building a case against rent controls. The association is...
15 June 2023
From: Breaking News
![Fight Back Against Rent Controls - rallying call to agents](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Help%20to%20buy%20equity%20loan.jpg)
Two prominent trade bodies representing elements of the private rental sector are fighting back against the latest attempt to impose rent...
09 June 2023
From: Breaking News
![Renters Reform Bill latest - free teach-in for agents](/upload/images/shutterstock_192595709.jpg)
Two lettings experts are set to discuss what the government’s Bill means for agents at a free webinar. Well known property lawyer...
05 June 2023
From: Breaking News
![Rent Controls extended despite Propertymark opposition](/upload/images/shutterstock_1032274147.jpg)
The Scottish Government looks set to extend its rent cap for yet another six months, despite widespread opposition from the lettings...
05 June 2023
From: Breaking News
![Renters Reform Bill - politicians demand series of extra restrictions](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/Parliament-Summer-400x310.jpg)
The co-leader of the Green Party wants the Renters Reform Bill to go further in restricting the powers of private landlords. Carla...
22 May 2023
From: Breaking News
![Labour supports rent controls - and opposes them](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Rent_Freeze-400x310.png)
Senior Labour figures have come out with sharply opposing views on whether the party backs rent controls. Shabana Mahmood, a senior MP...
04 May 2023
From: Breaking News
![So Much For Rent Controls - figures show increases, not falls](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/RentOnlineSearch-400x310.png)
Property portal Citylets says average rents in Scotland rose 12.4 per cent in the past year to £1,007 per month -...
27 April 2023
From: Breaking News
![Backfired! Rent controls hurt lettings as government flounders](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/BTR-400x310.png)
Research from Propertymark highlights a growing concern for the private rental sector in Scotland. As the Scottish National Party lurches from crisis...
24 April 2023
From: Breaking News
![Section 24: Agents call for mortgage tax relief to be reinstated](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Taxes-400x310.png)
A new survey of lettings agents and landlords has put the reinstatement of Section 24 mortgage tax relief at the top...
21 April 2023
From: Breaking News
![Rent Controls Backfire - rents have actually RISEN instead...](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Housing_Market-400x310.png)
Scottish rents in the private sector rose at a faster rate than the rest of Britain according to analysis by DJ...
31 March 2023
From: Breaking News
![Rent Caps and Build To Rent - seminar to discuss impact](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/shutterstock_192595709.jpg)
A seminar is to be held to look at the impact of rent controls on the burgeoning Build To Rent sector. Private...
28 March 2023
From: Breaking News
![Rent control law backfires as agents see landlords selling up](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/AgentHouseInHand_400x310.png)
The Scottish Parliament’s so called Cost of Living Act - imposing rent controls on the private sector - is backfiring. That’s the...
27 February 2023
From: Breaking News
![Rent Controls won't solve housing crisis, experts warn](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/RentOnlineSearch-400x310.png)
The housing crisis will be made worse by rent caps, two property experts have said. Various activist groups, much of the Green...
26 January 2023
From: Breaking News
![Activists protest outside agents’ offices demand ‘no bidding’](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/RentalDemand-400x310.png)
The anti-agent pro-renter group Acorn has protested outside some agents’ offices in Bristol demanding an end to rival bids for properties...
26 January 2023
From: Breaking News
![Propertymark backs legal challenge to government rent controls](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Court-UK-2-400x310.png)
Propertymark is one of three lettings organisations behind a bid to get a Judicial Review of the Scottish Government’s rent controls...
23 January 2023
From: Breaking News
![Industry figure urges Labour to do more to improve housing supply](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/LandlordNews-400x310.png)
The director of a property development firm says Labour leader Sir Kier Starmer must do more to boost housing supply as...
09 January 2023
From: Breaking News
![Rent Freeze politician in war of words with Propertymark chief](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/RentFreeze-400x310.png)
Propertymark has become embroiled in a war of words with a Scottish politician who has made a series of anti-agent and...
04 January 2023
From: Breaking News
![Rent controls forcing landlords to consider quitting - Propertymark](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/EvictionNotice-400x310.png)
No fewer than 85 per cent of letting agents say that landlord clients have expressed a wish to sell up in...
14 December 2022
From: Breaking News
![Council campaigns for rent controls - with no power to introduce them](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Rent-Mobile-400x310.png)
A new survey has been launched to gather views from people in a major English city on the idea of introducing...
12 December 2022
From: Breaking News
![Rent Freeze - time for agents to say what they REALLY think](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/RentFreeze-400x310.png)
Agents have only until the end of tomorrow, December 2, to feed into Propertymark’s response to a new consultation on the...
01 December 2022
From: Breaking News
![Rent Controls Fail Worldwide - agent lists disastrous consequences](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Rent_Freeze1-400x310.png)
A lettings agency chief has listed how rent controls have failed across the world. Writing in The Scotsman, David Alexander - chief...
14 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![Rent Controls simply not needed, insists agents’ body](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Banned_400x310.png)
Propertymark has reiterated its opposition to rent controls in its latest statement on proposals in Northern Ireland. The NI Assembly has published...
04 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![Party demands eviction ban as first step on road to rent controls](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Eviction-400x310%20(1).png)
Another political party is calling for a winter eviction ban as the first part of a reform programme for the private...
24 October 2022
From: Breaking News
![Rent controls crush hopes for thousands of affordable homes](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/BuildToRent1-400x310.png)
A Labour peer who was to have invested £1 billion in affordable homes has halted his scheme because of the threat...
19 October 2022
From: Breaking News
![More politicians demand rent freeze and evictions ban](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/Tory-Labour-LibDem-400x310.jpg)
Welsh nationalists have called for a rent freeze and eviction ban to emulate that happening now in Scotland. Plaid Cymru, the party...
07 October 2022
From: Breaking News
![Lobby politicians to stop rent controls killing supply - agency chief](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/business-competition400x310.png)
The Belvoir Group is warning that the housing crisis within the Scottish private rental sector is rapidly worsening, thanks to the...
22 September 2022
From: Breaking News
![Labour to consider Rent Controls and AirBnb restrictions](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/Labour-logo400x310.png)
A proposal to introduce rent controls is likely to be discussed at Labour’s annual conference, being held early next week in...
21 September 2022
From: Breaking News
![Tory MP challenged on shock call for rent freeze](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/RentalMarketImage-1-400x310.jpg)
The landlords’ main trade body is directly challenging a Tory MP who has called for a rent freeze. Natalie Elphicke - in...
12 September 2022
From: Breaking News
![Prominent Truss-backer speaks out against rent controls](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/Parliament-Summer-400x310.jpg)
A prominent supporter of new Prime Minister Liz Truss has spoken out against rent controls. Veteran Conservative MP Sir John Redwood, who...
08 September 2022
From: Breaking News
![Agents want pilot project to test scrapping of S21](/upload/images/library/Section-21-image400x310.png)
Agents are calling for a pilot project to measure the impact of the government abolishing Section 21 eviction powers. In its response...
31 August 2022
From: Breaking News
![‘Major uncertainty’ for agents caused by reform proposals in Scotland](/upload/images/Locations/ScotlandFlag400x310.png)
Propertymark has once again hit out at reforms to the private rental sector being implemented by the Scottish Government. The government -...
30 August 2022
From: Breaking News
![Political website sets out case against rent controls](/upload/images/library/New%20Rental%20Index-400x310.png)
With the campaign for rent controls gathering momentum from London Mayor Sadiq Khan and sympathetic pressure groups, a right wing Conservative-backing...
24 August 2022
From: Breaking News
![Labour MP calls for rent controls to help combat cost of living crisis](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/Labour-logo400x310.png)
A Labour MP says the government should introduce emergency rent controls as part of a package of measures to combat the...
11 August 2022
From: Breaking News
![Council buying homes to stop them becoming Airbnbs](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/BTL-CardboardHouses-400x310.jpg)
A council has purchased some 40 properties to avoid them becoming holiday homes and Airbnbs. Highland council in Scotland is spending up...
27 July 2022
From: Breaking News
![Lion’s Den! Rent control advocate to speak at letting agents’ conference](/upload/images/Miscellaneous/Conference-Stock-400x310.jpg)
The politician who is arguably the country’s most powerful advocate of rent controls is to address a Propertymark conference. Patrick Harvie, Scotland’s...
14 July 2022
From: Breaking News
![Labour rent freeze aims to “re-direct profit back to workers”](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/Labour-logo400x310.png)
A prominent Labour politician in Scotland has made an outspoken attack on the private landlord sector in her call for an...
30 June 2022
From: Breaking News
![Labour pushing for even more radical reforms plus rent controls](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/Labour-logo400x310.png)
The sweeping reforms for the private rental sector announced by the government at the end of last week do not go...
21 June 2022
From: Breaking News
![There will be NO rent controls in England - and that’s official](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/Cash%20property%20buyers%20image.jpg)
Housing minister Eddie Hughes has categorically stated that the government is not considering rent controls in England. In a written reply to...
08 June 2022
From: Breaking News
![Rent Controls - body discussing implementation recruits top agency figure](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/BusinessResults-400x310-.jpg)
A Parliamentary group currently investigating the possible implementation of rent controls is to be joined by a senior figure from Propertymark. The...
07 June 2022
From: Breaking News
![Rental reform may be bogged down after elections, warns supplier](/upload/images/Logos/aiic-logo400x310.png)
Last month’s local election results could yet impact on the private rental sector, a prominent industry supplier claims. The Association of Independent...