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A new housing deal will provide another 92 Build To Rent units run by Legal & General. The properties will be two,...

A prominent Green Party politician is arguing for rent controls - and accuses Labour of watering down its commitment to the...

Generation Rent has yet again come out for rent control over the private sector - and wants it to be an...

Activists in the Generation Rent campaign says big city Mayors should “tackle the worst landlords and seize their properties.” It also wants...

A think tank claims that the government will pay landlords in the private sector six times the expected spend on new affordable homes in the five-year period between 2021 and 2026. The New...

Increasing the supply of homes for private rent would boost government finances by £10 billion, says the National Residential Landlords Association. The...

The government is considering allowing renters to buy their first homes with just one per cent deposits, according  to press reports...

Landlords who fail to ensure their private rented homes meet required standards face massively increased charges from a council. Bath & North...

A think tank says rents set in the social sector should reflect the energy efficiency of a property. It’s one of a...

A Labour politician has returned to the subject of rent controls - even though the party has officially abandoned this as...

A countryside body is blaming the government’s failure to provide affordable housing and the rise in short lets for a homelessness...

It’s the number of homes changing hands rather than their price that’s bearing the brunt of the slowdown say research chiefs...

Shelter has published what it calls a General Election manifesto with rent controls at its heart. Called The Way Home: a manifesto to...

The Scottish Government says rent controls - already existing as a so-called emergency measure - will become permanent. Scottish First Minister Humza...

A group of local authorities is asking the government to give individual councils the cash to buy properties off private landlords. London...

London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan and activist group Generation Rent have issued a joint appeal for rent controls in the capital. Khan’s...

Conversions, often seen as a likely property type for private landlords, are likely to be more common if two groups of...

After genteel protests from the Generation Rent ginger group and more pro-active protests from the Acorn group of rental activists, tomorrow...

New research shows a 41 per cent reduction in the number of London properties available for private rent since the Covid-19...

The Labour dominated council in Bristol has written to Housing Secretary Michael Gove demanding that he gives it the powers to...

An uneasy relationship exists between UK politicians and the residential property market. Emotions have been running particularly high recently. More details were...

A newspaper claims  unrest about the Renters Reform Bill amongst Tory MPs revolves around fears that buy to let landlords will...

A news service claims that in many UK cities there are now more entire homes listed on Airbnb than there are...

Both the Generation Rent activist group and London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan have issued a joint attack on private rental sector...

The Competition and Markets Authority is launching a three month probe into the workings of the private rental sector. It says the focus...

A controversial new report demands that the government uses next month’s Budget to sharply increase tax burdens for landlords. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s...

The government’s proposed tenancy reforms - including the banning of section 21 evictions - could be undermined by delays in the...

The perennial shortage of new homes in the capital has now collided with a sharp increase in government regulation, a tripling...

Bristol councillors who are landlords have been told they cannot speak in a debate on rent controls.  Earlier this week we explained...

A Labour council is being tipped to vote tomorrow to introduce rent controls for the private sector, even though it has...

Residents in social and affordable housing are being given the chance to buy a share in their home for the first...

A joint venture has been announced to deliver 1,000 sustainable zero-carbon homes - and they will be factory-made. Legal & General Modular...

Housing Secretary Michael Gove has made an announcement overnight that “the government will always act to protect tenants.” The claim comes as...

Student property enquiries in the run-up to the letting season for the 2023/24 academic year are significantly up on a year...

A Labour peer who was to have invested £1 billion in affordable homes has halted his scheme because of the threat...

The government’s expected U-turn on the future of Section 21 eviction powers has provoked an explosion of anger from Generation Rent...

The government may be changing its mind on scrapping Section 21 eviction powers according to a bombshell story in The Times. Outlining what...

The Scottish Federation of Housing Associations says its members are key to tackling the cost of living crisis but rent freezes,...

Labour leader Sir Kier Starmer has told his party conference that buy to let landlords will no longer “get in first”...

London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan wants private landlords letting ex-council properties to consider selling the properties to local councils.  Since launching in...

Generation Rent, which typically attacks all landlords and especially those involved in buy to let, has instead focussed its latest social...

Landlords and owners of empty homes iare being invited to a free event next week to find out more about help...

An activist group that campaigns against landlords has accused some of discriminating against tenants on the ground of their sexual orientation. Baroness...

Don’t pick on landlords - that’s the message from a leading tax and advisory consultancy. Blick Rothenberg warns that the government needs...

A council is offering a no-commission rent guarantee service to private landlords. A statement from Elbridge council claims that it offers not...

Landowners are claiming that the negative stereotype given to private landlords in recent years by government contributes to the overall housing...

The National Association of Property Buyers says soaring numbers of landlords are looking to sell homes - slashing stock and therefore...

A Labour MP in the westcountry appears to be winning support for a campaign he has launched called First Homes, Not...

A poll of Conservative voters shows strong majorities for higher taxes on second homes and empty properties, and tougher demands on...

The relationship between the overwhelming number of good landlords and local authorities tends to be limited or possibly non-existent. With the far...

A council says it’s going to spend £70,000 of central government money to help “engage” with landlords over issues of energy...

Wiltshire council is the latest to ask private landlords who have affordable homes which are ready to let, to get in...

Landlords are being invited to a free webinar that promises to bring them up to date with the new planning regime...

Rent controls, possibly ensuring that rents do not exceed 25 per cent of household income, are poised to be introduced into...

It looks certain that a substantial number of pro-tenant reforms are to be introduced in Northern Ireland in the near future. A...

Only 39 rogue landlords and letting agents have been hit with banning orders in the first three years of their existence. The...

A senior Anglican priest has stood up for renting as a concept, and suggests Britain is too pre-occupied with home ownership. Angela...

A philanthropist claims the difficulty some younger people have in getting on the property ownership ladder is caused by Baby Boomers...

The National Landlords Association (NLA) has welcomed the Welsh government's plans to increase spending on housing in their draft budget for...

Boris Johnson launched the Conservative Party manifesto yesterday with a promise to “Get Brexit done”, and although the document was rather...

The Conservatives have pledged to introduce a new scheme to allow tenants to transfer their tenancy deposits when they move homes.  The...

Labour’s plan to introduce a rent cap has been slammed by ARLA Propertymark.  Labour has proposed capping rents and with Labour’s conference...

Scottish Land & Estates is calling on the Scottish government to ensure that private landlords who provide affordable homes to rent have...

The chancellor Philip Hammond has once again failed to deliver for private landlords, with yesterday’s rather low-key Spring Statement yet another...

From tax hikes to a fresh raid on pensions tax relief, there are various tricks and treats the Chancellor could have...

The government remains committed to building more new homes, but their target of 300,000 a year is unlikely to be met. Sky-high...

Free gas and electrical checks are among the incentives being offered to landlords with properties in Barrow-in-Furness in a bid to...

An online petition calling for buy-to-let tax relief changes to be reversed has received almost 16,500 signatures. Buy-to-let landlord and property investment...

A number of young renters will be offered ‘rent to buy’ deposit-free homes as part of plans being proposed by the...

Members of the armed forces deployed within the UK or overseas are being adversely affected by the government’s tax hikes on private...

The government has responded to a petition calling on the reintroduction of full mortgage interest relief and the scrapping of the...

Criminal landlords across London will be named and shamed on an online database after all London boroughs signed up to a rogue...

Ever since Margaret Thatcher declared her belief in a ‘property-owning democracy’ and introduced Right to Buy in 1980, the UK was...

Let’s face it - landlords have a bad reputation. While that reputation is largely undeserved, the landlord bashing articles often featured...

With only a few hours left of voting in the general election, the balance of power will have a major impact...

Despite the fact that UK house prices are continuing to slow, with yesterday’s figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS)...

A charity that receives thousands of pounds in housing benefit to accommodate vulnerable people, including the homeless with addiction problems, has...

The mayor of London Sadiq Khan has vowed to crackdown on criminal landlords by ensuring that they are ‘named and shamed’...

Local councils are calling on the government to close a legal loophole that allows landlords to get away with converting properties...

London rents fell in the final quarter of last year, according to the latest Foxtons letting report. The fall was triggered by...

New housing policies affecting the private rented sector, including longer tenancies, boosting the supply of much needed housing and plans to...

Dundee based Carling Property Group has become Scotland’s largest independent residential landlord after completing the purchase of Alloway Halls in Dundee...

Our new Chancellor, Philip Hammond, looks like a considered man and one hopes that he will be able to ‘kick away’...

Lord Flight, a former Conservative Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, has once again slammed his own party’s buy-to-let tax changes,...

The housing minister’s call this week for significantly more homes “of every single type” to be built, including significantly more homes for...

Private landlords pocketed in the region of £9.3bn in housing benefit last year – double the amount they received a decade...

Various housing bodies have welcomed the end of Right to Buy in Scotland, more than 35 years after it was first...

With record high rents in London outstripping wages in every borough and a chronic shortage of new affordable homes being developed,...

High property prices and a  lack of affordable homes continues to lock many would-be buyers out of the property market leaving...

The new mayor of London Sadiq Khan has pledged to do all in his power to help make London “better” after...

More than twice as many people (47%) support the second home 3% stamp duty surcharge than oppose it (18%), according to...

Affordable housing provider Rentplus has secured up to £70 million funding to support the delivery of thousands of new rent-to-buy homes   The...

A tenants’ campaign group claims the Starter Homes scheme will help just 200,000 first-timer buyers, leaving 2 million aspiring home owners...

The government’s initiatives to try to increase house building and owner occupation will not stop demand for rented homes rising by...