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In recent years, governments and local councils have sought to change the private rented sector (PRS) to make it more appealing...

Recently a number of politicians and charities have been calling for the introduction of rent controls or rent freezes in the...

The topic of introducing rent controls in London crops up time and time again in our industry. But it’s been hitting...

A slew of bad news stories about online estate agencies may have taken the lustre off the sector in recent weeks,...

Labour says stamp duty receipts and other tax income from properties in the capital should go to the Mayor, Sadiq Kahn,...

London Mayor Sadiq Khan is stepping up the pressure on government to speed up the delivery of a new public register...

Chris Philp, a Conservative MP and Parliamentary Private Secretary to Chancellor Phillip Hammond, says 50 per cent of new homes in...

That the private rental sector has become the government’s whipping boy for housing problems - landlords in particular, letting agents almost...

In this Natter we have an exclusive interview with David Cox, CEO of ARLA Propertymark and one of the best-known figures...

“I predict that within a few years, folks advertising properties for rent or to buy will start to show if their property is a...

London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s aim of creating a 24-hour city is one step closer with the appointment of London’s first Night...

London’s Labour mayor Sadiq Khan says some 270,000 homes in London have been granted planning permission but have not yet been...

Some of this week’s headlines - ‘Firms must list foreign workers’ and ‘NHS to no longer rely on foreign doctors’ -...

The importance of overseas buyers in underpinning increasing elements of the capital’s housing market and won support from an unlikely quarter...

London agency Stirling Ackroyd says planning consents for new homes recovered from previous lows in the second quarter of the year,...

The new mayor of London Sadiq Khan has pledged to do all in his power to help make London “better” after...

The latest price index from LSL Property Services suggests that the average home in Greater London has risen in price by...

The race to replace London Mayor Boris Johnson has entered its final few days, and like never before, housing is the...

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the free market Centre for Policy Studies think tank says the proposals put forward by Labour’s London Mayor candidate...

Sadiq Khan, Zac Goldsmith or whoever else wins the London Mayor election this spring should have the power to levy stamp...

A suggestion that up to 50 per cent of new homes built in London should be affordable has come in for...

Labour’s newly-elected candidate for next year’s London mayoral election says he will name and shame rogue landlords and create a public...