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Propertymark has issued a no-holds-barred plea to the politician who has been named as the new housing minister in Wales -...

An industry online event which organisers claim bring business-boosting benefits to attendees, is back for another year. The ARX Mastery Challenge is...

The new Labour leader in Wales, Vaughan Gething, has received an early shot across the bows from Propertymark. Gething was elected Welsh...

A long-standing and respected property firm has slammed the government for presiding over the “mess” of taxes applied to holiday lets...

One of the politicians backing a tax surcharge on the purchase of second homes and buy to lets has been put...

Letting agents in Scotland are angry at the Scottish Government for increasing the tax surcharge on buyers of buy to lets...

A new licensing scheme for HMOs, agreed by leaders of Portsmouth council, will be implemented from September 1 2023. Licensing of HMOs...

A holiday lettings agency has taken the unusual step of speaking out in favour of higher council tax for second home...

A building society which has taken the unprecedented step of stopping lending on second homes has been sharply criticised by a...

Some parts of London have recorded over 50 per cent of sales as second or additional properties. Research by lending firm Octane...

New figures indicate the ongoing growth of buy to let. Analysing data on additional property purchases made in the financial year 2020/21,...

The government says it’s finalising plans for a new tax regime to apply to additional homes, and in particular those used...

A new analysis of the private rental sector suggests it was reducing in size for some years before the pandemic. Nationwide’s specialist...

A branch in The Property Franchise Group has snapped up a local independent - and almost 200 additional properties under management.  The...

The lettings book of one of the UK’s oldest property and law companies has been snapped up by a firm in the...

An MP claims the proliferation of short lets via Airbnb and similar online platforms is indirectly pricing local people out of...

Now may be the time for buy to let investors to consider incorporation - putting their property portfolios into a limited...

A stamp duty cut could reinvigorate the buy to let market and the wider economy as the country comes out of...

A trade body has come out against a council’s HMO licensing scheme, claiming that its consultation period was too short -...

Just over third of private landlords are planning to quit the sector or cut the number of homes they let in...

One of the leading lettings sector trade bodies has unveiled what it describes as “a positive vision for the private rented...

A trade body says the private rental sector is facing a major crisis - more landlords are selling properties than buying...

Property investors are calling for the government to provide more support to the UK property market. A survey of investors, carried out...

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

Buy to let is still an attractive investment compared to other asset classes but to make the best of the opportunity...

There are now five per cent fewer homes to let now than two years ago, says Countrywide in its rebranded Hamptons...

Increased volatility in the private rental sector and rising costs for landlords and investors have combined to lead to an increased...

The government has set out new measures to mitigate against overcrowded and dangerous living conditions of private tenants in shared homes. From...

An analysis of data released by HM Revenue and Customs shows that 1.9 million people earned money from property in 2015-16...

Over two thirds of landlords are reluctant to invest in new properties as a result of the stamp duty surcharge on...

A survey of almost 3,000 landlords suggests more than one in five plans to sell at least one of their investment...

There was a sigh of relief amongst the lettings industry that yesterday's Budget introduced no new property taxes - but concern...

An assessment undertaken by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development shows property taxes accounted for 12.7 per cent of the...

More than 92 per cent of landlords believe the government is anti-landlord and want the Chancellor to back them in this...

A major survey has given a vote of confidence to buy to let despite the wave of fiscal, political and economic...

Anyone who thought the buy to let sector’s recent anger at higher government taxes may have been misplaced may wish to...

As the Conservatives meet at their annual conference and Chancellor Phillip Hammond considers next month’s Autumn Statement, an industry body has...

The Scottish Association of Landlords - which represents letting agents as well as landlords north of the border - has spoken...

The Council of Mortgage Lenders has told the Bank of England’s Prudential Regulation Authority not to add unnecessarily to the welter...

The number of valuations for buy to let purposes last month was eight per cent up on the May 2015 level...

Average rents for single rooms across the UK increased at a faster rate than those in London, according to spareroom.co.uk. The rental...

The managing director of the Association of Residential Letting Agents says urgent action is necessary “to make the prospect of being...

Prime Minister David Cameron has dismissed out of hand appeals and comments from Letting Agent Today readers to reconsider the recent...

Today is the last chance for Letting Agent Today readers to have their concerns about proposed stamp duty increases and recent...

A Conservative peer and former shadow chief secretary to the Treasury has become the first senior Tory to speak out against...

Letting Agent Today readers are being given the rare opportunity to have their concerns about proposed stamp duty increases and recent...

The man behind the Platinum Property Partners company are mounting a legal challenge to this year’s buy to let tax changes...

Scottish finance minister John Swinney is to introduce a three per cent surcharge on the full purchase price of all ‘additional...

Bournemouth council has set up a private sector rental company which will see it buy properties and then let them.  The decision...