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Landlords generated average rental yields of 6.3% in the second quarter of the year, research for Paragon’s latest PRS Trends Report...
09 August 2024
From: Breaking News
Asking rents continue to show positive, albeit lower, growth in most regions according to the property website Home. The site conducts a...
15 July 2024
From: Breaking News
The pressure on rents for new tenancies in Scotland’s private rented sector have started to ease with all major cities now...
10 May 2024
From: Breaking News
The average gross rental yield reported by landlords has reached the highest level since the second quarter of 2018, according to...
03 May 2024
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Houses in Multiple Occupation are making up an increasing percentage of buy-to-let business, according specialist lender Shawbrook. In both 2022 and 2023,...
12 April 2024
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Paragon Bank’s analysis of its lending data has revealed the top 10 locations for investment by portfolio buy-to-let landlords, those with...
10 April 2024
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Leaders Romans Group claims the pessimistic mood which many say surrounds the private rental sector is exaggerated. It has surveyed its landlord...
31 October 2023
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Some prospective buy to let landlords may be about to use their equity to snap up investment properties at discounted rates,...
27 September 2023
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Investors looking to add to their portfolios in 2023 should be urged to consider student housing opportunities, according to a Newcastle...
05 May 2023
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Rental yields have increased by as much as 2.5 per cent in the past year as rent values outperform house prices. The...
22 February 2023
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New research predicts that northern regions of England will see many of the best investment opportunities in 2023. It is also these...
23 December 2022
From: Breaking News
The current higher interest rate environment and the temporary mortgage product withdrawals after the mini Budget will hurt future rental yields,...
21 October 2022
From: Breaking News
New long-term analysis by Hamptons says rental growth will cool over the coming years but will still outperform house prices between...
02 September 2022
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Tenants are demanding better quality HMOs according to new research from specialist buy to let lender Paragon Bank. The bank’s survey of...
18 August 2022
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A leading market analysis suggests that the private rental sector may be set to benefit from large scale corporate investors seeking...
16 August 2022
From: Breaking News
Annual rental yields in England and Wales have dipped but tenant demand is set to stay strong for the rest of...
21 April 2022
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The once-popular idea of parents buying a property for their offspring to use while at university, and then letting it to other...
11 November 2021
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New research reveals that student property portfolios based in smaller university towns or cities typically generate the best returns. The findings, from...
30 September 2021
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The value of the Private Rented Sector in England, Wales and Scotland grew by 5.8 per cent to a jaw dropping...
25 August 2021
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Last week the tax firm Blick Rothenberg advised John Lewis and Lloyds Bank to stay out of the private rental sector...
20 July 2021
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The Leaders Romans Group has identified four locations which it says have come into their own since the working-from-home craze started...
24 June 2021
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An agency which has for the past 11 years specialised in south west London is now expanding with a new office...
07 May 2021
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The popularity of buy to let mortgage products offering exclusive rates for higher value loans is a sign of optimism in...
31 March 2021
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A PropTech firm claims agents will win a “competitive edge” through the data it provides via its platform. Sprift says its interactive...
22 February 2021
From: Breaking News
Zoopla has revealed its top 10 hotspots for buy to let investors seeking high rental yields. The analysis is based on rental returns...
10 September 2020
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New research has produced a series of league tables to identify where in Britain the best rental yields can be found. The...
23 June 2020
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Two bedroom properties produce the best yields for buy to let investors according to the latest research. Lettings management platform Howsy has...
21 February 2020
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Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Catherine Shinerock - ARO Account Manager What is your ‘company name’...
06 February 2020
From: 60 Second Interview
A lettings sector trade group says lavish additional services are being offered by landlords who are nervous that Brexit will lead...
27 January 2020
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A mortgage lender’s new Buy to Let City Tracker tool has calculated the best cities in the UK for buy to...
10 December 2019
From: Breaking News
Many buy to let investors are still badly bruised by the government’s wave of fiscal and regulatory assaults on the private...
30 October 2019
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Property development and investment firm SevenCapital has released a top 10 league table of UK cities which it claims will perform...
18 October 2019
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Data published by specialist lender Precise Mortgages suggests that over a fifth of landlords are planning to expand their portfolio with...
11 September 2019
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Landlords’ confidence in the success of their own businesses has plunged in recent months. Only 29 per cent of landlords have positive expectations...
27 August 2019
From: Breaking News
London-focussed lettings agency Portico, which has expanded into the north of England, has identified part of Liverpool as the area where...
27 August 2019
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A London lettings agency is launching a service to enable landlords to invest in mainstream buy to let or Airbnb-style short...
01 August 2019
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There has been no change to rental yields across the UK over the past month as the lettings market settles down...
02 July 2019
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A leading housing market analyst says the sales market is increasingly determined by the acts of buy to let and other...
14 June 2019
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A PropTech firm says buy to let investors could earn in excess of double the eight per cent yield most aim...
08 April 2019
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Rent increases seen in London this year are likely to continue in 2019 because of the diminishing supply of homes to...
05 December 2018
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Research released this morning reveals that university cities offer some of the highest buy to let yields in the country. The Free...
03 December 2018
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A major property platform says London’s rental and sales market may well be on the road to recovery - but that...
03 October 2018
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A new analysis of rental yields across all of the UK’s local authorities has revealed exactly where the best places are for...
29 June 2018
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We’re all for an optimistic interpretation of events but a new tool from comparison website GoCompare lists the UK’s top buy...
28 June 2018
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An analysis of over 580,000 properties has produced a league table of Britain’s best and worst buy to let postcodes in...
18 June 2018
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Liverpool and Nottingham are the UK’s best performing property investment locations, according to mortgage broker Private Finance. Both cities enjoy average rental...
29 January 2018
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A pullback in the buy to let market is threatening to reduce sale prices further in London and parts of the...
18 December 2017
From: Breaking News
A survey has been undertaken of the top 25 UK postcodes in terms of yields for investors - and London and...
17 November 2017
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The specialist property investment lender Together is diversifying its product range to cater for investors who want to let out their...
31 October 2017
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Consumer organisation Which? says a handful of buy to let mortgage lenders have found a way of helping so-called ‘portfolio landlords’...
24 October 2017
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Buy to let investors are losing confidence in their ability to rely on steady rental yields, according to recent figures from...
08 August 2017
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Purpose-built and professionally-managed Build To Rent - until now seen as a primarily London phenomenon - appears on the march in Scotland...
12 July 2017
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The top ten buy-to-let postcodes in England and Wales are evenly split between locations that voted for the Conservatives or Labour. Luton...
16 June 2017
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Almost half of the investors in the private rental sector do not know what the changes in mortgage relief will cost...
10 May 2017
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Upad, which claims to be Britain's larges online lettings agency, says Manchester has seen a 100 per cent increase in buy to...
09 March 2017
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A new form of agency which wants to blend traditional letting with Airbnb-style short lets has launched in London. Lavanda claims it...
21 February 2017
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New research claims that the financial benefits of renting rather than owning may have been under-rated. A financial researcher at the University...
12 January 2017
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Data from London agency Portico suggests rents dipped 1.7 per cent during the May to July period, covering six weeks leading up...
04 August 2016
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Property investment specialists at online consultancy LendInvest have analysed coastal towns across England and Wales for their buy to let potential...
24 June 2016
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A buy to let index of returns compiled by a financial firm shows the greatest returns for investors are now to...
13 May 2016
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A buy to let investment search portal has produced an interactive map based on a pull-together of research into the lettings market...
09 May 2016
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There is more evidence that the buy to let sector has experienced a surge of activity as investors rush to complete...
09 March 2016
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Returns from buy to let properties have risen to their highest level in over a year. Data from Your Move and Reeds...
19 February 2016
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Peer-to-peer lender Lendinvest, using data from Zoopla and the Land Registry, says Manchester, Liverpool, Cardiff, Coventry and Oldham produce the highest...
16 December 2015
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The rural agency team at Bidwells says it is concerned the Conservative government may - by accident or design - be...
15 December 2015
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Buy to let investors in England and Wales have seen their returns rise to around 10 per cent in the past...
20 October 2015
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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
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Brandon in Suffolk is the most profitable location for pensioners to invest in buy-to-let property with an average yield of 8.59%. This...
25 August 2015
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There has been a huge increase in the number of investors acquiring Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) in the North West...