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Property management and facilities firm Pinnacle is to become the leading managing agent for Legal & General Affordable Homes. In recent weeks, the...
16 April 2024
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Nationwide has taken the unusual step of using its buy to let lending arm - The Mortgage Works - to make...
05 March 2024
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The chief executive of Propertymark has made an outspoken attack on the government in response to its latest attempt to extract...
04 March 2024
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The Budget on Wednesday will contain a £300m tax raid on the rental sector according to a report this morning -...
03 March 2024
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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
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Propertymark has told politicians that an additional homes tax will not succeed in increasing housing supply. Timothy Douglas, head of policy and...
23 November 2023
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A leading estate agent on one of the Channel Islands has slammed the way additional homes are now being taxed. Since last...
28 June 2023
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A Liberal Democrat council leader says all properties - even those in properly established lettings businesses - should be charged council...
15 June 2023
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Off-plan new build properties - at one time a solid favourite amongst landlords - are now falling out of favour with...
23 May 2023
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A prominent lettings agent in the north of England has written to Housing Secretary Michael Gove urging him to cease attacking...
22 March 2023
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The political party propping up the Scottish Government says higher taxes on buy to lets will help the housing market be...
31 January 2023
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Propertymark chief executive Nathan Emerson has personally written to a leading politician about a tax threat to the rental sector. Emerson has...
18 January 2023
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A high profile lettings agency has backed a petition demanding the reinstatement of tax relief for landlords. Benham and Reeves says it...
11 January 2023
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One of the politicians backing a tax surcharge on the purchase of second homes and buy to lets has been put...
30 December 2022
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Letting agents in Scotland are angry at the Scottish Government for increasing the tax surcharge on buyers of buy to lets...
20 December 2022
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Land and Buildings Transaction Tax - the Scottish equivalent of stamp duty - has risen to six per cent for all...
16 December 2022
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A respected agent is warning that a proposal to increase stamp duty on additional homes could kill off the rental market...
29 November 2022
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A council has purchased some 40 properties to avoid them becoming holiday homes and Airbnbs. Highland council in Scotland is spending up...
27 July 2022
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Propertymark has set up a working group of experts, agents, landlords and stakeholders in response to radical reforms to the private...
18 July 2022
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Some parts of London have recorded over 50 per cent of sales as second or additional properties. Research by lending firm Octane...
01 July 2022
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New figures indicate the ongoing growth of buy to let. Analysing data on additional property purchases made in the financial year 2020/21,...
20 June 2022
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Propertymark says it welcomes measures in the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill that will mean swifter action to get the hundreds...
25 May 2022
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The government says it’s finalising plans for a new tax regime to apply to additional homes, and in particular those used...
09 November 2021
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Wales’ Labour-led administration is to announce a three-pronged approach to affordability issues - and it looks likely to involve a clampdown...
06 July 2021
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Cornish MPs have spoken up in the House of Commons to highlight what they claim is the danger of having too...
24 June 2021
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ARLA Propertymark has thrown its weight behind a call for HMRC to extend the time limit for the payment of Capital...
11 June 2021
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The five years since the introduction of the three per cent stamp duty surcharge on additional homes has led to a...
17 May 2021
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A leading tax expert is forecasting that Chancellor Rishi Sunak will duck making any changes to CGT in tomorrow’s Budget and...
02 March 2021
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A leading property law expert says there is now pressure on Chancellor Rishi Sunak to raise stamp duty on buy to...
30 December 2020
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An MP claims the proliferation of short lets via Airbnb and similar online platforms is indirectly pricing local people out of...
04 November 2020
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New data from Zoopla shows that a two-speed rental market is operating across the UK, with London in particular hitting major...
05 August 2020
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Labour has described the stamp duty holiday introduced last week as “a £1.3 billion bung for landlords” because the tax break...
13 July 2020
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The Budget has failed tenants by doing nothing to increase the supply of private rental property according to two lettings sector...
12 March 2020
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A lettings agency in one of the most competitive markets in Britain says it’s enjoyed a record year winning landlords from...
05 February 2020
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The prime London lettings market has returned to growth after three years of falling rents, according to new five-year forecasts from...
31 January 2020
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Savills says some 120,000 buy to let mortgages have been redeemed since the launch of the additional homes stamp duty surcharge...
24 June 2019
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Landlords have been urged to seek advice about potential stamp duty rebates on ‘uninhabitable’ second properties after a landmark tribunal case. A...
18 June 2019
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The fierce competition in the lettings market in parts of London means that some tenants will feel no benefit from the...
28 May 2019
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Three years after the introduction of the second homes stamp duty surcharge, landlords are “beginning to come to terms with the...
30 April 2019
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Buy to let mortgage costs remain stable with little movement recorded over the past three months according to a market snapshot...
01 April 2019
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The stamp duty surcharge - which across the rest of Britain is currently three per cent on additional homes such as...
08 January 2019
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Rightmove is reporting that average asking rents outside London have topped £800 per month for the first time, fuelled by a...
29 October 2018
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Opposition is growing fast to the threat of another stamp duty attack on the buy to let sector, rumoured to be...
07 August 2018
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A newspaper in warning that the beleaguered buy to let sector may be under attack yet again with the government considering...
06 August 2018
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A trade body says the country faces a net loss of 133,000 homes for private rent over the next year -...
12 July 2018
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One of the most respected buying agencies, Black Brick, says the collapse in demand for buy to let is the most...
09 July 2018
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The government should scrap the tax on new homes which is punishing those in need of a home to rent, the...
29 June 2018
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The latest major piece of research into the private rental sector is forecasting a huge surge in demand - meaning there...
17 May 2018
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Some 43 per cent of all stamp duty comes from buy to let investors and holiday home purchasers - and almost...
10 April 2018
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09 April 2018
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A leading Conservative peer says the government should cut taxes for buy to let investors and regard them as part of...
05 April 2018
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Over two thirds of landlords are reluctant to invest in new properties as a result of the stamp duty surcharge on...
22 November 2017
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Rental growth is forecast to exceed house price growth in London, despite a glut of properties on the lettings market in...
03 November 2017
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Yields from buy to let in the UK are now amongst the worst in Europe according to a new league table drawn...
19 September 2017
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A survey conducted for MyDeposits suggests some nine per cent of landlords - or one in 11 - is likely to...
01 September 2017
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Your Move says a shrinking supply of properties, in part created by government measures against the lettings sector, has led to...
31 August 2017
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Romans says one in four of its registered buyers in the first half of this year has been an investor, suggesting...
30 August 2017
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Perhaps unsurprisingly, a survey reveals that most buy to let and other property investors want the three per cent stamp duty...
24 August 2017
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Mortgage lending for the buy to let sector has halved since the introduction of the stamp duty surcharge in April 2016 according...
18 May 2017
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The chief executive of Andrews Property Group says the government’s three per cent additional homes stamp duty surcharge on buy to...
27 March 2017
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Letting Agent Today’s Conor Shilling was in the audience of The Great Buy To Let Debate - always one of the...
01 March 2017
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The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has given a stark warning about the cumulative effect of the additional homes stamp duty...
10 February 2017
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The government should think again about punitive tax changes to the private rented sector after receiving greater-than-expected revenue from the three...
02 February 2017
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The Residential Landlords Association has been quick off the mark to issue what it calls a seven point wish list to...
27 January 2017
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The Residential Landlords Association says new tax powers devolving to the Welsh Assembly should involve exemptions when it comes to the...
20 January 2017
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Another prominent mortgage chief has called on the government to show its support for the private rental sector by repealing some...
10 November 2016
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Anyone who thought the buy to let sector’s recent anger at higher government taxes may have been misplaced may wish to...
31 October 2016
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The British Property Federation is urging Chancellor Phillip Hammond to bring in tax measures to help the purpose-built Build To Rent...
18 October 2016
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The government must urgently deliver 1.8m new rental homes as new figures from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors reveal a...
05 October 2016
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Rents in Scotland are at a record high, after the fastest month-on-month growth on record. Data from Your Move shows that average...
22 June 2016
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There was a massive slowdown in buy to let lending by investors as the additional homes stamp duty surcharge passed -...
16 June 2016
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The additional homes stamp duty surcharge is contributing to a slowdown in the central London development market according to JLL. The number...
07 April 2016
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The imposition of the stamp duty surcharge on additional homes would add another £4,500 to the cost of setting up a...
04 April 2016
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The Residential Landlords Association is warning private investors not to be lured by firms offering schemes which allegedly promise to help...
09 February 2016
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Paragon Mortgages, one of the buy to let sector’s biggest and best-known lenders, says its buy to let lending in the...
28 January 2016
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Fleet Mortgages is telling clients to choose an efficient conveyancer if they are buying an investment property with a view to...
20 January 2016
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Forty per cent of letting agents are predicting supply will decrease over the next five years – the highest rate this...
24 December 2015
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Scottish finance minister John Swinney is to introduce a three per cent surcharge on the full purchase price of all ‘additional...
17 December 2015
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The scores are in - we have asked 20 senior agents and analysts for their forecasts for capital values the 2016...