The Living Home Standard represents the first definition of what  home means that has been defined by the public.

The Standard is the result of 9 months of research undertaken by … more

The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) released the affordable housing supply live tables in November 2016.

This release presents statistics on additional affordable housing … more

The key phrase in this year’s Autumn Statement is “Infrastructure and innovation” with everything revolving around these concepts. We will start at the beginning with Public … more

This scheme, announced by the Government back in 2012 aims to accelerate the growth of investment in the private rent sector by institutional investors. The government have developed a guaranteed … more

Recent surveys have found that levels of home ownership in England are the lowest they have been since 1986, with over 6 million households in rented accommodation, which equates to 86%, unable to … more

York City Council announced last week that they intend to move away from the choice based lettings (CBL) system that they and many other councils currently employ as a system where officers allocate … more

The Right to Rent checks were introduced in February 2016 via the Immigration Act which requires landlords to verify their tenants right to rent in the UK before signing the tenancy agreement. … more

As most landlords will be all too aware, the private rent sector (PRS) has a reputation of being over-priced and unstable, with landlords often portrayed as the bad guys. Whereas the social … more