The number of active holiday lets has increased by a third in some of England’s most popular short break destinations. The biggest...
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Agents are being dragged into a debate over whether locals should be given priority to rent or buy, as a result...
05 August 2022
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A building society which has taken the unprecedented step of stopping lending on second homes has been sharply criticised by a...
02 August 2022
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A council has purchased some 40 properties to avoid them becoming holiday homes and Airbnbs. Highland council in Scotland is spending up...
27 July 2022
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Holiday lets and second homes in one hotspot in the UK have not, after all, impacted on house prices and affordability,...
18 July 2022
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Speculation in national newspapers suggests that the government is considering giving local mayors some powers over parts of the private rented...
28 June 2022
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A tourism chief has likened new anti-holiday let regulations to those of a Stalinist dictatorship. Ashford Price, secretary of the Welsh Association...
23 June 2022
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Activists are calling on the government to impose swingeing taxes on some lettings properties “to bring them back into the residential...
01 June 2022
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New research from holiday lettings agency Classic Cottages shows that 2021 was a record year in one of the country’s staycation...
30 March 2022
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A lettings firm specialising in holiday properties is reported to have disappeared with all items taken from its office and calls...
11 March 2022
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A community interest company is setting up a rival platform to Airbnb, with the aim of using the commission to benefit...
30 November 2021
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A lack of longer term rental accommodation thanks to the growth of Airbnb and other short lets has led to a...
05 October 2021
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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...
24 August 2021
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A Conservative MP says he is to declare a “state of housing emergency” in his constituency because of the loss of...
03 August 2021
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A town with one of the UK’s heaviest concentrations of holiday homes is clamping down on future purchases by outsiders who...
28 July 2021
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Cornish MPs have spoken up in the House of Commons to highlight what they claim is the danger of having too...
24 June 2021
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A call has gone out for the longer-term buy to let rental sector to have a similar tax regime as the largely-unregulated...
05 February 2021
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A leading property law expert says there is now pressure on Chancellor Rishi Sunak to raise stamp duty on buy to...
30 December 2020
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Councillors from a town council in Wales are to be given an audience with the country’s First Minister to discuss the...
24 November 2020
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ARLA Propertymark has issued a warning to government not to use Capital Gains Tax reform to further punish the private rental...
16 November 2020
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A prominent agent and industry commentator says the threat of higher Capital Gains Tax risks forcing yet more investors to quit...
13 November 2020
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Housing minister Chris Pincher has entered the row over Labour claiming that the stamp duty holiday announced last week was in...
15 July 2020
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Labour has described the stamp duty holiday introduced last week as “a £1.3 billion bung for landlords” because the tax break...
13 July 2020
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Buy to let investors should be exempted from the three per cent stamp duty surcharge even if purchasers of holiday homes still...
01 May 2020
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A Wales holiday lettings agency has worked with owner-clients to offer free holidays to frontline healthcare workers when the crisis has...
13 April 2020
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Administrators have been appointed as a result of action taken by a major creditor of Brighton Holiday Homes, the agency which...
11 June 2019
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Thousands of pounds have been paid to a short let and holiday accommodation agency in Brighton which appears to have closed...
30 May 2019
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The Republic of Ireland has adopted new policies requiring owners in 'high housing demand areas' to secure planning consent if they...
01 November 2018
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A newspaper in warning that the beleaguered buy to let sector may be under attack yet again with the government considering...
06 August 2018
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The holiday lets market is just starting to pick up and new research shows that 80 per cent of those who...
10 April 2018
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A new PropTech device aimed at UK owners of foreign holiday homes allows them to control who enters their overseas property...
27 June 2017
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The weakness of the pound since Britain’s decision to quit the European Union a year ago means that holiday properties are...
21 June 2017
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The landlords behind the failed attempt to seek a Judicial Review of legislation reducing the mortgage interest tax relief for landlords...
07 October 2016
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Labour councillors controlling Brighton and Hove council are reported to be writing to the government for premission to charge HMO owners...
30 September 2016
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The three per cent stamp duty surcharge proposed for purchases of buy to let and holiday homes risks being seen as...
01 February 2016
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Fleet Mortgages is telling clients to choose an efficient conveyancer if they are buying an investment property with a view to...
20 January 2016
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Scottish finance minister John Swinney is to introduce a three per cent surcharge on the full purchase price of all ‘additional...