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Attempts to get the long-awaited Regulation of Property Agents (ROPA) rules introduced into the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill have failed. The...

Estate agency regulations and minimum standards may finally see the light of day after Labour put forward amendments to the Government’s...

Parliamentary news may have been dominated by the fallout from the Rwanda Bill yesterday but another important piece of legislation also...

Propertymark has written to the Housing Secretary Michael Gove to reiterate its longstanding call for regulation of property agents. The agency trade...

The Labour Party has committed to introducing the Regulation of Property Agents (ROPA) rules if it wins next year’s General Election. Shadow...

Labour leader Sir Kier Starmer has promoted housing minister Lucy Powell to a more senior position after just six months. This leaves...

Labour is to reveal a raft of new housing policies at its party conference this weekend - and it claims it’s...

It’s been quite a week for the rental sector. Lettings agents and landlords have had such a torrid time in recent years...

Labour’s new housing spokesperson is the experienced MP Lucy Powell, who until the weekend was shadow business and consumer affairs minister.  She replaces...

Labour’s shadow housing minister has revealed that it will be two years at least before the party sets out its long-term...

Labour’s long-standing housing spokesman, John Healey, has been moved to become shadow defence secretary on the front bench of new leader...

It’s on - although judging by the early lack of enthusiasm amongst the British public, you might be forgiven for thinking...

Labour will this week discuss plans to allow councils to compulsorily purchase homes left empty for six months. Young Labour - a...

The minister at the centre of reforms to the estate and lettings industry sector has apologised for what she calls “inappropriate...

Labour is proposing two methods of controlling house price rises should it win the next General Election - and the ideas...

Labour’s shadow housing minister John Healey is reported to be one of a number of prominent front bench opposition spokespeople being...

Yesterday’s decision by MPs to agree to Theresa May’s snap General Election on June 8 means that the current government -...

Confusion surrounds the timing of the government’s eagerly-anticipated White Paper on housing. Respected property industry weekly magazine Estates Gazette has tweeted that...

The haemorrhage of Labour spokespeople now includes the party’s respected shadow housing minister John Healey. His letter to party leader Jeremy Corbyn...

The timing of Labour’s housing review, which has until now been closely associated with John Healey, appears uncertain following the shadow housing...

The new shadow housing minister says Labour will build 100,000 new council houses and housing association homes a year with more...

The newly-appointed shadow housing minister says his first priority is to arrest the long-term fall in home ownership in Britain. John Healey...

Labour’s low-profile shadow housing minister, Roberta Blackman-Woods, has come out for Yvette Cooper - herself a former housing minister - in...