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A brief statement to the London Stock Market this evening has confirmed that Rightmove will, after all, carry OpenRent listings in...

Informed leaks from unnamed government sources, and rolled out in the mainstream media, confirm that a version of the Renters Reform...

House prices will be 1.5% higher by the end of the year says Zoopla.  It suggests that homebuyers are largely shrugging off...

A new house price forecast by peer-to-peer real estate investment platform, easyMoney, suggests average house price growth of 6.3% by the...

The Bank of England’s monetary policy committee has held base rate at 5.25% for the sixth time in a row. The news...

New market analysis by peer-to-peer investment platform easyMoney has identified 10 areas of the nation on track for growth of more...

Two thirds of landlords say the demand for private rented housing is continuing to increase, according to new research commissioned by...

There will be long term pressure on housing affordability and the private rental sector if demographic forecasts from a range of...

There’s a warning this morning that stricter Energy Performance Certificate measures for the private rental sector may not have gone, after...

UK Finance has published its housing and mortgage market forecasts for 2024 and 2025 together with projections for 2023 full year numbers. Key figures for 2023 -...

Many landlords say they’re set to expand investments in 2024 despite facing up to 80 per cent higher costs in the...

A respected financial body is warning that landlords face rising costs of up to 80 per cent in the next two...

Any hope of a near-term drop in interest rates appears to have been wiped out by a statement by Bank of...

The latest lettings market forecast from Savills says average UK rents to end 2023 at up 9.5 per cent year on...

One of the first forecasts for the rental market for 2024 suggests that strong growth will continue. Property consultancy JLL says that...

The property investment service BuyAssociation has changed the wording of an advertisement after intervention by the Advertising Standards Authority. The ASA says: “A...

It’s peak repairs season according to an analysis of one million tenant requests over recent years. The analysis, by Fixflo, says repair...

Zoopla says a buy to let property sold off by a landlord is “typically priced 25 per cent lower than the...

Section 21 evictions are set to soar higher, a property association leader forecasts - because of the threat to abolish them. Data...

One of the country’s leading mortgage brokers predicts a rise in the Bank of England base rate next month - and...

A mortgage expert is warning that a housing market crash now looks ”inevitable” as expectations run high of what many be...

When choosing a buy-to-let property, there are many elements that need to be balanced in order to get the biggest return...

New figures show that property taxes - often rising as a result of frozen thresholds - lead the way as the...

An influential housing market analyst says it now looks like house prices will stay flat in 2023, rather than fall. Nicholas Mendes,...

Lloyds Bank says house prices are forecast to drop seven per cent this year.  The bank - which is Britain’s largest mortgage...

The top end of the UK’s residential market is experiencing a growing divergence between heavily mortgaged and equity-rich owners, according to...

A buy to let investment site has used Artificial Intelligence to identify 10 top property investment opportunities in 2023.  Based on analysis...

The next Budget, setting out government tax and spending plans, will be held on March 15 next year. Chancellor Jeremy Hunt says...

Rightmove is predicting an average drop of just two per cent in asking prices next year - far less than many...

Investment buyers will snap up a higher proportion of homes in 2022 than they did in 2021, the Hamptons agency forecasts.   So...

The buy-to-let market is going through a rough patch. With legislative change on the horizon, coupled with bleak ROI forecasts, many...

* Angels Media and Landlord Today are deeply saddened by the passing of HM Queen Elizabeth II * - The latest lettings market...

A warning has been issued that anyone wanting a mortgage in future may put their credit rating at risk if they...

New forecasts from an energy industry consultancy suggests that the average domestic consumer’s energy bills could soar to £3,363 a year...

The latest Bank of England base rate increase will serve only to increase the pain on landlords, it’s been claimed. This is...

A rental platform forecasts that within 12 months the average UK tenant could be paying £800 more a year in rent...

The latest forecast for the UK lettings market this year is that there will be a four per cent rise in...

There’s a new warning that the cost of living crisis facing landlords and tenants could get sizeably worse thanks to yet...

Homes headed by a person over the age of 45 will account for at least half of all privately renting households...

Property consultancy JLL says it’s identified one hitherto-unfashionable part of London as an area set to outperform the rest of the...

The threat of rent controls in two parts of the country may now be so severe that buy to let landlords...

The significant majority of private renters are happy with their properties, status and their landlords according to a new survey. A report...

A prominent lettings agency says the rental growth seen in the past year will not be repeated in 2022, as tenants...

A Labour Mayor and a former Labour baroness have teamed up to call for rent freezes in London, claiming they slash...

With Christmas and the New Year now over, landlords, investors and property experts are back to questioning what the coming twelve...

Many agencies give their forecasts for the following year or years in the late autumn, but one of the most detailed...

Zoopla says rental properties are typically letting almost a week faster than a year ago. It claims that with supply and demand...

The government’s Green Homes Grant Voucher Scheme - which left thousands of landlords in the lurch when it collapsed earlier this...

Estate agency Savills has upgraded its forecasts for the UK’s prime housing markets - good news for investors in this niche. The...

Mortgage approvals plummeted to an all-time low in May, leaving many would-be buyers with no alternative but to rent for longer.  The...

Three years after the Grenfell fire, 257 tower blocks in Britain, housing about 56,000 people, are still to be made safe,...

The UK economy shrank by a record 20.4% in April as the coronavirus caused huge swaths of businesses to seize trading and the government...

Rents in prime London and its commuter belt are expected edge higher this year due to the widening supply-demand imbalance in...

The full rollout of universal credit, the government's flagship welfare reform, has been delayed yet again - until 2024.  The system was...

Rental price growth in prime London looks set to pick up to hit an annual rate of about 2% over the...

There will be further growth in portfolio and complex buy-to-let lending in 2020, Paragon predicts. There has been greater demand over the...

Residential property prices, much like the economy, are likely to grow faster than initially anticipated next year thanks to the greater...

Rents are forecast to see strong growth over the next five years, according to the latest residential property forecast from the...

The UK housing market is showing signs of recovery following a prolonged period of uncertainty, according to JLL.  The property firm forecasts...

Rental price growth in London is set to rise ahead of wage inflation over the next five years, according to new forecasts...

The UK Purpose-Built Student Accommodation Sector (PBSA) has grown by a record 5.3% in 2019 which equates to more than 34,000...

With the government consultation on tenancy reform ending tomorrow, time is running out for landlords wishing to have their say by...

All the main political parties are targeting the Generation Rent vote ahead of a potential snap general election, at the expense...

Abolishing the use of Section 21 notices to evict tenants would lead to a dearth of private rental properties across the...

Landlords’ confidence in the buy-to-let sector has collapsed, as reflected by the latest industry research. However, despite gloomy forecasts, the fundamentals in...

Barclays has announced a series of rate reduction to products within its mortgage ranges, including buy-to-let. The lender has cut its 75%...

There has been a notable increase in the number of landlords opting for two-year fixed buy-to-let deals owed in part to...

More than a third of residential properties in southern England are in property markets experiencing house price falls as the slowdown...

Every little helps to boost Tesco sales, and yet Britain’s biggest retailer is not paying anywhere near as much tax as...

Rental values in prime London has started to see some slowdown in decline as initial signs of a bottoming out have...

A no-deal Brexit could trigger a deep and damaging recession with worse consequences for the UK economy than the 2008 financial...

Life just doesn’t get any easier for Theresa May. No sooner had her Brexit withdrawal plan been rejected by a record-breaking...

Asking rents in London rose to a record high in December, with market conditions in the capital improving to levels not...

UK rents are predicted to rise 11.4% in the next five years, according to a forecast by CBRE. Alongside fairly ‘moderate’ growth...

Brexit has “smashed property market sentiment to smithereens”, according to Jonathan Samuels, the chief executive of the property lender Octane Capital. Buying...

Buy-to-let landlords who have adopted a high yielding investment strategy may be interested in new analysis of the BTL market that...

Buy-to-let lending for 2018 looks likely to fall well below its estimate of £12bn, as taxes and regulations continue to have an adverse...

A shortage of housing supply will push up rents up by an average of 13.7% over the next five years, according...

More than £500m worth of rental income is lost annually in this country because buy-to-let landlords are often encouraged to sell...

The buy-to-let market is expected to remain subdued for the next three years mired by tax changes and tougher mortgage lending...

Take up of new rental tenancies in prime central London in the second quarter of this year was up 27.7% compared...

Buy-to-let investments will continue to offer attractive rates of return compared to other asset classes, but investors will increasingly search out...

Rent hikes are inevitable unless the government reverses tax changes for landlords, it has been claimed.  Tenants face paying an average of £23 a...

Capital gains tax receipts hit £5.5bn in January, leaving the Treasury on course to rake in as much as £8.8bn this...

The average cost of renting a home is now increasing across every UK region for the first time in 19 months,...

The number of properties acquired by buy-to-let investors using a mortgage will plummet by more than a quarter over the next...

Supply and demand are perhaps the most fundamental concepts of economics, and it is the main reason why UK house prices...

There has been a significant fall in buy-to-let valuation activity, according to forecasts by Connells Survey & Valuation. The proportion of buy-to-let...

The private rental sector is in urgent need of reform to make it easier and less costly for buy-to-let landlords to...

Following the events of 2016, it’s easy to see why experts across the country are torn when it comes to the...

Rents across the UK are set to increase sharply over the next five years, as more people choose to rent, rather...

Landlords represented by Cherie Blair have failed in their legal battle against planned government tax relief changes for buy-to-let homes set...

Landlords fighting to prevent punitive tax relief changes for buy-to-let income being introduced in April 2017 are ‘hopeful’ that a hearing...

Interest rates in Britain remain frozen at an all-time low of 0.5%, after the Bank of England decided against the first cut...

InterBay Commercial has slashed borrowing rates on its buy-to-let and HMO ranges. The company, which forms part of specialist lending group OneSavings...

A fall in gilt yields will reduce the cost for lenders of longer term funding and hence open the door for...

With just hours remaining until the polls close, the outcome of the EU referendum is too close to call. The sense of...

A legal campaign to fight punitive tax relief changes for buy-to-let landlords continues to build momentum as campaigners move closer to...

Small-scale landlords with mortgages on their buy-to-let properties are being urged to fight back against unjust mortgage tax relief changes by...

Landlords’ confidence in the buy to let (BTL) sector has collapsed and is now ‘worse than levels witnessed during the financial...