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30 August 2024
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A lettings agency set up by a council to buy properties on the open market and let them at open market...
27 August 2024
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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
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The Bank of England will trim base rate to 5% next week, according to a majority of economists in a poll...
26 July 2024
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Some 51% of young first-time buyers are willing to consider so-called ‘non-traditional routes’ to move out of renting and onto the...
25 July 2024
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Asking rents continue to show positive, albeit lower, growth in most regions according to the property website Home. The site conducts a...
15 July 2024
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Glenigan, regarded as one of the construction industry’s most respected insight and intelligence consultancies, says the sector will enjoy a long-term...
15 July 2024
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Although much focus is on the Bank of England and when it will begin to cut interest rates, a sobering warning...
01 July 2024
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The director of a London lettings agency says buy to let landlords are entitled to feel downtrodden but claims it’s still...
07 June 2024
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A third of homes currently for sale can be bought with a mortgage and monthly repayments that cost less than the...
20 May 2024
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Londoners looking to buy a home can expect to spend 42% more on monthly mortgage payments than tenants pay on rent,...
16 May 2024
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An estate agency that promotes the self-employed model claims that three areas of the country lead when it comes to industry...
09 May 2024
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The percentage of tenants borrowing money to fund their cash deposits on their next property has risen over the last 12...
25 April 2024
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It feels as though the UK housing market is waiting for something to happen. The prevailing mood is one of anticipation with...
15 April 2024
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Almost one in three buy to let landlords are set to sell up in the next 12 months. That’s the shock statistic...
08 April 2024
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For first time buyers, renting is cheaper than buying in most of the UK according to new data from the Halifax. London, the...
27 March 2024
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The letting agents’ trade body Propertymark has made the unexpected move of calling on banks to cut mortgage rates. Rates are typically...
01 March 2024
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A lettings industry supplier claims one in nine renters use foodbanks. A survey of tenants, commissioned by Zero Deposit, found that just...
22 February 2024
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Agency software service Alto has announced a new integration with Zero Deposit. Research by Zero Deposit shows that 65 per cent of...
15 February 2024
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A return of pent-up demand and mortgage rates falling below five per cent have boosted the start of the year for...
29 January 2024
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Just under half of mortgage brokers expect to place more limited company buy-to-let business throughout the next 12 months, Paragon Bank...
24 January 2024
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A series of lenders have slashed their buy to let mortgage rates in a bid to win business. These include: - LendInvest Mortgages...
08 January 2024
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A council is considering borrowing £50m to buy properties to rent on the private market and for affordable housing. West Norfolk council...
08 January 2024
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Lower mortgage rates - still falling in the days since the end of the festive break - may be persuading some...
04 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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New housing minister Lee Rowley has spoken out in favour of Build To Rent. At the inaugural Build To Rent Innovators conference...
08 December 2023
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Almost two in five UK owners - landlords and homeowners - now consider improving the energy efficiency of their property an...
08 December 2023
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Landlords in the UK are paying 40 per cent more mortgage interest than in August 2022, forcing more of them to...
16 October 2023
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The buy to let sector appears more heavily reliant on mortgages than some analysts have previously suggested. Specialist lending service Octane Capital has...
02 October 2023
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Some prospective buy to let landlords may be about to use their equity to snap up investment properties at discounted rates,...
27 September 2023
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Mortgage experts are expecting significant falls in the cost of borrowing this week as lenders drop their rates. Following last week’s decision...
25 September 2023
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A deposit alternative service says increasing numbers of renters need multiple sources of funding for traditional deposits. Zero Deposit says its survey...
22 September 2023
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A survey of local authorities in some of the poorest areas of the country - bodies which enforce many private rental...
06 September 2023
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HSBC is increasing its maximum mortgage term to 40 years for buy to let, purchase, remortgaging and additional borrowing. Second homes will...
30 August 2023
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A prominent figure in the London property world says landlords under increasing financial pressure are being more selective about the letting...
21 August 2023
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A respected measure of investor confidence says it’s on the rise as a result of growing optimism over UK inflation figures...
15 August 2023
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New figures showing the growing size of first time buyer deposits suggest that many would-be purchasers will be staying with the...
08 August 2023
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The US central bank has raised interest rates to the highest level in 22 years - even though inflation in that...
28 July 2023
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OnTheMarket says the frantic lettings market of the past year or more is bad news for agents. In a trading statement to...
11 July 2023
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The Bank of England has announced its latest change in base rate, which is used by most lenders to determine interest...
22 June 2023
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The results of a new survey show widespread ignorance about how interest rates work and about how the Bank of England’s...
22 June 2023
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One of the biggest lenders in the rental space - Paragon Bank - recorded a 19 per cent increase in buy...
07 June 2023
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Lettings agents within The Guild of Property Professionals think that the Renters Reform Bill could cause many landlords to quit. Graham Wood,...
01 June 2023
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The Nationwide Building Society is embarking on an experiment - at first for owner occupiers only - which may be extended...
22 May 2023
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An estimated 700,000 households across the UK missed rent or mortgage payments in April, according to the consumer body Which? It has...
12 May 2023
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Nearly a third of tenants are borrowing money to fund a cash deposit, a survey claims. A poll of 1,000 current renters...
10 May 2023
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More property is likely to come onto the sales market in the weeks and months ahead as rising numbers of landlords...
27 April 2023
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A consultancy that handles lettings agency acquisition says funding options exist for companies wishing to buy others, despite rising interest rates. Lucy...
14 April 2023
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One of Scotland’s largest lettings agencies is voicing concern over what it calls “the lack of balance” in the Scottish government’s...
04 April 2023
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The Bank of England has raised base rate by 0.25 per cent to 4.25 per cent - the highest level since...
24 March 2023
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Figures out this morning from high end agency Savills shows a 5.1 per cent increase in capital appreciation on average across...
27 February 2023
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There’s a slowly growing optimism amongst property industry figures that the 2023 housing market will be relatively pain-free and not seeing...
23 February 2023
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There are more Bank of England base rates to come, a group of property finance industry experts has warned. Personal finance comparison...
20 February 2023
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The equity release market has expanded by 27 per cent to hit a record £5.58 billion of new lending last year,...
31 January 2023
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A leading agency says there are now clear indications that supply in the lettings market is growing and that rent levels...
24 January 2023
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The number of first-time buyers is estimated to have fallen by nine per cent in 2022, Yorkshire Building Society says. Analysis by...
05 January 2023
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This may be 2022’s least surprising research finding - most property professionals want interest rates to fall. A webinar poll undertaken by...
14 December 2022
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The Bank of England’s monetary policy committee meets again this week with a further interest rate rise likely if base rate...
12 December 2022
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Rent rises are predicted to outpace house price growth over the next five years. This is according to Nicky Stevenson, managing director...
15 November 2022
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The latest high end agency to predict the mainstream market next year is Strutt & Parker - and it’s less downbeat...
08 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 Bank of England has increased its base rate from 2.25 per cent to 3.0 per cent. This is the largest hike...
03 November 2022
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Increasing demand for homes in cities was the driving force behind the rapid house price inflation witnessed earlier this year, with...
27 October 2022
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There seems to be an industry-wide sigh of relief that Rishi Sunak has become Prime Minister. His coronation marks the end of...
25 October 2022
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Jeremy Hunt’s firm grasp of fiscal policy after the market turmoil of recent weeks won’t stop what one housing expert calls...
20 October 2022
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The government should do more to promote energy efficiency or risk finding itself in an even more difficult position next year. That’s...
14 September 2022
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New long-term analysis by Hamptons says rental growth will cool over the coming years but will still outperform house prices between...
02 September 2022
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Uncertainty over the coming recession, wholesale reforms of the rental sector, higher interest rates and National Insurance payments are all reasons...
25 August 2022
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The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee has announced that base rate is rising from 1.25 to 1.75 per cent. The rate is now...
04 August 2022
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OnTheMarket claims it’s on track to achieve its strategic aim - to create “a tech-enabled property business across the broader property...
27 July 2022
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A leading agency handling international investors and buyers says Russians will displace the Chinese as the main purchasers of buy to...
05 January 2022
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UK Finance, the umbrella group representing major mortgage lenders, says there will have been a massive 83 per cent surge in...
16 December 2021
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A leading agent and member of the Propertymark board says London’s letting agencies and private rental sector need government help -...
12 October 2021
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An investment firm has flagged up the recently announced move by banking giant Lloyds to enter the private rented sector as...
23 September 2021
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Flatshare website SpareRoom says over a fifth of 18 to 24 years olds have moved back in with their parents to...
20 April 2021
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For most letting agents the last year has been a challenging one which has focused attention on dealing with the immediate,...
04 February 2021
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The Generation Rent campaign has renewed its call for public money to be allocated to clear at least some rent arrears...
23 November 2020
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PropTech company Goodlord has partnered with a credit reference firm, claiming it will help letting agents to secure more accurate info...
17 November 2020
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The Resolution Foundation has added its voice to that of many charities and other think tanks demanding more government support for...
17 November 2020
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Activists from the controversial renters’ group Acorn have picketed the headquarters of a national rental firm in a dispute over a...
29 September 2020
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Some buy to let mortgages are now more expensive than before for borrowers, despite the recent fall in the Bank of...
12 May 2020
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Hello and here’s the latest daily update to help the industry through these unprecedented times. If you have any appropriate advice you...
03 April 2020
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There’s growing concern across the lettings sector about the buy to let mortgage market seeing lenders pull product ranges, tighten lending...
27 March 2020
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A third of all landlords live in Greater London and the South East according to data collated by a property management...
27 January 2020
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A new rental deposit alternative scheme claims that some renters have to resort to high-interest payday lenders in order to afford...
03 January 2020
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The Black Brick agency, which operates with high net worth clients, is forecasting that 2020 will see the arrival of a...
02 December 2019
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On the day that Labour launches its proposals to reform the private rental sector, the Tories have announced so-called Lifetime Rental...
21 November 2019
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One in six landlords is seeking to reduce the size of their portfolio in the next 12 months and around half...
03 September 2019
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The impact of Britain’s decision to leave the European Union has not hit the central London lettings sector as much as...
15 May 2019
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A rental market expert is urging landlords to be cautious when considering to use short-term lets websites such as Airbnb to...
08 May 2019
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There will be less buy to let remortgaging in future as landlords consolidate rather than expand their portfolios. The prediction comes from...
11 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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With good news in the buy to let sector in short supply, here’s a promising start to the week - a...
11 February 2019
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Most buy-to-let fixed rate mortgages are currently cheaper than they were a year ago - some by as much as £29...
08 January 2019
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The party conferences of the two main political parties threw up some interesting developments with regards to housing and the rental...
06 November 2018
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Some broadly good news to end the week - rents are predicted to grow 13.7 per cent in the next five...
02 November 2018
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A new study shows that 43 per cent of tenants want the system of private rental deposits to be dropped and...
18 September 2018
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A specialist buy to let mortgage lender says buy to let investors should act now - even if it means borrowing...
11 July 2018
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The UK’s largest franchise agency has secured funding which it will use to strengthen its growth and acquisition strategy. Belvoir has secured...