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Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is today charing a crisis meeting of mortgage lenders, as calls mount for him to take action to...

There’s still life in the buy to let market despite the regulatory and financial changes in recent years according to a...

A private landlord has gone on record to explain her own dilemma with a tenant - and why the government’s scrapping...

Buy to let investors are facing a double whammy as stagnating rents and reduced tax relief are hitting profitability. A study from...

Another think-tank has come up with reforms which it wants the government to make to the private rental sector - and...

Opposition is growing fast to the threat of another stamp duty attack on the buy to let sector, rumoured to be...

Newspapers in Kent are reporting that controversial buy to let multi-millionaire Fergus Wilson has evicted four single mothers from his properties...

Almost three-quarters of buy to let mortgage transactions made by landlords operating via limited companies in the final quarter of last...

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

Buy to let investors are losing confidence in their ability to rely on steady rental yields, according to recent figures from...

Ian Duncan Smith is the latest Conservative to criticise his own government’s fiscal policies regarding buy to let.   Writing on the Conservative...

The average rent of a new letting in the UK grew by 0.24 per cent in the first six months of...

Paragon Mortgages says its most recent survey of buy to let investors makes it clear that the vast majority want the...

Far from being wealthy property investors, two thirds of individual landlords pay merely the basic rate of income tax according to...

Research by a lettings sector trade body shows that net growth of units within the private rental sector - that is,...

The campaign against the phased reduction in landlords' mortgage interest tax relief is continuing with the opening of a new website,...

Letting Agent Today’s Conor Shilling was in the audience of The Great Buy To Let Debate - always one of the...

A trade group has commissioned a firm of economists to look at how the government’s mortgage interest tax relief change -...

The Residential Landlords Association has been quick off the mark to issue what it calls a seven point wish list to...

There is yet more evidence that an increasing number of buy to let investors are setting up companies to offset the...

The number of buy to let transactions across England and Wales has fallen 8.2 per cent in one month and is down an...

Phillip Hammond has delivered his first Autumn Statement, tackling amongst other things, what he called “the housing challenge.” The speech made no...

The National Landlords Association has launched an e-postcard campaign for letting agent and landlord members to lobby the government over the...

Some of the property professionals behind the campaign against the changes to buy to let landlords’ taxation have compiled a comprehensive...

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

A senior Conservative peer has renewed his attack on his own party over the buy to let tax grab on landlords,...

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

The chairman of the Residential Landlords’ Association has restated how he sees the private rental sector could help solve the country’s...

Kevin Hollinrake - the founder of franchise agency Hunters and now a Conservative MP - is calling for a cut in...

The date for the court hearing to decide whether there should be a judicial review of the buy to let tax...

Belvoir is calling on the government to reverse its punitive tax policies against buy to let and introduce incentives to make...

The Scottish Association of Landlords - which represents letting agents as well as landlords north of the border - has spoken...

The Residential Landlords Association is asking the Welsh Assembly to scrap the three per cent stamp duty surcharge imposed on buy...

The new Chancellor appointed by Prime Minister Theresa May has been ‘outed’ as a former buy to let landlord - raising...

New Chancellor Phillip Hammond has been urged by an industry trade group to reset the government’s approach to taxing the buy...

The government is being warned that without changes to the Finance Bill currently going through parliament it will effectively be forcing rent...

A campaign to reduce Capital Gains Tax paid by landlords when selling their rented home to sitting tenants has won the...

A buy to let property in London is going to be “very difficult to make viable” in the near future unless...

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

The landlords campaigning for a judicial review of the legislation curtailing mortgage interest tax relief for buy to let landlords have...

Deutsche Bank has issued a dire warning about the buy to let market in the UK, along with a broadside warning...

The exemption of residential property from the new Capital Gains Tax cuts tops the list of concerns expressed by professional landlords...

A mortgage firm specialising in buy to let products says lending to landlords set up as limited companies surged in the...

There appears no change in government policy on changing buy to let tax breaks - at least not yet - despite...

On the day of the campaign rally to galvanise support for a bid to win a judicial review of George Osborne’s...

The line-up has been revealed for the so-called "Tenants’ Tax Summit” this week - the campaign rally for supporters of a...

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

Developers and investors have written to housing minister Brandon Lewis proposing a three-point action plan that could see more than 250,000...

Landlords are looking to house tenants less likely to miss rental payments in order to minimise the impact of a number...

More details have emerged of the campaign rally to be held next month in support of the bid for a judicial...

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

The two landlords campaigning to win a judicial review of George Osborne’s restrictions on buy to let mortgage tax relief have...

Another £50,000 has already been raised through crowd-funding to help meet the costs of mounting a legal challenge to George Osborne’s...

Two professional property investors are giving away a Manchester flat valued at £110,000 in a protest against Chancellor George Osborne’s attacks...

Almost all landlords are considering increasing rents to pay for the higher taxes they now face. According to a survey by the...

One of London’s major letting agencies is urging landlords to take a cautious approach to whether they should incorporate in a...

Respected credit ratings agency Fitch says buy to let will thrive for the next 12 to 24 months but the effects...

The people behind the campaign to seek a judicial review of the buy to let tax changes proposed by Chancellor George...

The British Property Federation says George Osborne’s stamp duty surcharge will threaten the success of the Build To Rent sector, which...

An outspoken attack on Chancellor George Osborne’s fiscal measures against the private rental sector have questioned whether he is really a...

More criticism of Chancellor George Osborne’s raft of buy to let reforms has appeared in the mainstream media, with much emphasis...

The two landlords behind the bid to seek a judicial review of George Osborne’s buy to let mortgage interest relief tax...

The managing director of the Association of Residential Letting Agents says urgent action is necessary “to make the prospect of being...

The Bank of England has released new buy to let mortgage underwriting standards which are expected to set out stricter borrowing...

HM Revenue & Customs and the Treasury have at last responded to the legal team representing two landlords challenging beleaguered Chancellor...

Yesterday George Osborne delivered his eighth budget as chancellor, announcing an extra £3.5 billion in spending cuts by 2019-20. The Office for...

Later today chancellor George Osborne will make his latest budget speech. It has been speculated that the announcement could include new measures...

Some 66% of landlords predict more rental sector turbulence in this week's Budget, according to research by property crowdfunding platform The...

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

The attempt to see judicial review of George Osborne’s buy to let tax change continues apace, with the government now having...

Four in 10 landlords are either seriously considering forming a limited company or will be looking into the option in the...

A leading lettings expert says George Osborne’s proposed stamp duty surcharge of three per cent may be just weeks from implementation...

The latest step in the legal challenge to Chancellor George Osborne’s proposal to limit landlords’ mortgage interest tax relief comes in...

The influencial cross-party Commons Treasury Committee says the whole economy could suffer is George Osborne’s fiscal measures against the private rental...

Government policies aimed at curbing the buy to let market are directly leading to more pressure on the lettings sector, according...

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

The two landlords mounting a legal challenge to the mortgage interest tax changes proposed by Chancellor George Osborne have released a...

The franchise letting agency chain Belvoir is urging its landlord clients to offer fiancial support to the national campaign to fight...

Around a fifth of investors plan to sell their buy to let properties this year, thanks to the recent measures against...

Landlords’ confidence in the buy to let sector has collapsed to an all-time low and is now “worse than levels witnessed...

The legal challenge to Chancellor George Osborne’s controversial buy to let tax change is underway with a letter sent to HMRC...

Just over 60,000 people have signed an online petition urging MPs to reconsider the controversial buy to let mortgage interest tax...

Paragon Mortgages, one of the buy to let sector’s biggest and best-known lenders, says its buy to let lending in the...

The two buy to let investors behind a campaign to seek a judicial review of George Osborne’s controversial mortgage interest tax...

A leading tax expert says there are likely to be unintended consequences of what he calls “half-cocked legislation” bringing in additional...

George Osborne has done more for the rental market than any other chancellor in history claims Marc von Grundherr, lettings director...

An online petition aiming to get 100,000 signatures expressing opposition to Chancellor George Osborne’s buy to let tax changes looks certain...

The Residential Landlords’ Association is taking legal advice on whether George Osborne’s buy to let tax changes are a breach of...

Fleet Mortgages is telling clients to choose an efficient conveyancer if they are buying an investment property with a view to...

The governor of the Bank of England has ruled out an immediate rise in interest rates because of the turmoil in...

A specialist buy to let lender says some mainstream mortgage companies are over-charging borrowers who have incorporated in order to minimise...

A financial analyst says current buy to let mortgage constraints - with a strong possibility of more later this year - may...

Chancellor George Osborne’s buy to let tax proposals are set to hit domestic buyers far more than international investors, according to...

The two landlords behind the possible legal challenge to George Osborne’s buy to let tax changes are appealling for “experts, mentors...

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

A legal opinion is expected in the next few days as the legal challenge to George Osborne’s buy to let tax...

Chancellor George Osborne has “effectively declared war on individual landlords” according to the Residential Landlords’ Association - but don’t expect a...

The latest £50,000 target to fund a legal challenge to Chancellor George Osborne’s proposed tax changes for buy to let landlords...

An online petition seeking the reversal of the Osborne clampdown on buy to let tax breaks has secured around 47,000 signatures...

The government is asking whether its proposed three per cent stamp duty surcharge on the purchase of second and subsequent homes...