Government Ministers have announced that an expert panel will review how family courts protect children and parents in cases involving severe offences, including domestic abuse. The panel will investigate, make...

As of 1st June 2019, unfair fees charged by letting agents will no longer be legal thanks to the Tenants Act 2019. The ban was first announced more than two-and-a-half...

It has been announced that changes to divorce laws in England and Wales will be introduced to enable couples to separate quicker, and with less acrimony. The proposed legislation, which...

A group of MPs has tabled proposals to change the leasehold system in England and Wales, which leaves some homeowners saddled with high charges and unable to remortgage or sell...

The Ministry of Justice is due to explain how it intends to reform the legal requirements relating to divorce following the publication of the Nuffield Foundation’s Reforming the Ground for...

Landlords have been required to ensure that any residential property that they lease has an EPC rating of at least an E since 1 April 2018, unless they have registered...

Since 2010, funding available for children’s services has fallen from £813 to £553 per child in England, the UK’s leading children’s charities have announced this month. The analysis of official...

The national average asking price is up 0.7 per cent on last month and 0.2 per cent annually, sitting at £300,715 in February 2019, according to the latest house price...

Cohabitating couples are now the fastest-growing family group in England and Wales, and yet recent research reveals almost half of British people mistakenly think that unmarried couples who live together...

A new complaints service for landlords and tenants in England is to be launched, a “single, swift and effective route to complain when things go wrong”, according to the Property...