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

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

A leading agent has welcomed the dramatic U turn by the government on how it is to meet its net zero...

Kamma - the PropTech firm which until now has been best known for monitoring rental sector licensing regimes - is now...

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

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

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

A lettings agency chief says tighter EPC targets will be “devastating” for the private rental sector. Ben Quaintrell - managing director of...

The latest market snapshot from the Royal Institution for Chartered Surveyors - out today - shows tenant demand continuing to increase...

It’s been revealed that Propertymark contributed its thoughts to a Parliamentary committee which has slammed the failure of the government’s Boiler...

The British Property Federation, which typically has relatively little to say about the private rental sector, has issued a series of...

The controversial Boiler Upgrade Scheme - which Propertymark say is so complex many people don’t think it’s worth applying to -...

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

With the private rental sector stressed at the prospect of stricter energy efficiency rules in the coming years, the body representing...

The government’s Boiler Upgrade Scheme application process is so complex property agents and their landlords do not think it is worth...

A proposal to introduce rent controls is likely to be discussed at Labour’s annual conference, being held early next week in...

Forty per cent of privately rented homes in England are unlikely to achieve the energy efficiency rating target set to become...

Propertymark has told the government that imposing the same solution to the Net Zero challenge on all of the private rental...

Campaign group Generation Rent says private tenants could miss out on an energy efficiency drive if they are not given the...