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For first time buyers, renting is cheaper than buying in most of the UK according to new data from the Halifax. London, the...
27 March 2024
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England’s county councils want the next government to set out a long-term plan for housing, as a new report claims there’s...
25 March 2024
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The PropTech sector has mostly agreed with the rest of the industry in its view on yesterday’s Budget - that it...
07 March 2024
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The letting agents’ trade body Propertymark has made the unexpected move of calling on banks to cut mortgage rates. Rates are typically...
01 March 2024
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Knight Frank has taken the unusual step of suggesting a government proposal for the housing market is high-risk and could even...
23 February 2024
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There were 12,000 first time buyers over the age of 50 in the UK in 2022, the latest figures available. This means...
30 January 2024
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Controversy surrounds a government idea - floated over the weekend - to allow renters to secure mortgages with just one per...
22 January 2024
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A mandatory short lets registration and licensing scheme is to be introduced in part of the UK, described as a system...
11 January 2024
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A series of lenders have slashed their buy to let mortgage rates in a bid to win business. These include: - LendInvest Mortgages...
08 January 2024
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Propertymark has stepped into the row over a bank chief’s comments on first time buyers. Sir Howard Davies, chairman of NatWest, responded...
08 January 2024
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One of the UK’s leading lettings agents is bemoaning what he calls “the missed opportunity “ to help the rental sector...
22 December 2023
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Former housing minister Rachel Maclean - the victim of a shock sacking by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak last month - has...
15 December 2023
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The long-term shortage of rental accommodation is now addressed by a short-term clampdown on second homes and empty properties, a leading...
30 November 2023
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Propertymark has told politicians that an additional homes tax will not succeed in increasing housing supply. Timothy Douglas, head of policy and...
23 November 2023
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Connells has launched what it calls a “pioneering” Rent to Buy scheme to shift apartments in a 163-unit scheme. The agency likens...
15 November 2023
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A prominent housing journalist says Labour should fund councils to buy homes directly from private landlords to rapidly increase the size...
01 June 2023
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Renters are being offered a 100 per cent mortgage by the Skipton Building Society - the first time such a product...
09 May 2023
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The cost of coastal homes in Britain more than doubled - rising 56 per cent - between 2012 and 2022 says...
11 April 2023
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Trade bodies have been trying to shore up investor confidence after the latest house price index, by the Nationwide, showing another...
03 April 2023
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The Bank of England has raised base rate by 0.25 per cent to 4.25 per cent - the highest level since...
24 March 2023
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It appears likely that Rachel Maclean is set to become the sixth housing minister in 12 months, replacing Lucy Frazer. In the...
08 February 2023
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The way to solve the rental sector supply shortage is through Build To Rent, a leading agency claims. Leaders Romans Group says...
09 January 2023
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Demographic data from the latest Census suggests that the Private Rental Sector now provides homes for 20.3 per cent of the...
06 January 2023
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One of the politicians backing a tax surcharge on the purchase of second homes and buy to lets has been put...
30 December 2022
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Over the last decade, the proportion of people aged 24 to 64 living in their own home has fallen and the...
19 December 2022
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Trends in the lettings market “do not bode well for renters on low incomes” according to an analyst. Jack Godby of lettings...
09 December 2022
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The growth of the Build To Rent sector is a symbol of a changing Britain, in says one of the players...
10 November 2022
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As the Rishi Sunak government’s lower ranks finally take shape, the junior ministers working with Housing Secretary Michael Gove have been...
31 October 2022
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Rishi Sunak has won the Conservative leadership campaign and is set to become Prime Minister tomorrow. Over the summer Sunak set out...
24 October 2022
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The owners of second homes in a key short lets and tourist hotspot are set to have to pay a premium...
29 September 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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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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A Conservative MP is suggesting that there could be a ’25 mile limit’ imposed around certain rental properties to ensure they...
20 May 2022
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The government has released more details of the powers being given to local authorities to levy additional taxes on second homes. The...
16 May 2022
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Leaks from government ahead of this morning’s Queen’s Speech suggest that second homes which are not let out are likely to...
10 May 2022
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Homes headed by a person over the age of 45 will account for at least half of all privately renting households...
29 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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The increasingly shrill anti-landlord rhetoric from some politicians is making it harder for tenants, claims a leading industry spokesman. John Blackwood, chief...
02 March 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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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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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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Only 15 per cent of adults are confident the housing crisis will be resolved in their lifetime. New research among 2,000 individuals...
15 December 2021
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A think tank says it would take a major policy change to fulfil Boris Johnson’s goal to turn generation rent into...
02 December 2021
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A prominent consultancy advising the Build To Rent sector has identified one British city as the prime location for investment in 2022. BNP...
25 November 2021
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A leading agent and member of the Propertymark board says London’s letting agencies and private rental sector need government help -...
12 October 2021
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A new call has come for government action to stop the hemorrhage of properties shifting from long term rental to Airbnb...
06 October 2021
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A prominent industry supplier is warning the government not to damage the private rental sector in its push to promote ever-more...
05 October 2021
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Propertymark has joined four so-called ‘action groups’ advocating housing policy changes including the setting up of a national landlord register and...
30 July 2021
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A letter from a tenant’s union is demanding that a Labour councillor “publicly explain” his actions as an accountant advising investors...
28 July 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 leading banking and wealth management company says a growth area for the rental sector in the years to come will...
12 May 2021
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A report in the Financial Times over the weekend suggests that Lloyds Bank is poised to become a major residential landlord,...
08 March 2021
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Government intervention, which in recent years has seen scores of legal and regulatory changes to the private rental sector, may be...
05 October 2020
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A high profile former estate agent who was a major figure on the London sales market for over three decades has...
25 August 2020
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Nearly four out of 10 landlords believe that tenant demand will rise this year, according to a study by high-profile buy...
19 February 2020
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Home ownership is increasingly out of reach for British consumers, who say the market has become expensive and inaccessible and that...
04 February 2020
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Higher housing costs - including private sector rents - have reduced incomes and increased inequality as the poorest families have borne...
11 November 2019
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Around 40 per cent of tenants currently in the private rental sector believe they will never be able to buy their...
06 November 2019
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A collective of activist renter groups has set out a manifesto of what it wants from the winner of next month’s...
04 November 2019
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UK-wide rental prices are up 2.0 per cent annually to £876 – a three-year high – according to a new quarterly...
16 October 2019
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The majority of the UK’s private renters don’t want to purchase a home according to new research, coming just as the...
24 September 2019
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Private tenants are being disadvantaged because of the government’s focus on boosting homeownership. According to the latest figures from the Royal Institution...
13 August 2019
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Legal & General, one of the largest specialist builders of so-called retirement communities for the over-55s, is now going to let...
26 July 2019
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A European law firm has set out a critique of the driving forces behind Build To Rent - and it says...
24 June 2019
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There’s been a dramatic 37 per cent rise in rental instructions for prime properties in the capital during the first quarter...
20 June 2019
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A property management chief is arguing that rent controls would restrict mortgage loans to buy to let investors and drive existing...
04 June 2019
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A new survey suggests that long-term renting could be substantially less expensive than a mortgage. The study, for Ocean Finance, has analysed...
01 April 2019
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Home ownership rates for families aged 25 to 34 are rising for the first time in 30 years but high barriers...
27 December 2018
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Research by franchise lettings agency company Belvoir suggests that landlords are continuing to exit the property market, although not at the...
19 December 2018
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A third of tenants are happy to rent long-term and have no plans to purchase a property in the future, new...
16 July 2018
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A rental sector supplier claims huge numbers of tenants are extremely ignorant of the health and safety issues surrounding their rental...
17 May 2018
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Belvoir has published what it calls ‘a decade of data’ tracking the changes in the private rental sector since 2008, when...
20 April 2018
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An influential think tank is calling on government to radically reform the private rental sector because a generation of young people...
18 April 2018
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A trade group says diminishing rates of home ownership amongst younger people shows the need to have a thriving private rental...
19 February 2018
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New research claims that as many as 78 per cent of young adults aged 18 to 30 fear they will never...
11 January 2018
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Over two thirds of landlords are reluctant to invest in new properties as a result of the stamp duty surcharge on...
22 November 2017
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A tenant survey conducted by an online letting agent suggests that almost nine out of 10 tenants are not currently looking...
06 October 2017
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In a blog which appears - perhaps surprisingly - to be supportive of Theresa May’s General Election manifesto, campaigning charity Shelter...
26 May 2017
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The Labour Party has published its full manifesto for the upcoming General Election on June 8. Titled 'For the many not the...
17 May 2017
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The Conservatives should introduce rent controls to kick-start a seaside town renaissance, suggests an organisation set up originally by the David Cameron...
03 May 2017
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Analysis of the government's latest English Housing Survey figures shows that there’s been a further decline in the home ownership rate...
03 April 2017
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Renters are spending half their wages keeping a roof over their head, are twice as likely as homeowners to have no...
27 March 2017
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Government leaks to the Observer newspaper suggest that the Housing White Paper will show a huge policy shift towards renting - and may...
06 February 2017
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The Residential Landlords Association has been quick off the mark to issue what it calls a seven point wish list to...
27 January 2017
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The Resolution Foundation, a think tank, claims that home ownership is far lower than is widely believed to be the case...
03 January 2017
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The government must urgently deliver 1.8m new rental homes as new figures from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors reveal a...
05 October 2016
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Kevin Hollinrake - the founder of franchise agency Hunters and now a Conservative MP - is calling for a cut in...
05 September 2016
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No fewer than 86 per cent of renters - the equivalent of over six million households - have less than a...
05 August 2016
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Much publicity has been given to the Resolution Foundation’s report into falling home ownership - but the flip side is that...
03 August 2016
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The long-term aspiration of most Britons to own their home has not been deterred by the Brexit vote, according to the...
26 July 2016
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The combination of falling home ownership and rising costs in the private rented sector mean that today’s younger generation will have...
20 July 2016
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All regions of the UK will see falling owner-occupation levels and more private renting over the next decade, with particular rises...
29 February 2016
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A new report from the independent Social Market Foundation think tank has found that almost two million more people have been...
22 February 2016
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The housing ladder is disappearing for most young working households on modest incomes who are obliged to rent for the indefinite...
17 February 2016
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The government’s initiatives to try to increase house building and owner occupation will not stop demand for rented homes rising by...
03 February 2016
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Prime Minister David Cameron has dismissed out of hand appeals and comments from Letting Agent Today readers to reconsider the recent...
25 January 2016
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The National Apartment Association, the organisation that represents the Build To Rent sector in the US, has just hosted a UK...