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The head of a firm that seeks investors to put money into residential property funds rather than individual homes for tenants...

A survey of 500 undergraduates has given a rare insight into what they want as accommodation priorities.  The study, by a landlord...

Knight Frank has given an upbeat snapshot of the lettings market in Prime Central London, based mostly on higher rental growth...

There has been limited support given from some parts of the lettings industry to a proposal offering Capital Gains Tax relief...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has released details of its response to the government’s official consultation on possible three year...

Lettings agents for or against the government’s proposals for longer tenancies have only a very short time left to respond to...

Speculation is growing that three year tenancies for private renters - long favoured by the government - could be announced as...

An online lettings agency is the latest to voice opposition to the government’s proposed three year standard tenancies for the private...

The pressure group Generation Rent has joined forces with other critics of the private rental sector to demand an end to...

Yet another leading lettings agent has hit out at the government over its proposals for three year tenancies being the norm...

The British Property Federation says there are now 124,037 Build To Rent homes complete, under construction and in planning across the...

A Tory activist has made an outspoken attack on the government’s policies towards the private rental sector on the pages of...

Close examination of the consultation document on possible three year tenancies issued by the government suggest that it may want rent...

Rural landlords say the government’s idea of making three year tenancies the norm across the private rental sector would damage the...

Buy to let landlords are welcoming proposals being considered by the government to provide financial incentives for those offering longer tenancies. In...

Arguments have already started over the government’s proposals to make three year tenancies the norm in the private rental sector. Letting Agent...

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

A new Build To Rent scheme from specialist developer Get Living is to charge from £410 a week for units at...

The British Property Federation says it is doing all it can to urge the fledgling Build To Rent sector to fall...

The government has stepped in to clear up misunderstandings emerging from the Housing White Paper following its high profile call for...

Shelter - the campaigning charity many feel has had influence on government policies for the lettings sector - has now turned around and...

The government has set out 29 key points in its Housing White Paper.   Introducing in the Commons this afternoon, Communities Secretery Sajid...

Ian Wilson, the head of Martin & Co, recently threw his hat into the ring regarding Labour’s stated intention to cap...

Property industry figures opposed to Labour plans to impose three year tenancies and rent caps should lobby candidates in a bid...

While much of the lettings industry protests against Labour proposals for rent controls and three year tenancies, an influential pressure group...

The Labour party’s proposals to cap rent rises with inflation and insist on three year tenancies in the private rental sector...