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

A mandatory short lets registration and licensing scheme is to be introduced in part of the UK, described as a system...

“Huge numbers” of small family-run holiday lettings businesses in Wales are selling up because of new restrictions and large tax hikes. New...

An attempt to introducing statutory licensing for Airbnbs and some other tourist accommodation has got a frosty reception. The Welsh Government -...

Labour leader Sir Kier Starmer has set out a radical programme of devolution to local authorities at city and county level...

The Welsh Government has opened a three month consultation on changes in regulations for holiday let landlords. The Welsh Government - a...

A prominent supporter of landlords has accused Labour and nationalist politicians of making the supply shortage of private rental properties in...

Labour is backing a rent freeze in Scotland and flirting with one in England - but it’s just stopped one being...

A new political party called Breakthrough is campaigning for radical reform of the rental sector and housing in general. The party -...

Labour wants to bring in a UK-wide licensing system for holiday lets to preserve the “spirit” of costal and rural communities. The...

Three projects are underway investigating how a tourist tax, including a levy on holiday let renters, could apply in Wales. The three...

Councils will be able to control numbers of second homes and holiday lets under new plans unveiled by the Welsh Government. There...

There has been an angry response by some politicians in Wales to the decision by the Labour administration to delay implementation...

The National Residential Landlords Association is trying to head off the growing clamour for rent controls by setting out its own...

The Welsh Government has announced an increase to the maximum level of council tax premiums for second homes, as well as...

A prominent property website, which monitors the lettings market, suggests that rent controls would drive a proportion of rental stock to...

A prominent Welsh politician says rent controls should be introduced across that country to “make landlordism less financially attractive.” The Welsh nationalist...

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

Welsh Nationalist politicians are complaining about a finance company which identified part of Wales as having attractive yields for buy to...

Another political party has joined the chorus of voices calling for still-longer bans on evictions in the private rental sector. The ban...