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The famous seaside town of Whitby in Yorkshire has voted in a referendum considering a ban on new build properties being...
14 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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Local and central government is losing out on millions of pounds of council tax income this year because of the business...
30 May 2022
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An agency in an Airbnb hotspot is offering incentives to landlords who switch from short lets to long-term mainstream letting. Dan Roskilly,...
23 May 2022
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A Labour MP says a surge in the number of stag and hen parties in her constituency - undertaken by people...
16 May 2022
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A holiday lettings company says it’s the first in the industry to introduce a voluntary cap on the number of bookings...
04 May 2022
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A new investment league table has been drawn up to show best aggregate rent and capital appreciation income for those in...
13 April 2022
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Tax experts say that an attempt to levy higher purchase tax on holiday lets and second homes in one part of...
11 April 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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The activist group Acorn is lobbying a local council to deny people the right to buy a second home or let...
25 March 2022
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Lettings agency Galbraith reports that landlords are now returning to the residential lets sector from holiday lets after several years without...
10 March 2022
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ARLA Propertymark has slammed politicians who appear to have ignored a public consultation and gone ahead with draconian changes affecting second...
08 March 2022
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Cornwall has been in the spotlight as an area with an acute shortage of long-term rental properties because landlords have switched...
21 February 2022
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Figures obtained by ITV News suggest that one of the country's most popular tourist locations has as many Airbnbs listed as...
14 February 2022
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Bookings for staycations continue to surpass pre-pandemic levels, according to holiday home rental agency Sykes Holiday Cottages. The company has revealed that...
14 February 2022
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A major holiday let company in one of the country’s prime tourist destinations says more affordable homes should be built to...
09 February 2022
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One of the country’s best-read and respected regional newspapers has accused Airbnb of a ‘racket’ by advertising homes on its short-let...
25 January 2022
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Politicians who express concern over the number of holiday lets and Airbnbs in tourist areas miss one major point - if...
17 January 2022
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Owners of second homes who abuse a tax loophole by claiming their often-empty properties are holiday lets will be forced to...
14 January 2022
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The Liberal Democrats have proposed sharp restrictions on holiday rentals at the heart of the party’s plans to solve the housing...
11 January 2022
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The trade body representing Airbnb and other short let providers and sector suppliers says the short let industry is best placed...
17 December 2021
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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 petition calling on Chancellor Rishi Sunak to increase tax on holiday lettings has still not hit its 45,000-signature target. Former long...
23 November 2021
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The government says it’s finalising plans for a new tax regime to apply to additional homes, and in particular those used...
09 November 2021
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Travel Chapter, which owns the high profile Holidaylettings brand, is to float on the London Stock Exchange's junior AIM market. Devon-based Travel...
25 October 2021
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The short lets sector - already receiving political and community criticism for eroding the wider private rental sector - needs better...
07 October 2021
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Rental stock has dropped as landlords seek to profit from the staycation boom, Rightmove claims. Data from the portal suggests seaside towns...
14 September 2021
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Baroness Alicia Kennedy, director of the Generation Rent campaign, says rents in Wales, Scotland and South West England have soared thanks...
18 August 2021
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Airbnb has issued a lengthy statement in response to a recent raft of criticisms about the effects of soaring numbers of...
09 August 2021
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A tenant who says his former rental property has been turned into an Airbnb has set up a petition demanding Chancellor...
06 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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The rate at which holiday let businesses is being set up has more than doubled during the pandemic according to the...
29 July 2021
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Wales’ Labour-led administration is to announce a three-pronged approach to affordability issues - and it looks likely to involve a clampdown...
06 July 2021
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A lettings management platform is hitting out at the government over the uncertainty surrounding travel restrictions, because of its impact on...
09 April 2021
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The government’s much-vaunted ‘tax day’ produced few challenges to the status quo - but holiday lets are under scrutiny. Currently the holiday let...
24 March 2021
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A lettings agency in the growing Lomond Group has purchased a rental portfolio on the south coast. Brand Vaughan has bought the lettings...
09 March 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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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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A council with a large number of short let properties within its boundaries is urging owners to convert them to traditional...
07 July 2020
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Some buy to let mortgages are now more expensive than before for borrowers, despite the recent fall in the Bank of...
12 May 2020
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Generation Rent - an outspoken organisation sharply critical of lettings agents and many aspects of the private rental sector - is...
06 February 2020
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[Letting Agent Today was ‘off air’ for some of Wednesday and most of Thursday thanks to technical problems - we apologise to...
06 December 2019
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Labour is backing new guidelines which ban adverts which can be interpreted as encouraging landlords and home owners to flout restrictions...
19 September 2019
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A holiday lets and short-term lettings market boom can be put down to a combination of four reasons, according to specialist...
05 July 2019
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A holiday lettings company says it’s seen a 23 per cent increase in its portfolio over the past year as owners...
10 June 2019
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A local authority has written to purchasers of former council houses and apartments warning them against illegally letting them out -...
30 April 2019
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The UK’s holiday lets sector could be a beneficiary of the current Brexit uncertainty and people not vacationing abroad because they...
21 March 2019
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There is a warning that the HMRC’s Let Property campaign, which received huge publicity and attention for some years, has so...
14 March 2019
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If you’re a landlord who owns a buy to let property or perhaps a portfolio and need to raise money against...
28 August 2018
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A lender has launched a new product which is thought to be the first mortgage explicitly aimed at borrowers who propose...
19 July 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 leading Conservative peer says the government should cut taxes for buy to let investors and regard them as part of...
05 April 2018
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The government has been accused by a lettings sector trade body of skewing the market to encourage more short-lets. The claim comes...
24 January 2018
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The specialist property investment lender Together is diversifying its product range to cater for investors who want to let out their...
31 October 2017
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More landlords are quitting conventional letting and resorting to holiday lets or, increasingly, Airbnb-style short lets. The move is particularly acute in...
24 August 2017
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Labour MP Karen Buck has introduced a 10-minute Rule Bill in the House of Commons to highlight the dangers of Airbnb-style...
22 March 2017
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No fewer than 14 ‘pop up brothels’ have been discovered in one seaside town in six months, with all of them...
06 January 2017
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Local authorities appear to be at the forefront of identifying abuses of the Airbnb short-let platform and have called executives from...
04 November 2016
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A landlords’ group says the widespread letting of homes in London on Airbnb and similar platforms is worsening the shortage of...