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A pressure group representing private tenants wants government to help housing associations purchase buy to let properties “at knockdown prices.” A blog...

Over 100,000 current or aspiring tenants have signed up to an education programme explaining how the rental sector works, run by...

When Wolverhampton estate agency Thomas Harvey opened its doors more than 50 years ago, mortgages weren’t really part of the equation...

Some 45 per cent of those who don’t yet own a home think they never will, according to a new report.  While...

A new building society mortgage product is aimed at allowing students to become first time buyers and to simultaneously become first...

Research by franchise lettings agency company Belvoir suggests that landlords are continuing to exit the property market, although not at the...

The agency industry has reacted in a broadly downbeat way at the relatively few housing-related proposals that were announced in yesterday’s...

Belvoir says more landlords are selling up and fewer newcomers are investing in the private rental sector because of increased legislation...

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

A lettings trade body says 380,000 landlords may be about to sell at least one property - potentially flooding the sales market. The...

Belvoir has published what it calls ‘a decade of data’ tracking the changes in the private rental sector since 2008, when...

Millennials renting an average-sized property outside of London, who begin their tenancy at age 21, will spend an average of £110,830...

Stamp duty reform for first time buyers has taken pride of place in the Budget speech of Chancellor Phillip Hammond.   From today,...

Over two thirds of landlords are reluctant to invest in new properties as a result of the stamp duty surcharge on...

The private rental sector is likely to benefit as a result of first time buyers’ lack of understanding of the timings,...

The Bank of Mum and Dad isn’t just a phenomenon in the sales market - new research shows it’s a growing...

New data from a survey of tenants suggests demand for the private rental sector looks set to be high for the...

Analysis of the government's latest English Housing Survey figures shows that there’s been a further decline in the home ownership rate...

Over 112,000 properties have been purchased through the Help to Buy: Equity Loan scheme since its launch in 2013 - and...

  Renters are spending half their wages keeping a roof over their head, are twice as likely as homeowners to have no...

Tenants face potential rent increases of between 20 and 30 per cent as a result of tax rises hitting landlords, says...

The head of MartinCo, the country’s largest franchise agency group, says the government’s buy to let tax changes and lettings fee...

Buy to let landlords may be forced to raise rents or even sell their properties because of the government’s new tax...

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

The number of so-called ‘parent landlords’ is set to rise as increasing numbers of baby boomers use buy to let as...

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

  Over 5.5m Britons think that they will never be able to own a home on the grounds of cost.   A survey of...

The news editor of London financial daily City AM has made an outspoken attack on the government’s fiscal assaults on the...

More than half of tenants would move or consider moving to a different town or city in order to buy a...

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

Ian Wilson, chief executive officer of Martin & Co, has given David Cameron’s government a “two out of 10” score for...

Future demand for rental property looks secure if Hamptons International's latest research is accurate - it says a typical single Londoner...

The gap between average incomes and the pay of tenants who want to buy their first property has reached a post-recession...

Not one of the raft of buy to let rule changes being introduced by Chancellor George Osborne - ostensibly to help...

A new report from the independent Social Market Foundation think tank has found that almost two million more people have been...

New research appears to show that well over a third of British tenants do not save to buy at all. A poll...

One of the country‘s leading rental sector analysts is warning that tax changes for landlords’ mortgage interest relief, and the imminent...

A Conservative peer and former shadow chief secretary to the Treasury has become the first senior Tory to speak out against...

A new survey of mortgage approvals suggests first time buyers are continuing to lose out - and are thus likely to...

- 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...

The rental market looks set to benefit from the continuing housing market strength as new research claims that first time buyers...

Measures which discourage investment in the private rented sector can only push up rents and harm tenants more than landlords, a...

As the Conservative Party conference continues, a leading Tory has warned that "there is much further to go" on removing buy...

The Daily Telegraph has undertaken an interesting exercise which effectively challenges Chancellor George Osborne’s assertion that buy to let tax changes...

The Halifax is the latest of many house price indices to show higher than expected house price growth - and yet...

One in four households in the UK will be privately renting by 2025 - that’s the conclusion of research by respected...

In case we didn’t learn the lesson last time around, we appear to be on the brink of a refresher course...

The Conservatives’ election victory came as a surprise, so much so that television pundits spent all night after the vote rubbishing...

Generation Rent, the pressure group advocating extensive restrictions on letting agents and private landlords, is now offering an alternative Queen’s Speech...