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Continued political and economic uncertainty is likely to fuel increased tenant demand in the private rented sector, says Haart.  The company’s latest...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has put together a brief summary of the 2018 rental market. In figures, the supply of...

The average rent across Scotland is now running at £573 per calendar month - but that figure hides wide variations in...

A new investment company says its latest tool, powered by Artificial Intelligence, helps buy to let investors search for the best...

Rents are rising very gently across almost all of England and Wales with only London and East Anglia showing falls in...

The head of a lettings agency has launched a petition in opposition to a bid by a local council to extend...

A government minister says the phrase ”rogue landlord” is too “cuddly” and he wants buy to let investors who broke the...

The head of a buy to let specialist mortgage broker insists the sector remains a solid investment despite the slew of...

The chief executive of a specialist buy to let mortgage broker is warning that mortgages for landlords are likely to become...

It should perhaps come as no surprise that this week’s tightening up of the energy efficiency regulations for the private rental...

The power held by tenants is growing across the UK, as new research indicates 61 per cent of buy to let...

The party conferences of the two main political parties threw up some interesting developments with regards to housing and the rental...

Buy to let investors in England and Wales who own particularly cold homes are being targeted by new regulations. Since April this...

A property investment company operating a Ponzi scheme based on claims of capital appreciation and rental income has been shut down...

The heavy-handed administration of selective licensing schemes is driving out buy to let investors. That’s the claim from David Kirwan of Kirwans...

The proportion of buy to let investors looking to remortgage is now at an all-time high according to respected specialist mortgage...

One of London’s most respected lettings agencies says it’s recorded its best-ever quarter for business - defying claims from some that...

A poll of 1,250 landlords suggests that far from being concerned about the profitability of buy to let, almost 80 per...

New data from Countrywide’s luxury brand agency Hamptons International says the average price of a home bought by a landlord in...

With an average rental return of 7.69 per cent Ireland has been named as the top location in Europe for buy to...

Rental platform Goodlord - which in January made around 40 staff redundant in a restructuring move - has now announced that...

A new investment company has launched offering what it calls “opportunities to invest in key residential and commercial developments across the...

A major property platform says London’s rental and sales market may well be on the road to recovery - but that...

The latest rental figures produced by Your Move for Scotland have prompted a claim that the country now has better yields...

The Haart agency is calling on the government to give the private rental sector a break in the autumn Budget, as...

There’s less than a week to go to the introduction of new rules broadening the range of houses including in mandatory HMO...

An investment trust has been launched and looks likely to be competing for individual investors who may see it as an...

Managing agency Rendall & Rittner has scooped a Platinum Investors in People award, demonstrating commitment to high performance through good people...

Some industry observers say letting agents and Build To Rent are daggers drawn, but one agency in the Midlands is having...

The UK's second city Birmingham takes top spot when it comes to student property returns for buy-to-let investors. Analysis by online letting...

A survey has revealed that 44% of landlords are looking to sell properties as a challenging market takes its toll. Octopus Choice,...

Data produced by Sainsbury’s Bank Mortgages gives a trend-bucking upbeat assessment of investors’ renewed interest in buy to let.  Figures siuggest that...

The average age of buyers of properties for buy to let has dropped from 52.3 years in 2014 to 42 years...

First the good news - investors are still purchasing buy to let properties; the less good news is that it’s a...

Almost one in five landlords intend to remain in the buy to let market indefinitely according to a new survey.  Research for...

A new analysis of the buy to let market forecasts more bad news for agents, landlords and investors over the next...

The ownership of buy to let property is much more evenly split between women and men than amongst other forms of...

Over a third of London investors no longer view property as a good investment, according to a survey of over 1,000...

The Scottish Government’s private rental reforms are shaking up the sector according to new data, which reveals rental property sales have...

Agents and others wishing to respond to the official consultation on government proposals for longer tenancies have only until late evening...

The proportion of landlords of British buy to let properties who are themselves based overseas has fallen to a record low...

Rents are expected to surge 15 per cent over the next five years thanks to increasing demand and limited supply following...

Negative media portrayals of the buy to let sector could help to tip Britain into a housing crisis, claims an online...

Opposition is growing fast to the threat of another stamp duty attack on the buy to let sector, rumoured to be...

Controversial landlord Fergus Wilson has increased rents on all new tenancies in his property portfolio by £50 a week because of...

The latest Your Move rental tracker suggests that London’s lettings market has continued to cool with prices falling by 0.5 per...

More big fines have been handed out in recent legal action regarding buy to let investors who have not stuck by...

London is back as the most popular part of the UK for buy to let investment according to an analysis undertaken...

Britain’s most controversial landlord, Fergus Wilson, says the recent changes in buy to let legislation means that if he was starting...

The concept of deposit alternatives is gathering pace and now one PropTech firm closely involved in it - Reposit - has...

Buy to let is still an attractive investment compared to other asset classes but to make the best of the opportunity...

One of London’s leading letting agencies says in the current neutral rental market, buy to let owners must work hard to...

The latest LendInvest buy to let report, which ranks 105 postcode areas around England and Wales based on a combination of...

An online agency selling only buy to let units to would-be investors says it’s experiencing “positive growth” despite the challenges of...

A trade body says the country faces a net loss of 133,000 homes for private rent over the next year -...

A specialist buy to let mortgage lender says buy to let investors should act now - even if it means borrowing...

Yet another leading lettings agent has hit out at the government over its proposals for three year tenancies being the norm...

The British Property Federation says there are now 124,037 Build To Rent homes complete, under construction and in planning across the...

Legal & General, one of the biggest players in Britain’s burgeoning Build To Rent market, has exchanged contracts on its largest...

The cost of buy to let mortgages remain at record lows and - with little movement in costs and rates over...

The independent mortgage market monitor Moneyfacts says there is now a record number of mortgage deals for those entering the buy...

Arguments have already started over the government’s proposals to make three year tenancies the norm in the private rental sector. Letting Agent...

A new analysis of rental yields across all of the UK’s local authorities has revealed exactly where the best places are for...

The government should scrap the tax on new homes which is punishing those in need of a home to rent, the...

We’re all for an optimistic interpretation of events but a new tool from comparison website GoCompare lists the UK’s top buy...

A specialist buy to let broker is urging landlords to tread with caution before jumping feet first into incorporating their property...

Tenants, landlords and buy to let investors are the targets for new online rental guides introduced by the Ministry of Housing,...

Landlords are most likely to have invested in a boiler upgrade in the last 12 months to boost the energy efficiency...

Propio, another crowdfunding platform, has launched with the ambitious claim of expecting returns from residential investments of between six and 15...

A trade body says it has evidence that families take up the least amount of property management time when compared to...

Investors in buy to let in the UK are losing thousands of pounds in income - and it’s their own fault...

An analysis of over 580,000 properties has produced a league table of Britain’s best and worst buy to let postcodes in...

A buy to let investor has ended up with a bill for thousands of pounds after being found guilty of breaching...

One in five UK landlords have entered buy to let without even planning to, finding themselves with a property ‘accidentally’ or...

A Build To Rent business says investors in the private rental sector should be more flexible in their approach to private...

A campaign opposing the government’s recent tax changes which have penalised buy to let investors has taken a leaf out of...

Knight Knox, a property consultancy specialising in investment, has launched an online platform, yieldit, which aims to simplify the sale and...

The Nationwide has bucked the trend of many industry organisations by insisting that the private rental market is still in good...

There’s been a big rise in the proportion of landlords remortgaging according to one of the sector’s most prominent lenders, Paragon. In...

Telford Homes says some of its massive 35 per cent growth in pre-tax profits over the past year is down to...

Buy-to-let lender Paragon says it has seen a 'marked shift' towards buy-to-let activity among professional investors. The organisation reports that this is...

Flatsharing website Ideal Flatmate has passed the seed funding milestone of £1 million. The website - which includes former Green & Co...

Time to put the gloom and doom about buy to let to one side - a new analysis shows that a...

A specialist insurance provider says there is substantial mis-buying of insurance products by buy to let investors.  A survey of 500 landlords...

Buy to let investors are taking a wait and see approach when it comes to additional investment in the sector according...

One of the most respected buying agencies says it believes that with well under a year before the UK quits the...

Property crowdfunding projects are now the investments of choice for millennials according to a PropTech platform.  Shojin Property Partners claims to have...

A leading property law specialist has warned that many buy to let investors remain unaware of the new Minimum Energy Efficiency...

Over half of mortgage brokers say they have been approached by buy to let investors seeking to diversify their portfolios within...

Small-scale landlords and those with the very largest portfolios appear to be ‘resizing’ - selling off some units to cope with...

A new survey appears to buck the trend of recent rental market snapshots by showing that buy to let investors are...

The number of landlords re-mortgaging to release money for home improvements has reached a record high according to Countrywide. In the last...

Rental compliance platform GetRentr has raised over £500,000 from investors including a private equity firm and private individuals. GetRentr uses artificial intelligence...

Specialist funding platform Property Partner has conducted a survey which suggests that 54 per cent of landlords are selling all or some...

Some 43 per cent of all stamp duty comes from buy to let investors and holiday home purchasers - and almost...

The number of buy to let investors in the UK has hit a record high of 2.5m in the latest tax...

A leading Conservative peer says the government should cut taxes for buy to let investors and regard them as part of...

Specialist buy to let lender LendInvest has looked at 105 postcodes across England and Wales to find the best (and worst)...

Another property crowdfunding investment product has been launched, aiming to offer investors an alternative to the increasingly regulated and taxed buy...

A new survey by a leading lettings trade body suggests that the Bank of England’s attempts to make buy to let...

Two landlords have been hit with hefty court fines for failing to comply with a local licensing scheme. The pair are the...

Increased volatility in the private rental sector and rising costs for landlords and investors have combined to lead to an increased...

The Bank of England has issued gloomy figures on buy to let lending, suggesting the clampdown on mortgage interest tax relief...

The average landlord who sold their rental property in 2017 did so for £86,651 more than they paid for it, having...

The British Property Federation is calling upon more councils to support Build To Rent following the government’s recognition of the sector in...

An analysis of data released by HM Revenue and Customs shows that 1.9 million people earned money from property in 2015-16...

Belvoir says there is no evidence of a large-scale sell-off of buy to let properties by beleaguered landlords, but 85 per...

The independent mortgage market monitor Moneyfacts says some buy to let mortgage rates have gone back to record lows. The monitor says...

The ZPG-backed Zero Deposit scheme, one of a number now existing putting forward an alternative to traditional deposits, has announced four...

Bristol council is consulting on a licensing scheme which could see buy to let investors paying £1,660 for a five year...

A third of UK property professionals are set to expand their portfolios in 2018 despite a backdrop of increased challenges in...

Two buy to let investors have been fined a total of more than £27,000 under enforcement powers introduced in Burnley to...

Lettings agency IPS Estates is partnering with Midlands auction specialist SDL Auctions to sell tenanted properties online. IPS Estates, based in Derbyshire, will...

A range of factors - including fierce competition under the supplied housing market, rising property prices and political uncertainty – have...

A new website called Vesta has launched aiming to sell investment properties with tenants in place.  The team behind the site describe...

Specialist buy to let lender Commercial Trust claims at least two other regions of the UK are now vying with London...

Analysis of government figures by the Nationwide suggest that the buy to let sector is still growing despite tax changes and...

An online agency claims that serious portfolio landlords are staying faithful to buy to let despite recent tax and regulation changes...

Well over half of those investors who recently secured buy to let mortgages risk facing losses when mortgage interest tax changes...

Homes in Multiple Occupation produced average yields of 8.9 per cent in 2017, the highest of all buy to let property...

Nearly three quarters of portfolio landlords have found it more difficult to secure a mortgage since the Prudential Regulation Authority’s changes...

The head of franchise giant Belvoir says government interference in the rental sector is likely to result in a rise in...

The former executive director of LSL Property Services, David Newnes, is one of the key backers of a new property management...

The troubled PropTech firm Goodlord - which creates software to allow tenancies to be handled on a single system - has...

Surrenden Invest, which specialises in selling off-market new-build properties to buy to let investors, has opened an office in the north...

Online letting agency Upad is linking with high profile independent finance service John Charcol in a bid to make it easier...

A fall in the supply of available rental properties suggests some landlords may be quitting the buy to let sector as...

Larger scale landlords with 10 properties or more appear to be the most confident about the private rental sector, and are...

Research by The Guardian newspaper reveals that massive numbers of local authority councillors are also buy to let investors - and...

A survey has been undertaken of the top 25 UK postcodes in terms of yields for investors - and London and...

Barratt Homes’ London division is offering what it describes as ‘free property management’ on new-builds purchased at selected schemes and then...

A portal which allows renters to review their lettings experiences and which encourages agents to buy and download tenants' references has...

Rental growth is forecast to exceed house price growth in London, despite a glut of properties on the lettings market in...

The specialist property investment lender Together is diversifying its product range to cater for investors who want to let out their...

A crowdfunding site describing itself as an ‘ethical investment platform’ is the first international crowdfunder to enable investment in debt-free buy...

New analysis shows how the phasing out of mortgage interest tax relief for buy to let investors may prove a particular...

Equity release firm Retirement Advantage - which recently launched two new products aimed at buy to let operators aged 55 and...

Rents outside of London have dropped by 0.2 per cent in the third quarter of this year according to new data...

Portfolio landlords unable to borrow or contemplating selling because of new Prudential Regulation Authority rules are being urged to consider equity...

Greenwich is the latest council to make it compulsory for planning consent to be given before converting homes into Houses in...

The mortgage director of Romans, one of the country’s largest agency groups, says the new Bank of England rules being introduced...

A trade body says the expanding Build To Rent sector will never be large enough to meet tenant demand and as...

A leading accounting and advisory service says key tax changes that could damage the buy to let sector are still not...

A leading figure in the buy to let broker industry has called for would-be ‘pension pot’ landlords to seek advice before...

Consumer group Which? is warning that buy to let investors with multiple properties in one locality could risk being turned down...

Yields from buy to let in the UK are now amongst the worst in Europe according to a new league table drawn...

Some 61 per cent of chartered surveyors believe there will be a net exodus of landlords over the coming year thanks...

As applications from EU students to UK universities fall for the first time in six years, an over-supply of purpose-built student...

The number of new buy to let mortgages available to investors has hit 1,725 - its highest point since 1,942 products...

A respected letting agency research head says Build To Rent could be a significant step towards solving the overall shortage of...

Changes to buy-to-let lending criteria being introduced at the end of this month could encourage a surge of rental stock as...

A study by an online letting agent suggests that client demand and void periods are two of landlords' biggest concerns, and...

Romans says one in four of its registered buyers in the first half of this year has been an investor, suggesting...

Redwood Bank, an online institution which says one of its target customers is the professional landlord within the private rental sector,...

Equity release specialist Retirement Advantage has launched a range of products specifically for owners of Buy To Let properties.    These products will...

Perhaps unsurprisingly, a survey reveals that most buy to let and other property investors want the three per cent stamp duty...

The National Landlords Association is urging buy to let investors to consider remortgaging in the very near future ahead of new...

Consumer group Which? says ‘micro-apartments’ - which have proliferated in recent years - may not be good investments.    The group has focussed...

Belvoir is warning that some buy to let investors are quitting the sector.   “Although we are not currently seeing a huge exit...

Humberts has launched an online-only lettings option for landlords with a PropTech firm which has previously operated a service described as...

Property investment platform LendInvest has raised £50m thanks to the over-subscription of its first retail bond, launched on the London Stock...

Former Countrywide chief executive and chairman Grenville Turner is one of a number of high profile new investors unveiled for Zero...

Buy to let investors are losing confidence in their ability to rely on steady rental yields, according to recent figures from...

LSL Property Services has unveiled PRSim, its new brand offering services to the burgeoning Build To Rent sector.   PRSim offers “data, consultancy and...

The reasons behind ‘landlord churn’ - when buy to let investors sell up - are more connected with personal circumstances than...

More than half of buy to let landlords have taken measures to check the fire safety of their properties in the...

With a host of changing regulations hitting the private rental sector, some landlords may be put off using letting agents, but...

Countrywide says that the average price of a new let in Britain rose by 1.1 per cent year-on-year in June 2017...

Countrywide says the rapid growth in the size of the private rental sector in recent years is not down to a...

Landlords continue to look for cheaper, higher-performing properties according to the results of an index produced by Mortgages for Business. An analysis...

Paragon is the latest lender to announce it’s falling in line with Bank of England Prudential Regulation Authority requirements for more...

A prominent lettings industry campaigner says the head of a tenancy deposit scheme has “serious questions to answer” after his comments...

Paragon Mortgages says its most recent survey of buy to let investors makes it clear that the vast majority want the...

Far from being wealthy property investors, two thirds of individual landlords pay merely the basic rate of income tax according to...

Over half the value of buy to let lending in the second quarter of this year was provided to limited companies...

The BBC is reporting that the Welsh government is offering private buy to let investors who have properties in high-rise buildings...

Skipton International has launched a guide to help expat buy to let investors trying to make sense of the UK government’s...

The latest Kent Reliance Buy to Let Britain report - seen as a snapshot of the state of health of the...

Stoke-on-Trent has been named as the UK's buy-to-let 'sweet spot'. Analysis of data from Home.co.uk by property crowdfunding plaform Property Partner shows...

High street operator Metro Bank has announced that it is entering the consumer buy-to-let market and will now accept consumer applications...

The nation's landlords are adapting to ongoing restrictions to tax relief on buy-to-let mortgage interest, according to Mortgages for Business. Upon releasing...

The production company behind Grand Designs and Escape to the Country is looking for landlords to feature in a new BBC...

Investors in buy to let are the marketing target for a service which describes itself as the UK’s first digital mortgage...

A series of six video ‘shows’ - ideal for agents to promote to would-be investment buyers - has been launched by...

Some 1,500 landlords have responded to a trade group’s campaign calling for them to press General Election candidates to oppose changes...

Single property landlords are finally waking up to the fact they could be pushed in to a higher tax bracket following...

Research experts at high-end agency Savills say a total of £5.3 billion is expected to be invested in the student accommodation...

Property investors based in the capital are increasingly purchasing buy-to-let properties outside of London, according to Countrywide. The UK's largest agency's latest...

Landlords are increasingly looking to reduce the fees they pay to letting agents due to industry tax changes and increasing management...

Rental growth in London remained relatively stable during the first quarter of 2017, according to Benham & Reeves Residential Lettings. The firm's...

Agents and landlords are being warned by a property management agency to prepare for the next round of energy-efficiency regulation changes...

Almost half of the investors in the private rental sector do not know what the changes in mortgage relief will cost...

What does it say on your business card? Peter Mansfield, Group Chairman, The World Property Network, www.twpn.com  and TheWorldPropertyNetwork.com                             What is The World Property Network...

The British Property Federation says it is doing all it can to urge the fledgling Build To Rent sector to fall...

Women now account for two in five landlords according to research by Simple Landlords Insurance.   It says it has analysed tens of...

There has been a three per cent increase in remortgaging levels amongst buy to let investors in March according to data...

Data from the first three months of this year suggests that investors are increasingly purchasing smaller, cheaper properties. Specialist lender Mortgages for...

A new study of landlords reveals that far more believe they will be affected by today’s buy to let mortgage interest...

Steve Bolton, founder of investment consultancy Platinum Property Partners and one of two landlords who have led a campaign against restricting...

Prominent market commentator and buying agent Henry Pryor has been involved in a Twitter spat over whether the changes to mortgage...

The range and pricing of buy to let mortgage products for limited companies has never been better according to a survey...

The founder of Rightmove and former chief executive of Countrywide, Harry Hill, has joined a lettings start-up company called Lavanda which...

The Chartered Institute of Taxation has issued a reminder to buy to let investors that the first phase of the restriction...

The Metro Bank is the latest to make changes to its buy to let mortgage portfolio in a bid to attract...

The chief executive of Andrews Property Group says the government’s three per cent additional homes stamp duty surcharge on buy to...

Angry landlords in Shropshire have set up an online petition against local council proposals to introduce selective licensing.    The Wrekin Landlords Association...

Fergus Wilson, long-regarded as Britain’s biggest buy to let investor and landlord despite recent attempts to sell some of his homes,...

LSL’s corporate client department, a subsidiary of LSL Property Services, is beefing up its offer to Build To Rent institutional investors...

Cloud-based rental transaction platform Goodlord - already used by some agencies in the UK including Strutt & Parker and Remax -...

Upad, which claims to be Britain's larges online lettings agency, says Manchester has seen a 100 per cent increase in buy to...

Letting Agent Today’s Conor Shilling was in the audience of The Great Buy To Let Debate - always one of the...

Professional independent inventories can save money for landlords at a time when tax changes threaten to make private letting for expensive...

The Chartered Institute of Housing wants the government to introduce a raft of new measures including significantly greater regulation of letting...

The need for letting agencies to assist landlords with the increasingly-complicated private rental sector has been hammered home by the results...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has given a stark warning about the cumulative effect of the additional homes stamp duty...

The government has stepped in to clear up misunderstandings emerging from the Housing White Paper following its high profile call for...

Shelter - the campaigning charity many feel has had influence on government policies for the lettings sector - has now turned around and...

The Residential Landlords Association has made a last-minute plea for buy to let investors to remain central to the government’s plans...

Sigma Capital, one of the earliest investors in the UK Build To Rent sector, is creating a new brand called Simple...

The buy to let mortgage market has suffered something of a battering in recent months but now Post Office Money is...

A group of landlords that mounted a successful legal challenge to a council’s proposed licensing scheme is continuing to recruit letting...

A new task group is being set up to explore how a council can tackle what it calls “problems with private...

  An attempt is underway to resuscitate the Green Deal which many buy to let and other residential property investors used to...

Gross buy to let lending increased in November to the highest monthly level since the stamp duty surcharge was introduced in...

A property investment financing specialist says an increasing number of buy to let investors are converting properties into Houses in Multiple...

The consumer organisation Which? has joined the chorus of concern that new mortgage restrictions may hit buy to let landlords.   Since January...

Cushman & Wakefield has added a partner and an associate director to its Residential Investment & Private Rented Sector team.  Fergus Jack,...

There is yet more evidence that an increasing number of buy to let investors are setting up companies to offset the...

Despite what many in the industry believe to be an upsurge in specialist student accommodation construction in recent years, one student...

Mark Clare, the former Barratt Developments chief executive, is to be the next chairman of Britain’s current largest listed landlord, Grainger,...

No fewer than 60 per cent of buy to let investors say they believe they will be hit by forthcoming changes...

This is the final Letting Agent Today until Tuesday January 3 2017, so everyone at Angels Media sends all good wishes for...

  Over a third of landlords have never used a letting agent and manage all their properties themselves.    That is the finding of...

An assessment undertaken by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development shows property taxes accounted for 12.7 per cent of the...

Britain’s biggest buy to let landlord, Fergus Wilson, says new investors now will never be able to enjoy the scale of...

The Leeds Building Society is the latest buy to let mortgage lender to amend its criteria for borrowers ahead of new...

A group of landlords and buy to let investors that has already successfully persuaded a council to scrap plans for a...

What appears at first sight to be a low-level dispute between a landlord and a council has raised what may be...

The Northern Powerhouse agenda, increased infrastructure investment announced in the Autumn Statement and low entry prices make the north of England...

A digital property management platform that automates the rental process including marketing, bookings, reference checks, maintenance and compliance, claims it is now...

There is a new warning from the Bank of England suggesting that - despite all the recent measures aimed against buy...

Landlord confidence has returned despite government tax changes to the private rental sector - although research for the survey that produced...

Financial results from Grainger, which is already the UK’s largest listed residential landlord, reveals the potential profits to be made by...

The Financial Times reports that the Bank of England is questioning buy to let mortgage lenders and banks as part of...

The government’s proposed ban on letting agency fees levied on tenants - and the possibility that they may instead fall on...

A major buy to let mortgage provider has eased the criteria to be met by landlord investors who want to borrow...

In a sign of how prominent Build To Rent has become, this niche sector has now triggered a company to set...

The UK is only the 15th best place in Europe to enjoy high returns from buy to let according to currency...

More than 92 per cent of landlords believe the government is anti-landlord and want the Chancellor to back them in this...

The Mortgage Works, the buy to let lending arm of the Nationwide, has seen a dip in the amount borrowed by...

A lettings agent has poured scorn on a survey suggesting a quarter of landlords are about to quit buy to let,...

The Bank of England has been given additional powers by the government to control mortgage lending for buy to let investors. The...

There’s been a significant drop in the amount borrowed by buy to let investors over the past year, despite a rise...

A survey of 1,000 buy to let investors by the Residential Landlords’ Association shows that around a quarter are saying they...

A British Build To Rent management company has merged with a long-standing US firm in the same field to create a...

Another prominent mortgage chief has called on the government to show its support for the private rental sector by repealing some...

Lettings expert Kate Faulkner says yields - a traditional long-standing measure of success for buy to let landlords - are becoming...

Property consultancy Dataloft has produced an index to monitor what it says are the four key factors behind buy to let investors'...

The latest demand by anti-letting agent pressure group Generation Rent is for the government to abolish the right of landlords or...

Sister agencies Leaders and Romans have undertaken research to show that property has been the most lucrative investment in the UK...

It is feared that Cardiff council will later this week severely restrict the number of new shared houses in two popular...

The government’s wave of measures to clamp down on the private rental sector and introduce harsher regulations for investors and landlords...

The British Property Federation is urging Chancellor Phillip Hammond to bring in tax measures to help the purpose-built Build To Rent...

Buy to let lending is well down according to data from the Council of Mortgage Lenders.    Apparently contrary to an optimistic report...

The financial downturn was “probably the best thing that could have happened” to this country’s private rental sector according to lettings...

Buyer enquiries from potential landlords and investors are now up 30 per cent since May according to Rightmove, suggesting that the...

Agents and landlords in one of the country’s most politically-volatile cities are preparing to meet the local council to protest at...

New data produced by Knight Frank shows that the number of tenancies agreed in August this year was the highest on...

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

Legal represenatives for two landlords will today make the case for a judicial review of Section 24 of the Finance (No.2)...

Details of the Bank of England’s statement outlining tougher rules on mortgage lending to buy to let investors have been shown...

The SDL Group says it is on course to become the UK's largest provider of Build to Rent services.  The firm, which...

Buy-to-let (BTL) investors continue to benefit from falls in mortgage rates, particularly those looking for longer-term agreements. Analysis by Moneyfacts.co.uk shows that...

An East Midlands estate agency has opened its third lettings office, saying the rental market has 'defied expectations'. Richard Watkinson and Partners,...

A campaign group is urging letting agents to join with landlords in lobbying MP over the government’s change to buy to...

Some 21 per cent of buy to let investors are too embarrassed to admit what they do.   That is the result of a...

The news editor of London financial daily City AM has made an outspoken attack on the government’s fiscal assaults on the...

A report by buy to let guru Kate Faulkner says accidental landlords could unwittingly be contributing to some high profile problems in...

Kevin Hollinrake - the founder of franchise agency Hunters and now a Conservative MP - is calling for a cut in...

Speculation that the government was attempting to ‘slip in’ yet more changes to the way landlords are being taxed have been...

The date for the court hearing to decide whether there should be a judicial review of the buy to let tax...

Leaders has launched a new online opportunity for investors to buy, sell and compare available buy to let properties   It provides access...

Belvoir is calling on the government to reverse its punitive tax policies against buy to let and introduce incentives to make...

There are now 60,139 Build To Rent units constructed or in the pipeline across the UK according to the British Property...

HM Revenue & Customs has launched a 12-week consultation on a proposal which it claims simplifies the tax demands levied on...

Housing minister Gavin Barwell has agreed to meet campaigners opposed to the clampdown on landlords’ mortgage interest tax relief. The measure -...

Belvoir says the majority of franchise owners in its 170-strong network are reporting a shortage of family housing as one opf...

The people behind the bid for a judicial review into Clause 24 of the Finance Act 2015 - limiting mortgage interest tax...

There is growing concern over a predicted £5,000 cost to make some buy to let properties energy-efficient under new government plans.   An...

New research by an online property lending company reveals that those towns which were strongest in voting ‘Leave’ in the EU...

One of the biggest players in the burgeoning Build To Rent sector says this new segment of the lettings market is...