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Student wellbeing guide

Best practice guide on student wellbeing policies and procedures for the private student accommodation sector.

BPF response to permitted insurance fees for landlords, freeholders and property managing agents

In our response, we set out our thoughts on the Government’s proposals to introduce permitted insurance fees for landlords, freeholders and property managing agents. We support transparency, and easier access to challenging unreasonable charges, but express concerns about the loss of a portfolio approach and unintended consequences this may have on consumers. We also acknowledge that many members will already be regulated by the FCA and should therefore should not face these proposals. We caution heavily against a cap, which would lead to distortions in service provision or fees charged, and instead suggest greater data is made available on fees charged.

The Impact of Rent Control on the Private Rented Sector

This paper examines the impact of rent control policies across a variety of international contexts summarising the benefits and the unintended consequences. In summary while motivated by the public and social good, the resultant consequences and side-effects of rent control can outweigh the initial benefits.

Beyond Buy to Let

This research by the BPF, Savills and L&G highlights the significant change underway in the Private Rented Sector (PRS). In it, we explore the loss of rental homes out of the market at a much faster rate than they are being acquired, resulting in an estimated 290,000 home lost from the PRS since 2021, and the effects of this loss on renters. The research also points to the Build-to-Rent (BTR) market as a crucial solution alongside individual landlords, and the need for supportive policies that provide for increased BTR homes and stem the loss of individual landlords from the market.

BPF response to a UK Green Taxonomy

We welcome the opportunity to respond to the HM Treasury consultation paper on the case for a UK Green Taxonomy. Our response focuses on the fundamental question of whether a UK Green Taxonomy would help the real estate sector, and the UK economy more broadly, achieve its sustainability ambitions.

Student Accommodation

Building Safety Sounding Board

BPF Policy Pulse

BPF launches micro-living definitions research - report

The BPF in collaboration with JLL has undertaken research in aid of defining housing models that fall within the category that we are now terming ‘Micro Living’ Click to view our full report.

BPF licence to occupy on short term basis

Further to the requirements of the NHS and associated organisations to occupy new premises on a short term basis to help fight against COVID-19, we have, with the help of our members, produced a template Licence to Occupy that can be used by relevant parties to coordinate and agree the short term occupation of commercial properties. 

Insolvency/restructuring plan

Ten-Year Housing Strategy: Unlocking Institutional Investment - A Call to Action

The Government’s ambitious target of 1.5 million homes over the next five years is essential in the UK’s constrained housing market, with a stark undersupply of social, affordable, market-for-sale and privately rented homes.

Achieving this goal in the current fiscally constrained environment will necessitate exploring alternative sources of funding beyond traditional Government and private funding mechanisms.

In this paper, we detail the opportunities available using institutional capital and our four key policy pillars to deliver the change required.