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Interest rates are expected to stay high despite good inflation news likely to be announced this week. The Office for Budget Responsibility...
15 April 2024
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There’s been at most a one per cent reduction in landlords in the buy to let sector, a think tank claims...
08 April 2024
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Propertymark has batted away any possible market pessimism as a result of a downbeat price index result from the Halifax Just before...
08 April 2024
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Promising figures from the latest house price index doesn’t mean underlying problems in the market have been solved, warns Propertymark. UK house...
04 April 2024
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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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Propertymark is telling the Bank of England that now is the perfect time to cut base rate and trigger wider interest...
21 March 2024
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Propertymark has urged the Scottish Government to resolve the country’s ongoing housing emergency. The news comes as Scottish Labour MSP Mark Griffin...
20 March 2024
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Latest inflation figures are announced on Wednesday and the Bank of England makes its next base rate decision on Thursday. The Office...
15 March 2024
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Asking rents continue to show positive annualised growth in all regions except Greater London and Scotland. That’s according to respected property website...
14 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 chief executive of Propertymark has made an outspoken attack on the government in response to its latest attempt to extract...
04 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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Aldermore has named Bristol, as the best city for landlords to invest in for 2024. Manchester, Coventry, Brighton and London make up...
23 February 2024
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A lettings industry supplier claims one in nine renters use foodbanks. A survey of tenants, commissioned by Zero Deposit, found that just...
22 February 2024
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Renters are less financially resilient than recent remortgagers according to an analysis by business consultants Hargreaves Lansdown. It says over two thirds...
21 February 2024
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New figures from lenders trade body UK Finance show a massive fall in buy to let loans for those aged 55...
20 February 2024
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Propertymark wants the Bank of England to cut interest rates following data showing soaring mortgage arrears and repossessions. Lenders trade body UK...
09 February 2024
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Rents are approaching an affordability ceiling according to Savills - but the agency admits it doesn’t see substantial new supply on...
08 February 2024
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A buying agent claims that rents could finally be tailing off despite some indices showing rises still taking place. According to Rightmove,...
05 February 2024
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A trades union has slammed the Bank of England over its decision to keep base rate at 5.25 per cent, saying...
02 February 2024
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The Bank of England has kept its base rate at 5.25 per cent but markets forecast this will drop from the summer as...
01 February 2024
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Stamp duty receipts dipped four per cent to £2.4 billion in Q3 of last year - no less than 25 per...
01 February 2024
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Foxtons’ unaudited end-of-year trading statement makes no bones about it - the lettings division saved the agency’s bacon in 2023. It suffered...
26 January 2024
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Thousands of lettings and estate agencies, and other property businesses, are in ‘critical’ or ‘significant’ financial distress, it’s been claimed. The latest...
23 January 2024
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There are growing fears that the hoped-for Bank of England base rate cut this spring - the first off possibly several...
18 January 2024
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Knight Frank has revised its housing market forecasts for 2024, just two weeks into the new year. It’s done this on the...
15 January 2024
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A leading lettings agency says 2023 was a record-breaking year for rental growth. The average rent on a newly let property in...
15 January 2024
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Winkworth’s first trading statement of 2024 reveals that it saw a five per cent rise in rental revenues in 2023 -...
11 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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Residential buy to let in the North West of England, London industrial property and retail warehouses are set to be the...
04 January 2024
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Lower mortgage rates - still falling in the days since the end of the festive break - may be persuading some...
04 January 2024
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Owner occupiers have been competing with landlords in the battle to purchase smaller properties, new figures show. Smaller properties are often preferred...
02 January 2024
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UK Finance has published its housing and mortgage market forecasts for 2024 and 2025 together with projections for 2023 full year numbers. Key figures for 2023 In...
29 December 2023
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The Jackson-Stops agency is warning that the Renters Reform Bill is driving investors away - and making the market worse, not...
28 December 2023
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All eyes are on HM Treasury this week ahead of the next inflation figures, to be released on Wednesday morning. Analysts suggest...
18 December 2023
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Private landlords are abandoning their property portfolios in unprecedented numbers, a group of surveyors claims. The Manchester-based chartered surveyors and auctioneers -...
14 December 2023
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There were 3.7 new prospective tenants for every rental property listed in prime London postcodes last month says Knight Frank. The figure,...
14 December 2023
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A survey of more than 1,000 landlords in the Deposit Protection Service shows the scale of change in the private rental...
13 December 2023
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It looks as if the rental market is set to stay strong for some years to come. That’s because lending for house...
13 December 2023
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More multi-millionaires and billionaires are choosing to rent super-prime homes in London, rather than purchase, reveals a new wealth report Beauchamp Estates’...
29 November 2023
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An agency has issued its rental market forecast for 2024. Chestertons says rents are forecast to have increased by 6.5 per cent...
28 November 2023
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Inflation figures for the year to October are out this week and are expected to have fallen to 4.8 per cent. That’s...
13 November 2023
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There’s growing optimism that tomorrow’s Bank of England monetary policy committee meeting will see base rate held for another month -...
01 November 2023
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Leaders Romans Group claims the pessimistic mood which many say surrounds the private rental sector is exaggerated. It has surveyed its landlord...
31 October 2023
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A council has launched its own social lettings agency to work with private sector landlords in tackling the record numbers living...
26 October 2023
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There are growing fears of yet another Bank of England base rate rise next month following the surprise inflation figure released...
19 October 2023
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The latest edition of the Home housing index shows Conti suing close links between both the lettings and sales markets. The Home...
19 October 2023
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Landlords in the UK are paying 40 per cent more mortgage interest than in August 2022, forcing more of them to...
16 October 2023
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UK consumers feel worse off than a year ago, but remain relatively optimistic about the property . That’s the conclusion of a...
13 October 2023
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Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Louis Musgrove – Group Managing Director What is Southernbrook Lettings and...
12 October 2023
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Prime London markets are proving more resilient to rising interest rates than their mainstream equivalents, says Savills. Prices in prime central London...
06 October 2023
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Local media in one of Britain’s busiest cities for rentals says tenants have been left in tears as a result of...
03 October 2023
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The buy to let sector appears more heavily reliant on mortgages than some analysts have previously suggested. Specialist lending service Octane Capital has...
02 October 2023
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A lettings service called Smarter Rent is partnering with agents and developers to provide what it calls ”“an innovative property rental...
28 September 2023
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An estimated seven million UK households are struggling to keep up with their rent or mortgage payments, Which? warns, with millions...
28 September 2023
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Some prospective buy to let landlords may be about to use their equity to snap up investment properties at discounted rates,...
27 September 2023
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It’s getting worse - the supply-demand mismatch in the rental sector is now “drastic” says Propertymark. The number of new prospective tenants...
26 September 2023
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Mortgage experts are expecting significant falls in the cost of borrowing this week as lenders drop their rates. Following last week’s decision...
25 September 2023
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The Bank of England has revealed its latest decision on base rate - which in turn has a strong influence on...
21 September 2023
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The UK’s housing market is increasingly driven by older, affluent home owners with younger generations squeezed out. That’s the view of data...
20 September 2023
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An outspoken property industry figure has urged the Bank of England not to hike interest rates. The National Association of Property Buyers...
20 September 2023
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The Centre for Economics and Business Research says the Bank of England should increase UK interest rates by another 0.25 per...
19 September 2023
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In the face of stretched incomes, rising interest rates and escalating consumer prices, an increasing number of tenants are at risk...
11 September 2023
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Two letting agents have been quoted in a newspaper report as saying landlord clients have instructed them to create ‘tracker’ rents...
04 September 2023
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Section 21 evictions are set to soar even higher, a property association leader forecasts - because of the threat to abolish...
25 August 2023
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Zoopla’s research team says the rise in mortgage interest rates means it’s now cheaper to rent than to buy for the...
22 August 2023
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Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Ross Nichols, and it says i’m Co-Founder at Just Move...
16 August 2023
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A personal finance expert has revealed that a new group which he calls Guppies are reconciled to possibly renting forever. Alan Davison,...
16 August 2023
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A respected measure of investor confidence says it’s on the rise as a result of growing optimism over UK inflation figures...
15 August 2023
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Housing legal aid is increasingly out of reach for tenants who need help, the Law Society of England and Wales claims. Quarterly...
14 August 2023
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The Bank of England’s monetary policy committee has announced its decision on base rate. It will rise by 0.25 per cent to...
03 August 2023
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Increased lettings income proved a valuable balance to a declining sales market for The Property Franchise Group in the first half...
03 August 2023
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July was a record breaking month for the rental market, claims a PropTech company. Goodlord analyses tens of thousands of completed tenancies...
02 August 2023
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The US central bank has raised interest rates to the highest level in 22 years - even though inflation in that...
28 July 2023
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A stark warning has been made to lettings and estate agents that interest rates as high as seven per cent may...
25 July 2023
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The looming threat of the abolition of Section 21 is already impacting the rental market, a legal firm is warning. Dutton Gregory’s...
21 July 2023
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Most economic and housing analysts believe another base rate rise is on the cards for next month - but the sharp...
20 July 2023
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Buy to let mortgages have seen the largest interest rate increase of any mortgage category according to new research. Barrows and Forrester...
19 July 2023
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A sales agency specialising in disposing of buy to let portfolios says it’s now received an averaged 240 enquires a month...
14 July 2023
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The directors of Winkworth are warning shareholders of a challenging period thanks to higher and faster-raising interest rates - with only...
13 July 2023
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The auction - often seen as an ideal opportunity for investment buyers - is going through a torrid time in the...
10 July 2023
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A leading estate agent on one of the Channel Islands has slammed the way additional homes are now being taxed. Since last...
28 June 2023
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Concern remains that the mayhem surrounding the mortgage market may yet trigger a housing market crash. At the start of the weekend...
26 June 2023
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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...
23 June 2023
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The Bank of England has announced its latest change in base rate, which is used by most lenders to determine interest...
22 June 2023
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A prominent lettings and sales agency says there are four reasons why house prices won’t fall off a cliff, despite interest...
22 June 2023
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The results of a new survey show widespread ignorance about how interest rates work and about how the Bank of England’s...
22 June 2023
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The rental market is set to benefit from a surge in potential buyers putting their purchase plans on hold. Data from NerdWallet...
08 June 2023
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The latest data shows that while rents continue to climb, growth is starting to slow down. According to Nicky Stevenson, managing director...
19 May 2023
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A prominent group of economists has predicted the measures in the Renters Reform Bill will backfire on the government. Matthew Lesh, Director...
17 May 2023
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The Bank of England has announced its latest decision on base rate. This has been increased by 0.25 per cent to 4.5...
11 May 2023
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Financial analysts are unanimously warning that Bank of England base rate will rise yet again tomorrow. If they are correct this will...
10 May 2023
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One of the most respected financial organisations says markets are now betting that the Bank of England base rate will hit...
27 April 2023
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More property is likely to come onto the sales market in the weeks and months ahead as rising numbers of landlords...
27 April 2023
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Property portal Citylets says average rents in Scotland rose 12.4 per cent in the past year to £1,007 per month -...
27 April 2023
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A new survey throws light on the scale of the supply shortage hurting the rental market - and in addition shows...
24 April 2023
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The number of new prospective tenants registering at each branch of a Propertymark-member lettings agency held steady at 106 in March,...
20 April 2023
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As the unending attack on landlords continues, many are succumbing to the pressures of increased taxes, interest rates rising, regulations becoming...