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With the energy price cap to rise by 10% from October, Rightmove reveals that this could mean an annual increase of...

The chief executive of Purplebricks says he’s backing Labour’s house building plans because of the state of the private rental sector.  Sam...

Paragon Bank has reduced rates on its core range of buy-to-let mortgages, taking 15bps off 10 products, in addition to launching...

A huge survey involving analysis of over 14,000 properties suggests an urgent need for the next government to help private rental...

Inflation figures are down - but not as much as many analysts expected. The basic Consumer Price Index figure fell from 3.2%...

Independent polling gives Labour a big lead when it comes to its approach to housing policy. Detailed polling by the Ipsos pollster...

All eyes are on HM Treasury this week ahead of the next inflation figures, to be released on Wednesday morning. Analysts suggest...

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

Two letting agents have been quoted in a newspaper report as saying landlord clients have instructed them to create ‘tracker’ rents...

A prominent lettings and sales agency says there are four reasons why house prices won’t fall off a cliff, despite interest...

The Bank of England has announced its latest decision on base rate. This has been increased by 0.25 per cent to 4.5...

The Bank of England has increased base rate to 4.0 per cent - its 10th rate rise in a row. Nathan Emerson,...

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

The Bank of England has increased base rate by 0.5 per cent to 3.5 per cent. This is the ninth consecutive base...

A new survey from Aviva has revealed that over a million people may rule themselves out of the first-time buyer market,...

The Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England has agreed to raise interest rates by 0.5 per cent to 2.25...

The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee has announced that base rate is rising from 1.25 to 1.75 per cent. The rate is now...

Agents are being invited to take part in a pilot project which claims it will cut down on ‘back office’ chores...

The cost of living crisis may be changing tenants’ preferences to such a degree that bills-inclusive properties are becoming increasingly popular. That’s...

A new Buy To Let ‘tracker’ from a prominent buy to let mortgage lender has revealed what it considers to be...

Tenants returning to the office and city centres has triggered strong rental growth in the largest urban centres. Rightmove’s Quarterly Rental Trends...

Record tenant demand and record-fast lettings have combined to create an average asking rent above £1,000 per calendar month for homes...

One of the most active lenders for international investors in UK buy to let claims to have produced a market-leading mortgage...

Four out of 10 mortgage brokers expect more buy to let business in the coming 12 months, according to a Paragon...

A complex ‘sentiment tracker’ suggests demand is still strong in the lettings market. PropTech supplier Yomdel publishes a weekly tracker index; it...

The rental market effectively disintegrated in the early days of lockdown before showing signs of a rebound which are still active...

Some buy to let mortgages are now more expensive than before for borrowers, despite the recent fall in the Bank of...

There’s growing concern across the lettings sector about the buy to let mortgage market seeing lenders pull product ranges, tighten lending...

Hello - here we are with Friday’s help and advice.  A reminder, if you need it, that we want to share your...

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

A mortgage lender’s new Buy to Let City Tracker tool has calculated the best cities in the UK for buy to...

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

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

The corner may have turned for the London rental market as prices grew between April and May, according to the latest...

A survey of mortgage experts conducted by one of the largest specialist buy to let lenders suggests that Brexit is hitting...

With good news in the buy to let sector in short supply, here’s a promising start to the week - a...

The average rent across Scotland is now running at £573 per calendar month - but that figure hides wide variations in...

The chief executive of a specialist buy to let mortgage broker is warning that mortgages for landlords are likely to become...

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

Just one region of England and Wales saw rents fall in the year to September 2018, according to the latest Your...

With an average rental return of 7.69 per cent Ireland has been named as the top location in Europe for buy to...

The latest Your Move rental tracker suggests that London’s lettings market has continued to cool with prices falling by 0.5 per...

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

Data from Your Move's England and Wales Rental Tracker shows that the number of tenants in arrears increased for the fourth...

The cost of most mainstream buy to let mortgages is increasing according to online operator Mortgage Brain. The cost of a two...

There has been a sharp rise in the cost of buy to let mortgages since the November 2 announcement increasing the...

The autumn's Prudential Regulation Authority changes, coupled with months of rate rise predictions, seem to have had little effect on the cost of...

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

The imminent mortgage interest tax relief changes coming into effect in April has triggered a surge in the number of mortgage...

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...

There is good news to end a difficult week for the letting agency industry - there’s been a further drop in...

The financial downturn was “probably the best thing that could have happened” to this country’s private rental sector according to lettings...

An action group campaigning on behalf of landlords has confirmed that it is ready to begin legal action against the Bank...

It is now thought that the likely average payout to each buy to let borrower affected by this week’s court decision...

A warning is being issued that the types of mortgages still being extended to buy to let investors risks them becoming...

The most common reason people give for not writing a will is that they “haven’t got around to it yet”. Sound...

It is safe to say that in the cyber world of today, a reviewing culture has been born. We have review...

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As agents, you know that there is so much more to the home-buying process than simply choosing a perfect home, but...

Landlords should make sure they are regularly checking their property to ensure tenants are not subletting without permission. Staying on top of...

The rising phenomenon of agent-rating and review websites is a topic that seems to have caused considerable division and controversy among...