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

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

With the General Election just one week away, a new poll shows the top landlord priorities when it comes to voting...

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

A letter from a coalition of pro-tenant groups has been sent to the leaders of the Labour, Conservative, Liberal Democrat, Reform...

Propertymark says the current political crisis in Wales - where the Labour Welsh Parliament leader has lost a confidence vote but...

The chief executive of Generation Rent is one of the speakers at the launch of a review of the private rental...

A think tank is urging the UK government to consider tax perks for private renters to help them save faster for...

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

A building society is calling upon politicians, government, the Bank of England and local councils and other bodies to cooperate on...

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

Whoever forms the next government must put the private rental sector at the heart of its housing policy. That’s the view of...

A review platform which describes itself as a TripAdvisor for tenants is using a left-leaning blog to seek business from councils. Marks...

Two key figures jumped out at me from the National Residential Landlords Association’s (NRLA) excellent recent report on the private rented...

There are many misconceptions about the private rented sector, but a common one I hear is that it is the tenure...

Would-be first time buyers may have to settle for renting for longer and putting their ownership aspirations on ice, following the...

The Scottish Government’s dramatic immediate introduction of a rent freeze and eviction ban could mark the beginning of the end of the...

A House of Lords report claims that the private rental sector has become ”increasingly unaffordable” and says out welcomes the proliferation...

Bromsgrove is a classic rental market. The Worcestershire market town is enveloped by green space but is just a thirty-minute commute...

A Labour Party pressure group has tweeted the message: “All landlords are bastards.” The tweet, from Labour Tenants United, is the latest...

A little-known group called Labour Tenants United has criticised the party’s new housing spokeswoman. Initially the group welcomed the appointment to the role...

Now that 2020 is underway, activity in the property market is likely to start picking up due to the traditional seasonal...

With the general election just over a week away, each of the main political parties has outlined its plans for the...

Labour’s proposals to introduce rent controls risks reducing the number of private homes available for rent, as landlords look to exit...

Boris Johnson launched the Conservative Party manifesto yesterday with a promise to “Get Brexit done”, and although the document was rather...

The Liberal Democrats have launched their 2019 election manifesto, which sets out the polices the party aims to introduce should it...

The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) has announced that the Welsh cabinet secretary responsible for housing policy, Julie James, will be the...

Hundreds of buy-to-let landlords have expressed concerns for the future of the buy-to-let industry if Labour comes into power.  Boris Johnson is...

The government’s private rented sector policies are failing tenants, mainly because they are ‘not joined up or thought through’, a new...

The government has been criticised for continuing to drag its heels over taking on key recommendations made in a recent report...

Plans to create ‘healthy homes zones’, as part of an effort to reduce housing-related health inequalities, have been proposed by the...

The idea of the property-owning democracy has deep roots and has long defined housing policy in this country, with various schemes...

The publication yesterday of Dame Judith Hackitt’s Independent Review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety, confirming that landlords and building managers will...

The government must focus on urgently improving dangerous housing conditions across the country after new figures revealed that thousands of private...

The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) has announced that the Welsh cabinet secretary responsible for housing policy, Carl Sargeant, will be the...

Millions of people are being priced out of buying a property due to high house prices, the latest figures suggest. A dearth...

The policy focus of the upcoming election will be on Brexit, but political parties will do well to remember that housing...

Tenants will not benefit from the government’s ban on letting agent fees - because the costs will be passed on in...

One of UK’s leading developers of homes for private rent is calling on the government to exempt the build-to-rent sector from...

Various housing bodies have welcomed the end of Right to Buy in Scotland, more than 35 years after it was first...

Private tenants north of the border have come together to launch Scotland’s first national union for people living in the private...

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

The Chartered Institute of Housing in Scotland has spoken out against the Right to Rent scheme which will require landlords to...

Labour leadership hopeful Jeremy Corbyn would introduce right-to-buy for private tenants if he came to power. Corbyn has a published his proposed...