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Reduce buy to let regulation or face a worsening housing crisis - that’s the message from a leading property lawyer.  Mary Rouse,...

Independent service Moneyfacts says that while the buy to let mortgage sector remains resilient, it has contracted slightly in recent weeks...

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

A specialist buy to let mortgage broker is urging prospective investors to buy sooner rather than later if they want to...

A new mortgage product aimed at buy to let investors wanting to enjoy a slice of the holiday home staycation market...

There’s been a significant increase in the mortgage choice available to landlords as the buy to let market gets closer to...

The possibility of an extended mortgage holiday being introduced, for landlords as well as home owners, has been sharply criticised by...

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

HSBC says its unable to accept any new buy to let mortgage applications during the Coronavirus crisis. The same applies to applications...

Data from independent mortgage monitor Moneyfacts shows that there’s been a big drop in the choice of mortgage for buy to...

It’s not just navigating a path through the Coronavirus crisis that is proving the value of letting agents - it’s their...

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

All court possession orders are being suspended from today as part of the changes to the private rental sector to cope...

The landlords’ newly-merged trade body has renewed its call for the government to do more to help the private rental sector...

The government has announced a complete ban on evictions in the private and social sectors for any tenant affected by the...

One of the country’s leading buying agencies says buy to let is changing in prime central London, as corporate structures replace...

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

A mortgage firm claims some 22 per cent of existing lettings sector investors plan to buy at least another one lettings...

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

One of the highest profile buy to let mortgage lenders predicts that 2020 will see increasing numbers of investors going into...

A prominent buy to let mortgage chief says lenders should be able to access the rogue landlord database launched last year. John...

Specialist buy to let mortgage lender Paragon has welcomed Labour's General Election pledge to force rental properties to undergo an annual...

A solicitor has urged the government not to reform or scrap Section 21 eviction powers simply on the basis of protests...

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

One in six landlords is seeking to reduce the size of their portfolio in the next 12 months and around half...

One of the country’s leading property management experts says buy to let is here to stay - but only if individual...

Lettings experts are being invited to the unveiling of a service described by its creators as “a revolutionary rental product.” It is...

A lettings agency is believed to be the first to offer landlords a year's rent in advance in one lump sum...

There’s been an “unprecedented” across-the-board fall in fixed rate buy to let mortgage rates according to an online investment platform.   Property Master...

The number of buy to let products for first time landlords has risen to an all-time high. Data from independent mortgage market...

Savills says some 120,000 buy to let mortgages have been redeemed since the launch of the additional homes stamp duty surcharge...

A leading buy to let specialist lender says the vast number of BTL mortgage products now on the market has made...

We may be all-too-familiar with the challenges facing letting agents and landlords in the private rental sector but there is at...

A specialist broker says the costs of most fixed rate buy to let mortgages are beginning to rise.  Property Master warned last...

The fierce competition in the lettings market in parts of London means that some tenants will feel no benefit from the...

A leading buy to let mortgage provider says the professional landlord with multiple properties is increasingly becoming the backbone of its...

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

There was a notable increase in the number of older buy-to-let investors in 2018, according to Commercial Trust Limited. The specialist buy-to-let...

Fergus Wilson, arguably Britain’s most controversial landlord and almost certainly the individual with the largest number of buy to lets in...

Buy to let mortgage costs remain stable with little movement recorded over the past three months according to a market snapshot...

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

The UK’s holiday lets sector could be a beneficiary of the current Brexit uncertainty and people not vacationing abroad because they...

The gap between the cost of buying and renting is down 59 per cent to its lowest level in nine years...

Brexit is not a good reason for delaying buy to let investment, insists a mortgage chief. Andrew Turner is chief executive at...

A new league table of worries for landlords shows exactly why letting agents are needed - and a lot of the...

A pressure group that in the past has protested outside letting agency branches has staged more direct action - this time against...

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

Rightmove is reporting that average asking rents outside London have topped £800 per month for the first time, fuelled by a...

The number of buy to let lenders lending to limited companies has risen by 47 per cent over the past year,...

Urgent action is needed to tackle discrimination against benefit claimants by buy to let mortgage providers according to a leading trade...

New figures out show that buy to let mortgage rates are showing the effects of last month’s base rate rise. Online mortgage...

Data produced by Sainsbury’s Bank Mortgages gives a trend-bucking upbeat assessment of investors’ renewed interest in buy to let.  Figures siuggest that...

First the good news - investors are still purchasing buy to let properties; the less good news is that it’s a...

High-profile buy to let mortgage lender LendInvest says it’s going to allow applicants to prove their ID online via photographs. It’s working...

A specialist buy to let mortgage lender says buy to let investors should act now - even if it means borrowing...

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

A buy to let mortgage firm says it’s likely that there will be a spike in refinancing enquiries as landlords meet...

Property expert Kate Faulkner says the massive surge in new regulations, legislation and fiscal measures aimed at the private rental sector...

The conclusions of a new think tank analysing the private rental sector are “fundamentally wrong” according to a trade body.  The Residential...

The growth of the private rental sector has slowed thanks to government intervention and economic uncertainty - but it will expand...

A campaign opposing the government’s recent tax changes which have penalised buy to let investors has taken a leaf out of...

There’s been a big rise in the proportion of landlords remortgaging according to one of the sector’s most prominent lenders, Paragon. In...

Buy to let investors are taking a wait and see approach when it comes to additional investment in the sector according...

One of the most famous names in buy to let mortgages, Paragon, has revealed that it’s on the acquisition trail. There had...

Buy to let sector confidence across a range of measures remained stable or increased in the first quarter of 2018 compared...

The number of buy to let mortgage products on the open market has passed the 2,000 mark for the first time.  This...

Rules introduced last autumn by the Bank of England’s Prudential Regulation Authority are hurting the buy to let mortgage market according...

There’s been a significant rise in the number of fixed-rate buy to let mortgages available to limited companies, says independent mortgage...

The price of some buy to let mortgages looks set to rise across the board following the decisions of two of...

A new survey by a leading lettings trade body suggests that the Bank of England’s attempts to make buy to let...

The Bank of England has issued gloomy figures on buy to let lending, suggesting the clampdown on mortgage interest tax relief...

With only three weeks to go to the introduction of the first phase of Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards, a specialist mortgage...

The independent mortgage market monitor Moneyfacts says some buy to let mortgage rates have gone back to record lows. The monitor says...

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

The average cost of renting a home is now rising across every UK region for the first time in almost two...

Specialist buy to let lender Commercial Trust claims at least two other regions of the UK are now vying with London...

A mortgage lender has created a special buy to let product aimed at landlords who let a property to a close...

Well over half of those investors who recently secured buy to let mortgages risk facing losses when mortgage interest tax changes...

New figures appear to show that younger people may prefer investing in property over pensions - giving new hope to the...

Nearly three quarters of portfolio landlords have found it more difficult to secure a mortgage since the Prudential Regulation Authority’s changes...

Almost three-quarters of buy to let mortgage transactions made by landlords operating via limited companies in the final quarter of last...

A digital start-up that uses algorithms to match the requirements of landlords against the entire buy to let mortgage market of...

Online letting agency Upad is linking with high profile independent finance service John Charcol in a bid to make it easier...

The consumer organisation Which? is warning that buy to let mortgages could become more expensive in the near future. This is despite...

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

One of Britain’s best known and highest profile buy to let specialist lenders says the number of new BTL mortgages being...

A leading independent mortgage market monitor is warning that increases in mortgage costs are now proving the latest blow to the...

Consumer organisation Which? says a handful of buy to let mortgage lenders have found a way of helping so-called ‘portfolio landlords’...

LSL Property Services, which owns Your Move and Reeds Rains lettings and estate agencies, is investing in an online buy to...

There’s been another large increase in the number of buy to let mortgages sought by limited companies - they accounted for...

The number of new buy to let mortgages available to investors has hit 1,725 - its highest point since 1,942 products...

A survey for online letting agency Upad claims that 66 per cent of landlords are not going to change their property...

Perhaps unsurprisingly, a survey reveals that most buy to let and other property investors want the three per cent stamp duty...

A legal firm has added its weight to the warning that many Airbnb hosts could be, by accident or design, breaching...

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

NatWest Intermediary Solutions has announced a major overhaul of its buy to let mortgage offer, but it is bucking the trend...

Buy to let mortgage competition is showing no signs of stopping, thus giving one of the few pieces of good news...

The flat fees for buy to let mortgages are now lower than they have been at any point in the past...

The number of mortgage products has more than doubled over the past two years, according to new data released by sourcing...

The Tenancy Deposit Scheme has commissioned buy to let expert Kate Faulkner to assess issues in the private rental sector -...

Specialist buy to let mortgage lender LandBay has teamed up with financial services giant Legal & General to provide a new...

The Residential Landlords’ Association says recent fiscal changes hitting the private rented sector are hurting tenants but failing to achieve their...

Skipton International has launched a guide to help expat buy to let investors trying to make sense of the UK government’s...

Investors in buy to let are the marketing target for a service which describes itself as the UK’s first digital mortgage...

A letting sector trade body says two thirds of the largest buy to let mortgage lenders do not allow landlords to...

One of the biggest lenders to the buy to let community, Santander, is to lower its affordability assessments from next Wednesday.   It...

Data from the first three months of this year suggests that investors are increasingly purchasing smaller, cheaper properties. Specialist lender Mortgages for...

A new study of landlords reveals that far more believe they will be affected by today’s buy to let mortgage interest...

The range and pricing of buy to let mortgage products for limited companies has never been better according to a survey...

The Metro Bank is the latest to make changes to its buy to let mortgage portfolio in a bid to attract...

The Loughborough Building Society is launching a Buy For Uni mortgage product seeking to encourage students to buy a home -...

The proportion of landlords considering commercial loans to fund purchases has doubled over the last 18 months as they try to...

Protests planned by tenants’ groups for many Santander bank branches over the past weekend turned instead into celebrations after the institution...

A second firm is suggesting that the cost of Buy To Let mortgages has fallen to a record low - but...

The buy to let mortgage market has suffered something of a battering in recent months but now Post Office Money is...

Paragon Bank, one of the country’s leading specialist buy to let mortgages houses, almost halved its lending to landlords in the...

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...

Housing minister Gavin Barwell says recent changes to buy to let mortgage interest relief and stamp duty will only affect a...

A buy to let mortgage lender claims that five out of six areas affected by the long-running spate of strikes on...

The consumer organisation Which? has joined the chorus of concern that new mortgage restrictions may hit buy to let landlords.   Since January...

There is yet more evidence that an increasing number of buy to let investors are setting up companies to offset the...

Specialist mortgage lender OneSavings Bank is the latest to announce that it is introducing stricter affordability assessments for all new buy...

The Leeds Building Society is the latest buy to let mortgage lender to amend its criteria for borrowers ahead of new...

The Financial Times reports that the Bank of England is questioning buy to let mortgage lenders and banks as part of...

The government’s proposed ban on letting agency fees levied on tenants - and the possibility that they may instead fall on...

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

A major buy to let mortgage provider has eased the criteria to be met by landlord investors who want to borrow...

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

The Mortgage Works, the buy to let lending arm of the Nationwide, has seen a dip in the amount borrowed by...

The Bank of England has been given additional powers by the government to control mortgage lending for buy to let investors. The...

There’s been a significant drop in the amount borrowed by buy to let investors over the past year, despite a rise...

Average rents across the UK are up eight per cent over the past 15 months according to Connells Group - but...

So much for Brexit and economic uncertainty disrupting the buy to let market - a new survey out today shows it’s...

The National Landlords Association claims that changes to buy to let mortgage interest tax relief being introduced in six months time...

Buy to let lending is well down according to data from the Council of Mortgage Lenders.    Apparently contrary to an optimistic report...

Despite huge turmoil in the buy to let sector, there has been a significant rise in mortgage activity in the past...

Agents don’t need reminding that Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today are invaluable sources of daily industry news - but...

The attempt to seek a Judicial Review of legislation reducing the mortgage interest tax relief for landlords has failed. The case was...

Details of the Bank of England’s statement outlining tougher rules on mortgage lending to buy to let investors have been shown...

The chief executive of financial consultancy Clayton Euro Risk says changes soon coming in to tighten the criteria applied to buy...

The costs of buy To let mortgages have fallen by as much as eight per cent over the past six months.   Software...

New data from referencing company Equifax Touchstone suggests that this July’s buy to let mortgage lending total is 39 per cent...

  A letter from the Financial Conduct Authority, leaked to Sky News, suggests that the body is drawing up plans to tighten...

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

Buy to let mortgage arrears are set to fall below 7,000 by the end of the year according to one lender’s...

There has been another high-level prediction that mortgage lending for buy to let investors is likely to be restricted further in the...

The growth in buy to let mortgage products - rising rapidly until recently - has now begun to drop off.   Products increased...

One of Britain’s leading buy to let mortgage companies says it anticipates that over three quarters of borrowing to purchase BTL...

A market survey by specialist broker Mortgages for Business reveals that there has been a substantial increase in lending in the...

Mortgage firms insisting on landlords proving their rental income could cover 145 per cent of their monthly payments could lead to...

The TSB is the latest buy to let lender to increase its interest coverage ratio for buy to let mortgages from...

There were 3,100 fewer private rental households in serious rent arrears in the first quarter of this year compared to the...

The Property 118 website - which last week won a notable victory in the Court of Appeal against a building society...

A landmark court ruling against the West Bromwich building society has come down in favour of buy to let investors.  The case...

Chancellor George Osborne’s stamp duty surcharge imposed on landlords and other second home buyers from April 1 prompted an enormous 142...

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

Ahead of what some consider as the likely tightening of buy to let mortgage lending criteria by the Bank of England...

The two landlords campaigning to win a judicial review of George Osborne’s restrictions on buy to let mortgage tax relief have...

A buy to let lender says new underwriting rules from the Prudential Regulation Authority could trigger another rush to snap up...

Private landlords’ confidence is at the lowest level since late 2006 according to market research company BDRC Continental, thanks to anti-buy...

A financial journalist has lambasted the government’s anti-buy to let policies, describing them as “political short-termism ... a vote winner to...

The two landlords spearheading a campaign to challenge the change to buy to let mortgage interest tax relief have launched another...

Independent comparison website Moneyfacts says mortgage lenders are slashing rates on products designed for landlords, in a bid to buoy up...

Demand for buy to let mortgages in the coming months is expected to fall "significantly" according to a Bank of England...

A substantial majority of new buy to let mortgage applicants are unaware of the mortgage tax relief changes, according to a...

The imposition of the stamp duty surcharge on additional homes would add another £4,500 to the cost of setting up a...

The two landlords behind the bid to seek a judicial review of George Osborne’s buy to let mortgage interest relief tax...

The financial editor of The Guardian newspaper claims that - despite widespread criticism within the lettings industry of the latest buy...

The Bank of England has released new buy to let mortgage underwriting standards which are expected to set out stricter borrowing...

HM Revenue & Customs and the Treasury have at last responded to the legal team representing two landlords challenging beleaguered Chancellor...

February has seen a further burst of buy to let activity, fuelled not only by the stamp duty surcharge deadline but...

Some 26,676 court orders were issued for the eviction of private sector tenants in the final quarter of 2015 according to...

A risk expert at a leading buy to let mortgage company says the industry should actually embrace the restrictions on lending...

There has been another substantial increase in the number of buy to let mortgage applications made by limited companies - suggesting...

Just over 60,000 people have signed an online petition urging MPs to reconsider the controversial buy to let mortgage interest tax...

Bank of England governor Mark Carney has again spoken out about possible “threats” to the economy posed by the increase in...

Barclays has increased its age cap for those applying for buy to let mortgages from 75 to 80 with immediate effect. The personal...

A financial analyst says current buy to let mortgage constraints - with a strong possibility of more later this year - may...

Buy to let loans could outstrip remortgaging within a matter of weeks as landlords rush to beat the April 1 stamp...

Buy To Let mortgage lending grew 17 per cent in 2015 but faces a potential slump after April, according to property...

The Observer newspaper has made an outspoken attack on agents, landlords and others complaining about recent tax and regulation changes to the...

Hunters Estate Agents have taken the unusual step for a public company of criticising the government - in this case over...

The Bank of England Governor Mark Carney is the latest influential figure to hint that there may soon be additional restrictions...

The government is poised to launch a consultation document which is expected to advocate further restrictions on buy to let mortgage...

The Basel Committee - an international forum which sets standards for bank regulations in individual countries - says financial institutions should place greater emphasis...

Ahead of expected restrictions on buy to let lending to be introduced next year by the Bank of England, some individual...

A respected survey of the buy to let market says proposed tax changes and the increased stamp duty on additional homes...

Two interviews given by a deputy governor of the Bank of England appear to suggest that there will soon be additional...

It appears almost certain that the Bank of England is preparing for new mortgage controls in a bid to dampen what...

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

There is another warning today that changes to buy to let mortgage tax relief will lead to increased rents.  Back in July,...

One of Britain’s best known specialist buy to let mortgage companies, Paragon, has revealed a startling 102 per cent increase in...

The popularity of buy to let continues to soar according to data analysts Moneyfacts, despite a raft of new regulations coming...

Rents climbed 0.7 per cent in October to a UK average of £1,294. There were increases in every region with the...

Mortgage lending to buy to let landlords has increased by volume and by value in the third quarter of the year, according...

The costs of lender arrangement fees, valuation fees and legal costs attached to new buy to let mortgages are falling as...

The prospect of lending restraints for landlords next year has done little to deter lenders offering a wide range of deals...

The number of buy to let mortgage products has leapt to 953 - an 11 per cent increase in the past...

The number of landlords with buy to let mortgages that are more than three months in arrears has dropped for the...

Landbay, a relatively new peer-to-peer lender focussed on the buy to let sector, has appointed a former senior figure from Paragon...

The Council for Mortgage Lenders is warning the government not to interfere with the Buy To Let sector in such a...

A survey of 500 landlords suggest that 10 per cent of them have had difficulties in securing a mortgage over the...

An online petition demanding the reinstatement of buy to let landlords' tax breaks has broken the 10,000 signatures mark which means...

An online petition demanding the reinstatement of buy to let landlords' tax breaks has so far attracted 6,300-plus signatures. The petition, which...

A critic of the suggestion that buy to let landlords could set up companies to ‘beat’ the ending of tax breaks...

Half-year figures from specialist buy to let mortgage company Paragon give an insight into the scale of increased activity in the...

The specialist buy to let mortgage sector is set to be an unexpected victim of the buy to let tax changes...

Agents have expressed their disappointment at the decision by the government to restrict mortgage interest relief for Buy To let investors...

The Bank of England says excessive lending to fund buy to let purchases could pose a risk to the financial well-being...

A specialist buy to let lender is increasing the maximum age of the borrower at the end of the mortgage term...

A leading buy to let mortgage provider claims the average deposit of £40,000 for an investment property will deter the private...