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New figures showing no slowdown in the rate of private rental inflation is just additional “misery” for tenants, a leading financial...

Asking rents continue to show posi­tive, albeit lower, growth in most regions according to the property website Home. The site conducts a...

The biggest rental sector headline from Labour’s manifesto may well be its pledge for the “immediate” abolition of Section 21 eviction...

Labour’s manifesto, just released, makes a pledge to enact the “immediate” abolition of Section 21 eviction powers, along with other private...

Knight Frank says the normalisation of supply and demand in Prime London has happened more quickly than anticipated, forcing it to...

Half of all tenants who moved during the past 12 months found it ‘difficult’ or ‘very difficult’ to secure a new...

Tenants renewing an existing contracts have been faced with high rent rises according to Hamptons lettings agency. It says they rose 8.3%...

A third of homes currently for sale can be bought with a mortgage and monthly repayments that cost less than the...

As the Renters Reform Bill makes its way through the House of Lords, Propertymark has advised peers not to miss this...

Londoners looking to buy a home can expect to spend 42% more on monthly mortgage payments than tenants pay on rent,...

An Office of National Statistics survey shows that the top three issues facing the UK are still the cost-of-living crisis (89%),...

Propertymark is telling the Bank of England that now is the perfect time to cut base rate and trigger wider interest...

New and past landlords tempted back to Buy to Let have been warned - passive income from property isn’t easy.  This is...

Propertymark wants the Bank of England to cut interest rates following data showing soaring mortgage arrears and repossessions. Lenders trade body UK...

Rents are approaching an affordability ceiling according to Savills - but the agency admits it doesn’t see substantial new supply on...

Last week’s Autumn Statement - which fell short of expectations in terms of help for the private rental sector - is...

Landlords in the UK are paying 40 per cent more mortgage interest than in August 2022, forcing more of them to...

Airbnb has taken the unusual step of buying space on an influential Labour Party website, just ahead of the party’s conference. Amanda...

Zoopla’s research team says the rise in mortgage interest rates means it’s now cheaper to rent than to buy for the...

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is today charing a crisis meeting of mortgage lenders, as calls mount for him to take action to...

The Scottish Parliament’s so called Cost of Living Act - imposing rent controls on the private sector - is backfiring. That’s the...

Buy to let specialist lender Fleet Mortgages says almost every region of the UK is now seeing increased yields for investors.  The...

A new survey by PropTech firm Goodlord has the unsurprising conclusion that the biggest worry for tenants is that their rent...

Activist groups which previously focussed much of their fire on landlords are now attacking letting agents, accusing them of encouraging higher...

Mortgage experts appearing before a committee of MPs have given an especially gloomy forecast for the buy to let sector in...

There’s widespread concern that the Bank of England’s monetary policy committee, which meets tomorrow, is to unveil a 0.75 per cent...

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

There seems to be an industry-wide sigh of relief that Rishi Sunak has become Prime Minister. His coronation marks the end of...

New research shows that there’s little to choose between the costs of renting and owning - a change from previous research...

Propertymark’s chief executive Nathan Emerson has welcomed the dramatic government U-turn on taxes - but most importantly has retained the stamp...

A mortgage company chief executive is warning that house price falls of up to 15 per cent are likely between now...

Zoopla is issuing a warning today that price cuts in the sales market are likely to hit pre-pandemic levels as affordability...

The most recent interest rate rise has swung the balance making it cheaper to rent than to buy, according to lettings...

The costs of buy to let fixed rate mortgages have risen sharply with more increases likely if, as expected, the Bank...

The government’s pledge to introduce a lifetime deposits concept, theoretically making it easier and cheaper for tenants to move, has been...

Mortgage costs in the buy to let market have continued to fall over the last three months - a trend seen across...

New research suggests that the recent fall in the cost of fixed rate buy-to-let mortgages may be coming to a halt. Online...

There’s been an “unprecedented” across-the-board fall in fixed rate buy to let mortgage rates according to an online investment platform.   Property Master...

Landlords can make savings by switching their buy-to-let (BTL) mortgages as average costs have started to fall.  The latest analysis from Mortgage...

A specialist broker says the costs of most fixed rate buy to let mortgages are beginning to rise.  Property Master warned last...

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

Continued political and economic uncertainty is likely to fuel increased tenant demand in the private rented sector, says Haart.  The company’s latest...

New figures out show that buy to let mortgage rates are showing the effects of last month’s base rate rise. Online mortgage...

The cost of buy to let mortgages remain at record lows and - with little movement in costs and rates over...

Liverpool and Nottingham are the UK’s best performing property investment locations, according to mortgage broker Private Finance.  Both cities enjoy average rental...

A leading independent mortgage market monitor is warning that increases in mortgage costs are now proving the latest blow to the...

A new snapshot of the buy to let mortgage market suggests costs have dropped further over the past three months as...

Skipton is the latest lender to confirm that it will continue lending to so-called portfolio landlords after new Bank of England...

Landlords are increasingly looking to reduce the fees they pay to letting agents due to industry tax changes and increasing management...

A property firm at the centre of the campaign against phasing out landlords’ mortgage interest relief says is urging tenants to...

The Bank of England's decision to keep the base interest rate at the record low of 0.25% has kept buy-to-let headline...

New research claims that the financial benefits of renting rather than owning may have been under-rated.   A financial researcher at the University...

The costs of buy To let mortgages have fallen by as much as eight per cent over the past six months.   Software...