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EU citizens living in the UK are at risk of facing some of the same difficulties caused for the Windrush generation...

The National Landlords Association (NLA) has once again voiced its opposition to plans to introduce mandatory three year tenancies. Responding to the...

Kit Malthouse has been named as the government’s latest housing minister after Dominic Raab, who spent just six months in the...

The idea of the property-owning democracy has deep roots and has long defined housing policy in this country, with various schemes...

The controversial Right to Rent scheme requiring landlords to check the immigration status of new tenants is fuelling discrimination and should...

There is growing speculation that the new Home Secretary Sajid Javid is paving the way to become the next Prime Minister....

James Brokenshire has replaced Sajid Javid as housing secretary, following Javid's move to home secretary in the wake of Amber Rudd’s...

With savers receiving miserable returns, many shrewd investors are turning to the buy-to-let sector as a means of supplementing their income,...

Plans to introduce a new rental complaints system to help support private tenants who are forced to live in shoddy housing...

A new rental complaints system has been proposed to help support private tenants who are forced to live in shoddy housing...

Using an ombudsman has long been a pretty successful way of trying to resolve a complaint with a property firm without...

Tenants will be given the right to take legal action against landlords who offer properties that are not ‘fit for human...

Theresa May continued to shake-up her ministerial team yesterday by handing jobs to several junior ministers, but he her decision to...

A raft of ‘anti-landlord’ policies introduced by the government have prompting concern that buy-to-let landlords with low profit margins could end...

The forthcoming Autumn Budget is set to unveil the government’s plans to encourage landlords to offer longer tenancies of at least...

In order to solve tenant disputes, landlords will soon be required to register with a redress scheme, helping to improve operating...

The Conservative Party’s pledge to give tenants greater rights as part of a regulatory shake-up of the private rented sector has...

The Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Sajid Javid, yesterday pledged to offer private sector tenants’ greater rights by...

The consultation period for the proposed ban on letting agents’ fees in England should either be extended or suspended until after...

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

Gavin Barwell has been appointed the new Minister for Housing, Planning and London, taking over from Brandon Lewis, who has moved...