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“When it comes to housing policy, there is little difference between the two major parties” says Aneisha Beveridge, head of research...

Higher borrowing costs have created a mood of hesitancy in property markets. Rising mortgage rates mean UK residential sales are increasingly...

The research head of Knight Frank is warning that a new batch of landlords are preparing to sell up and leave...

The proportion of buy to let properties purchased in Southern England fell to a record low last year, continuing a trend...

Detached homes in Wales are the slowest property types to sell across the UK and take an average of 92 days...

Seasonality is returning to the prime London lettings market after three tumultuous years.  The pandemic meant the market was initially flooded with...

Like a parent whose kids expected half term in Disneyland, Jeremy Hunt is spending the week managing expectations – and crushing...

A prominent lettings agency is advising landlords to fit out homes in prime locations to the same high specification as if...

A prominent estate agency says there’s a stronger case for a stamp duty cut now than there was during the pandemic. Knight...

The best way to judge the UK housing market is to check on what’s happening in Parliament, not the price indices...

There is a real difficulty for Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party at the moment.  After 14 years in power, any failings land squarely...

Research by Quickmove Properties estimate that, despite changes to stamp duty thresholds implemented last September designed to save homebuyers money, the...

August saw a further softening in house prices which are now 5.3 per cent down on a year ago. The Nationwide says...

A Conservative MP says the stamp duty cut announced in the now-legendary mini-Budget at the end of last month should not...

Stamp Duty paid between April and August 2022 was up 29 per cent on the same period last year according to...

On the face of it the latest government figures for house price growth makes comforting reading for investors. ONS data shows that...

Latest figures released by HM Revenue & Customs show yet another large increase in the amount of taxation received by the...

Landlords in London contributed to an extraordinary £440m in stamp duty paid on purchases in the first six months since the...

Our politics seems pretty broken to me and whilst I don’t wish to take a side between one flavour or the...

A prominent agency has revised its market forecast for the rest of 2022 and says prices will rise more and for...

It looks as if landlords have enjoyed further capital appreciation with the latest housing market index showing still-rising asking prices for...

There’s been a large rise in the number of buy to let green mortgages as the push for greater energy efficiency...

Buy-to-let lending hit its highest ever level last year, spurred on by record levels of tenant demand, the Stamp Duty Holiday...

Bromsgrove is a classic rental market. The Worcestershire market town is enveloped by green space but is just a thirty-minute commute...

Paragon Bank increased buy to let lending to landlords by 33.9 per cent to £1.61 billion in its last financial year,...

Property prices will fall 1.1 per cent this month - December - according to a forecast by comparison service Reallymoving. However any...

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

Relatively few landlords were persuaded to take advantage of the stamp duty holiday according to analysis by the lettings agency Hamptons.  The...

A survey of over 500 property investors claims to have uncovered the UK’s hotspots for the coming year. It says some 44...

The end of the stamp duty holiday means landlords will have to pay more for almost all properties from today. They have...

More landlords are quitting the sector and bringing properties to the sales market, according to research from Zoopla.  In its latest snapshot...

New independent research among 512 landlords show how they have reacted to the pandemic. It found that 65 per cent of landlords...

It looks as if buy to let investors looking for capital returns over yield may have struck lucky - so long...

The end of the stamp duty holiday, which was introduced in July 2020, is now only a few weeks away. The upcoming...

The latest rental market snapshot by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors suggests supply and demand in the lettings sector still...

Celebrations amongst landlords and home owners over the latest record house price figures mask growing disadvantages for renters, claims a mortgage...

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

The London rental market may be in for a boom as figures show Londoners purchased over 60,000 homes outside the capital...

The buy to let pipeline for one of the sector’s main mortgage lenders is now £911.4m some 39.9 per cent up...

The chief finance officer of a PropTech company says the effects of the stamp duty holiday on house prices must not...

New research from online buy to let mortgage broker Property Master reveals there are currently 41 BTL mortgages at the record...

A leading supplier says rent rises seen in recent months have been driven by increased taxes and regulations imposed on landlords. The...

Campaign group Generation Rent has issued an angry statement in response to the government’s decision to extend the eviction ban for...

A new league table of rental yields available to landlords has been drawn up by PropTech company Inventory Base. It’s examined government...

There’s been a “huge demand” for buy to let mortgages spurred on by dramatic house prices rises, according to a major...

One in six landlords have allegedly lost tenants who have taken advantage of new five per cent deposit mortgage schemes. Online agency Accommodation says...

The Guernsey-based lender Skipton International says there’s been a surge in interest in UK buy to let mortgages from overseas over...

Landlords have benefitted from tax breaks, subsidies and a weak eviction ban according to the National Union of Students. Larissa Kennedy, the...

Landlords trying to expand their portfolios can avoid delays caused by residential buyers taking advantage of the Chancellor's stamp duty extension by using four 'buy-to-let hacks', according to broker Mortgages for...

Labour has accused Chancellor Rishi Sunak of prioritising a tax break for landlords over the need for affordable housing or help for...

A combination of the longer stamp duty holiday and sustained low interest rates are likely to spur a new wave of...

No news is good news, they say - and the absence of any announcement about Capital Gains Tax in thre Budget...

This afternoon's Budget has seen dramatic announcements from Chancellor Rishi Sunak referring to the private rental sector. For landlords buying properties, the stamp...

Specialist buy to let broker Mortgages for Business says landlords buying now can use four tips to beat the chaos in the...

Landlords currently buying properties and concerned they may not make the March 31 stamp duty holiday deadline have good news -...

There’s been another fall in the proportion of landlords purchasing their next buy to lets in cash. Research by Hamptons lettings agency...

It seems as if the frenzied housing market has extended to the auction field, with one major player reporting a strong...

On top of the rush to beat the stamp duty holiday deadline and changes to Help To Buy - both with cliff...

The last year has been one which has focused attention on dealing with the immediate, the here and now, in a...

Landlords who buy from auction may want to take advantage of an estate agent’s decision to hold two of its virtual...

A record pipeline has been reported by one of the leading buy to let mortgage lenders as landlords race to beat...

There’s a warning today that landlords need to move quickly and selectively if they are intending to purchase a property ahead...

A group of anti-landlord activists has used an incident involving an estate agency publicity leaflet as a reason to accuse all...

Popular buy to let lender Fleet Mortgages’ latest rental yield index shows the consequences of increasing property prices in many regions...

No fewer than 15 per cent of all sales agreed in November went to landlords, the highest figure for four years. The data...

An international consultancy specialising in investors’ residency and citizenship has lifted the lid on the huge tax savings open to overseas...

One in 10 landlords wants to buy another investment property in the coming year according to a new survey.  This compares to...

Around 10 per cent of landlords plan to purchase properties and expand their portfolio in the coming year according to a...

There’s another warning today that buy to let landlords wanting to expand their portfolio are in a race against time to...

Some London landlords are testing the water to see if they can downsize or sell their entire portfolios. Chestertons, a London-focussed high end...

Despite another national lockdown seemingly on the horizon, the property market remains resilient, with the stamp duty holiday and other initiatives...

A growing number of buy-to-let landlords are looking to take advantage of cheaper borrowing rates, growing demand from renters, and the...

One in eight properties sold for more than the original asking price in August as housing demand peaked following the chancellor’s...

Zoopla has attracted around 25,000 property investors and landlords just over a week after launching Zooploma, a two week email programme...

The post-lockdown rebound in buying momentum looks set to continue in and around London as we head into Autumn, according to...

Demand for property has soared as purchasers, including buy to-let investors, make the most of Rishi Sunak's stamp duty holiday, but...

There has been a drop in buy-to-let lending, but the decline is less dramatic than the general purchase market, according to the latest...

There has been a sharp rise in mortgage approvals, as reported by the Bank of England yesterday.  The latest data reveals that...

There has been a sharp rise in buy-to-let mortgage activity as property investors look to take advantage of the current stamp...

The latest data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) suggests that the housing market continued to recover at the tail...

There appears to have been an increase in demand for buy-to-let property since the chancellor announced a stamp duty holiday, but...

The number of residential property sales agreed have surged in the month since the chancellor announced a stamp duty holiday, with...

The UK housing market could see what first looks like a V-shaped recovery only for it to be quickly flattened out,...

With a number of property investors looking to take advantage of Rishi Sunak’s stamp duty holiday by expanding their portfolios, NICEIC...

A growing number of international property investors are expected to increase their presence in the UK buy-to-let market over the next...

Now is potentially a good time for buy-to-let landlords to become limited companies, according to accountancy firm MJ Bushell.  Property tax specialists...

Buy-to-let remains an attractive asset class with more property investors looking to take advantage of a notable increase in demand for...

The government’s decision to temporarily increase the stamp duty threshold to £500,000 for property sales in England and Northern Ireland, until...

Yorkshire Building Society (YBS) Commercial Mortgages has introduced a new limited company buy-to-let product targeted specifically at holiday letting properties in...

Buy-to-let landlords are being urged to take advantage of the stamp duty tax savings announced in the chancellor’s summer statement by...

Labour has criticised the government’s decision to introduce a stamp duty holiday, claiming it offers a “huge bung” to those buying...

The government’s decision to temporarily increase the stamp duty threshold to £500,000 for property sales in England and Northern Ireland, until...

Yesterday’s summer statement provided a much welcome boost for buy-to-let landlords who stand to benefit from the stamp duty holiday.  The levy...

Rightmove yesterday recorded a sharp rise in searches for property on its website as it was forced to deal with pent...

The chancellor Rishi Sunak is expected to announce tomorrow changes to the levels of stamp duty paid on properties in England, but...