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The number of buy to let property purchases in the UK fell 14% from 224,700 in 2022/23 to 193,700 in the...

A report from Propertymark has laid out the stark and in some cases unforeseen consequence of the Conservative government’s phased removal...

The government’s renewed pledge to end Section 21 eviction powers for agents and landlords is fine, a leading industry figure has...

Agents, and others in the lettings industry, have given a sceptical response to the Conservative manifesto and its varied pledges about...

An accountancy firm is warning those using Airbnb and similar short let platforms that new tax rules mean they could lose...

As a result of an announcement back in March, in the government’s final Budget, a major change to stamp duty comes into...

Propertymark has given its view on why private rents have risen so much - 6.1% in England, 7.0% in Wales and...

Nationwide has taken the unusual step of using its buy to let lending arm - The Mortgage Works - to make...

Just under half of mortgage brokers expect to place more limited company buy-to-let business throughout the next 12 months, Paragon Bank...

Private landlords are abandoning their property portfolios in unprecedented numbers, a group of surveyors claims. The Manchester-based chartered surveyors and auctioneers -...

Leaders Romans Group is calling for a Landlords Reform Bill to balance the challenges and apparent disincentives now deterring landlords from...

The lettings agency Winkworth has taken the unusual step of criticising policies of a series of councils. The councils are all Labour...

Propertymark has urged the government to tackle rising landlord costs immediately.The warning comes as new research suggests that landlords are spending...

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

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

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

Buy to let mortgages have seen the largest interest rate increase of any mortgage category according to new research. Barrows and Forrester...

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

Property portal Citylets says average rents in Scotland rose 12.4 per cent in the past year to £1,007 per month -...

A new survey of lettings agents and landlords has put the reinstatement of Section 24 mortgage tax relief at the top...

A prominent lettings agency has called for a delay to the government’s EPC upgrade timetable to be announced in this afternoon’s...

A prominent agent and former RICS residential chairman has made an impassioned plea to the government to help the private rental...

The government must focus on measures in next week’s Budget that will boost significantly the supply of homes, according to lettings...

A letting agents’ trade body is urging the industry to sign a parliamentary petition calling for the Section 24 changes for...

We’re only in February and it’s already clear that this year will set the future direction of the private rented sector...

Propertymark has told the government it should have three priorities for next month’s Budget. 1. Improving welfare system for vulnerable and low-waged...

The U-turn by politicians in Scotland who ended a complete rent freeze doesn’t go far enough, says Propertymark. At the end of...

Ruling politicians in Scotland have agreed that from April private rents can rise by 3.0 per cent in a 12 month period...

Propertymark chief executive Nathan Emerson has personally written to  a leading politician about a tax threat to the rental sector.  Emerson has...

A high profile lettings agency has backed a petition demanding the reinstatement of tax relief for landlords. Benham and Reeves says it...

A tax expert says the current economic climate has made it so hard to save for a deposit that many tenants...

Agents are being urged to sign a petition launched by a landlord facing higher tax burdens which may force him to...

Rightmove says yesterday’s Bank of England base rate rise to 3.5 per cent - the ninth hike in as many Bank...

No fewer than 85 per cent of letting agents say that landlord clients have expressed a wish to sell up in...

A new study from Rightmove reveals what aspiring first-time buyers are most likely to cut back on in a bid to...

With only 48 hours to go before the Autumn Statement confirms stealth tax rises and massive public spending cuts, Propertymark has...

One of the country’s most respected lettings agencies says tax is dominating the agenda ahead of Thursday’s Autumn Statement from Chancellor...

A holiday lettings agency has criticised the proposed rise in capital gains tax which may be introduced this week in the...

A senior lettings industry figure says the Bank of England should delay future base rate rises to allow the housing market...

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

Average asking rents for new tenants outside of London have risen to a new record of £1,162 per calendar month according...

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

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

Headline-grabbing demands for more regulation and rent freezes risk frightening buy to let investors away, a leading analyst warns. Doug Shephard is...

The continuing rent rises seen across much of the country are outpacing rises in interest rates, it’s been claimed.  Property website Home,...

A leading figure in the PropTech sector says more regulation could make the rental sector fairer, more transparent and ultimately more...

While the number of companies set up by individual landlords to hold buy to lets reached a record high last year,...

ARLA Propertymark has launched a radical programme of reform for the private rental sector - getting in before the government’s own...

A petition calling on Chancellor Rishi Sunak to increase tax on holiday lettings has still not hit its 45,000-signature target. Former long...

A new survey has revealed that just 11% of people think Michael Gove, who was announced as the new Housing Secretary...

Propertymark has called for a return of mortgage interest relief and a review of landlord taxes to boost the rental sector. The...

Baroness Alicia Kennedy, director of the Generation Rent campaign, says rents in Wales, Scotland and South West England have soared thanks...

A tenant who says his former rental property has been turned into an Airbnb has set up a petition demanding Chancellor...

The five years since the introduction of the three per cent stamp duty surcharge on additional homes has led to a...

Real estate as an industry has remained unchallenged throughout all of these years. For the industry worth more than 217 trillion...

A call has gone out for the longer-term buy to let rental sector to have a similar tax regime as the largely-unregulated...

Research by Countrywide agency Hamptons shows that during 2020 some 41,700 new buy to let limited companies were formed. That’s a record...

ARLA Propertymark has given a detailed response to a government consultation on how the pandemic has hit the private rental sector. The...

ARLA Propertymark has issued a warning to government not to use Capital Gains Tax reform to further punish the private rental...

Now may be the time for buy to let investors to consider incorporation - putting their property portfolios into a limited...

Data from independent mortgage monitor Moneyfacts shows that there’s been a big drop in the choice of mortgage for buy to...

It’s not just navigating a path through the Coronavirus crisis that is proving the value of letting agents - it’s their...

One of the lettings sector’s leading trade bodies has called on the government and lenders to agree a package of measures...

The government is driving landlords into the short let sector according to a trade body. The Residential Landlords Association, responding to recent...

One of the country’s leading buying agencies says buy to let is changing in prime central London, as corporate structures replace...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has made an uncompromising set of demands on the government, asking it to implement a...

An analysis of HMRC data reveals that the number of small buy-to-let landlords has dropped for the first time in five...

A new survey suggests there may be an exodus of investors out of buy to let - some 27 per cent...

There’s still life in the buy to let market despite the regulatory and financial changes in recent years according to a...

A leading law firm has highlighted four key dates for letting agents and landlords to watch for in 2020. Paul Barnes, head...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents and the National Association of Estate Agents have issued their manifesto for next month’s General...

Landlords must look at their finances as a range of tax changes continue to 'hit home', according to Apropos. The property management...

The government has been criticised yet again for what is described as its “incoherent” approach to the private rental sector. David Miles,...

Private tenants are being disadvantaged because of the government’s focus on boosting homeownership. According to the latest figures from the Royal Institution...

New research shows more than half of landlords plan to use limited companies to buy properties in the year ahead.  The study...

The chairman of Hunters estate agency, who is also a Conservative MP, has hit out at the government over its handling...

Rents are rising at the fastest rate since 2017, pushing the average yield on residential property to 4.5 per cent, its...

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...

A holiday lets and short-term lettings market boom can be put down to a combination of four reasons, according to specialist...

Property investors are calling for the government to provide more support to the UK property market. A survey of investors, carried out...

The number of buy to let products for first time landlords has risen to an all-time high. Data from independent mortgage market...

A new analysis of the private rental sector suggests the typical buy to let investor will be lucky to generate annual...

Fergus Wilson, arguably Britain’s most controversial landlord and almost certainly the individual with the largest number of buy to lets in...

Large-scale buy to let investors are continuing to move to limited company status in a bid to limit their exposure to...

The UK’s holiday lets sector could be a beneficiary of the current Brexit uncertainty and people not vacationing abroad because they...

The proportion of landlords purchasing buy to let homes in London with cash rose from 33 per cent in 2017 to...

More than a third of landlords are looking to cut their annual spending - and many of them are considering ending...

You may be forgiven for thinking that rent takes up an ever-greater proportion of tenants’ income - but new figures out...

A leading landlord has hit out at a lettings agency’s portrayal of buy to let tax changes.  Rosalind Beck, a campaigning landlord...

London-focussed lettings agency ludlowthompson says buy to let landlords across the country claimed a record £17.7 billion in tax relief last...

A new league table of worries for landlords shows exactly why letting agents are needed - and a lot of the...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is reminding members of tax changes ahead - a timely intervention with the deadline for...

An angry lettings agent has emailed Cabinet minister James Brokenshire to show his disgust at the government’s U-turn over deposit caps. In...

The party conferences of the two main political parties threw up some interesting developments with regards to housing and the rental...

The number of buy to let lenders lending to limited companies has risen by 47 per cent over the past year,...

The proportion of buy to let investors looking to remortgage is now at an all-time high according to respected specialist mortgage...

A poll of 1,250 landlords suggests that far from being concerned about the profitability of buy to let, almost 80 per...

New research has attempted to quantify the number and scale of rent rises that are likely to take place as landlords...

The Haart agency is calling on the government to give the private rental sector a break in the autumn Budget, as...

A top London letting agent working for Knight Frank has commented on the 'irony' that the government's series of tax changes...