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The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) has welcomed the confirmation in the Government’s Warm Homes Plan that landlords in the private rented sector will need to upgrade their properties to meet Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) Band C by 2030. 

Livingcity Building Consultants, a bespoke residential chartered surveying practice, has formally joined Livingcity CCIM Ltd, marking a significant milestone in the evolution of both businesses and strengthening Livingcity CCIM’s ability to provide a fully integrated property advisory and compliance services across the UK.

With more than 3.5million leasehold flats across England and Wales, TPI stress the importance of specific support for multi-occupancy buildings to ensure leaseholders are not left behind.

The Association for Rental Living, the membership body for all institutionally backed, professionally managed purpose-built rental living sectors, has announced the appointment of new leadership for its North West Steering Group.  

In 2026, we can expect to see a lot of changes and a degree of turmoil in the heat network sector. From 27th January, Ofgem is scheduled to introduce clearer and more stringent standards for how heat network operators and heat suppliers serve residents and respond to complaints, with one year to adhere to the new requirements in full. 

Emergency lighting in residential buildings has long been a fundamental life-safety provision, particularly within communal areas such as corridors, stairwells and lobbies. Historically, compliance has centred on ensuring that emergency luminaires operate during a power failure, supported by routine monthly functional tests and annual full-duration testing.

Specialist recruitment firm's annual benchmarking report reveals 38% increase in successful placements as UK rental living market "unfreezes", while research into workforce sentiment exposes progression as the critical retention battleground.

Labour politicians are stepping up pressure on Sir Keir Starmer’s government to finally deliver long‑promised reforms to the residential leasehold system in England and Wales. Deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner has urged the Prime Minister to honour the party’s manifesto commitments by bringing forward legislation that would cap onerous ground rents and overhaul the current leasehold model, which critics describe as outdated and unfair.

A Supreme Court ruling in a long-running contractual dispute will bring much-needed clarification on the termination provisions contained in a widely used form of industry standard contract, according to a leading construction lawyer.

James Paul MRICS AIFSM of Ringley Fire Consultancy talks us through the challenges of obtaining grant funding for upgrading fire alarms to the point where they can dispense with the cash-drain of a waking watch.

When I first became a Resident Management Company (RMC) Director, I genuinely believed I knew what the role would involve. I’d already spent many years working in property management, property finance and business services. I understood buildings, budgets, governance and risk. I’d worked alongside managing agents and advisers throughout my career. So when my own RMC asked me to step into the director role, partly because I “worked in the industry”, it felt like a sensible decision.

Fire safety is no longer a matter of process, intention, or periodic assurance, it is now a matter of evidence.  For decades, compliance has been managed through paper logs, spreadsheets, and infrequent inspections, often offering comfort rather than certainty. Today, that approach is no longer sufficient. The Building Safety Act has fundamentally changed what is expected of property managers, shifting the focus from documented activity to provable outcomes, and from retrospective reporting to real-time accountability.