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Interest rates are expected to stay high despite good inflation news likely to be announced this week. The Office for Budget Responsibility...

Latest inflation figures are announced on Wednesday and the Bank of England makes its next base rate decision on Thursday. The Office...

Respected energy industry consultancy Cornwall Insight says the price cap for the April to June period this year - to be...

Data released today from Foxtons has found that the number of new instructions in January 2024 was 25 per cent higher...

A buying agent claims that rents could finally be tailing off despite some indices showing rises still taking place. According to Rightmove,...

The Bank of England has kept its base rate at 5.25 per cent but markets forecast this will drop from the summer as...

Government figures suggest the UK population could reach nearly 74m as soon as 2036, largely attributed to rising net migration. This is...

There were 12,000 first time buyers over the age of 50 in the UK in 2022, the latest figures available. This means...

The UK government has taken an equity stake in the rental investment platform Shojin through the conversion of a pandemic-era loan...

There are more rental properties for tenants to choose from than any other time since Covid, according to London estate agency...

Knight Frank has revised its housing market forecasts for 2024, just two weeks into the new year. It’s done this on the...

A leading lettings agency says 2023 was a record-breaking year for rental growth.   The average rent on a newly let property in...

Winkworth’s first trading statement of 2024 reveals that it saw a five per cent rise in rental revenues in 2023 -...

The UK rental market is experiencing a gradual easing in demand, marking a shift from the peak levels witnessed in recent...

David Cox, the former ARLA chief executive, says the earliest that the Renters Reform Bill could come into effect is late...

Knight Frank has taken the unusual step of warning that Tory splits over Rwanda and immigration could force an early election...

Residential buy to let in the North West of England, London industrial property and retail warehouses are set to be the...

UK Finance has published its housing and mortgage market forecasts for 2024 and 2025 together with projections for 2023 full year numbers. Key figures for 2023 In...

Lomond has announced one more acquisition in the North West of England - the 17th it has completed in the region...

The Jackson-Stops agency is warning that the Renters Reform Bill is driving investors away - and making the market worse, not...

Strutt & Parker’s London New Homes staff attribute 50 per cent of their market this year as dollar-based - 30 per...

Rightmove has released its annual league table of busiest rental locations. Wrexham is this year’s busiest, with each home available to rent...

All eyes are on HM Treasury this week ahead of the next inflation figures, to be released on Wednesday morning. Analysts suggest...

There were 3.7 new prospective tenants for every rental property listed in prime London postcodes last month says Knight Frank. The figure,...

It looks as if the rental market is set to stay strong for some years to come. That’s because lending for house...

The scale of rent rises has peaked with future increases likely to be smaller, says Zoopla. The portal’s latest report into the...

Next year will see “a strong resurgence” in the rental market, a leading agent predicts. Nicky Stevenson, Managing Director of Fine &...

Scores of councils that enforce licensing regimes on the private rental sector claim they are on the verge of bankruptcy. Almost one...

Savills is warning that despite strong income growth, rising rents are stretching the finances of those in the private rental sector.  Savills...

An agency has issued its rental market forecast for 2024. Chestertons says rents are forecast to have increased by 6.5 per cent...

Last week’s Autumn Statement - which fell short of expectations in terms of help for the private rental sector - is...

Inflation figures for the year to October are out this week and are expected to have fallen to 4.8 per cent. That’s...

One of the first forecasts for the rental market for 2024 suggests that strong growth will continue. Property consultancy JLL says that...

New data reveals a 68 per cent surge in reports of meter tampering and energy theft during winter. The data - revealed...

A leading lettings agency and property consultancy has revealed that it anticipate stronger-than-expected rental growth this year and next in prime...

Some prospective buy to let landlords may be about to use their equity to snap up investment properties at discounted rates,...

The Autumn Statement on November 22 is the traditional vehicle for the Chancellor to introduce tax change - but now you...

The auction house appears to be bucking the downward trend in the wider housing market. And much of it is down to...

Zoopla has issued the first major private rental sector market forecast for 2024. Rental growth this year is on track to end...

A mortgage expert says it’s likely that the housing market will improve this autumn. Octane Capital studied Property lending mortgage approval trends...

Section 21 evictions are set to soar even higher, a property association leader forecasts - because of the threat to abolish...

Almost a quarter of England and Wales will become less affordable to buyers by 2025, it’s been claimed. The findings - from...

A respected measure of investor confidence says it’s on the rise as a result of growing optimism over UK inflation figures...

TV property guru Phil Spencer is urging lettings agents to prepare for a surge in the number of older tenants and...

The head of one of the country’s highest profile franchise agency empires says the self-employed ethos of some advisers and entrepreneurial...

A retirement forecast suggests older renters may struggle as demographic and property market figures change over time. Scottish Widows’ annual retirement report,...

Housing Secretary Michael Gove has this morning said his government should ‘relax the pace’ of EPC reforms expected from private landlords. In...

Buy to let mortgages have seen the largest interest rate increase of any mortgage category according to new research. Barrows and Forrester...

The results of the latest RICS UK Residential Survey, out today, point to a renewed worry about the housing market. The survey...

A senior director at Chestertons, one of London’s largest lettings agencies, has warned that tenants in the capital will face an...

A trading statement from Belvoir reveals that the franchise giant is on the look out for “good quality complimentary acquisitions”. A strong...

Financial analysts are unanimously warning that Bank of England base rate will rise yet again tomorrow. If they are correct this will...

Revenue from property taxes in Scotland has dropped significantly so far this year, according to a prominent lettings agency.  DJ Alexander Ltd...

Trade bodies have been trying to shore up investor confidence after the latest house price index, by the Nationwide, showing another...

The Bank of England has raised base rate by 0.25 per cent to 4.25 per cent - the highest level since...

A letting agents’ trade body is urging the industry to sign a parliamentary petition calling for the Section 24 changes for...

There are more Bank of England base rates to come, a group of property finance industry experts has warned.  Personal finance comparison...

Agency launches dedicated lettings team for rejuvenated London area Savills has launched a dedicated residential lettings office in an area of prime...

A prominent legal firm has given its view on the five key trends facing the private rental sector in 2023. These come...

A tax expert says the current economic climate has made it so hard to save for a deposit that many tenants...

The UK Association of Letting Agents says a survey of its members suggests that 2023 will be a tough year for...

The number of first-time buyers is estimated to have fallen by nine per cent in 2022, Yorkshire Building Society says. Analysis by...

A new survey of over 8,000 commercial estate agents indicates a challenging 2023 - suggesting a possible alternative investment option for...

A buy to let investment site has used Artificial Intelligence to identify 10 top property investment opportunities in 2023.  Based on analysis...

An end-of-year assessment by Zoopla suggests the price of flats across the UK have underperformed the rest of the market and...

The next Budget, setting out government tax and spending plans, will be held on March 15 next year. Chancellor Jeremy Hunt says...

Rightmove forecasts average asking prices will drop two per cent in 2023 - meaning they will remain higher than after the...

The Halifax has released a snapshot of the housing market as the year ends - with the cost of living crisis...

UK banks are closing client accounts held by established letting agents and refusing to open accounts for new businesses. The Problem A growing...

This may be 2022’s least surprising research finding - most property professionals want interest rates to fall. A webinar poll undertaken by...

Investment buyers will snap up a higher proportion of homes in 2022 than they did in 2021, the Hamptons agency forecasts.   So...

A financial expert says the latest house price index, showing the biggest monthly fall for over two years, is the “first...

A short trading statement from Stock Market-listed London agency chain Winkworth shows just how vital the lettings sector is to its...

The average Anti-Money Laundering fine handed to agents has soared by two thirds. An analysis of five industries - Accountancy, Estate/Lettings Agency,...

Agents should look to lettings to protect themselves when the sales market is hit by the coming recession and drop in...

The latest high end agency to predict the mainstream market next year is Strutt & Parker - and it’s less downbeat...

Mortgage experts appearing before a committee of MPs have given an especially gloomy forecast for the buy to let sector in...

Savills, which at the end of last week released a gloomy forecast predicting a 10 per cent price drop for average...

A senior lettings industry figure says the Bank of England should delay future base rate rises to allow the housing market...

Savills is the latest agency to suggest significant house price falls next year - although in its long-range forecast it says...

There’s widespread concern that the Bank of England’s monetary policy committee, which meets tomorrow, is to unveil a 0.75 per cent...

The current supply demand imbalance across the UK rental market looks set to endure as fewer households move across into owner...

Knight Frank’s latest market report for Prime London locations suggests that stock levels remain low by historical standards, with the number...

A prominent research chief at a leading agency has repeated his claim that average UK house prices are set to drop...

The Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England has agreed to raise interest rates by 0.5 per cent to 2.25...

The National Audit Office has made scathing criticisms of government efforts to build more affordable housing. The public spending watchdog says the...

The latest lettings market snapshot from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors suggests tenant demand is rising further with a net...

New long-term analysis by Hamptons says rental growth will cool over the coming years but will still outperform house prices between...

A Labour MP says the government should introduce emergency rent controls as part of a package of measures to combat the...

Capital appreciation over the next five years amongst properties in prime areas of cities and countryside will be strongest in the...

Buy to let and other investors hoping for a rapid recovery in the prime central London market are likely to be...

The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee has announced that base rate is rising from 1.25 to 1.75 per cent. The rate is now...

A trade body representing the Airbnb-style short lets sector says this kind of accommodation now has a five per cent market...

Tenants’ bills are expected to hit a record £63 billion this year - and much of it is down to the...

Low supply has kept rental growth high - and it’s unlikely to slow any time soon. Knight Frank says it expects stock...

The private rental sector could grow an additional 6.5 per cent in just three years, it’s been forecast. This would bring the...

A senior lettings chief says the supply drought is making the rental market as overheated now as at any time in...

A leading lettings sector commentator believes today’s local elections may not directly change the private rental sector but could have a...

Annual rental yields in England and Wales have dipped but tenant demand is set to stay strong for the rest of...

The latest market sentiment survey of the lettings market from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors suggests that rent rises will...