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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 lack of Energy Performance Certificate enforcement is putting tenants at risk from high energy costs or cold homes, according to...

The government has launched a public consultation on a radical new UK home energy rating system to replace the long-standing Standard...

Hitting the UK’s net zero carbon objective is an immense task, but one that we must strive for. We all have...

The British Property Federation is calling on the government to use next week’s Budget to zero-rate VAT on work which allows...

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

The housing chief of the Scottish Government says that all homes in that country - irrespective of tenure - must hit...

Trade unions in Scotland are demanding that local council candidates sign a pledge to support “urgent” rent controls in that country. The...

The former Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer says rent controls are a vital part of a four-pronged ‘Radical Recovery Programme’. John McDonnell has...

The programme of selling off council houses pioneered by Margaret Thatcher has been a strategic failure adding to inequality in Britain. That’s...

Legal & General’s Retirement Institutional division has announced a massive £2.5 billion investment to deliver as many as 7,000 Build To...

Our housing market needs a long-term vision, and one which is co-ordinated across government and the wider industry. And it is...

Labour is the latest political party to call for rent controls following similar pleas from the Green Party and the Scottish Nationalists. Paul...

Scotland’s controversial Green Party housing chief - who is part of a governing arrangement with Nicola Sturgeon’s Scottish National Party -...

It’s been confirmed that landlords and other home owners in England and Wales will be offered subsidies of £5,000 from April...

The government has been told to raise the landlord cost cap to £10,000 to increase the number of private rental sector...

The prospect of increased renters’ power has already been seen north of the border with the pledge to introduce rent controls...

A logistics software company with clients across the property spectrum has become the latest critic of the government’s axing of the...

Paragon Bank has launched a range of 80 per cent loan to value buy to let mortgages specifically for properties with...

There’s a new call on the government to get its act together on the Green Homes Grant, which has failed to live...

Two players in the domestic energy industry are warning landlords that it will be an expensive exercise to meet predicted future...

Gas boilers may be the next big issue for the private rental sector as an influential committee has called for them...

A trade body has told MPs the government must ensure work done to make homes energy efficient is ‘future-proofed’ to accept...

The Green Homes Grant scheme went live on September 30 2020, offering landlords and investors the chance to apply for £5,000...