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A part of the country which has seen a severe long term rental stock shortage as a result of switches from...

A Conservative MP says he is to declare a “state of housing emergency” in his constituency because of the loss of...

A town with one of the UK’s heaviest concentrations of holiday homes is clamping down on future purchases by outsiders who...

Cornish MPs have spoken up in the House of Commons to highlight what they claim is the danger of having too...

A call has gone out for the longer-term buy to let rental sector to have a similar tax regime as the largely-unregulated...

A leading property law expert says there is now pressure on Chancellor Rishi Sunak to raise stamp duty on buy to...

Councillors from a town council in Wales are to be given an audience with the country’s First Minister to discuss the...

ARLA Propertymark has issued a warning to government not to use Capital Gains Tax reform to further punish the private rental...

A prominent agent and industry commentator says the threat of higher Capital Gains Tax risks forcing yet more investors to quit...

Housing minister Chris Pincher has entered the row over Labour claiming that the stamp duty holiday announced last week was in...

Labour has described the stamp duty holiday introduced last week as “a £1.3 billion bung for landlords” because the tax break...

Buy to let investors should be exempted from the three per cent stamp duty surcharge even if purchasers of holiday homes still...

A Wales holiday lettings agency has worked with owner-clients to offer free holidays to frontline healthcare workers when the crisis has...

Administrators have been appointed as a result of action taken by a major creditor of Brighton Holiday Homes, the agency which...

Thousands of pounds have been paid to a short let and holiday accommodation agency in Brighton which appears to have closed...

The Republic of Ireland has adopted new policies requiring owners in 'high housing demand areas' to secure planning consent if they...

A newspaper in warning that the beleaguered buy to let sector may be under attack yet again with the government considering...

The holiday lets market is just starting to pick up and new research shows that 80 per cent of those who...

A new PropTech device aimed at UK owners of foreign holiday homes allows them to control who enters their overseas property...

The weakness of the pound since Britain’s decision to quit the European Union a year ago means that holiday properties are...

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

Labour councillors controlling Brighton and Hove council are reported to be writing to the government for premission to charge HMO owners...

The three per cent stamp duty surcharge proposed for purchases of buy to let and holiday homes risks being seen as...

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

Scottish finance minister John Swinney is to introduce a three per cent surcharge on the full purchase price of all ‘additional...

- From April 2016 buy to let landlords and people buying second or holiday homes will have to pay an additional...