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![Flats Underperforming in Housing Market - Nationwide](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Upfront%20information%20is%20here%20and%20now%20-%20digital%20conveyancing%20is%20next!%20by%20Beth%20Rudolf.png)
Apartments are underperforming when it comes to capital growth, according to the Nationwide. The lender, in its latest house price index, says...
03 October 2023
From: Breaking News
![Buy To Let yields and capital appreciation show sharp North-South divide](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Buy-to-let-2-400x310.png)
The north of England is outperforming the south when it comes to yields and capital appreciation, a new survey has discovered. In...
16 August 2023
From: Breaking News
![Phil Spencer urges agents to use the hard sell on Buy To Let](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Buy-to-let-2-400x310.png)
Location, Location, Location star Phil Spencer says it’s time for agents to go for the ‘hard sell’ on Buy To Let,...
13 March 2023
From: Breaking News
![Capital appreciation for rental sector lags behind owner occupation](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/FinanceCalculator-400x310.png)
Figures out this morning from high end agency Savills shows a 5.1 per cent increase in capital appreciation on average across...
27 February 2023
From: Breaking News
![Yields rise in areas where rents outstrip capital appreciation](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/RentalYields-400x310.png)
Rental yields have increased by as much as 2.5 per cent in the past year as rent values outperform house prices. The...
22 February 2023
From: Breaking News
![Franchise brand opens new office and eyes further expansion](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Estate_Agents-400x310.png)
Winkworth is expanding in the south west with a new office opening in the Bishopston area of Bristol, tapping into a...
06 January 2023
From: Breaking News
![Investing in 2023? New buy to let hotspots identified in survey](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/RightToRent1-400x310.png)
New research predicts that northern regions of England will see many of the best investment opportunities in 2023. It is also these...
23 December 2022
From: Breaking News
![Covid reversal as search for city living drives capital appreciation](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Flags%20%26%20Locations/London1-400x310.png)
Increasing demand for homes in cities was the driving force behind the rapid house price inflation witnessed earlier this year, with...
27 October 2022
From: Breaking News
![Developer sets up lettings agency and guarantees 10% yield](/upload/images/library/LandlordAndTenant-695x395.jpg)
A developer building flats and houses in Cornwall has set up a lettings operation promising a fixed 10 per cent gross...
29 September 2022
From: Breaking News
![Capital appreciation roars ahead - even before stamp duty surge](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/Budget-Purse-400x310.jpg)
Asking prices of homes coming to the market continue to rise, even before the expected surge in demand following the government’s...
26 September 2022
From: Breaking News
![Capital appreciation in prime rentals will be best outside southern England](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/PropertyTax-Wide-InArticle.jpg)
Capital appreciation over the next five years amongst properties in prime areas of cities and countryside will be strongest in the...
08 August 2022
From: Breaking News
![Bad news for investors as Central London recovery slows - Savills](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/LandlordStressed-400x310.png)
Buy to let and other investors hoping for a rapid recovery in the prime central London market are likely to be...
05 August 2022
From: Breaking News
![On Your Marks! Buy To Let investors urged to look at Birmingham](/upload/images/Locations/Birmingham-400x310.jpg)
Property prices in Birmingham are expected to rise more than any other city in the UK following the Commonwealth Games, it’s...
28 July 2022
From: Breaking News
![Some buy to let investors get £800 capital appreciation PER DAY - claim](/upload/images/Back-link-images/calculator_hand.png)
A high profile London lettings agency says some owners of properties in prime areas of the capital have seen capital appreciation...
21 July 2022
From: Breaking News
![Urban capital appreciation fights back after rural price rises](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/RentalMarketImage-1-400x310.jpg)
House price growth in prime country and coastal locations is beginning to plateau after two years of runaway growth, with urban...
12 July 2022
From: Breaking News
![League table shows holiday lets income and capital appreciation](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/HolidayHome-400x310.jpg)
A new investment league table has been drawn up to show best aggregate rent and capital appreciation income for those in...
13 April 2022
From: Breaking News
![HMOs can beat capital appreciation of same size houses - claim](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/CoinsHouses-2019-400x310.jpg)
The average HMO is worth a third more than a comparably sized house according to new research. The typical HMO now costs...
08 April 2022
From: Breaking News
![Warning over Capital Gains Tax on buy to let sales](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/BTL-CardboardHouses-400x310.jpg)
A business consultancy is warning that buy to let sellers in the current market are likely to be squeezed - and...
15 March 2022
From: Breaking News
![Buy To Let benefits quantified - thank goodness for capital appreciation](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/BTL-CardboardHouses-400x310.jpg)
Agents tasked with persuading possible investors as to the benefit of buy to let have new ammunition, in the shape of...
03 March 2022
From: Breaking News
![HMRC and Government warned - don’t let Capital Gains Tax kill buy to let](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/House-Tax-400x310.jpg)
A finance chief is warning that the threat of possible rises in Capital Gains Tax should be dismissed by the government to...
09 February 2022
From: Breaking News
![Boomin launches research into rental sector capital appreciation](/upload/images/Logos/Boomin-Logo-400x310.jpg)
Capital appreciation over the past decade has been driven more by the value of homes in the rental market than by...
06 January 2022
From: Breaking News
![Here’s why the rental market is likely to boom in the long term](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/rental-sector26615.png)
New figures provide further evidence of the difficulties first time buyers have getting on the property ladder - and why as...
22 October 2021
From: Breaking News
![More buy to lets being sold despite rental market strength - data](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/BTL400x310.png)
More buy to let properties are being put on the sales market, despite the strength in the lettings sector, says Zoopla. In...
30 September 2021
From: Breaking News
![Rise in investor demand for properties to continue, predicts Zoopla](/upload/images/Logos/ZooplaNewLogo2016-400x310.jpg)
There’s been a 21 per cent rise in demand for properties from buy to let investors according to a new analysis...
26 August 2021
From: Breaking News
![Capital appreciation surge makes case for buy to let - agency chief](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/Cash%20property%20buyers%20image.jpg)
The capital appreciation of the past year proves that there’s no better investment than bricks and mortar, according to an agency...
22 July 2021
From: Breaking News
![Another warning to John Lewis and Lloyds - stay out of rental sector](/upload/images/Logos/LloydsBank-logo400x310.png)
Last week the tax firm Blick Rothenberg advised John Lewis and Lloyds Bank to stay out of the private rental sector...
20 July 2021
From: Breaking News
![Manchester next stop for agency specialising in investment property](/img/default/lat.png)
An agency which has for the past 11 years specialised in south west London is now expanding with a new office...
07 May 2021
From: Breaking News
![Strong capital appreciation deters landlords selling up, says agency](/img/default/lat.png)
Buy to let investors are not cashing out of the private rental sector despite the restrictions and taxes imposed by government. Hamptons’...
13 April 2021
From: Breaking News
![Buy to let optimism shown by larger mortgages, claims finance house](/img/default/lat.png)
The popularity of buy to let mortgage products offering exclusive rates for higher value loans is a sign of optimism in...
31 March 2021
From: Breaking News
![Rental property capital values likely to soar in next five years](/img/default/lat.png)
An assessment by Savills suggests capital values - including those for properties in the lettings sector - are likely to soar...
10 March 2021
From: Breaking News
![Revealed - where to find the best yields, according to Zoopla](/img/default/lat.png)
Zoopla has revealed its top 10 hotspots for buy to let investors seeking high rental yields. The analysis is based on rental returns...
10 September 2020
From: Breaking News
![Revealed - top locations for yield-and-capital-growth combined](/img/default/lat.png)
A new league table has been produced listing locations where a mix of rental yield and capital growth have given buy...
02 July 2020
From: Breaking News
![Revealed: the 10 key locations for buy to let investors in 2020](/img/default/lat.png)
Property development and investment firm SevenCapital has released a top 10 league table of UK cities which it claims will perform...
18 October 2019
From: Breaking News
![Revealed - how little a typical buy to let investor makes in a year](/img/default/lat.png)
A PropTech firm says it has calculated the true cost of being a buy to let investor. Howsy says the average landlord...
16 September 2019
From: Breaking News
![Labour’s buy to let sell-off could lose landlords over £18,000 each](/img/default/lat.png)
More details have emerged about Labour’s controversial proposal to allow private rental tenants that right to buy their landlord’s property, at...
09 September 2019
From: Breaking News
![Northern universities top yield and capital appreciation league table](/img/default/lat.png)
University towns in the north of England and the Midlands score highest when it comes to yields and capital appreciation. The assessment...
21 June 2019
From: Breaking News
![AI-powered guide allows buy to let investors to locate best deals](/img/default/lat.png)
A new investment company says its latest tool, powered by Artificial Intelligence, helps buy to let investors search for the best...
28 November 2018
From: Breaking News
![£20m property investment Ponzi scheme shut down by High Court](/img/default/lat.png)
A property investment company operating a Ponzi scheme based on claims of capital appreciation and rental income has been shut down...
05 November 2018
From: Breaking News
![Yield of Dreams: research reveals the highest buy to let returns](/img/default/lat.png)
A new analysis of rental yields across all of the UK’s local authorities has revealed exactly where the best places are for...
29 June 2018
From: Breaking News
![Go Figure: GoCompare says London is UK's second best buy to let city](/img/default/lat.png)
We’re all for an optimistic interpretation of events but a new tool from comparison website GoCompare lists the UK’s top buy...
28 June 2018
From: Breaking News
![BTL investors who sold last year made an average £86,651 - Countrywide](/img/default/lat.png)
The average landlord who sold their rental property in 2017 did so for £86,651 more than they paid for it, having...
12 March 2018
From: Breaking News
![Student rental block purchased after largest-ever crowdfunding](/img/default/lat.png)
A rental investment platform is claiming to have succeeded with the world’s largest property crowdfunding exercise, raising £2,992,800. Property Partner says it...
26 October 2017
From: Breaking News
![Capital appreciation on 'classic' tiny buy to let flats may be limited](/img/default/lat.png)
Consumer group Which? says ‘micro-apartments’ - which have proliferated in recent years - may not be good investments. The group has focussed...
22 August 2017
From: Breaking News
![Buy To Let still viable 'but may suffer because of Brexit'](/img/default/lat.png)
A new report says buy to let will continue to provide good investment opportunities but requires an increasingly professional approach. The report,...
02 June 2017
From: Breaking News
![Online agency claims Manchester is magnet for buy to let investors](/img/default/lat.png)
Upad, which claims to be Britain's larges online lettings agency, says Manchester has seen a 100 per cent increase in buy to...
09 March 2017
From: Breaking News
![Yield no longer the key measure of buy to let success, says lettings expert](/img/default/lat.png)
Lettings expert Kate Faulkner says yields - a traditional long-standing measure of success for buy to let landlords - are becoming...
09 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![Leaders and Romans show buy to let remains best investment](/img/default/lat.png)
Sister agencies Leaders and Romans have undertaken research to show that property has been the most lucrative investment in the UK...
25 October 2016
From: Breaking News
![Warning of alleged perils of investing in student 'rooms and pods'](/img/default/lat.png)
A student accommodation specialist is warning about the potential pitfalls of investing in individual student rooms or small pods as opposed...
05 May 2016
From: Breaking News
![Buy to let bounces back: average returns hit 18-month high of 12.2%](/img/default/lat.png)
Good news for agents having to work harder to persuade would-be landlords that buy to let makes financial sense after the...
22 April 2016
From: Breaking News
![Returns from buy to let investment at their highest for over a year](/img/default/lat.png)
Returns from buy to let properties have risen to their highest level in over a year. Data from Your Move and Reeds...
19 February 2016
From: Breaking News
![Rents up 3.4% in 2015 but yields dip as a result of capital appreciation](/img/default/lat.png)
Rents across England and Wales rose by an average of 3.4 per cent in 2015 - the fastest annual growth rate...