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February saw significant improvements in activity across the prime London lettings market, and annual rental growth also increased slightly after four...

A think tank is urging the UK government to consider tax perks for private renters to help them save faster for...

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

One of the lettings sector’s longest-standing suppliers - Mortgages for Business - is rebranding. It’s to be known as Mortgage Finance Brokers,...

Property taxes in Scotland exceeded £600m over the last year according to analysis of the latest statistics by the country’s largest...

UK Finance has published its housing and mortgage market forecasts for 2024 and 2025 together with projections for 2023 full year numbers. Key figures for 2023 In...

Propertymark has laid out its proposals to the Scottish Government ahead of its 2024-25 Budget next week. The letting agents’ trade body...

A council’s lettings service - first set up a decade ago - says it is stepping up its campaign to recruit...

Propertymark has given strong support to the government’s “flexible and affordable” approach to the green policy agenda,  Timothy Douglas, Head of Policy...

A mortgage lender has conducted a survey of homeowners which has produced a string of anti-landlord and anti-overseas investor attitudes. Market Financial...

A holiday lettings agency has come out fighting on behalf of its clients. Following calls by local leaders in Cornwall and Devon...

Barbon Insurance Group, which describes itself as the UK's largest tenant referencing and specialist lettings insurance intermediary, has a new managing...

New powers have been revealed to tackle what the Welsh Government calls the ‘problem’ of second homes.  A statement from the Senedd...

Propertymark has given advice to the new Scottish National Party leader and Scotland’s First Minister, Humza Yousaf. The trade group’s head of...

A new PropTech tool says it will help agents maximise their chances of handling the sales of properties being disposed of...

A senior figure in the financial services sector says only Build To Rent can solve the stock shortage in the lettings...

An agent claims that if Labour wins the next General Election there will be what he calls “misguided meddling” across the...

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

The Valuation Office Agency has issued a reminder that changes to eligibility rules for self-catering properties will come into effect from...

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

Just about every agency that has commented on yesterday’s Autumn Statement are in agreement - changes to Capital Gains Tax, Inheritance...

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

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

The agents’ trade body Propertymark says the government must “get realistic” over the difficulties involved in reaching Net Zero targets when...

A leading light in the Generation Rent group is disputing the findings of a Propertymark survey of letting agents.  Agents from businesses...

There’s just a week left - including the long Jubilee celebration period - for agents to respond to a major property tax...

Demand for pied a terres from those working in offices for only three days of the week is fuelling demand for...

Tax experts say that an attempt to levy higher purchase tax on holiday lets and second homes in one part of...

The Property Investor Show is back for its 20th year with 100 property sector experts and exhibitors in London this week. The...

There’s been a broad welcome from letting agents to the Spring Statement not loading more tax or restrictions on buy to...

Letting agents are being urged to respond to a consultation opening today from rhe independent Office for Tax Simplification.  The OTS has published an...

The growing importance of virtual tours for properties to let and for sale during the pandemic shows little sign of easing,...

The government has issued revised guidelines for the possession process in the private and social rented sectors in the light of...

There’s a 15 year record high in the number of buy to let mortgage products available for current or new landlords. The...

MPs and the wider public have been presented with a lengthy report on the growth of Airbnb and similar platforms across...

Home offices are already the most-demanded must have from prospective tenants says James Hay, director at Surrey lettings agency, The Home...

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

All sides of the industry have expressed anger and frustration that yesterday’s Budget effectively ignored the private rental sector. ARLA Propertymark’s policy...

Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves has told the Labour Party conference that if her party wins the next General Election she will...

The value of the Private Rented Sector in England, Wales and Scotland grew by 5.8 per cent to a jaw dropping...

Demand for private rental housing is now at a five year high according to the National Residential Landlords Association. In the association’s...

The majority of short lets operators in a sector trade body say they will maintain Covid-safe protocols for the foreseeable future,...

The trade body for short lets operators - the Short Term Accommodation Association - says it wants even more travel restrictions...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? My name is Maxine Fothergill and for the past ‘almost’...

The government has updated its guidance for agents, landlords and tenants to explain the possession action process in the county courts...

Wales’ Labour-led administration is to announce a three-pronged approach to affordability issues - and it looks likely to involve a clampdown...

ARLA Propertymark has thrown its weight behind a call for HMRC to extend the time limit for the payment of Capital...

Airbnb, which has been criticised by some for its impact on local rental markets, is to set up its own ‘tax’...

A global ban on parties in Airbnb properties, started back in August last year, has been extended until the end of...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card?  Bal Arora – Managing Director In your experience, what is the...

The government’s much-vaunted ‘tax day’ produced few challenges to the status quo - but holiday lets are under scrutiny. Currently the holiday let...

An assessment by Savills suggests capital values - including those for properties in the lettings sector - are likely to soar...

A prominent industry figure is warning Chancellor Rishi Sunak not to use property taxes to bail out the government over the costs...

The Guild of Property Professionals has issued tips for agents and other industry professionals having to cope with working from home...

With the Government announcement this week of another national lockdown across England amid the surging coronavirus infections, it once again puts...

Recent debate about urgent need for reform and better collaboration within the property industry, has once again come under the spotlight...

It’s been an unexpected year for the property market, shaped by the effects of the pandemic. We didn’t quite anticipate the...

Light has been shed at last on the long-running uncertainty about why some landlords choose to use lettings agents and some...

Scotland must encourage more investors into its property market as a way of supporting its economy once the Coronavirus recedes according...

Government intervention, which in recent years has seen scores of legal and regulatory changes to the private rental sector, may be...

With no clear end in sight and conflicting Government advice as to whether we should work from home or go to...

Rogue landlords have been accused of tax evasion which could cost the Treasury as much as £1.73 billion a year. The accusation...

There’s a warning that buy to let investors will simply hold on to properties and not sell them if rumoured Capital...

A survey suggests that 77 per cent of  buy to letinvestors believe their tenants can pay full rent during the Coronavirus...

It’s been revealed that a legal group is considering how courts will consider eviction cases when the current ban is lifted...

A document outlining options for the future regulation of Airbnb and other short let platforms in the UK is to be...

Aldermore Bank is this week resuming physical mortgage valuations on properties for house purchase and remortgage in England, where strict social...

An economist who previously suggested tenants should live rent-free for three months during the Coronavirus crisis has revised his thinking -...

A surge in rental activity has encouraged a London-focussed agency to un-furlough some of its staff ahead of an expected relaxation...

Lockdown may be over soon - but who knows what a relaxation of the current restrictions will really mean for our...

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

A lettings agency in one of the most competitive markets in Britain says it’s enjoyed a record year winning landlords from...

The prime London lettings market has returned to growth after three years of falling rents, according to new five-year forecasts from...

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

A trade body is warning of a crisis in the private rental market as new figures show a sharp drop in...

The Chartered Institute of Taxation is urging tenants not to ignore a letter if they receive one from HM Revenue &...

The normally-sedate Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has issued an unusually stark warning to government, telling it to “stop meddling” in...

Rents have reached an all time high across the UK according to HomeLet. Its latest index says the average rent in the...

A private landlord has gone on record to explain her own dilemma with a tenant - and why the government’s scrapping...

Rents in London are rocketing but a leading market commentator says this is no reason to give in to a “Marxist dystopia”...

A holiday lettings company says it’s seen a 23 per cent increase in its portfolio over the past year as owners...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is one of many industry groups in a new coalition calling for S21 repossessions to be...

A damning report on taxation in the private rental sector (PRS) has accused the treasury of appearing not to understand 'the...

Data from a Countrywide agency shows that 59 per cent of landlords who live in London purchased their buy to let...

Buy to let investors are facing a double whammy as stagnating rents and reduced tax relief are hitting profitability. A study from...

A trade body has welcomed calls by a parliamentary committee for tax incentives for the buy to let sector to improve...

A leading accountancy firm has analysed buy to let taxation policies north and south of the border and claims that from...

Changes to Capital Gains Tax which reach their full impact in the next 12 months could fuel property changing hands between...

Income tax paid by buy to let landlords now exceeds £3.8 billion annually – that’s more than double Tesco’s entire annual...

Property management firm Mcilroy Smith has launched a mental health policy for its employees - possibly the first company in the...

Some 24 per cent of landlords have considered letting out their properties on a short let Airbnb-style basis - but only...

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

Rent increases seen in London this year are likely to continue in 2019 because of the diminishing supply of homes to...

A new partnership between AXA Partners and repairs reporting service Fixflo is being piloted in Manchester ahead of what may be...

The agency industry has reacted in a broadly downbeat way at the relatively few housing-related proposals that were announced in yesterday’s...

New research may explain why the government and Labour appear to be competing with each other to attack landlords and letting...

There has been limited support given from some parts of the lettings industry to a proposal offering Capital Gains Tax relief...

A major property platform says London’s rental and sales market may well be on the road to recovery - but that...

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

There have been “significant leaps forward” in the standards of the private rental sector in the past four years, but safety...