A new analysis of prospective first time buyers suggests that the cost of their initial deposit has soared in the past...
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11 April 2022
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The monthly costs for a first time buyer are some 13 per cent lower than that of a similar renter -...
22 March 2022
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One of the most respected figures in British housing has joined one of the growing number of Rent To Buy companies. Lord...
05 January 2022
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A former Conservative councillor has used a leading party website to call on the government to restrict the purchase of buy...
30 December 2021
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A think tank says it would take a major policy change to fulfil Boris Johnson’s goal to turn generation rent into...
02 December 2021
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New figures provide further evidence of the difficulties first time buyers have getting on the property ladder - and why as...
22 October 2021
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The head of a lettings agency has drawn up a wish list for Chancellor Rishi Sunak to address in his Budget...
14 October 2021
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With house prices at an all-time high, showing no signs of waning, the age of first-time buyers is on the rise...
04 October 2021
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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
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A leading banking and wealth management company says a growth area for the rental sector in the years to come will...
12 May 2021
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Scotland must encourage more investors into its property market as a way of supporting its economy once the Coronavirus recedes according...
06 October 2020
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Government intervention, which in recent years has seen scores of legal and regulatory changes to the private rental sector, may be...
05 October 2020
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Nearly half of prospective home buyers have delayed their plans because of the Coronavirus crisis, a mortgage company says. Research by Aldermore...
24 September 2020
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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...
04 May 2020
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Over 100,000 current or aspiring tenants have signed up to an education programme explaining how the rental sector works, run by...
09 March 2020
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When Wolverhampton estate agency Thomas Harvey opened its doors more than 50 years ago, mortgages weren’t really part of the equation...
28 February 2020
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Some 45 per cent of those who don’t yet own a home think they never will, according to a new report. While...
19 November 2019
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A new building society mortgage product is aimed at allowing students to become first time buyers and to simultaneously become first...
29 October 2019
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Research by franchise lettings agency company Belvoir suggests that landlords are continuing to exit the property market, although not at the...
19 December 2018
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The agency industry has reacted in a broadly downbeat way at the relatively few housing-related proposals that were announced in yesterday’s...
30 October 2018
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Belvoir says more landlords are selling up and fewer newcomers are investing in the private rental sector because of increased legislation...
24 August 2018
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The growth of the private rental sector has slowed thanks to government intervention and economic uncertainty - but it will expand...
15 June 2018
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A lettings trade body says 380,000 landlords may be about to sell at least one property - potentially flooding the sales market. The...
16 May 2018
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Belvoir has published what it calls ‘a decade of data’ tracking the changes in the private rental sector since 2008, when...
20 April 2018
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Millennials renting an average-sized property outside of London, who begin their tenancy at age 21, will spend an average of £110,830...
15 December 2017
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Stamp duty reform for first time buyers has taken pride of place in the Budget speech of Chancellor Phillip Hammond. From today,...
22 November 2017
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Over two thirds of landlords are reluctant to invest in new properties as a result of the stamp duty surcharge on...
22 November 2017
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The private rental sector is likely to benefit as a result of first time buyers’ lack of understanding of the timings,...
02 November 2017
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The Bank of Mum and Dad isn’t just a phenomenon in the sales market - new research shows it’s a growing...
29 August 2017
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New data from a survey of tenants suggests demand for the private rental sector looks set to be high for the...
03 August 2017
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Analysis of the government's latest English Housing Survey figures shows that there’s been a further decline in the home ownership rate...
03 April 2017
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Over 112,000 properties have been purchased through the Help to Buy: Equity Loan scheme since its launch in 2013 - and...
31 March 2017
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Renters are spending half their wages keeping a roof over their head, are twice as likely as homeowners to have no...
27 March 2017
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Tenants face potential rent increases of between 20 and 30 per cent as a result of tax rises hitting landlords, says...
17 February 2017
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The head of MartinCo, the country’s largest franchise agency group, says the government’s buy to let tax changes and lettings fee...
03 February 2017
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Buy to let landlords may be forced to raise rents or even sell their properties because of the government’s new tax...
03 November 2016
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In its latest bid to push Chancellor Phillip Hammond to back down on buy to let tax changes, the Residential Landlords...
24 October 2016
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The number of so-called ‘parent landlords’ is set to rise as increasing numbers of baby boomers use buy to let as...
07 October 2016
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The attempt to seek a Judicial Review of legislation reducing the mortgage interest tax relief for landlords has failed. The case was...
06 October 2016
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Over 5.5m Britons think that they will never be able to own a home on the grounds of cost. A survey of...
30 September 2016
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The news editor of London financial daily City AM has made an outspoken attack on the government’s fiscal assaults on the...
07 September 2016
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More than half of tenants would move or consider moving to a different town or city in order to buy a...
22 July 2016
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There has been a new development in a long-running spat between a website and the BBC over the corporation’s news coverage...
07 June 2016
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Ian Wilson, chief executive officer of Martin & Co, has given David Cameron’s government a “two out of 10” score for...
11 April 2016
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Future demand for rental property looks secure if Hamptons International's latest research is accurate - it says a typical single Londoner...
21 March 2016
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The gap between average incomes and the pay of tenants who want to buy their first property has reached a post-recession...
03 March 2016
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Not one of the raft of buy to let rule changes being introduced by Chancellor George Osborne - ostensibly to help...
01 March 2016
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A new report from the independent Social Market Foundation think tank has found that almost two million more people have been...
22 February 2016
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New research appears to show that well over a third of British tenants do not save to buy at all. A poll...
11 February 2016
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One of the country‘s leading rental sector analysts is warning that tax changes for landlords’ mortgage interest relief, and the imminent...
10 February 2016
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A Conservative peer and former shadow chief secretary to the Treasury has become the first senior Tory to speak out against...
06 January 2016
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A new survey of mortgage approvals suggests first time buyers are continuing to lose out - and are thus likely to...
11 December 2015
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- From April 2016 buy to let landlords and people buying second or holiday homes will have to pay an additional...
26 November 2015
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George Osborne has announced a shock additional 3.0 per cent stamp duty on second homes and buy to let properties. Details are...
25 November 2015
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The rental market looks set to benefit from the continuing housing market strength as new research claims that first time buyers...
06 November 2015
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Measures which discourage investment in the private rented sector can only push up rents and harm tenants more than landlords, a...
20 October 2015
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As the Conservative Party conference continues, a leading Tory has warned that "there is much further to go" on removing buy...
05 October 2015
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The Daily Telegraph has undertaken an interesting exercise which effectively challenges Chancellor George Osborne’s assertion that buy to let tax changes...
16 September 2015
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The Halifax is the latest of many house price indices to show higher than expected house price growth - and yet...
11 September 2015
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One in four households in the UK will be privately renting by 2025 - that’s the conclusion of research by respected...
23 July 2015
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In case we didn’t learn the lesson last time around, we appear to be on the brink of a refresher course...
10 July 2015
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The Conservatives’ election victory came as a surprise, so much so that television pundits spent all night after the vote rubbishing...