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20% more landlords* are struggling compared to last year. They’ve been caught in a perfect storm of higher interest rates, bigger...

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

The number of buy to let properties in arrears has risen again according to figures released by UK Finance, formerly the...

The number of buy-to-let mortgage loans fell by over a fifth during April, according to the latest figures from the Council...

Mortgage lending for the buy to let sector has halved since the introduction of the stamp duty surcharge in April 2016 according...

New lettings data from Agency Express supports the belief that the rental market may be slowing down across much of the...

A trade body claims that vulnerable tenants are finding it harder to access rented housing because of tax changes being introduced...

Gross buy to let lending increased in November to the highest monthly level since the stamp duty surcharge was introduced in...

  Over a third of landlords have never used a letting agent and manage all their properties themselves.    That is the finding of...

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

In its latest bid to push Chancellor Phillip Hammond to back down on buy to let tax changes, the Residential Landlords...

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

The long-term aspiration of most Britons to own their home has not been deterred by the Brexit vote, according to the...

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

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

The Daily Telegraph - an outspoken critic of George Osborne’s fiscal changes aimed at extracting more money from the buy to...

Lettings volumes have taken a sharp downward trend in May according to board company Agency Express. New listings were down 11.9 per...

There was a massive slowdown in buy to let lending by investors as the additional homes stamp duty surcharge passed -...

There has been a new development in a long-running spat between a website and the BBC over the corporation’s news coverage...

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

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

Research by HomeLet shows that rents on new tenancies outside London over the three months to March were on average 4.9...

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

The Council of Mortgage Lenders has ticked off the government for not updating its Private Landlords’ Survey for some six years...

The three per cent stamp duty surcharge proposed for purchases of buy to let and holiday homes risks being seen as...

The Council of Mortgage Lenders is warning of a possible slump for the buy to let market in the next two...

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

The rise and rise of buy to let continues apace with the latest figures from the Council of Mortgage Lenders showing...

The Conveyancing Association (CA) has embarked on a mission to engage with the lender community with a view to initiating a...

Latest figures from the Council of Mortgage Lenders show there were 18,200 buy to let loans in March - up 12 per...