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London Mayor Sadiq Khan appears to have lost his years-long fight to win the power to improve rent controls. Media reports over...

The Renters (Reform) Bill was one of the main casualties of Rishi Sunak’s early General Election call. It left insufficient parliamentary...

Housing has been a priority since day one of the new Labour government, with its promised 1.5m new homes getting a good...

The government has released more information on its new Renters Rights Bill, which is expected to be launched into Parliament in...

A new Renters' Rights Bill is to be introduced into Parliament, it's been confirmed today. The announcement was made in the King's...

The average price of a home coming to the market for sale has dipped 0.4% in the past month says Rightmove.  This...

The latest e.surv index shows that house prices in England and Wales are, on average, still some 1.6% below the level...

A prominent property group says landlords can only cope with the upcoming rental reform programme under Labour if they work with...

In a blog released within minutes of Sir Kier Starmer becoming Prime Minister, activist group Generation Rent calls for rent controls. It...

The National Residential Landlords Association has congratulated Labour on its landslide election win and has extended the hand of cooperation for...

The Labour landslide victory in last week’s election won’t change the weather when it comes to mortgage rates, a leading analyst...

With a historic majority for Keir Starmer and the Labour Party, there can be no doubt over which party will be...

The biggest rental sector headline from Labour’s manifesto may well be its pledge for the “immediate” abolition of Section 21 eviction...

The National Residential Landlords Association is demanding that the new government elected tomorrow brings back the Renters Reform Bill “as a...

The NRLA has slammed politicians in all major parties for their silence on one of the biggest issues for the private...

The deputy chief executive of Generation Rent claims to have suffered “horrendous exploitation” at the hands of lettings agents.  Dan Wilson Craw...

Rent prices tend to rise in the 12 months immediately after a General Election, by an average of 1.96%, according to...

With the General Election campaign increasingly focusing on tax - on property and other assets and income - new figures from...

“When it comes to housing policy, there is little difference between the two major parties” says Aneisha Beveridge, head of research...

Controversial politician George Galloway has issued a party manifesto saying the payment of “exorbitant rents to wealthy buy to let pensioners”...

Labour has stepped up its programme clamping down on what it calls “unscrupulous landlords strangling growth.” Specifically this means ending bidding wars,...

A prominent economic analyst warns that many of the rental policies advocated by the major political parties in the General Election...

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

A manifesto just released by the Labour Party and dedicated to Scotland hints at ent controls. In recent years Labour has backed...

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

Mortgage experts have criticised the Reform UK housing and tax policies as being superficially appealing but risking a return to the...

Labour’s manifesto commitment to empower renters to challenge unreasonable rent increases has been slammed because it “would leave millions trapped in...

Plaid Cymru, the party of Wales, has issued a manifesto with a clampdown on the private rental sector as one of...

The National Residential Landlords Association says it’s ready and willing to work with a future Labour government on private rental sector...

The Labour manifesto has made no mention of Capital Gains Tax, and while Sir Kier Starmer has ruled out many mainstream...

Labour’s manifesto, just released, makes a pledge to enact the “immediate” abolition of Section 21 eviction powers, along with other private...

Another raft of General Election pledges have been made to transform the private rental sector - this time from the Green...

It’s been suggested that a Tory manifesto policy could create a tax loophole that would cost HMRC millions of pounds in...

The Generation Rent activist group says the Conservative manifesto pledge to give a tax break to landlords selling to tenants should...

The Conservatives have set out a 78-page manifesto, of which just over two pages are given to housing and related issues.  Here...

The Conservatives say they will scrap Capital Gains Tax for landlords who sell to sitting tenants, if they win the General...

The Liberal Democrats have set out a predictable set of pledges in their manifesto for next mon this election, centred on...

Generation Rent has raised detailed concerns about a proposal from the Liberal Democrats to introduce a national register of landlords.  The Lib...

In an unusual intervention for a lettings industry supplier, Zoopla has made an impassioned plea for a new Renters Reform Bill. The...

Fiscal reform for the private rented sector  We’ve already seen some landlords leaving the private rented sector because of substantially increased taxes....

New demands from the Generation Rent group go much further than the original Renters Reform Bill in removing landlords’ rights. The group...

It now appears that Labour wanted the Renters Reform Bill to be waved through into law last week - but the...

In theory the Renters Reform Bill could become law if government and opposition agree to prioritise it in the few remaining...

A group of energy professionals in the property sector are taking issue with a claim by consumer organisation Which? over the...

The government has been accused of mismanaging reforms to no-fault evictions saying: “It’s created uncertainty upon uncertainty”. Theresa May first made the...

Jonathan Rolande is a property industry and housing market commentator, and is founder of the National Association of Property Buyers.  It’s almost...

Michael Gove’s Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities hit back overnight at critics of the government’s Renters Reform Bill. The Bill...

A new version of research first released in May 2023 once again lashes some MPs for being landlords. 38 Degrees - an...

The Renters Reform Bill returns to the House of Commons today with activist groups critical of amendments put forward to reach...

There are over 200 amendments to the Renters Reform Bill having its Third Reading in the Commons today. PropTech supplier Goodlord has...

Julian Richer - the founder of Richer Sounds, the UK's largest hi-fi retailer - says he may set up a landlord...

Rent controls are at the heart of the local election manifesto of the Green Party of England and Wales. Co-leader Carla Denyer,...

A newspaper reports that Housing Secretary Michael Gove is willing to rely on Labour votes to pass the Renters Reform Bill...

A prominent Green Party politician is arguing for rent controls - and accuses Labour of watering down its commitment to the...

A national newspaper says the Renters Reform Bill is “on the brink of collapse” as Tory MPs are divided on their views...

The government’s proposal to introduce a new one per cent deposit mortgage scheme to help young people onto the property ladder...

Bristol’s controversial Labour council is extending previous licensing schemes to other parts of the city at some £1,800 HMO per licence...

Campaigning charity Shelter - which has frequently been critical of landlords and their alleged treatment of poorer tenants - is advertising...

The average price of a home in Wales fell to £234,086 at the end 2023 following continued economic and financial pressures,...

A think tank says rents set in the social sector should reflect the energy efficiency of a property. It’s one of a...

Shadow housing secretary and Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner has accused the government of “foot dragging” over the slow progress of...

The chief executive of the National Residential Landlords Association says the controversial Renters Reform Bill will only succeed if landlords’ feel...

A group of 30 charities and non-profit organisations, led by campaigners at Shelter, have urged the government to get a move...

A pressure group claims the threat of being evicted makes tenants age more quickly.  Generation Rent claims there is a study by...

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...

Politicians meeting at party conferences this week are being urged to listen to property professionals before setting policies about the private...

An agency chain is urging the Tories to stop in-fighting at their party conference and instead increase supply in the private...

Shelter has published what it calls a General Election manifesto with rent controls at its heart. Called The Way Home: a manifesto to...

The Generation Rent activist group is urging its supporters to email MPs to protest about delays in the parliamentary progress of...

A PropTech entrepreneur has renewed his criticism of the government for failing to put flesh on the bones of the Renters...

The long running experiment with rent controls and an eviction ban north of the border may yet continue for years to...

London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan and activist group Generation Rent have issued a joint appeal for rent controls in the capital. Khan’s...

The Labour dominated council in Bristol has written to Housing Secretary Michael Gove demanding that he gives it the powers to...

The long-awaited Renters Reform Bill has been unveiled, as Ministers bid to address the housing crisis and create a fairer rental...

The pro-tenant anti-landlord Renters Reform Bill has at last been published by the government which first promised it in 2019. It has...

Housing Secretary Michael Gove says the long-awaited Renters Reform Bill, first promised in 2019, will finally be introduced into Parliament next...

Paula Barker, Labour MP for Liverpool Wavertree, is the latest opposition member of parliament to ask for immediate action on banning...

Crisis, the homelessness charity, is demanding financial and legislative help for tenants. Matt Downie, Crisis chief executive, says: “This is a time of...

The future of the private rented sector in England has been back under the Westminster spotlight in the last two weeks...

The north of England has a home energy efficiency mountain to climb, with poorly insulated homes costing tenants at least £680...

The government has once again declined to give any meaningful timetable for the introduction of the Renters Reform Bill. At the end...

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

Rishi Sunak has won the Conservative leadership campaign and is set to become Prime Minister tomorrow. Over the summer Sunak set out...

Prime Minister Liz Truss says Section 21 eviction powers WILL be scrapped after all. She made the explicit commitment at Prime Minister’s...

The government’s expected U-turn on the future of Section 21 eviction powers has provoked an explosion of anger from Generation Rent...

Lack of rental stock is now the biggest challenge facing letting agents today. That is what every agent I’ve spoken to...

The architects of the Fairer Private Rented Sector White Paper have been housing minister Eddie Hughes MP, Housing Secretary Michael Gove...

The abolition of Section 21 eviction notices could lead to a surge in evictions by private landlords anxious to sell before...

This is the entirety of the detail given by the government about the Renters’ Reform Bill, confirmed in yesterday’s Queen’s Speech. --- Renters Reform...

Voters in Bristol have decided to abolish the city’s directly elected mayor following a referendum. The city was given the choice of...

Politicians in a city with one of the UK’s most frenzied short lets markets are pledging to return Airbnb style units...

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

A Labour MP in the westcountry appears to be winning support for a campaign he has launched called First Homes, Not...

The Chartered Institute of Housing says it’s concerned about the rapidly rising gas and home heating oil prices and the impact...

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

The mayor of Labour-controlled Bristol council is teaming up with local anti-landlord activists to look at how to introduce local rent...

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

The new coalition of the Scottish National Party and the Greens in Scotland has pledged to introduce rent controls - and...

Some 6,000 signatures have so far been added to an online petition calling on the Welsh Parliament to “address” the issue...