Archive

Property consultancy JLL says there’s been a noticeable rise in prime Central London lettings activity.  Average rents rose 0.9% from Q1 to...

Paragon Bank has reduced rates on its core range of buy-to-let mortgages, taking 15bps off 10 products, in addition to launching...

Lower mortgage rates - still falling in the days since the end of the festive break - may be persuading some...

HSBC is increasing its maximum mortgage term to 40 years for buy to let, purchase, remortgaging and additional borrowing. Second homes will...

Canary Wharf was once seen as the future of London - now it’s the location that’s seen the greatest loss in...

One of the country’s biggest Build To Rent players has secured funding for 1,000 new BTR homes. Legal & General has signed...

A prominent research chief at a leading agency has repeated his claim that average UK house prices are set to drop...

A PropTech firm says Open Banking could help to transform the lettings industry for the better if it is fully embraced.  And...

Letting agents have only 10 days to open segregated client accounts or they could face being expelled by their client money...

The number of mortgage lenders still offering products to landlords is 42 - only seven fewer than at the peak of...

HSBC says its unable to accept any new buy to let mortgage applications during the Coronavirus crisis. The same applies to applications...

There’s growing concern across the lettings sector about the buy to let mortgage market seeing lenders pull product ranges, tighten lending...

First the good news - investors are still purchasing buy to let properties; the less good news is that it’s a...

The UK’s largest franchise agency has secured funding which it will use to strengthen its growth and acquisition strategy. Belvoir has secured...

Belvoir Cardiff has completed the acquisition of a management portfolio of 130 rental properties. The purchase of all properties managed by Letwise...

Our latest infographic shows figures of how the majority of deposits are repaid at the end of tenancy and goes into...

A fledgling estate agency has announced its entrance into the lettings market, despite the uncertainty currently surrounding the sector. Hibbert Homes, which...

Many lenders are holding the equivalent of ‘mortgage January sales’ in order to kick-start the market for borrowers, according to a...

The former Property Ombudsman, Christopher Hamer, is to be a special advisor to the National Association of Estate Agents and the...

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