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Nationwide says UK house prices fell by 0.2% month on month in August, after taking account of seasonal effects, but the...

The Bank of England has cut base rate from 5.25% to 5.0% - its first cut in four years. It was a...

The Bank of England has kept base interest rate at 5.25%. Some industry figures hoped for a cut following yesterday’s inflation news,...

The latest official government rent index shows that average private rents across the UK as a whole increased by 9.2% in...

UK house prices rose by 0.7 per cent in February, says the Nationwide, after taking account of seasonal effects.  This resulted in...

Rental sector and property industry views are split over the controversial idea of allowing first time buyers to put down a...

The Office for National Statistics says private rents in England experienced a 6.1 per cent rise in 2023, the sharpest annual...

New data from HM Revenue and Customs reveals a 22 per cent annual drop in residential transactions in the year to...

UK house prices rose for the second month in a row in November, boosted by a shortage of properties, says the...

The UK housing market is remaining “more resilient than expected” despite the latest price index showing another small fall. The Halifax say...

The latest government figures on the private rental sector show rents rose 5.5 per cent in the 12 months to August,...

The Nationwide says March saw a further decline in house prices - they are down 3.1 per cent compared with the...

House prices rose by 9.8 per cent year-on-year in December compared with the same month in 2021, the Office for National...

Landlords relying on capital appreciation to help offset the growing costs of letting out property have been given bad news.  October saw...

The Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England has agreed to raise interest rates by 0.5 per cent to 2.25...

The housing market is showing signs of cooling, says the Halifax, as its latest index shows growing caution.  The lender says that...

With the general election just over a week away, each of the main political parties has outlined its plans for the...

There has been a further decline in the number of people looking to buy property, as reflected by the Bank of...

Buy-to-let mortgages accounted for 13.9% of new lending during the first quarter of this year, new figures reveal. Fresh data from the...

The market in London started to slow about three years ago, with property prices at the upper to high end of...

Buy-to-let landlords avoided a further tax clampdown in the Budget yesterday, while the Chancellor Philip Hammond revealed government plans to review...

A north London estate agents has reported an increase in investors looking to buy before April in order to avoid having...

Landlords and property experts have continued to express their anger at changes to the stamp duty regime announced in the Autumn...