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The government’s controversial Right To Rent policy is to be challenged in the High Court just before Christmas. It was announced in...

The Independent online newspaper says Conservative MP Gary Streeter will tomorrow meet with Prime Minister Theresa May and urge her to...

The High Court has this afternoon agreed to allow a judicial review of the government’s Right to Rent policy. Right to Rent...

The Residential Landlords Association has reiterated its support for a legal challenge to Right To Rent which is to be made...

A leading Conservative peer says the government should cut taxes for buy to let investors and regard them as part of...

The government has started tweeting that it is to ban letting agents’ fees in England - but still isn’t revealing when...

Prime minister Theresa May has repeated that the current government will not introduce rent controls in the private sector. The issue of...

It’s been reported that Theresa May and her husband Philip jointly own a London apartment which is now let out and...

The National Landlords’ Association says the extra £2 billion in funding made available by the government for additional affordable housing may...

The Welsh Government is now kicking off a similar consultation process to that conducted by the Department for Communities and Local...

The government has revealed that it has received over 4,700 responses to its official consultation over the proposed ban on letting...

The Prime Minister has confirmed that her minority Conservative government will press ahead with the ban on letting agents’ fees levied...

The Queen’s Speech, outlining the government’s proposals for the next two years, has confirmed a pledge to introduce a ban on...

The boss of 300 branch agency Belvoir has called on the government to appoint a cross-party housing tsar to work with...

In a blog which appears - perhaps surprisingly - to be supportive of Theresa May’s General Election manifesto, campaigning charity Shelter...

A local authority consultation exercise on a licensing system for local landlords has been postponed until June 12, four days after...

The anti-letting agency fee pressure group Generation Rent is urging its supporters to participate in the government formal consultation over agents’...

The Residential Landlords Association has listed key MPs in marginal constituencies who should be lobbied ahead of the March 8 Budget...

Specialist student rental company Studenttenant.com has expressed concern at Prime Minister Theresa May’s announcement this week that Britain would not seek...

The number of buy to let transactions across England and Wales has fallen 8.2 per cent in one month and is down an...

A letting agency says the scale of confusion over letting agents’ fees is such that some tenants actually believe the deposit...

The government will today announce that it is banning letting agents’ fees levied on tenants - meaning the fees will instead...

A leading mortgage industry spokesman says he hopes Theresa May's "more balanced approach" to housing policy will trigger government support for...

Grainger, the UK’s largest residential property owner and manager listed on the London Stock Exchange, has set out an argument to...

The Residential Landlords’ Association says Gavin Barwell, the new housing minister appointed by Theresa May this week, is a known critic...

The Residential Landlords Association has welcomed a report by the House of Lords that institutional investors behind the Build To Rent...

The new Chancellor appointed by Prime Minister Theresa May has been ‘outed’ as a former buy to let landlord - raising...

The Immigration Bill containing controversial Right To Rent measures has been given a second reading by the House of Commons despite...

Labour will today ask Home Secretary Theresa May to publish the result of the Right To Rent pilot project amidst claims...

Channel 5 tomorrow airs the first episode of Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords, a six-part series which starts with the story of...