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![Propertymark sits on the fence over first time buyer controversy](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/3%20CoupleMakingOffer-400x310.png)
Propertymark has stepped into the row over a bank chief’s comments on first time buyers. Sir Howard Davies, chairman of NatWest, responded...
08 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Interest Rate optimism fuelled by surprise improvement in inflation](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/InterestRatesDecline_400x310.png)
There’s growing optimism that tomorrow’s Bank of England monetary policy committee meeting will see base rate held for another month -...
01 November 2023
From: Breaking News
![Cut-price properties tempting investment buyers, says accountancy chief](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Help%20to%20buy%20equity%20loan.jpg)
Some prospective buy to let landlords may be about to use their equity to snap up investment properties at discounted rates,...
27 September 2023
From: Breaking News
![Call for buy to let mortgage rules to be relaxed during crisis](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Buy-to-let-2-400x310.png)
A property industry commentator wants buy to let mortgage rules to be relaxed so that frustrated sellers can let out their...
12 July 2023
From: Breaking News
![Bank of England base rate to go up again - gloomy forecast by experts](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/BankofEngland_3-400x310.png)
Financial analysts are unanimously warning that Bank of England base rate will rise yet again tomorrow. If they are correct this will...
10 May 2023
From: Breaking News
![Details emerge of 100% mortgage aimed at renters](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Buy-to-let-3-400x310.png)
Renters are being offered a 100 per cent mortgage by the Skipton Building Society - the first time such a product...
09 May 2023
From: Breaking News
![Agents try to shore up investor confidence after house price fall](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Forecast-400x310.png)
Trade bodies have been trying to shore up investor confidence after the latest house price index, by the Nationwide, showing another...
03 April 2023
From: Breaking News
![Interest Rate Rise - more bad news expected](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/BalancingPercentages-400x310.png)
The Bank of England’s monetary policy committee meets again this week with a further interest rate rise likely if base rate...
12 December 2022
From: Breaking News
![Gove leans on competitions watchdog to probe house builders](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/MichaelGove2-400x310.png)
Housing Secretary Michael Gove has sent a letter to the Competitions and Markets Authority saying the watchdog is independent - but...
07 December 2022
From: Breaking News
![Savills adds to gloom with forecast of major price falls next year](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/HousePrices_pound-400x310.png)
Savills is the latest agency to suggest significant house price falls next year - although in its long-range forecast it says...
04 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![Down They Go - House prices to drop to mid-2021 levels says agency](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/HousePriceDrop-400x310.png)
Knight Frank says it expects house prices to drop in the coming year - but only to those levels seen in...
31 October 2022
From: Breaking News
![Agency plays down impact of rent freeze and evictions ban](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Rent_Freeze1-400x310.png)
A lettings agency in Scotland has played down the impact of the emergency rent freeze and eviction ban which have been...
20 October 2022
From: Breaking News
![Mini-Budget leads to house prices falls in 2023 and maybe 2024 - claim](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/Budget-Purse-400x310.jpg)
The Knight Frank lettings and estate agency is warning that it expects house prices to fall in 2023. Tom Bill, its head...
03 October 2022
From: Breaking News
![Rightmove can easily withstand higher costs - even if agents cant…](/upload/images/Logos/RightmoveNewLogo2016-400x310.jpg)
The rise and rise of Rightmove continues apace. Figures for the first half of 2022 released at the start of the weekend...
01 August 2022
From: Breaking News
![London rents now rising as rapidly as they fell in early 2021](/upload/images/library/BPS-LondonAerial-400x310.jpg)
Rents in London are now rising as steeply as they were falling at the start of the year according to Knight...
21 December 2021
From: Breaking News
![Rents up sharply in prime areas of London as market bounces back](/upload/images/Locations/PrimeLondonHousesArc-400x310.jpg)
Rental growth in prime areas of London has climbed to multi-year highs according to new data from Knight Frank. While only a...
05 November 2021
From: Breaking News
![Rental sector bounce back underway, says leading agency](/img/default/lat.png)
The rental sector bounce back in London and the Home Counties is now underway according to Knight Frank. The agency forecasts rental...
21 July 2021
From: Breaking News
![Can Covid rental market learn from the 2008 financial downturn?](/img/default/lat.png)
Rents have climbed up to 68 per cent across England since the financial crash in 2008. Research by Ascend Property shows that...
23 June 2021
From: Breaking News
![Buy To Let and Build To Rent win big investment despite pandemic](/img/default/lat.png)
Some £3.5 billion of investment was placed in the growing Build To Rent sector in 2020, despite concerns over the pandemic...
11 March 2021
From: Breaking News
![Agents’ anger that Budget didn’t offer cash help for rental sector](/img/default/lat.png)
The Association of Residential Letting Agents says it’s disappointed the Budget failed to address the funding of the private rental sector. “Extending...
04 March 2021
From: Breaking News
![Covid is forcing rental market into a ‘once in a lifetime change’](/img/default/lat.png)
The fall out from Coronavirus is forcing the rental market into a once in a lifetime change as tenants reassess priorities. This...
09 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![10 year high for lettings viewings according to high-end agent](/img/default/lat.png)
Knight Frank says one week in August saw the lettings market in London and the Home Counties hit a 10 year...
02 September 2020
From: Breaking News
![London lettings hit by student uncertainty and corporate cuts](/img/default/lat.png)
Uncertainty around the start of the academic year and pressure on corporate budgets means lettings activity has been lower than normal...
07 August 2020
From: Breaking News
![Labour demands extra protection for tenants facing “ticking timebomb](/img/default/lat.png)
The Labour head of a special ‘taskforce’ looking at London housing issues in the light of the Coronavirus crisis says he...
29 April 2020
From: Breaking News
![Trade association calls for government to halt PRS intervention](/img/default/lat.png)
A trade association has called for a 'moratorium' on any further government intervention in the buy-to-let sector in order to stop...
09 July 2019
From: Breaking News
![Buy to let mortgage bonanza means it's vital for investors to use a broker](/img/default/lat.png)
A leading buy to let specialist lender says the vast number of BTL mortgage products now on the market has made...
14 June 2019
From: Breaking News
![Nationwide is latest lender to oppose ‘No DSS’](/img/default/lat.png)
The Nationwide is the latest lender to say it will not insist its buy to let borrowers enforce a No DSS...
21 March 2019
From: Breaking News
![Good news for Buy To Let as mortgage choice hits near-record high](/img/default/lat.png)
Buy to let may have been in the doldrums in recent years thanks to new taxes and stricter regulations but there’s...
26 February 2019
From: Breaking News
![Good news for tenants as rents have dropped in the past year](/img/default/lat.png)
Renting became more affordable in 2018 thanks to a combination of a once-in-a-decade fall in annual rents and wage inflation, according...
24 January 2019
From: Breaking News
![Rent controls and longer tenancies demanded by pressure group](/img/default/lat.png)
Home ownership rates for families aged 25 to 34 are rising for the first time in 30 years but high barriers...
27 December 2018
From: Breaking News
![Net buy to let investment slumps 80 per cent in two years - claim](/img/default/lat.png)
Net buy to let investment has fallen 80 per cent in the past two years, a mortgage lenders’ group claims. The Intermediary...
07 February 2018
From: Breaking News
![Average rent up only 1.5 pr cent in past year says The DPS](/img/default/lat.png)
The average UK rent increased just £11.55 or 1.51 per cent over the last year according to The Deposit Protection Service. The new DPS...
14 November 2017
From: Breaking News
![London rental market at its least affordable for a decade - Hometrack](/img/default/lat.png)
Rented housing in London is at its least affordable levels for 10 years after typical rent rises of 47 per cent...
05 July 2017
From: Breaking News
![The Great Buy To Let Debate 2017 - who said what](/img/default/lat.png)
Letting Agent Today’s Conor Shilling was in the audience of The Great Buy To Let Debate - always one of the...
01 March 2017
From: Breaking News
![Banking job cuts have weakened prime London lettings, says agency](/img/default/lat.png)
Falling demand from financial services sector employees has seen the annual rental value growth in prime central London ease back to...
04 January 2016
From: Breaking News
![A financial crisis refresher course?](/img/default/lat.png)
In case we didn’t learn the lesson last time around, we appear to be on the brink of a refresher course...