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A property portal has taken the unusual step of warning politicians about the dire impact of rent controls on the private...

The Labour Party will not introduce rent controls if it wins the election. A spokesperson for the party is quoted on today’s...

A property industry group wants to restrict the private letting of properties bought in the future via the Right To Buy...

Labour leader Sir Kier Starmer and the party’s controversial Mayor of London Sadiq Khan are at loggerheads over rent controls. Khan has...

Landlords are being invited to a forum organised by a council’s own private lettings service and the National Residential Landlords Association. The...

A council’s version of a private lettings agency is inviting landlords to an event co-organised by the National Residential Landlords Association. Ashford...

Two groups of activists who campaign for rent controls and reform of the private lettings sector have turned on each other. Acorn...

It is a fundamental principle of a functioning democracy that parties, when in power, should pay at least lip service to...

A lettings agent who also acts on behalf of tenants against landlords claims to have received 1,000 enquiries from frustrated private...

Airbnb says it’s working to consider new approaches to short-term letting and the burgeoning holiday lets sector - and this has...

Scams involving fake landlords and bogus lettings agents are rife in the private rentals sector, and may have been made worse...

There was a further rise in the number of landlords exiting the buy-to-let market, new data shows. Belvoir’s Q3 Rental Index, compiled...

Buy-to-let landlords could have grounds to challenge HMO licensing fees which could save them hundreds of pounds each year, according to...

Ever since Margaret Thatcher declared her belief in a ‘property-owning democracy’ and introduced Right to Buy in 1980, the UK was...

The chancellor Philip Hammond may have announced in the Autumn Statement that letting agents in England will be banned from charging...

The chances of would-be buyers in London getting a foothold on the housing ladder remain slim, mainly due to high property...

A top politician has been reported to the ethics watchdog following accusations that he broke strict parliamentary code on financial and...