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Informed reports in the housing and mainstream media suggest that Chancellor Rachel Reeves is set to announce higher social housing rents,...

Buyers require greater protection from poor quality housing according to the voluntary Ombudsman service responsible for dealing with complaints about new...

The property industry establishment representing agents, surveyors and the volume house builders, has piled in to praise the planning reforms proposed...

A series of records were broken in July with the highest rental averages ever recorded by the Goodlord Rental Index.  The average...

The activists who were so influential in steering the shape of the Renters Reform Bill under the old Conservative government are...

Rightmove says the government elected today must build 120,000 homes to help return rents to what it believes are normal levels,...

If Labour wins Thursday’s General Election. expect three major housing announcements within a fortnight. That’s the exclusive claim from the Sunday Times...

The property consultancy Bidwells says that based on an average 300,000 new homes a year it could be four decades before...

The Resolution Foundation - which describes itself as an independent think tank, and whose chief executive resigned this month to become...

Nigel Farage has pledged that his Reform UK party would reverse the Section 24 landlord tax changes within 100 days. Section 24...

The year to March 2024 saw the fewest new housing sites consented than during any 12-month period since the data collection...

The ink was hardly dry on Labour’s plan for a mortgage guarantee scheme for first time buyers before some left wing...

The National Residential Landlords Association has slammed yesterday’s lacklustre Budget as a missed opportunity. Yesterday’s announcements - like to be the last...

Rental sector and property industry views are split over the controversial idea of allowing first time buyers to put down a...

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

There will be long term pressure on housing affordability and the private rental sector if demographic forecasts from a range of...

A group of Conservative MPs has organised a lobby of the government to demand a clampdown on Airbnbs and other short...

A trade body representing short lets operators has slammed government housing failures. The Short Term Accommodation Association says it’s analysed local authority...

A house building firm claims more people want to move to increasingly energy-efficient homes.  A survey by Redrow shows that 26 per...

A new analysis suggests homes in England are less affordable and in worse conditions than in most other developed nations. The Home...

A collection of pressure groups, fronted by Generation Rent, wants all private rental homes going on sale to be offered first...

Housing Secretary Michael Gove has this morning said his government should ‘relax the pace’ of EPC reforms expected from private landlords. In...

Labour’s proposed reforms to the housing market “raise many questions”, a property industry figure claims. Under controversial plans put forward by party...

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

A Conservative MP is calling on the government to help landlords boost rental supply by reforming taxation. Andrew Lewer, Conservative MP for...

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

The government is to open a consultation on whether residential properties should require planning consent to be used as short lets...

The Autumn Statement on November 17 may contain financial measures to help private renters, the Housing Secretary has hinted. “We know people in...

MPs from Opposition parties in the House of Commons have attacked the government’s recent stamp duty change - and taken the...

With cost of living increases impacting homeowners, landlords and tenants, are the 44,130 vacant houses across cities in England a bigger...

An interesting analysis of the current rental stock shortage has been undertaken by Sky News. Using data from property consultancy TwentyCi, Sky...

Propertymark has welcomed a pledge by the new Housing Secretary to boost housing supply. After he was appointed last week, Simon Clarke...

A review of the mortgage system would ensure that tenants’ records in paying rent would contribute towards their ability to secure...

A prominent Conservative has branded the rush towards rent controls by some politicians as “heavy-handed and economically illiterate”. Janet Finch Saunders, an...

A leading politician in Wales has spoken out in favour of second homeowners, who are under increasing scrutiny in that country...

A Delivery Hub will be set up by a new cross sector Future Homes Task Force, comprising of representatives from across...

Property search data from Rightmove over the past 12 months has been analysed to reveal the most sought-after areas for a...

Just when we thought we might have finally made some credible progress on Brexit, it looks as though looming uncertainty will...

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