Elections

Elections

Tenants should have the right to challenge “above market” rents in Wales ...
The group wants the automatic voter registration of private tenants ...
Labour is pledging to scrap the Conservatives’ plan to ban new gas boilers from 2035. ...
The British Property Federation wants the next government to give special assistance to Build To Rent developers to allow them to reach a target of 30,000 new homes a year.  ...
New demands from the Generation Rent group go much further than the original Renters Reform Bill in removing landlords’ rights. ...
The Labour Party will not introduce rent controls if it wins the election. ...
Agents’ trade group Propertymark is demanding London Mayor candidates tackle what it calls “the unique housing challenges that the capital experiences.” Londoners go to the polls tomorrow to elect a Mayor and 25 Assembly Members. ...
According to a poll of 1,476 renters by SpareRoom the ongoing housing crisis (85%) tops the list of key priorities to be addressed by the current and incoming governments.  ...
The so-called ‘Boris bounce’ in the housing market after the last General Election failed to materialise, an estate agency chain claims. ...
A newly-nominated candidate in this spring’s London Mayoral election has vowed to lower private rents if he wins. ...
Average new seller asking prices rose 1.3 per cent between December and January - the biggest rise at this time of year since 2020. ...
The new Housing Minister is Lee Rowley - who was a former housing minister in the short lived premiership of Liz Truss. ...
The best way to judge the UK housing market is to check on what’s happening in Parliament, not the price indices nor the Bank of England.  ...
Nirpaul Riat’s career as a rogue landlord has ended after judges in London fined him £300,000 following two decades of managing illegally converted houses. ...
It may be all change - again - at the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities if the government’s poor performance at two of this week’s three by-elections provoke a reshuffle. ...
From tax tweaks to rising yields, landlords are adapting in...
The first phase of the Renters Rights Act (RRA) kicks...
The south west seems most affected...
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