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Startling regional differences are acting as barriers to those looking to step onto the property ladder for the first time, according...
01 May 2024
From: Breaking News
A building society has launched a pilot project banning mortgage lending on holiday lets in two tourist areas for 12 months. Leeds...
26 February 2024
From: Breaking News
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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Lower mortgage rates - still falling in the days since the end of the festive break - may be persuading some...
04 January 2024
From: Breaking News
Propertymark has cautiously welcomed the Nationwide’s house price index showing a 5.3 per cent fall in the year to September. It says...
04 October 2023
From: Breaking News
Young couples are delaying marriage and starting families until they get out of the rental sector, research by Yorkshire Building Society...
29 September 2023
From: Breaking News
Propertymark is backing a call for financial help for landlords who improve the energy efficiency of their properties. The think tank E3G...
04 September 2023
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New analysis reveals that other family members beyond parents are increasingly lending their financial support to first-time buyers. So far this year...
29 August 2023
From: Breaking News
The Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, is being urged to act now to stop the problems banks are creating for letting agents. Following a...
08 August 2023
From: Breaking News
The Cambridge Building Society has selected two tenants by ballot to receive up to 70 per cent of their rent back...
23 June 2023
From: Breaking News
The Bank of England has announced its latest change in base rate, which is used by most lenders to determine interest...
22 June 2023
From: Breaking News
The Nationwide Foundation - a charitable foundation founded by the Nationwide Building Society - says the Renters Reform Bill should be...
06 June 2023
From: Breaking News
Moneyfacts, the respected independent mortgage market monitor, is warning that lenders have been withdrawing buy to let fixed deals. Within the buy...
31 May 2023
From: Breaking News
The Nationwide Building Society is embarking on an experiment - at first for owner occupiers only - which may be extended...
22 May 2023
From: Breaking News
The Cambridge Building Society has opened applications for its unique Rent to Home scheme. Last month it announced that it had invested...
16 May 2023
From: Breaking News
A company that tries to encourage people to buy a home in ‘chunks’ says few first time buyers are interested in...
15 May 2023
From: Breaking News
The Bank of England has announced its latest decision on base rate. This has been increased by 0.25 per cent to 4.5...
11 May 2023
From: Breaking News
Renters are being offered a 100 per cent mortgage by the Skipton Building Society - the first time such a product...
09 May 2023
From: Breaking News
The Cambridge Building Society has invested in two family-sized houses to expand its unique ‘Rent to Home’ rent-return housing scheme. The two...
20 April 2023
From: Breaking News
A high profile mortgage lender operating in the buy to let sector has launched a series of products aimed at investors...
23 February 2023
From: Breaking News
We’re only in February and it’s already clear that this year will set the future direction of the private rented sector...
15 February 2023
From: Features
Property accreditation service safeagent has written to all of its agents in England urging them to check legal requirements when setting...
08 February 2023
From: Breaking News
The average house price in Wales reached a new peak of £249,076 at the end of 2022 but cost of living...
25 January 2023
From: Breaking News
A tax expert says the current economic climate has made it so hard to save for a deposit that many tenants...
11 January 2023
From: Breaking News
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
From: Breaking News
A new survey from Aviva has revealed that over a million people may rule themselves out of the first-time buyer market,...
28 November 2022
From: Breaking News
A building society which has taken the unprecedented step of stopping lending on second homes has been sharply criticised by a...
02 August 2022
From: Breaking News
A quarter of homebuyers are putting off their purchase due to cost of living fears - and when it comes to...
22 July 2022
From: Breaking News
Lettings franchisees under the Belvoir banner delivered the group an additional 10 per cent management service fees last year according to...
01 February 2022
From: Breaking News
Belvoir Group has given yet another upbeat trading report to shareholders. It says in the 10 months to the end of October...
03 December 2021
From: Breaking News
A PropTech firm says Open Banking could help to transform the lettings industry for the better if it is fully embraced. And...
17 November 2021
From: Breaking News
Propertymark has joined four so-called ‘action groups’ advocating housing policy changes including the setting up of a national landlord register and...
30 July 2021
From: Breaking News
A new report calls for large scale reform of the private rental sector, including a national landlord register and changes to...
27 July 2021
From: Breaking News
Franchise giants Belvoir has revealed strong figures in a trading statement to shareholders - but it’s warning that 2021 remains shrouded...
13 April 2021
From: Breaking News
An assessment by Savills suggests capital values - including those for properties in the lettings sector - are likely to soar...
10 March 2021
From: Breaking News
A charity claims that young people under 25 in full-time work across England are unable to afford privately rented accommodation anywhere in the...
21 January 2021
From: Breaking News
Letting agents have joined forces with other players in the rental industry to demand the government finally get a grip on...
08 January 2021
From: Breaking News
A family-run lettings and sales agency has launched an employee of the year award in memory of a late colleague. The...
05 January 2021
From: Breaking News
Connells has made it clear that the innovation and technology it has put into lettings are key to identifying the approach it...
04 January 2021
From: Breaking News
The Association of Residential Letting Agents is urging its members to write to their MPs over the provision of cash help...
07 September 2020
From: Breaking News
A new mortgage product aimed at buy to let investors wanting to enjoy a slice of the holiday home staycation market...
17 July 2020
From: Breaking News
The number of mortgage lenders still offering products to landlords is 42 - only seven fewer than at the peak of...
28 April 2020
From: Breaking News
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
From: Breaking News
[Letting Agent Today was ‘off air’ for some of Wednesday and most of Thursday thanks to technical problems - we apologise to...
06 December 2019
From: Breaking News
A roundtable discussion of rental industry leaders has produced a recommendation for the mandatory regulation of lettings agents. The objective, they say,...
28 November 2019
From: Breaking News
A new building society mortgage product is aimed at allowing students to become first time buyers and to simultaneously become first...
29 October 2019
From: Breaking News
A leading industry figure is calling on agents to have a Plan B ready if their bank closes undesignated client accounts. This...
21 August 2019
From: Breaking News
A holiday lets and short-term lettings market boom can be put down to a combination of four reasons, according to specialist...
05 July 2019
From: Breaking News
The PropTech firm CreditLadder is working with the Nationwide Building Society on a pioneering scheme to try to help tenants buy...
25 March 2019
From: Breaking News
The power held by tenants is growing across the UK, as new research indicates 61 per cent of buy to let...
08 November 2018
From: Breaking News
OneSavings Bank, the parent organisation of specialist buy to let lender Kent Reliance, has given a warning on the possible impact...
29 August 2018
From: Breaking News
A lender has launched a new product which is thought to be the first mortgage explicitly aimed at borrowers who propose...
19 July 2018
From: Breaking News
A mortgage lender has created a special buy to let product aimed at landlords who let a property to a close...
06 February 2018
From: Breaking News
Harrison Murray, the lettings division of the Nottingham Building Society, has launched a portal for landlords and tenants. The agency says it...
03 January 2018
From: Breaking News
The Leaders Romans Group has acquired an independent lettings agency in Bath, taking it into the south western region for the...
23 November 2017
From: Breaking News
The Nationwide Building Society says it is assembling what it calls ‘an industry alliance’ to support the increasingly-beleaguered private rental sector. The...
18 September 2017
From: Breaking News
Skipton is the latest lender to confirm that it will continue lending to so-called portfolio landlords after new Bank of England...
16 August 2017
From: Breaking News
Leeds Building Society is the latest major lender to reveal changes to buy to let lending ahead of new rules coming...
08 August 2017
From: Breaking News
The Coventry building society is the latest buy to let lender to tighten its portfolio buy to let criteria ahead of new...
04 August 2017
From: Breaking News
Analysis of the government's latest English Housing Survey figures shows that there’s been a further decline in the home ownership rate...
03 April 2017
From: Breaking News
The Loughborough Building Society is launching a Buy For Uni mortgage product seeking to encourage students to buy a home -...
01 March 2017
From: Breaking News
The Leeds Building Society is the latest buy to let mortgage lender to amend its criteria for borrowers ahead of new...
08 December 2016
From: Breaking News
Some 21 per cent of landlords wait four months or longer from purchasing their buy to let property before signing up...
30 November 2016
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Leeds Building Society has changed its mortgage criteria in a bid to encourage longer-term private rentals. The UK’s fifth largest society will...
15 August 2016
From: Breaking News
A group campaigning to secure refunds on alleged mortgage interest over-charging by buy to let lenders is calling on letting agents...
19 July 2016
From: Breaking News
A senior mortgage lender is warning that government reforms of the buy to let sector could have wide-ranging and unintended consequences. Richard...
05 July 2016
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The Property 118 website - which last week won a notable victory in the Court of Appeal against a building society...
14 June 2016
From: Breaking News
It is now thought that the likely average payout to each buy to let borrower affected by this week’s court decision...
10 June 2016
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A landmark court ruling against the West Bromwich building society has come down in favour of buy to let investors. The case...
09 June 2016
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Ahead of what some consider as the likely tightening of buy to let mortgage lending criteria by the Bank of England...
04 May 2016
From: Breaking News
Ahead of expected restrictions on buy to let lending to be introduced next year by the Bank of England, some individual...