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The Scottish National Party, which as part of an alliance with the Greens introduced controversial rent controls in Scotland in 2022,...

A trade body representing Build To Rent operators claims that the sector “already accommodates the Bill’s proposals” in terms of tenants’...

Property management and facilities firm Pinnacle is to become the leading managing agent for Legal & General Affordable Homes. In recent weeks, the...

Nationwide has taken the unusual step of using its buy to let lending arm - The Mortgage Works - to make...

The chief executive of Propertymark has made an outspoken attack on the government in response to its latest attempt to extract...

The Budget on Wednesday will contain a £300m tax raid on the rental sector according to a report this morning -...

Property taxes in Scotland exceeded £600m over the last year according to analysis of the latest statistics by the country’s largest...

Propertymark has told politicians that an additional homes tax will not succeed in increasing housing supply. Timothy Douglas, head of policy and...

A leading estate agent on one of the Channel Islands has slammed the way additional homes are now being taxed. Since last...

A Liberal Democrat council leader says all properties - even those in properly established lettings businesses - should be charged council...

Off-plan new build properties - at one time a solid favourite amongst landlords - are now falling out of favour with...

A prominent lettings agent in the north of England has written to Housing Secretary Michael Gove urging him to cease attacking...

The political party propping up the Scottish Government says higher taxes on buy to lets will help the housing market be...

Propertymark chief executive Nathan Emerson has personally written to  a leading politician about a tax threat to the rental sector.  Emerson has...

A high profile lettings agency has backed a petition demanding the reinstatement of tax relief for landlords. Benham and Reeves says it...

One of the politicians backing a tax surcharge on the purchase of second homes and buy to lets has been put...

Letting agents in Scotland are angry at the Scottish Government for increasing the tax surcharge on buyers of buy to lets...

Land and Buildings Transaction Tax - the Scottish equivalent of stamp duty - has risen to six per cent for all...

A respected agent is warning that a proposal to increase stamp duty on additional homes could kill off the rental market...

A council has purchased some 40 properties to avoid them becoming holiday homes and Airbnbs. Highland council in Scotland is spending up...

Propertymark has set up a working group of experts, agents, landlords and stakeholders in response to radical reforms to the private...

Some parts of London have recorded over 50 per cent of sales as second or additional properties. Research by lending firm Octane...

New figures indicate the ongoing growth of buy to let. Analysing data on additional property purchases made in the financial year 2020/21,...

Propertymark says it welcomes measures in the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill that will mean swifter action to get the hundreds...

The government says it’s finalising plans for a new tax regime to apply to additional homes, and in particular those used...

Wales’ Labour-led administration is to announce a three-pronged approach to affordability issues - and it looks likely to involve a clampdown...

Cornish MPs have spoken up in the House of Commons to highlight what they claim is the danger of having too...

ARLA Propertymark has thrown its weight behind a call for HMRC to extend the time limit for the payment of Capital...

The five years since the introduction of the three per cent stamp duty surcharge on additional homes has led to a...

A leading tax expert is forecasting that Chancellor Rishi Sunak will duck making any changes to CGT in tomorrow’s Budget and...

A leading property law expert says there is now pressure on Chancellor Rishi Sunak to raise stamp duty on buy to...

An MP claims the proliferation of short lets via Airbnb and similar online platforms is indirectly pricing local people out of...

New data from Zoopla shows that a two-speed rental market is operating across the UK, with London in particular hitting major...

Labour has described the stamp duty holiday introduced last week as “a £1.3 billion bung for landlords” because the tax break...

The Budget has failed tenants by doing nothing to increase the supply of private rental property according to two lettings sector...

A lettings agency in one of the most competitive markets in Britain says it’s enjoyed a record year winning landlords from...

The prime London lettings market has returned to growth after three years of falling rents, according to new five-year forecasts from...

Savills says some 120,000 buy to let mortgages have been redeemed since the launch of the additional homes stamp duty surcharge...

Landlords have been urged to seek advice about potential stamp duty rebates on ‘uninhabitable’ second properties after a landmark tribunal case. A...

The fierce competition in the lettings market in parts of London means that some tenants will feel no benefit from the...

Three years after the introduction of the second homes stamp duty surcharge, landlords are “beginning to come to terms with the...

Buy to let mortgage costs remain stable with little movement recorded over the past three months according to a market snapshot...

The stamp duty surcharge - which across the rest of Britain is currently three per cent on additional homes such as...

Rightmove is reporting that average asking rents outside London have topped £800 per month for the first time, fuelled by a...

Opposition is growing fast to the threat of another stamp duty attack on the buy to let sector, rumoured to be...

A newspaper in warning that the beleaguered buy to let sector may be under attack yet again with the government considering...

A trade body says the country faces a net loss of 133,000 homes for private rent over the next year -...

One of the most respected buying agencies, Black Brick, says the collapse in demand for buy to let is the most...

The government should scrap the tax on new homes which is punishing those in need of a home to rent, the...

The latest major piece of research into the private rental sector is forecasting a huge surge in demand - meaning there...

Some 43 per cent of all stamp duty comes from buy to let investors and holiday home purchasers - and almost...

The number of buy to let investors in the UK has hit a record high of 2.5m in the latest tax...

A leading Conservative peer says the government should cut taxes for buy to let investors and regard them as part of...

Over two thirds of landlords are reluctant to invest in new properties as a result of the stamp duty surcharge on...

Rental growth is forecast to exceed house price growth in London, despite a glut of properties on the lettings market in...

Yields from buy to let in the UK are now amongst the worst in Europe according to a new league table drawn...

A survey conducted for MyDeposits suggests some nine per cent of landlords - or one in 11 - is likely to...

Your Move says a shrinking supply of properties, in part created by government measures against the lettings sector, has led to...

Romans says one in four of its registered buyers in the first half of this year has been an investor, suggesting...

Perhaps unsurprisingly, a survey reveals that most buy to let and other property investors want the three per cent stamp duty...

Mortgage lending for the buy to let sector has halved since the introduction of the stamp duty surcharge in April 2016 according...

The chief executive of Andrews Property Group says the government’s three per cent additional homes stamp duty surcharge on buy to...

Letting Agent Today’s Conor Shilling was in the audience of The Great Buy To Let Debate - always one of the...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has given a stark warning about the cumulative effect of the additional homes stamp duty...

The government should think again about punitive tax changes to the private rented sector after receiving greater-than-expected revenue from the three...

The Residential Landlords Association has been quick off the mark to issue what it calls a seven point wish list to...

The Residential Landlords Association says new tax powers devolving to the Welsh Assembly should involve exemptions when it comes to the...

Another prominent mortgage chief has called on the government to show its support for the private rental sector by repealing some...

Anyone who thought the buy to let sector’s recent anger at higher government taxes may have been misplaced may wish to...

The British Property Federation is urging Chancellor Phillip Hammond to bring in tax measures to help the purpose-built Build To Rent...

The government must urgently deliver 1.8m new rental homes as new figures from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors reveal a...

Rents in Scotland are at a record high, after the fastest month-on-month growth on record.  Data from Your Move shows that average...

There was a massive slowdown in buy to let lending by investors as the additional homes stamp duty surcharge passed -...

The additional homes stamp duty surcharge is contributing to a slowdown in the central London development market according to JLL. The number...

The imposition of the stamp duty surcharge on additional homes would add another £4,500 to the cost of setting up a...

The Residential Landlords Association is warning private investors not to be lured by firms offering schemes which allegedly promise to help...

Paragon Mortgages, one of the buy to let sector’s biggest and best-known lenders, says its buy to let lending in the...

Fleet Mortgages is telling clients to choose an efficient conveyancer if they are buying an investment property with a view to...

Forty per cent of letting agents are predicting supply will decrease over the next five years – the highest rate this...

Scottish finance minister John Swinney is to introduce a three per cent surcharge on the full purchase price of all ‘additional...

The scores are in - we have asked 20 senior agents and analysts for their forecasts for capital values the 2016...

A respected survey of the buy to let market says proposed tax changes and the increased stamp duty on additional homes...