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Figures released by HMRC show that the Treasury raked in £5.7 billion in inheritance tax receipts in the nine months from...

Low-income renters will get a boost next spring - but a pressure group wants more government help for this sector. The Chancellor’s...

Scores of councils that enforce licensing regimes on the private rental sector claim they are on the verge of bankruptcy. Almost one...

Last week’s Autumn Statement - which fell short of expectations in terms of help for the private rental sector - is...

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has used his Autumn Statement to reveal measures affecting both the rental market and the wider property industry.  The Local Housing...

Inheritance Tax totalled £4.6 billion for the HM Treasury between April and October - that’s £500,000 up on the same period...

A prominent agency says tomorrow’s Autumn Statement is the Chancellor’s last chance to come good on the election promise to lower...

New figures have shown that 2,086 people were found to be sleeping on London’s streets for the first time between July...

Propertymark is urging the government to use next month’s Autumn Statement to support low-income households in the private rented sector in...

The Autumn Statement on November 22 is the traditional vehicle for the Chancellor to introduce tax change - but now you...

Propertymark is backing a call for financial help for landlords who improve the energy efficiency of their properties. The think tank E3G...

Agents and landlords are to face even longer waits for eviction court cases following the spending cuts announced in the Autumn...

A second agency chief has warned the Conservatives of the possible electoral consequences of higher taxes aimed at the private rental...

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

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has delivered his long-awaited Autumn Statement - the fiscal event which he says will lead to “all of...

A prominent figure in property investment is warning that buy to let is the sector facing the biggest challenges in the...

A new study from Rightmove reveals what aspiring first-time buyers are most likely to cut back on in a bid to...

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

One of the country’s most respected lettings agencies says tax is dominating the agenda ahead of Thursday’s Autumn Statement from Chancellor...

A holiday lettings agency has criticised the proposed rise in capital gains tax which may be introduced this week in the...

The Financial Times has an exclusive saying allowances on property taxes such as Capital Gains and Inheritance will be frozen -...

There’s widespread concern that the Bank of England’s monetary policy committee, which meets tomorrow, is to unveil a 0.75 per cent...

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

A senior Labour politician claims that “unscrupulous” letting agents are hammering tenants with higher-than-usual charges between now and June 1 when...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents says it is seeing a consolidation of agencies ahead of the ban on agents’ fees...

Industry figures have broadly welcomed the latest consultations and proposed additional regulation for the lettings sector, announced by the government yesterday.   The...

According to recent government figures, the average letting agent’s fee is £223 and 4.3 million householders pay this amount or thereabouts...

A Westminster Hall debate for MPs on letting agent fees will take place this morning in the House of Commons. The debate...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has told its agent members that they should urgently lobby their Members of Parliament to...

A prominent campaigner over the misappropriation of rental deposits has welcomed the news that government proposals to ban letting agent fees...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is keeping up its campaign against a ban on agents’ fees in England by showing...

There are 4,000 jobs at risk if an outright ban comes into force on letting agents’ fees according to new research...

A leading insurance company says letting agents and tenants alike will suffer if the government’s proposed ban on fees levied on...

Housing minister Gavin Barwell has confirmed that consultation on the government’s proposed ban on letting agency fees levied on tenants in...

The substantial majority of landlords who now use letting agents will continue to do so even if they see their premiums...

The government’s Housing White Paper may have made many broad pledges aimed at the private rental sector, but it still remains...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has repeated it call for the government to ban up-front letting agent fees at the...

Tenant referencing and insurance firm FCC Paragon says its own referencing sector, as well as independent letting agents and smaller corporate...

The government has published a new set of guidelines for organisations, companies and individuals to lobby the Treasury ahead of the...

Some 80 per cent of letting agents say they expect rents to rise next year.   In the latest market survey by the...

Letting agencies and landlords must club together to campaign for a cap on agents' fees charged to tenants, rather than an...

A campaign group has been refocussed with the objective of making the government honour its Autumn Statement pledge to ban letting...

The Northern Powerhouse agenda, increased infrastructure investment announced in the Autumn Statement and low entry prices make the north of England...

City investment consultancy Jefferies has calculated the impact on landlords if the country’s second largest agency group - LSL Property Services...

The managing director of one of the most prominent letting agencies in Edinburgh and Glasgow - where agents’ fees on tenants...

The NALS ‘Fair Fees Forum’ - set up before last week’s announcement on the banning of letting agency fees levied on tenants...

A letting agency says the scale of confusion over letting agents’ fees is such that some tenants actually believe the deposit...

Online estate agent Urban.co.uk says it has created a league table of fees that tenants are charged by agencies in different locations...

In the week that the government announced a ban on letting agents levying fees on tenants, one multi-office estate agency has...

Many agencies have spoken out in dismay at the announcement by government that letting agency fees on tenants would be banned...

Two charities that have been at the forefront of campaigns to have a ban on letting agents’ fees on tenants have...

Phillip Hammond has delivered his first Autumn Statement, tackling amongst other things, what he called “the housing challenge.” The speech made no...

The government will today announce that it is banning letting agents’ fees levied on tenants - meaning the fees will instead...

The UK is only the 15th best place in Europe to enjoy high returns from buy to let according to currency...

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

A lettings agent has poured scorn on a survey suggesting a quarter of landlords are about to quit buy to let,...

Another prominent mortgage chief has called on the government to show its support for the private rental sector by repealing some...

The National Landlords Association has launched an e-postcard campaign for letting agent and landlord members to lobby the government over the...

A leading mortgage industry spokesman says he hopes Theresa May's "more balanced approach" to housing policy will trigger government support for...

The Residential Landlords’ Association has revealed that it is to meet with Treasury officials ahead of next month’s Autumn Statement -...

The British Property Federation is urging Chancellor Phillip Hammond to bring in tax measures to help the purpose-built Build To Rent...

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

The average rent for a one-bedroom property was £1,010 in August, according to the latest Landbay Rental Index. Between July and August,...

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

The Residential Landlords Association says the build up to the new government‘s Autumn Statement - effectively its first budget - is...

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

Yesterday George Osborne delivered his eighth budget as chancellor, announcing an extra £3.5 billion in spending cuts by 2019-20. The Office for...

Landlords’ confidence in the buy to let sector has collapsed to an all-time low and is now “worse than levels witnessed...

The Residential Landlords’ Association is taking legal advice on whether George Osborne’s buy to let tax changes are a breach of...

The government is asking whether its proposed three per cent stamp duty surcharge on the purchase of second and subsequent homes...

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

The buy to let market has experienced annual growth of no less than 26 per cent between November 2014 and last...

The chairman of Berkeley Homes is warning that George Osborne’s latest three per cent stamp duty hike for buy to let...

It is not often that a national newspaper dedicates an article to praising buy to let - and even rarer for...

There’s been an angry reaction from letting agents and landlords to the shock news that an additional three per cent stamp...

- From April 2016 buy to let landlords and people buying second or holiday homes will have to pay an additional...

George Osborne has announced a shock additional 3.0 per cent stamp duty on second homes and buy to let properties. Details are...