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Propertymark says it’s contacting all the appropriate new ministers over the summer to trigger an engagement process so agents’ voices can...

There’s a call from a prominent international building science service for the new Labour government to review the Energy Performance Certificates. EPCs...

Angela Rayner has been appointed Levelling Up Secretary with responsibility for housing - a role she has in addition to being...

The biggest rental sector headline from Labour’s manifesto may well be its pledge for the “immediate” abolition of Section 21 eviction...

If Labour wins Thursday’s General Election. expect three major housing announcements within a fortnight. That’s the exclusive claim from the Sunday Times...

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

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

Labour is launching a new Freedom to Buy scheme to get 80,000 young people on the housing ladder, over the next...

In an unusually outspoken intervention into the election campaign, Rightmove has criticised the absence of debate over housing. The issue has not...

Despite once claiming it would abolish Section 21 evictions “on its first day in office”, Labour appears to have gone cool...

A Labour MP is calling for rent controls to be introduced, with powers for councils to tweak them as they see...

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

Labour leader Sir Kier Starmer has confirmed that Awaab’s Law - putting a strict timescale on urgent repairs being done -...

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

Senior Labour figures have come out with sharply opposing views on whether the party backs rent controls. Shabana Mahmood, a senior MP...

Labour’s much-publicised pledge to freeze council tax for the next year excludes empty buy to let properties and second homes it...

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

The director of a property development firm says Labour leader Sir Kier Starmer must do more to boost housing supply as...

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer picked on the buy to let and holiday home sectors as targets for future restrictions, in...

The Prime Minister has stepped into the ongoing row over a Labour claim that last week’s stamp duty holiday was merely...