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According to a poll of 1,476 renters by SpareRoom the ongoing housing crisis (85%) tops the list of key priorities to...

Four former Conservative housing ministers have backed a think-tank’s proposals for more housebuilding as a way to resolve the UK’s supply...

A number of MPs are currently earning rental income from properties let to private tenants, including eight ministers in Boris Johnson’s...

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

Buy-to-let landlords allowing illegal immigrants to live in their properties may face jail after hundreds of people suspected of not having...

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

Professional investors should be exempt from the recently introduced 3% stamp duty surcharge, according to the Better Renting for Britain campaign. Some of...

Housing Minister Brandon Lewis has written to all local councils in England in order to clarify homelessness guidance following pressure from...

The Government is poised to introduce tough new laws for landlords this week – with fines of up to £30,000 for...

Local authorities that charge landlords for licences solely to collect information on the number of landlords in an area have been...

Housing minister Brandon Lewis has announced new measures that will clamp down on “criminal” landlords who “trap and cram vulnerable tenants...

Local councils are being urged to drop landlord licensing schemes following the publication of new laws showing that they are not...

The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) claims there is a major drafting error in Government regulations affecting the end of private sector...

Housing minister Brandon Lewis has backtracked on suggestions that the government may introduce longer standard tenancy agreements in the private rental...

If the first few hours of the new government’s approach to housing are anything to go by, it could be a...

Mark Francois, the MP for Rayleigh and Wickford has been appointed the new housing minister, replacing Brandon Lewis. The move was part...