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

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

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...

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

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

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,...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

There has been strong support for an e-petition calling for the scrapping of the stamp duty surcharge on buy to let...

The government should scrap the tax on new homes which is punishing those in need of a home to rent, the...

There’s been a huge 15 per cent slump in the number of properties to let in prime central London over the...

A trade body is claiming that armed service personnel who let out their homes whilst stationed away are being hit by...

Specialist funding platform Property Partner has conducted a survey which suggests that 54 per cent of landlords are selling all or some...

The number of buy to let investors in the UK has hit a record high of 2.5m in the latest tax...

A lettings trade body says a major house builder has blamed, in part, recent tax increases on private landlords as a...

A trade body says new figures released by the independent Office for Budget Responsibility show that the government’s recent tax increases...

The National Landlords Association says 20 per cent of its members plan to reduce the size of their portfolios in the...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents says it is seeing a consolidation of agencies ahead of the ban on agents’ fees...

A leading accountancy and business advice consultancy says residential landlords who want to downsize their portfolios because of recent tax changes...

New analysis shows how the phasing out of mortgage interest tax relief for buy to let investors may prove a particular...

A trade body says the expanding Build To Rent sector will never be large enough to meet tenant demand and as...

A leading accounting and advisory service says key tax changes that could damage the buy to let sector are still not...

More landlords are quitting conventional letting and resorting to holiday lets or, increasingly, Airbnb-style short lets.    The move is particularly acute in...

Belvoir is warning that some buy to let investors are quitting the sector.   “Although we are not currently seeing a huge exit...

A survey of almost 3,000 landlords suggests more than one in five plans to sell at least one of their investment...

Buy to let investors are losing confidence in their ability to rely on steady rental yields, according to recent figures from...

The Residential Landlords’ Association says recent fiscal changes hitting the private rented sector are hurting tenants but failing to achieve their...

Some 1,500 landlords have responded to a trade group’s campaign calling for them to press General Election candidates to oppose changes...

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

Almost 20 per cent of the landlords using an online letting agency are apparently unaware of the mortgage interest tax relief...

Tax rises for landlords being introduced today will make renting less affordable and stifle investment in homes to rent, making it...

As the new restrictions on landlords’ mortgage interest tax relief come into effect this week, ARLA Propertymark has restated its objections...

A trade body claims that vulnerable tenants are finding it harder to access rented housing because of tax changes being introduced...

There was a sigh of relief amongst the lettings industry that yesterday's Budget introduced no new property taxes - but concern...

The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) is writing to the Office for Budget Responsibility asking it to provide clarification on controversial tax...

Saturday is traditionally the day many MPs hold their constituency surgeries, listening to grievances and opinions from their electors.    Conservative member of...

The government should think again about punitive tax changes to the private rented sector after receiving greater-than-expected revenue from the three...

The Residential Landlords Association has been quick off the mark to issue what it calls a seven point wish list to...

Housing minister Gavin Barwell says recent changes to buy to let mortgage interest relief and stamp duty will only affect a...

The cost of private rented housing is roughly mirroring changes in earnings across England - but in the social rented sector...

This is the final Letting Agent Today until Tuesday January 3 2017, so everyone at Angels Media sends all good wishes for...

The National Landlords Association has launched an e-postcard campaign for letting agent and landlord members to lobby the government over the...

The Residential Landlords’ Association has revealed that it is to meet with Treasury officials ahead of next month’s Autumn Statement -...

As the Conservatives meet at their annual conference and Chancellor Phillip Hammond considers next month’s Autumn Statement, an industry body has...

Any lingering hope that the buy to let sector might have of a rethink by the new Chancellor over restructuring mortgage...

The exemption of residential property from the new Capital Gains Tax cuts tops the list of concerns expressed by professional landlords...

On the day of the campaign rally to galvanise support for a bid to win a judicial review of George Osborne’s...

The two landlords behind the bid to seek a judicial review of George Osborne’s buy to let mortgage interest relief tax...

The Bank of England has released new buy to let mortgage underwriting standards which are expected to set out stricter borrowing...

The proportion of landlords in central London who intend to sell property has quadrupled since last year’s Budget, according to the...

Four in 10 landlords are either seriously considering forming a limited company or will be looking into the option in the...

One of the country‘s leading rental sector analysts is warning that tax changes for landlords’ mortgage interest relief, and the imminent...

Chancellor George Osborne’s buy to let tax proposals are set to hit domestic buyers far more than international investors, according to...

An analysis by a national newspaper shows that investors purchasing buy to let properties with mortgages are likely to lose money...

The Council of Mortgage Lenders is warning of a possible slump for the buy to let market in the next two...

The rural agency team at Bidwells says it is concerned the Conservative government may - by accident or design - be...

A respected survey of the buy to let market says proposed tax changes and the increased stamp duty on additional homes...

It is not often that a national newspaper dedicates an article to praising buy to let - and even rarer for...

A prominent buying agent active in prime central London says the capital’s high end buy to let market will become less...

A columnist on FT Adviser - an online service for financial advisers and clients - says buy to let investors have...

Over 60 per cent of private sector landlords face being pushed from the basic to higher rates of income tax as...

The Residential Landlords Association has launched a new campaign ‘toolkit’ to enable opponents of the proposed buy to let tax changes...

This week the Chancellor, George Osborne, delivered the first Conservative Budget for almost 20 years. While Mr Osborne claimed that it marked...

There has been no let-up in the anger expressed by sections of the buy to let sector after Chancellor George Osborne...

Agents have expressed their disappointment at the decision by the government to restrict mortgage interest relief for Buy To let investors...

Debate over spending cuts and taxation is increasingly asking whether landlords should continue to receive an estimated £10 billion - or...