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Anyone renting an Airbnb or other short let property in Edinburgh from the summer of 2026 is likely to be hit...
23 August 2024
From: Breaking News
A tax expert is advising anyone involved in the furnished holiday lettings sector to ‘act now’ ahead of upcoming tax changes. Ben...
14 August 2024
From: Breaking News
Propertymark says the new Labour leader in Wales, Baroness Eluned Morgan, should make an early stand against rent controls for the...
30 July 2024
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A nationwide survey conducted by Leaders Romans Group shows significant concerns over proposed rent controls, property taxes, and regulatory changes. LRG this...
04 July 2024
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Knight Frank says the normalisation of supply and demand in Prime London has happened more quickly than anticipated, forcing it to...
28 May 2024
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Around half of letting agents and landlords say they are unsure about how they will vote in the General Election. A joint...
23 May 2024
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Propertymark has given its view on why private rents have risen so much - 6.1% in England, 7.0% in Wales and...
15 May 2024
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A prominent agent campaigning for business tax reform is urging Labour to come clean on its policies for business rates and...
03 May 2024
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February saw significant improvements in activity across the prime London lettings market, and annual rental growth also increased slightly after four...
21 March 2024
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A think tank is urging the UK government to consider tax perks for private renters to help them save faster for...
20 March 2024
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Nationwide has taken the unusual step of using its buy to let lending arm - The Mortgage Works - to make...
05 March 2024
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One of the lettings sector’s longest-standing suppliers - Mortgages for Business - is rebranding. It’s to be known as Mortgage Finance Brokers,...
18 January 2024
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Property taxes in Scotland exceeded £600m over the last year according to analysis of the latest statistics by the country’s largest...
17 January 2024
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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 In...
29 December 2023
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Propertymark has laid out its proposals to the Scottish Government ahead of its 2024-25 Budget next week. The letting agents’ trade body...
15 December 2023
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A council’s lettings service - first set up a decade ago - says it is stepping up its campaign to recruit...
31 October 2023
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Propertymark has given strong support to the government’s “flexible and affordable” approach to the green policy agenda, Timothy Douglas, Head of Policy...
22 September 2023
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A mortgage lender has conducted a survey of homeowners which has produced a string of anti-landlord and anti-overseas investor attitudes. Market Financial...
07 July 2023
From: Breaking News
A holiday lettings agency has come out fighting on behalf of its clients. Following calls by local leaders in Cornwall and Devon...
26 May 2023
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Barbon Insurance Group, which describes itself as the UK's largest tenant referencing and specialist lettings insurance intermediary, has a new managing...
27 April 2023
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New powers have been revealed to tackle what the Welsh Government calls the ‘problem’ of second homes. A statement from the Senedd...
05 April 2023
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Propertymark has given advice to the new Scottish National Party leader and Scotland’s First Minister, Humza Yousaf. The trade group’s head of...
29 March 2023
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A new PropTech tool says it will help agents maximise their chances of handling the sales of properties being disposed of...
24 March 2023
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A senior figure in the financial services sector says only Build To Rent can solve the stock shortage in the lettings...
22 March 2023
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An agent claims that if Labour wins the next General Election there will be what he calls “misguided meddling” across the...
01 March 2023
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A letting agents’ trade body is urging the industry to sign a parliamentary petition calling for the Section 24 changes for...
21 February 2023
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The Valuation Office Agency has issued a reminder that changes to eligibility rules for self-catering properties will come into effect from...
10 February 2023
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A high profile lettings agency has backed a petition demanding the reinstatement of tax relief for landlords. Benham and Reeves says it...
11 January 2023
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Just about every agency that has commented on yesterday’s Autumn Statement are in agreement - changes to Capital Gains Tax, Inheritance...
18 November 2022
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With only 48 hours to go before the Autumn Statement confirms stealth tax rises and massive public spending cuts, Propertymark has...
15 November 2022
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Savills is the latest agency to suggest significant house price falls next year - although in its long-range forecast it says...
04 November 2022
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The agents’ trade body Propertymark says the government must “get realistic” over the difficulties involved in reaching Net Zero targets when...
17 October 2022
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A leading light in the Generation Rent group is disputing the findings of a Propertymark survey of letting agents. Agents from businesses...
08 June 2022
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There’s just a week left - including the long Jubilee celebration period - for agents to respond to a major property tax...
30 May 2022
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Demand for pied a terres from those working in offices for only three days of the week is fuelling demand for...
26 May 2022
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Tax experts say that an attempt to levy higher purchase tax on holiday lets and second homes in one part of...
11 April 2022
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The Property Investor Show is back for its 20th year with 100 property sector experts and exhibitors in London this week. The...
28 March 2022
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There’s been a broad welcome from letting agents to the Spring Statement not loading more tax or restrictions on buy to...
24 March 2022
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Letting agents are being urged to respond to a consultation opening today from rhe independent Office for Tax Simplification. The OTS has published an...
17 March 2022
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The growing importance of virtual tours for properties to let and for sale during the pandemic shows little sign of easing,...
16 March 2022
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The government has issued revised guidelines for the possession process in the private and social rented sectors in the light of...
15 March 2022
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There’s a 15 year record high in the number of buy to let mortgage products available for current or new landlords. The...
28 January 2022
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MPs and the wider public have been presented with a lengthy report on the growth of Airbnb and similar platforms across...
07 January 2022
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Home offices are already the most-demanded must have from prospective tenants says James Hay, director at Surrey lettings agency, The Home...
30 December 2021
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ARLA Propertymark has launched a radical programme of reform for the private rental sector - getting in before the government’s own...
15 December 2021
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All sides of the industry have expressed anger and frustration that yesterday’s Budget effectively ignored the private rental sector. ARLA Propertymark’s policy...
28 October 2021
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Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves has told the Labour Party conference that if her party wins the next General Election she will...
28 September 2021
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The value of the Private Rented Sector in England, Wales and Scotland grew by 5.8 per cent to a jaw dropping...
25 August 2021
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Demand for private rental housing is now at a five year high according to the National Residential Landlords Association. In the association’s...
23 August 2021
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The majority of short lets operators in a sector trade body say they will maintain Covid-safe protocols for the foreseeable future,...
10 August 2021
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The trade body for short lets operators - the Short Term Accommodation Association - says it wants even more travel restrictions...
06 August 2021
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Who are you and what does it say on your business card? My name is Maxine Fothergill and for the past ‘almost’...
28 July 2021
From: 60 Second Interview
The government has updated its guidance for agents, landlords and tenants to explain the possession action process in the county courts...
22 July 2021
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Wales’ Labour-led administration is to announce a three-pronged approach to affordability issues - and it looks likely to involve a clampdown...
06 July 2021
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ARLA Propertymark has thrown its weight behind a call for HMRC to extend the time limit for the payment of Capital...
11 June 2021
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Airbnb, which has been criticised by some for its impact on local rental markets, is to set up its own ‘tax’...
07 June 2021
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A global ban on parties in Airbnb properties, started back in August last year, has been extended until the end of...
01 June 2021
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Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Bal Arora – Managing Director In your experience, what is the...
13 May 2021
From: 60 Second Interview
The government’s much-vaunted ‘tax day’ produced few challenges to the status quo - but holiday lets are under scrutiny. Currently the holiday let...
24 March 2021
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An assessment by Savills suggests capital values - including those for properties in the lettings sector - are likely to soar...
10 March 2021
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A prominent industry figure is warning Chancellor Rishi Sunak not to use property taxes to bail out the government over the costs...
19 February 2021
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The Guild of Property Professionals has issued tips for agents and other industry professionals having to cope with working from home...
15 January 2021
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With the Government announcement this week of another national lockdown across England amid the surging coronavirus infections, it once again puts...
08 January 2021
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Recent debate about urgent need for reform and better collaboration within the property industry, has once again come under the spotlight...
04 December 2020
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It’s been an unexpected year for the property market, shaped by the effects of the pandemic. We didn’t quite anticipate the...
27 October 2020
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Light has been shed at last on the long-running uncertainty about why some landlords choose to use lettings agents and some...
12 October 2020
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Scotland must encourage more investors into its property market as a way of supporting its economy once the Coronavirus recedes according...
06 October 2020
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Government intervention, which in recent years has seen scores of legal and regulatory changes to the private rental sector, may be...
05 October 2020
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With no clear end in sight and conflicting Government advice as to whether we should work from home or go to...
24 September 2020
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Rogue landlords have been accused of tax evasion which could cost the Treasury as much as £1.73 billion a year. The accusation...
05 August 2020
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There’s a warning that buy to let investors will simply hold on to properties and not sell them if rumoured Capital...
16 July 2020
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A survey suggests that 77 per cent of buy to letinvestors believe their tenants can pay full rent during the Coronavirus...
19 June 2020
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It’s been revealed that a legal group is considering how courts will consider eviction cases when the current ban is lifted...
17 June 2020
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A document outlining options for the future regulation of Airbnb and other short let platforms in the UK is to be...
27 May 2020
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Aldermore Bank is this week resuming physical mortgage valuations on properties for house purchase and remortgage in England, where strict social...
27 May 2020
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An economist who previously suggested tenants should live rent-free for three months during the Coronavirus crisis has revised his thinking -...
07 May 2020
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A surge in rental activity has encouraged a London-focussed agency to un-furlough some of its staff ahead of an expected relaxation...
05 May 2020
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Lockdown may be over soon - but who knows what a relaxation of the current restrictions will really mean for our...
30 April 2020
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The Association of Residential Letting Agents has made an uncompromising set of demands on the government, asking it to implement a...
13 February 2020
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A lettings agency in one of the most competitive markets in Britain says it’s enjoyed a record year winning landlords from...
05 February 2020
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The prime London lettings market has returned to growth after three years of falling rents, according to new five-year forecasts from...
31 January 2020
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There’s still life in the buy to let market despite the regulatory and financial changes in recent years according to a...
24 December 2019
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A trade body is warning of a crisis in the private rental market as new figures show a sharp drop in...
13 December 2019
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The Chartered Institute of Taxation is urging tenants not to ignore a letter if they receive one from HM Revenue &...
18 November 2019
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The normally-sedate Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has issued an unusually stark warning to government, telling it to “stop meddling” in...
14 November 2019
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Rents have reached an all time high across the UK according to HomeLet. Its latest index says the average rent in the...
13 September 2019
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A private landlord has gone on record to explain her own dilemma with a tenant - and why the government’s scrapping...
14 August 2019
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Rents in London are rocketing but a leading market commentator says this is no reason to give in to a “Marxist dystopia”...
07 August 2019
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A holiday lettings company says it’s seen a 23 per cent increase in its portfolio over the past year as owners...
10 June 2019
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The Association of Residential Letting Agents is one of many industry groups in a new coalition calling for S21 repossessions to be...
04 June 2019
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A damning report on taxation in the private rental sector (PRS) has accused the treasury of appearing not to understand 'the...
10 May 2019
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Data from a Countrywide agency shows that 59 per cent of landlords who live in London purchased their buy to let...
15 April 2019
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Buy to let investors are facing a double whammy as stagnating rents and reduced tax relief are hitting profitability. A study from...
11 April 2019
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A trade body has welcomed calls by a parliamentary committee for tax incentives for the buy to let sector to improve...
08 April 2019
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A leading accountancy firm has analysed buy to let taxation policies north and south of the border and claims that from...
29 March 2019
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Changes to Capital Gains Tax which reach their full impact in the next 12 months could fuel property changing hands between...
28 March 2019
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Income tax paid by buy to let landlords now exceeds £3.8 billion annually – that’s more than double Tesco’s entire annual...
12 March 2019
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Property management firm Mcilroy Smith has launched a mental health policy for its employees - possibly the first company in the...