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![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
![Agents Distinctly Underwhelmed by Tories’ manifesto pledges](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews2-400x310.png)
Agents, and others in the lettings industry, have given a sceptical response to the Conservative manifesto and its varied pledges about...
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
![New Rental Crisis - big rise in countryside lets as rural house prices soar](/upload/images/shutterstock_1438059821.jpg)
England’s county councils want the next government to set out a long-term plan for housing, as a new report claims there’s...
25 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![Tory ex-housing minister quits, claiming he was a success](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/BusinessChain-400x310.png)
A former housing minister responsible for the sell off of huge numbers of social homes has told the Prime Minister he...
18 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![Right To Buy cash ‘stolen’ by government will worsen rental crisis](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/House_pound-400x310.png)
An umbrella group called London Councils has expressed “extreme concern” at the government’s decision to stop letting local authorities keep money...
13 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![Shelter lobbies politicians with ‘rental plan to end homelessness’](/upload/images/shutterstock_270470528.jpg)
Shelter is calling for the construction of 90,000 rental properties each year for a decade - and it claims this would...
27 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![Purplebricks boss slams Tories in unexpected attack](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews3-400x310.png)
While most agents remain relatively tight lipped about party politics, the chief executive of Purplebricks has said the Tories should take...
13 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![British Homes for British Workers - Experts, activists unite in opposition](/upload/images/shutterstock_1750387934.jpg)
Seventeen housing organisations have sent an open letter to the government rejecting its idea of prioritising British families when it comes...
30 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Labour will keep Right To Buy in England if it wins election](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews3-400x310.png)
Labour says it will keep the controversal Right To Buy policy in England if it wins this year’s General Election. This is...
02 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Labour housing policies win strong public support as Tories lag behind](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews-400x310.png)
Independent polling gives Labour a big lead when it comes to its approach to housing policy. Detailed polling by the Ipsos pollster...
21 December 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
![Labour must fund councils to buy private rental homes - expert’s call](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Property-Value_400x310.png)
A prominent housing journalist says Labour should fund councils to buy homes directly from private landlords to rapidly increase the size...
01 June 2023
From: Breaking News
![Agent slams ‘pie in the sky’ idea for private tenant Right To Buy](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/HomeInHands-400x310.jpg)
A recent suggestion by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation charity, for government help to allow private tenants to buy their landlords’ homes,...
08 August 2022
From: Breaking News
![Lettings chief slams latest Boris Johnson off-the-cuff housing idea](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/BorisJohnson-4-400x310.jpg)
A prominent lettings Industry figure has slammed Boris Johnson’s latest housing market utterances, branding them “off the cuff” and likely to...
07 July 2022
From: Breaking News
![Right To Buy extension plans criticised as “laughable … unworkable”](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/EvictionNotice-400x310-min.jpeg)
A selection of property industry figures have spoken out against the government’s latest proposals to extend Right To Buy to housing...
10 June 2022
From: Breaking News
![Vote 2022 - today's elections could change course of rental reform](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/Conservative-logo400x310.png)
A leading lettings sector commentator believes today’s local elections may not directly change the private rental sector but could have a...
05 May 2022
From: Breaking News
![Agency chief’s cautious welcome for extended Right To Buy](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/MortgageDepositImage-400x310.jpg)
The head of a prominent brand in a fast-expanding lettings and sales agency group has given a cautious welcome to government...
04 May 2022
From: Breaking News
![Shelter leads opposition to new tenant Right To Buy proposal](/upload/images/Logos/shelter-logo400x310.png)
Shelter has made an outspoken attack on a government proposal to extend Right To Buy to housing association tenants. The idea -...
03 May 2022
From: Breaking News
![Should holiday lets be restricted to buyers with long-term local links?](/upload/images/Miscellaneous/staycation%20resize.png)
The activist group Acorn is lobbying a local council to deny people the right to buy a second home or let...
25 March 2022
From: Breaking News
![Shock as lettings PropTech firm backs Labour call for rent freeze](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/Labour-logo400x310.png)
A PropTech supplier to the lettings industry that has just signed a deal with OnTheMarket has come out in support of...
11 March 2022
From: Breaking News
![Discrimination against tenants on benefits is fault of government - new report](/upload/images/Logos/NRLA-Logo-2020-400x310.jpg)
A leading trade body says the rental sector must not discriminate against tenants on benefits - and has told government it...
25 June 2021
From: Breaking News
![Council may purchase Right To Buy homes and then let to tenants](/img/default/lat.png)
It’s been reported that a London council is considering spending £10m on purchasing 25 former council homes it previously sold off...
25 January 2021
From: Breaking News
![Five agents kicked out of Ombudsman scheme after disputes](/img/default/lat.png)
The Property Ombudsman has expelled five agencies, mostly for failures to honour awards: four of them are lettings operations and one...
21 February 2020
From: Breaking News
![Tenant’s secret buy to lets land him with a suspended sentence](/img/default/lat.png)
A London council tenant who for a period of seven years failed to disclose that he owned three houses, has been...
29 January 2020
From: Breaking News
![Mandatory licensing, long tenancies, rent controls advocated by LibDems](/img/default/lat.png)
The Liberal Democrats is the first of the major parties to release its party manifesto for the December 12 manifesto, and...
21 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Labour ditches Right To Buy for private tenants](/img/default/lat.png)
Labour has dropped its controversial policy under which private tenants would have been able to buy their homes at a discount. Press...
18 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Labour tones down Right To Buy proposal for private rental tenants](/img/default/lat.png)
Labour’s controversial proposal to oblige landlords to sell their buy to let properties to tenants who wished to purchase them, unveiled...
06 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Further criticism of Labour's controversial Right to Buy plans](/img/default/lat.png)
A group of landlords in the North East are the latest to criticise Labour's plans to introduce a Right to Buy...
04 October 2019
From: Breaking News
![Blow to Labour Right To Buy plan - most tenants don’t want to own](/img/default/lat.png)
The majority of the UK’s private renters don’t want to purchase a home according to new research, coming just as the...
24 September 2019
From: Breaking News
![Labour’s controversial right to buy could work, if landlords benefit too](/img/default/lat.png)
A leading PropTech chief says there is nothing inherently wrong with private tenants being given the right to buy their property,...
23 September 2019
From: Breaking News
![We want ‘sensible’ rent controls says Labour Party think thank](/img/default/lat.png)
A Labour think tank considered on the right wing of the party says it wants rent controls that make a difference...
17 September 2019
From: Breaking News
![Labour’s buy to let sell-off could lose landlords over £18,000 each](/img/default/lat.png)
More details have emerged about Labour’s controversial proposal to allow private rental tenants that right to buy their landlord’s property, at...
09 September 2019
From: Breaking News
![Labour Right To Buy policy dismissed as “damaging and distorted”](/img/default/lat.png)
As the row over Labour’s proposal rumbles on the think tank Centre for Policy Studies - which has previously argued that...
05 September 2019
From: Breaking News
![ARLA joins criticism of Labour’s private tenant right to buy policy](/img/default/lat.png)
The Association of Residential Lettings Agents appears to have joined the chorus of criticism against Labour’s controversial right to buy policy...
04 September 2019
From: Breaking News
![It’s War: Tories and lettings chiefs tear into Labour Right To Buy plans](/img/default/lat.png)
There’s been a fierce outcry from Conservative MPs and the lettings industry in response to Labour’s threat to give private rental...
03 September 2019
From: Breaking News
![Shock Labour proposal for private tenants to have ‘right to buy’](/img/default/lat.png)
Labour has this morning pledged to introduce a shock new policy if it wins the next general election - giving private...
02 September 2019
From: Breaking News
![Snoopers’ Charter - people urged to inform about ‘illegal lettings’](/img/default/lat.png)
A local authority has written to purchasers of former council houses and apartments warning them against illegally letting them out -...
30 April 2019
From: Breaking News
![Rental flat repossessed after being converted into illegal HMO](/img/default/lat.png)
A buy to let investor has lost possession of his flat after converting it into an Illegal House in Multiple Occupation...
22 January 2019
From: Breaking News
![Labour outrage at councils renting back privately-owned Right To Buy homes](/img/default/lat.png)
The Labour party has expressed outrage at the news that London councils are spending over £22m each year renting back homes...
21 January 2019
From: Breaking News
![Labour pledges 'living rent' at one third of local average income or less](/img/default/lat.png)
Labour insists that if it forms the next government it will introduce ‘living rents’ in a new range of affordable homes...
23 April 2018
From: Breaking News
![Specialist lender lowers rates and aims to help accidental landlords](/img/default/lat.png)
Specialist lender Together has lowered interest rates across a range of products including right to buy - and it’s making a...
27 November 2017
From: Breaking News
![Another call on government for leaseholders to get fair treatment](/img/default/lat.png)
It is 50 years since the Leasehold Reform Act 1967 became law and now a firm speciaising in enfranchisement extension wants the government...
27 October 2017
From: Breaking News
![Council sets up Right To Invest as alternative to Right To Buy](/img/default/lat.png)
A London council has set up a system to allow council tenants to buy into a shared ownership scheme which it...
20 October 2016
From: Breaking News
![Right wing group backs Corbyn's private sector Right To Buy idea](/img/default/lat.png)
It started off as an idea from Jeremy Corbyn’s campaign to become Labour leader but today it’s being backed by a...
13 June 2016
From: Breaking News
![Trade union wades into row over privately-let ex-council flats](/img/default/lat.png)
The Right To Buy policy “has turned into a rich harvest for the greedy elite” according to a trades union. The GMB...
16 February 2016
From: Breaking News
![MPs worried that 40% of Right To Buy units end up being privately let](/img/default/lat.png)
A group of MPs is raising concerns about a claim that 40 per cent of homes sold through the Right To...
12 February 2016
From: Breaking News
![Osborne's property industry Autumn Statement announcements](/img/default/lat.png)
- From April 2016 buy to let landlords and people buying second or holiday homes will have to pay an additional...
26 November 2015
From: Breaking News
![Big majority for Right To Buy compromise as government response awaited](/img/default/lat.png)
There is reported to be a substantial majority amongst housing associations for the compromise deal over the government's controversial Right To...
06 October 2015
From: Breaking News
![London housing associations backing Right To Buy compromise](/img/default/lat.png)
G15, the largest group of London housing associations, says its members unanimously back a controversial Right to Buy compromise proposal. Under the...
30 September 2015
From: Breaking News
![Government waters down housing association Right To Buy](/img/default/lat.png)
The government is watering down its controversial new Right To Buy policy, by giving housing associations one week to sign up...
25 September 2015
From: Breaking News
![LibDems will try to block Right To Buy extension to housing associations](/img/default/lat.png)
The Liberal Democrat party says it will use its members in the House of Lords to try to block the government's...
24 September 2015
From: Breaking News
17 August 2015
From: Breaking News
![A new twist on the right to buy](/img/default/lat.png)
Competition is hot among home buyers in my part of southern England to take ownership of properties that come onto the...
24 July 2015
From: Features
![Private tenants should get Right To Buy says Labour leadership hopeful](/img/default/lat.png)
One of four MP candidates standing for the Labour Party leadership says Right To Buy should be extended - to private...
26 June 2015
From: Breaking News
![The spotlight on our sector will not diminish, despite the result of the election](/img/default/lat.png)
I write this article on the day of the General Election so you’ll forgive the political analogies. In particular, how any...