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An influential Labour website says a raft of proposed reforms for the private rental sector will be unveiled next month -...

A property industry commentator has set out what he calls a plan of action to rejuvenate the buy to let sector. Jonathan...

Labour deputy leader and shadow housing secretary Angela Rayner says she is not ashamed to have brought her council house at...

London’s Labour mayor Sadiq Khan wants 10,000 private homes in the capital to be brought into the social rental sector within...

A pressure group within the Labour Party wants a future government to provide £15 billion over 10 years to allow half...

The Green Party’s co-leader Carla Denyer has branded the government’s Right To Buy scheme as a “slum landlord’s charter”.  Denyer made the...

A prominent Tory thinker has suggested that English councils should be obliged to sell off an estimated 31,000 councils houses and...

* Angels Media and Landlord Today are deeply saddened by the passing of HM Queen Elizabeth II * - A council is offering...

A national newspaper has backed a scheme by a council to purchase private properties and them let them out to lower...

It’s been confirmed that Prime Minister Boris Johnson is to announce plans to extend the Right To Buy to housing associations. Under...

I hope you weren’t holding your breath for the Chancellor to announce a package of help for landlords in his Spring...

The programme of selling off council houses pioneered by Margaret Thatcher has been a strategic failure adding to inequality in Britain. That’s...

Politicians of both major parties have voiced concern over former council houses being used as Airbnb and other short lets in...

Government ambitions to improve the energy efficiency of the private rental sector are just “a pipedream” without financial assistance according to...

London Mayor Sadiq Khan wants to buy back former council houses now in the private rental sector. Right to Buy, part of...

Labour councils in London have backed the initiative from Mayor Sadiq Khan to buy back ex-council houses now in the private...

Former Labour Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell has spoken out against what he calls “the greed of the mega-landlords.” The veteran MP -...

A buy-to-let landlord who claimed that he needed a council home has been ordered to pay back more than £48,000 or...

If you’re a landlord who is currently out of work or unemployed who wishes to buy a new BTL property or...

If you’re a landlord and wish to raise finance against an existing buy to let property and don’t have proof of...

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

Andy Burnham, former Labour leadership candidate and now the party's candidate for Greater Manchester Mayor, has put forward a number of...

One of the UK’s largest and most controversial private landlords has seen his attempts to sell his entire portfolio of around...

A government committee has raised concerns about the number of homes sold through Right To Buy that end up in the...

London’s biggest social landlord, Southwark Council, has launched a new anti-fraud tool to prevent illegal subletting.   The new website (www.ilatch.co.uk) will help...

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

Work of council fraud investigators in Barnet to expose tenancy fraud has led to almost 50 council houses being re-let to...