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A small survey by a bank suggests that almost 100% of buy to let investors surveyed have received requests from tenants...
14 June 2024
From: Breaking News
Agents have expressed their anger at permanent rent controls proposed by the SNP and Green Party politicians running the Scottish Government. The...
28 March 2024
From: Breaking News
The largest lettings agency in Scotland says purchases by landlords and other investor buyers in that country have risen sharply despite...
20 March 2024
From: Breaking News
Property taxes in Scotland exceeded £600m over the last year according to analysis of the latest statistics by the country’s largest...
17 January 2024
From: Breaking News
A new survey of 4,000 landlords has identified the three qualities they look for in a letting agent. Whereas trust and liveability...
20 December 2023
From: Breaking News
A lettings agency - Leaders Romans Group - claims that landlords are not quitting the private rental sector in droves after...
19 October 2023
From: Breaking News
Colliers, the agency and property consultancy, has issued another outspoken attack on government policy - this time prompted by a formal...
17 July 2023
From: Breaking News
Social media has moved on from being a “nice to have” to a necessity for most businesses, but how do you...
14 July 2023
From: Marketing & Social Media
Online lettings agency Hortons has launched an Investors Club search portal, aimed at property investors and developers. The agency describes this as...
05 June 2023
From: Breaking News
A buyer has been announced for part of the lettings portfolio of Purplebricks, it has been announced today. The deal, finalised for...
26 May 2023
From: Breaking News
Landlords are urged to be cautious and do extensive research before signing up to a letting agent in the face of...
24 May 2023
From: Breaking News
Revenue from property taxes in Scotland has dropped significantly so far this year, according to a prominent lettings agency. DJ Alexander Ltd...
12 April 2023
From: Breaking News
A prominent business analyst has given a bleak warning about the prospects for property investors and other home owners in 2023. Sarah...
06 April 2023
From: Breaking News
Introduce yourself A: My name is Sean Hooker. I have worked for the HFIS group for sixteen years, originally helping set...
23 March 2023
From: 60 Second Interview
A PropTech startup called EVO is claiming to revolutionise repairs and maintenance in the “broken” rented housing sector. EVO says it connects...
16 March 2023
From: Breaking News
Ruling politicians in Scotland have agreed that from April private rents can rise by 3.0 per cent in a 12 month period...
20 January 2023
From: Breaking News
The Property Redress Service claims to be the largest lettings redress service now, with over 13,250 letting agency branches on board. In...
12 January 2023
From: Breaking News
07 December 2022
From: Breaking News
The government is urging all overseas entities who own property in the UK to register at Companies House. The Register of Overseas...
30 November 2022
From: Breaking News
A prominent figure in property investment is warning that buy to let is the sector facing the biggest challenges in the...
17 November 2022
From: Breaking News
There seems to be an industry-wide sigh of relief that Rishi Sunak has become Prime Minister. His coronation marks the end of...
25 October 2022
From: Breaking News
A PropTech platform that boasts 200 letting agents and landlords amongst its current clientele has won over £500,000 in additional funding...
10 August 2022
From: Breaking News
A new breakdown have been released of the nationalities of overseas buyers investing in British homes - thought to be overwhelmingly...
22 July 2022
From: Breaking News
One of the UK’s largest lettings groups has made an outspoken attack on the policies of a political party standing in...
27 April 2022
From: Breaking News
A new property management platform seeking support form letting agents claims to be the ‘Airbnb for shared living’. Vann Vogstad, the entrepreneur...
07 February 2022
From: Breaking News
The lettings agency boss at the centre of a major industry takeover has fired a warning shot about rent controls and...
22 December 2021
From: Breaking News
A new bank called Monument is aiming at property investors and established buy to let landlords seeking to grow their portfolios. Its...
09 November 2021
From: Breaking News
Some 4,500 people and 90 exhibitors attended the Property Investor Show a few days ago - the first face-to-face event of...
27 October 2021
From: Breaking News
High profile London lettings agency Chestertons says there’s been an increase in Hong Kong residents looking to rent a home in...
24 June 2021
From: Breaking News
The director of a company targeting ‘flipping’ property investors has been disqualified from holding directorships for no less than 14 years. Mitchell...
11 June 2021
From: Breaking News
A property lawyer is forecasting a surge in buy to let purchasing in the coming months as the stamp duty extension...
08 March 2021
From: Breaking News
An agency in the north of England has outlined how it proposes to take investors to what it calls “multiple viewings”...
05 March 2021
From: Breaking News
A prominent industry figure is warning Chancellor Rishi Sunak not to use property taxes to bail out the government over the costs...
19 February 2021
From: Breaking News
For most letting agents the last year has been a challenging one which has focused attention on dealing with the immediate,...
04 February 2021
From: Sponsored Content
A new HMO and co-living property management platform launches today, aimed at optimising tenancy occupancy. The service - called COHO - claims...
07 January 2021
From: Breaking News
An investment group of companies specialising in student accommodation says letting agents can be very important - but it also says...
14 December 2020
From: Breaking News
A prominent agent and industry commentator says the threat of higher Capital Gains Tax risks forcing yet more investors to quit...
13 November 2020
From: Breaking News
There’s been a flurry of new PropTech products launched, mostly focussed on lettings agencies. Australian-based supplier Movinghub, which works the UK market...
05 November 2020
From: Breaking News
The recent survey in Letting Agent Today on why many landlords didn’t use agents was interesting and informative. That only 42.5%...
02 November 2020
From: Sponsored Content
Scotland must encourage more investors into its property market as a way of supporting its economy once the Coronavirus recedes according...
06 October 2020
From: Breaking News
With no clear end in sight and conflicting Government advice as to whether we should work from home or go to...
24 September 2020
From: Sponsored Content
Some 25,000 investors and landlords have signed up to receive a free expert guide from Zoopla in just over a week...
16 September 2020
From: Breaking News
A specialist buy to let mortgage broker is urging prospective investors to buy sooner rather than later if they want to...
21 July 2020
From: Breaking News
There’s a warning that buy to let investors will simply hold on to properties and not sell them if rumoured Capital...
16 July 2020
From: Breaking News
Landlords who are remortgaging are currently doing so primarily to build a war chest. That’s the view of mortgage brokerage Mortgages for...
30 June 2020
From: Breaking News
The buy-to-let market has grown significantly in recent years as long-term renting becomes more popular and investors continue to see the...
28 May 2020
From: Sponsored Content
Reports from China suggest that property investors from that country - a staple in the buy to let market in many...
17 December 2019
From: Breaking News
Property investors are concerned that Brexit could deter international buyers from purchasing property in the UK, which could in turn weaken...
11 October 2019
From: Breaking News
The quality of accommodation in the private rental sector has drastically improved in the past decade according to a survey by...
25 September 2019
From: Breaking News
New research indicates that the majority of property investors in the UK have their plans on pause for the next six...
20 September 2019
From: Breaking News
A London-focused PropTech startup has just won another £7m in funding. Residently manages houses and flats for landlords, letting them directly to...
29 August 2019
From: Breaking News
A property education business says it’s targeting a major expansion with the launch of online additions to its nationwide courses in...
26 July 2019
From: Breaking News
Property investors are calling for the government to provide more support to the UK property market. A survey of investors, carried out...
05 July 2019
From: Breaking News
Second home owners, landlords and property investors are being urged to beware a “dramatic change” to the current capital gains tax...
28 June 2019
From: Breaking News
A leading housing market analyst says the sales market is increasingly determined by the acts of buy to let and other...
14 June 2019
From: Breaking News
30 April 2019
From: 60 Second Interview
A Liberal Democrat activist is considering establishing a landlords’ group consisting of party members. Tony Harris, writing on the LibDem Voice website,...
24 April 2019
From: Breaking News
The news this week that even individual private landlords must join a redress scheme is just the latest in an onslaught...
25 January 2019
From: Breaking News
A new survey suggests that the demise of the High Street for shopping could lead to a surge in the supply...
10 December 2018
From: Breaking News
The head of a buy to let specialist mortgage broker insists the sector remains a solid investment despite the slew of...
20 November 2018
From: Breaking News
The latest rental figures produced by Your Move for Scotland have prompted a claim that the country now has better yields...
28 September 2018
From: Breaking News
The ownership of buy to let property is much more evenly split between women and men than amongst other forms of...
21 August 2018
From: Breaking News
Yet another leading lettings agent has hit out at the government over its proposals for three year tenancies being the norm...
10 July 2018
From: Breaking News
Buy-to-let lender Paragon says it has seen a 'marked shift' towards buy-to-let activity among professional investors. The organisation reports that this is...
29 May 2018
From: Breaking News
Property crowdfunding projects are now the investments of choice for millennials according to a PropTech platform. Shojin Property Partners claims to have...
24 April 2018
From: Breaking News
A third of UK property professionals are set to expand their portfolios in 2018 despite a backdrop of increased challenges in...
16 February 2018
From: Breaking News
A new website called Vesta has launched aiming to sell investment properties with tenants in place. The team behind the site describe...
08 February 2018
From: Breaking News
Perhaps unsurprisingly, a survey reveals that most buy to let and other property investors want the three per cent stamp duty...
24 August 2017
From: Breaking News
Far from being wealthy property investors, two thirds of individual landlords pay merely the basic rate of income tax according to...
06 July 2017
From: Breaking News
High street operator Metro Bank has announced that it is entering the consumer buy-to-let market and will now accept consumer applications...
14 June 2017
From: Breaking News
The nation's landlords are adapting to ongoing restrictions to tax relief on buy-to-let mortgage interest, according to Mortgages for Business. Upon releasing...
09 June 2017
From: Breaking News
The production company behind Grand Designs and Escape to the Country is looking for landlords to feature in a new BBC...
06 June 2017
From: Breaking News
Property investors based in the capital are increasingly purchasing buy-to-let properties outside of London, according to Countrywide. The UK's largest agency's latest...
15 May 2017
From: Breaking News
An attempt is underway to resuscitate the Green Deal which many buy to let and other residential property investors used to...
26 January 2017
From: Breaking News
Landlord confidence has returned despite government tax changes to the private rental sector - although research for the survey that produced...
02 December 2016
From: Breaking News
More than 92 per cent of landlords believe the government is anti-landlord and want the Chancellor to back them in this...
21 November 2016
From: Breaking News
The Mortgage Works, the buy to let lending arm of the Nationwide, has seen a dip in the amount borrowed by...
21 November 2016
From: Breaking News
The SDL Group says it is on course to become the UK's largest provider of Build to Rent services. The firm, which...
23 September 2016
From: Breaking News
Some 21 per cent of buy to let investors are too embarrassed to admit what they do. That is the result of a...
12 September 2016
From: Breaking News
Speculation that the government was attempting to ‘slip in’ yet more changes to the way landlords are being taxed have been...
05 September 2016
From: Breaking News
A new report claims that over a third of student property investors plan to expand their portfolios in 2016, despite the...
07 June 2016
From: Breaking News
Two professional property investors are giving away a Manchester flat valued at £110,000 in a protest against Chancellor George Osborne’s attacks...
25 April 2016
From: Breaking News
The changes introduced to the tax and stamp duty levied on buy to let income and property appears not to have...
04 March 2016
From: Breaking News
Unique summary: What does a potential exit from the EU mean for the UK's property market. Ever since the recession hit much...
01 March 2016
From: Sponsored Content
Around a fifth of investors plan to sell their buy to let properties this year, thanks to the recent measures against...
08 February 2016
From: Breaking News
A financial analyst says current buy to let mortgage constraints - with a strong possibility of more later this year - may...
18 January 2016
From: Breaking News
The buy to let market has experienced annual growth of no less than 26 per cent between November 2014 and last...
11 December 2015
From: Breaking News
It is not often that a national newspaper dedicates an article to praising buy to let - and even rarer for...
30 November 2015
From: Breaking News
“Unthought-through”, “unfair and unreasonable” and leading to “extreme confusion” - those are the thoughts of Britain’s leading professional accounting body on...
19 October 2015
From: Breaking News
A web portal which radically changes the way investors search for their next investment property has signed up 5,000 agents, less...
07 October 2015
From: Sponsored Content
Two of Britain's most controversial landlords, Fergus and Judith Wilson, claim demand from prospective tenants is at a record high with...
01 October 2015
From: Breaking News
A row has broken out between one of the north east’s most prominent letting agents and Zoopla over the worst place...
21 September 2015
From: Breaking News
Connells Residential is launching its first ever event for property investors - Invest Fest, in Birmingham next week. The agency chain has...
18 September 2015
From: Breaking News
When Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, recently announced that interest rates would have to start to rise sooner...