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New figures published by HMRC show a 7% rise in Capital Gains Tax liabilities on the sale of residential property in...

An accountancy firm is warning those using Airbnb and similar short let platforms that new tax rules mean they could lose...

Top tips will be provided for landlords in the private rental market in a seminar next month organised by high profile...

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Budget is set to hit Build To Rent. The British Property Foundation is reacting to news that Multiple dwellings...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? My name is Sara Stevenson. I am the Lettings Director...

Propertymark has responded to an HM Treasury consultation on anti-money laundering processes - and in doing so it’s slammed “heavy handed...

Some prospective buy to let landlords may be about to use their equity to snap up investment properties at discounted rates,...

HM Treasury has published a consultation on reform of the anti-money laundering supervisory system, giving four options. Currently the supervisory system is...

Fines issued to agents for anti-money laundering non-compliance are getting bigger, reversing a downward trend seen throughout the pandemic, according to...

The average Anti-Money Laundering fine handed to agents has soared by two thirds. An analysis of five industries - Accountancy, Estate/Lettings Agency,...

Boomin, the online property portal founded by the former boss of Purplebricks, has called in liquidators according to a Sky News...

Goodlord is spreading its PropTech offering into accountancy. It’s launched a new accounting tool which it claims will save some letting agents...

There’s good news and bad news for letting agents on the anti-money laundering front. The good news is that the overall number...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Sarah Davies, Commercial Director at The Letting Partnership What is The...

A letter from a tenant’s union is demanding that a Labour councillor “publicly explain” his actions as an accountant advising investors...

Now may be the time for buy to let investors to consider incorporation - putting their property portfolios into a limited...

An analysis of HMRC data reveals that the number of small buy-to-let landlords has dropped for the first time in five...

An accountancy trade body is warning of another possible tax hike to hit the lettings industry. The Association of Accounting Technicians is...

Increased use of PropTech by lettings agencies should allow staff to be freed up to engage in all-important face-to-face contact with...

A leading accountancy firm has analysed buy to let taxation policies north and south of the border and claims that from...

There is a warning that the HMRC’s Let Property campaign, which received huge publicity and attention for some years, has so...

More than a third of landlords are looking to cut their annual spending - and many of them are considering ending...

Controversial landlord Fergus Wilson has increased rents on all new tenancies in his property portfolio by £50 a week because of...

The former office manager of an estate agency in Scunthorpe conned her employer out of over £34,000, a court has heard. Local...

An accountancy trade body, the Association of Accounting Technicians, is advising the government to investigate what it calls “the questionable tax...

ARLA and NAEA Propertymark have introduced a raft of deals in a bid to save agents money.  Membership subscription fees will remain...

A leading accountancy and business advice consultancy says residential landlords who want to downsize their portfolios because of recent tax changes...

A leading accounting and advisory service says key tax changes that could damage the buy to let sector are still not...

The head of an estate and lettings agency has been expelled from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors after admitting taking...

Landlords are increasingly looking to reduce the fees they pay to letting agents due to industry tax changes and increasing management...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is keeping up its campaign against a ban on agents’ fees in England by showing...

Several property experts have warned of possible dangers in landlords forming limited companies in a bid to minimise their tax liabilities.   There...

The exemption of residential property from the new Capital Gains Tax cuts tops the list of concerns expressed by professional landlords...

More criticism of Chancellor George Osborne’s raft of buy to let reforms has appeared in the mainstream media, with much emphasis...

A leading tax expert says there are likely to be unintended consequences of what he calls “half-cocked legislation” bringing in additional...

A former president of the Association of Taxation Technicians has made a strong defence of buy to let investors who, she...

Thanks to Accountancy Age for drawing to our attention to the fact that not every country is tightening up on the tax...

“Unthought-through”, “unfair and unreasonable” and leading to “extreme confusion” - those are the thoughts of Britain’s leading professional accounting body on...

A critic of the suggestion that buy to let landlords could set up companies to ‘beat’ the ending of tax breaks...

An accountancy firm is warning that there are pitfalls in trying to avoid the higher taxation which will result from the...