Political parties should stop bickering and instead work together to improve the private rental sector. That’s the view of the Lettings industry...
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Legal & General’s suburban Build To Rent business, called LGSBTR, has exchanged on 41 new BTR homes in St Neots, Cambridgeshire. Consisting...
05 April 2024
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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
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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
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Labour leader Sir Kier Starmer has confirmed that Awaab’s Law - putting a strict timescale on urgent repairs being done -...
13 February 2024
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The Property Institute has welcomed a Labour Party move to introduce the regulation of property agents across much of the sector. Tabled...
25 January 2024
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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
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An estimated seven million UK households are struggling to keep up with their rent or mortgage payments, Which? warns, with millions...
28 September 2023
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Propertymark has given advice to the new Scottish National Party leader and Scotland’s First Minister, Humza Yousaf. The trade group’s head of...
29 March 2023
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Agents’ body Propertymark wants more government action to boost housing supply - and it wants the views of the industry on...
01 February 2023
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Propertymark has told a UK government to stop ignore the damaging effect of its policies on the private rental sector. An outspoken...
27 January 2023
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Demographic data from the latest Census suggests that the Private Rental Sector now provides homes for 20.3 per cent of the...
06 January 2023
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Legal & General Capital helped fund over 17,000 new homes last year across a range of tenures, chiefly Build To Rent. Chief...
05 January 2023
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Agents have expressed their anger at the government effectively scrapping any meaningful house building targets. Housing Secretary Michael Gove scrapped the mandatory...
12 December 2022
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A prominent agency lettings chief is alerting the industry that new smoke and carbon monoxide alarm rules are changing from October 1. Since...
22 June 2022
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The John Lewis Partnership has revealed the first three locations where it will build new rental homes. The properties “would offer the...
10 June 2022
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ARLA Propertymark is the latest rental industry organisation to hit out at what it calls the “tenant-centred approach” being taken to...
26 April 2022
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The industry’s main trade body for lettings agents is telling its members to let the BBC know if they believe the...
21 April 2022
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The chief executive of ARLA Propertymark has made an outspoken attack on the UK government, accusing it of a “blatant disregard...
20 April 2022
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Agents are being urged to prepare for changes to the Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm Regulations which may come in this...
19 April 2022
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Lower income households, often found in the private rental sector, are set to bear the brunt of the rising inflation and...
14 March 2022
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Property management specialist Pinnacle Group has strengthened its digital offer for customers across its residential portfolio, signing a three-year deal with...
09 March 2022
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New research commissioned by the landlords’ trade body shows that the UK needs almost 230,000 new private rented homes a year...
18 February 2022
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The latest English Housing Survey shows a dramatic rise in the energy efficiency of private rental property. Some 38 per cent of...
09 July 2021
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ARLA Propertymark is warning politicians fighting elections this spring that rent controls should be firmly off the agenda. The organisation traditionally sets...
10 March 2021
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Nearly four out of 10 landlords believe that tenant demand will rise this year, according to a study by high-profile buy...
19 February 2020
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The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors wants the government to implement recent recommendations to regulate the agency industry, starting with the...
22 August 2019
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A leading industry trade body says the latest English Housing Survey report proves that criticisms of the private rental sector’s costs...
18 July 2019
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A lettings sector trade body has put the blame firmly on government for the scale of poverty amongst those who privately...
11 February 2019
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The government’s new redress system, announced last week and to be implemented later this year, must be free for renters to...
30 January 2019
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There’s been broad support from the lettings sector for the wide-ranging reform of the redress system announced yesterday by housing secretary...
25 January 2019
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Some 79 per cent of landlords are only servicing the interest on their mortgages, not paying down their loans, according to...
10 December 2018
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The private rental sector can help reduce smoking according to a report from Action on Smoking and Health, a pressure group. The...
27 November 2018
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Belvoir says more landlords are selling up and fewer newcomers are investing in the private rental sector because of increased legislation...
24 August 2018
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The government’s announcement that it will bring in mandatory electrical checks in the private rented sector has been welcomed - perhaps...
01 August 2018
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The British Property Federation says there are now 124,037 Build To Rent homes complete, under construction and in planning across the...
09 July 2018
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A leading lettings sector trade body has repeated its call on government to offer a range of incentives to landlords and...
18 April 2018
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Policy makers concerned with the private rental sector ignore the needs of older tenants who are regarded as “invisible”. That’s the claim...
27 March 2018
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At least one trade body has expressed an apparent scepticism about whether the rebranding of the Department of Communities and Local...
09 January 2018
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The cost of private rented housing is roughly mirroring changes in earnings across England - but in the social rented sector...
23 January 2017
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A senior mortgage lender is warning that government reforms of the buy to let sector could have wide-ranging and unintended consequences. Richard...
05 July 2016
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Legal & General Capital, which is set to be one of the biggest names in the burgeoning Build To Rent sector...
14 April 2016
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MPs and members of the House of Lords want private sector tenants to be given clearer up-front information on the cost...
24 February 2016
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Returns from buy to let properties have risen to their highest level in over a year. Data from Your Move and Reeds...
19 February 2016
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The chairman of Berkeley Homes is warning that George Osborne’s latest three per cent stamp duty hike for buy to let...
07 December 2015
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Savills says mainstream UK rents are likely to rise by an average of 16.5 per cent by the end of 2020...