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A low profile family company called the Griffin Property Company has acquired Emoov, the online agency which was a pioneering name...

Propertymark has stepped into the row over a bank chief’s comments on first time buyers. Sir Howard Davies, chairman of NatWest, responded...

There’s growing optimism that tomorrow’s Bank of England monetary policy committee meeting will see base rate held for another month -...

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

A property industry commentator wants buy to let mortgage rules to be relaxed so that frustrated sellers can let out their...

Financial analysts are unanimously warning that Bank of England base rate will rise yet again tomorrow. If they are correct this will...

Renters are being offered a 100 per cent mortgage by the Skipton Building Society - the first time such a product...

Trade bodies have been trying to shore up investor confidence after the latest house price index, by the Nationwide, showing another...

The Bank of England’s monetary policy committee meets again this week with a further interest rate rise likely if base rate...

Housing Secretary Michael Gove has sent a letter to the Competitions and Markets Authority saying the watchdog is independent - but...

Savills is the latest agency to suggest significant house price falls next year - although in its long-range forecast it says...

Knight Frank says it expects house prices to drop in the coming year - but only to those levels seen in...

A lettings agency in Scotland has played down the impact of the emergency rent freeze and eviction ban which have been...

The Knight Frank lettings and estate agency is warning that it expects house prices to fall in 2023. Tom Bill, its head...

The rise and rise of Rightmove continues apace. Figures for the first half of 2022 released at the start of the weekend...

Rents in London are now rising as steeply as they were falling at the start of the year according to Knight...

Rental growth in prime areas of London has climbed to multi-year highs according to new data from Knight Frank.  While only a...

The rental sector bounce back in London and the Home Counties is now underway according to Knight Frank. The agency forecasts rental...

Rents have climbed up to 68 per cent across England since the financial crash in 2008. Research by Ascend Property shows that...

Some £3.5 billion of investment was placed in the growing Build To Rent sector in 2020, despite concerns over the pandemic...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents says it’s disappointed the Budget failed to address the funding of the private rental sector.  “Extending...

The fall out from Coronavirus is forcing the rental market into a once in a lifetime change as tenants reassess priorities. This...

Knight Frank says one week in August saw the lettings market in London and the Home Counties hit a 10 year...

Uncertainty around the start of the academic year and pressure on corporate budgets means lettings activity has been lower than normal...

The Labour head of a special ‘taskforce’ looking at London housing issues in the light of the Coronavirus crisis says he...

A trade association has called for a 'moratorium' on any further government intervention in the buy-to-let sector in order to stop...

A leading buy to let specialist lender says the vast number of BTL mortgage products now on the market has made...

The Nationwide is the latest lender to say it will not insist its buy to let borrowers enforce a No DSS...

Buy to let may have been in the doldrums in recent years thanks to new taxes and stricter regulations but there’s...

Renting became more affordable in 2018 thanks to a combination of a once-in-a-decade fall in annual rents and wage inflation, according...

Home ownership rates for families aged 25 to 34 are rising for the first time in 30 years but high barriers...

Net buy to let investment has fallen 80 per cent in the past two years, a mortgage lenders’ group claims.  The Intermediary...

The average UK rent increased just £11.55 or 1.51 per cent over the last year according to The Deposit Protection Service. The new DPS...

Rented housing in London is at its least affordable levels for 10 years after typical rent rises of 47 per cent...

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

Falling demand from financial services sector employees has seen the annual rental value growth in prime central London ease back to...

In case we didn’t learn the lesson last time around, we appear to be on the brink of a refresher course...

Rents across England and Wales are now 15.2 per cent higher than at the time of the last General Election in...