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Optimism amongst investors in the private rental sector is on the rise, despite the various tax and regulation obstacles facing the...

A newspaper claims that a short lets management firm that handles properties let on Airbnb and similar platforms is scrambling for...

Two bedroom properties produce the best yields for buy to let investors according to the latest research. Lettings management platform Howsy has...

There’s a new warning today for buy to let investors who will be hit by tax changes coming into effect on...

One of the country’s leading buying agencies says buy to let is changing in prime central London, as corporate structures replace...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has made an uncompromising set of demands on the government, asking it to implement a...

Three more deposit alternative supplier have issued statements seeking to distance their product from criticisms raised in a BBC investigation. Yesterday we carried...

An analysis of HMRC data reveals that the number of small buy-to-let landlords has dropped for the first time in five...

Grainger, one of the biggest names in Build To Rent in the UK, says its current BTR pipeline stands at 24...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Catherine Shinerock - ARO Account Manager What is your ‘company name’...

A mortgage firm claims some 22 per cent of existing lettings sector investors plan to buy at least another one lettings...

A new survey suggests there may be an exodus of investors out of buy to let - some 27 per cent...

Some 26 per cent of buy to let investors plan to sell one or more of their properties in 2020 according...

Countrywide has calculated that with many landlords exiting the buy to let market, the number of homes available to rent has...

One of the highest profile buy to let mortgage lenders predicts that 2020 will see increasing numbers of investors going into...

Atlas Residential - a Build to Rent developer with over 75,000 international properties - is partnering with deposit alternative supplier flatfair...

Reports from China suggest that property investors from that country - a staple in the buy to let market in many...

Owners of buy to let properties across the UK could be entitled to compensation due to onerous ground rent charges according...

The Black Brick agency, which operates with high net worth clients, is forecasting that 2020 will see the arrival of a...

A new PropTech app-based service claiming to reduce paperwork in property management is rolling out in London and the south east. Herddle...

Two specific elements of Labour’s tax proposals, outlined in its manifesto, could “drive a nail into the coffin of buy to...

Another think tank has come up with proposals to scrap Section 21 eviction powers and cap rents - and it also...

The proportion of homes in Great Britain let by overseas based landlords is 11 per cent, up from seven per cent...

Labour’s controversial proposal to oblige landlords to sell their buy to let properties to tenants who wished to purchase them, unveiled...

Zoopla is beefing up its customer relationship management programme with the appointment of RAPP UK to evolve the portal’s data infrastructure...

Many buy to let investors are still badly bruised by the government’s wave of fiscal and regulatory assaults on the private...

A trade body says the private rental sector is facing a major crisis - more landlords are selling properties than buying...

Property development and investment firm SevenCapital has released a top 10 league table of UK cities which it claims will perform...

A PropTech platform that earlier this year was reported to be valued at £2.8m is making an unusual offer to letting...

Property investors are concerned that Brexit could deter international buyers from purchasing property in the UK, which could in turn weaken...

An agency that specialises in letting and managing properties in one of the country’s investment hotspots is expanding into a new...

The quality of accommodation in the private rental sector has drastically improved in the past decade according to a survey by...

New research indicates that the majority of property investors in the UK have their plans on pause for the next six...

There’s been a fierce outcry from Conservative MPs and the lettings industry in response to Labour’s threat to give private rental...

One in six landlords is seeking to reduce the size of their portfolio in the next 12 months and around half...

Police in South Shields have called for the sharing of information about tenants in HMOs - and a council is considering...

A London-focused PropTech startup has just won another £7m in funding. Residently manages houses and flats for landlords, letting them directly to...

A husband and wife pair of buy to let investors have been prosecuted after letting out a property that contained serious...

A PropTech lettings platform is claiming to be valued at over £2.8m. Inadash describes itself as an “on-demand marketplace” which via an...

One of the country’s leading property management experts says buy to let is here to stay - but only if individual...

London-focussed lettings agency Portico, which has expanded into the north of England, has identified part of Liverpool as the area where...

Manchester-based agency Ascend has revealed it’s now taken over the management of a Build To Rent fund’s portfolio of almost 1,000...

The Mirror newspaper says eight members of the new Boris Johnson-led Cabinet are buy to let investors - and it accuses...

Lettings experts are being invited to the unveiling of a service described by its creators as “a revolutionary rental product.” It is...

An investment company has revealed that it’s acquired land in the north of England to create a Build To Rent scheme. Godwin...

London is growing in its importance as a Build To Rent market according to new research released today. International property consultancy JLL...

A property education business says it’s targeting a major expansion with the launch of online additions to its nationwide courses in...

Buy to let investors in the UK are spending nearly £4.7 billion a year on their rental properties, an average of...

A campaign by HM Revenue & Customs to encourage buy to let investors to ‘fess up’ to their unpaid tax has...

A lettings agency is believed to be the first to offer landlords a year's rent in advance in one lump sum...

Rents are rising at the fastest rate since 2017, pushing the average yield on residential property to 4.5 per cent, its...

A holiday lets and short-term lettings market boom can be put down to a combination of four reasons, according to specialist...

Property investors are calling for the government to provide more support to the UK property market. A survey of investors, carried out...

A rise in the number of professional landlords means letting agents need to ensure their service meets the expectations of experienced...

Landlords can make savings by switching their buy-to-let (BTL) mortgages as average costs have started to fall.  The latest analysis from Mortgage...

A senior London lettings agent has accused the government of “going to war” on buy to let investors. The director of Benham...

There has been no change to rental yields across the UK over the past month as the lettings market settles down...

Second home owners, landlords and property investors are being urged to beware a “dramatic change” to the current capital gains tax...

If you are a letting agent who has begun to question your worth, stop. The value of property management is rising...

A branch of Whitegates, part of The Property Franchise Group, has purchased an independent local operation to increase its managed property...

A European law firm has set out a critique of the driving forces behind Build To Rent - and it says...

New research shows that some buy to let investors in London could typically lose over £19,000 a year if Berlin-style rent...

Landlords have been urged to seek advice about potential stamp duty rebates on ‘uninhabitable’ second properties after a landmark tribunal case. A...

High profile agency Haart has issued a warning to landlords on what it sees as the three key risks to successful letting...

A leading buy to let specialist lender says the vast number of BTL mortgage products now on the market has made...

A leading housing market analyst says the sales market is increasingly determined by the acts of buy to let and other...

We may be all-too-familiar with the challenges facing letting agents and landlords in the private rental sector but there is at...

A leading lettings expert insists that greater regulation in the private rental sector can work for the benefit of landlords and...

A lettings agent and investment adviser says there is a positive interpretation of the fees ban introduced this month in England. Abi...

A new analysis of the private rental sector suggests the typical buy to let investor will be lucky to generate annual...

A property management chief is arguing that rent controls would restrict mortgage loans to buy to let investors and drive existing...

The head of a firm that seeks investors to put money into residential property funds rather than individual homes for tenants...

A leading buy to let mortgage provider says the professional landlord with multiple properties is increasingly becoming the backbone of its...

Only one in six private landlords say they would support the Conservatives in an election according to a new poll. Buy to...

The agency handling the largest volume of student accommodation in Lincoln is celebrating its fourth birthday by opening a second office...

With the Tenant Fee Ban obliterating a key income stream, letting agents should be looking at ways they can increase the...

There was a notable increase in the number of older buy-to-let investors in 2018, according to Commercial Trust Limited. The specialist buy-to-let...

A compliance company has accused “thousands” of buy to let investors of failing to address major household hazards which render properties...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card?  My name is Daniel and I’m a director at...

A property investment platform claims that investor sentiment in buy to let is actually improving despite ongoing political and economic uncertainty...

Three years after the introduction of the second homes stamp duty surcharge, landlords are “beginning to come to terms with the...

An agency in the north east of England is moving its HQ off the High Street and into an office block...

An online platform claims it has found a new and easy way for investors to become landlords, describing itself as ‘PayPal...

A Liberal Democrat activist is considering establishing a landlords’ group consisting of party members. Tony Harris, writing on the LibDem Voice website,...

Figures calculated by Rightmove suggest that even when the Fees Ban and Deposit Caps kick in on June 1, some deposits...

Startling figures released this morning by Rightmove suggest that rents have risen 8.2 per cent in London in the past year...

Data from a Countrywide agency shows that 59 per cent of landlords who live in London purchased their buy to let...

A building expert is warning buy to let investors that they won’t enjoy unfettered rights to extend their properties upwards when...

Buy to let investors are facing a double whammy as stagnating rents and reduced tax relief are hitting profitability. A study from...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Taha Dar, founder and CEO of SearchSmartly. What is SearchSmartly and...

Agents and prospective buy to let investors keen to grab a slice of the capital’s growing lettings market now have a...

Flatfair, which describes itself as the UK’s fastest-growing tenancy deposit alternative, has been shortlisted in the Best Newcomer category of the...

A PropTech firm says buy to let investors could earn in excess of double the eight per cent yield most aim...

Two buy to let investors have been fined thousands of pounds after failing to carry out improvements to unfit rental properties. Adur...

A leading accountancy firm has analysed buy to let taxation policies north and south of the border and claims that from...

A property management company is taking the unusual approach of suggesting to buy to let investors that they purchase properties with...

Large-scale buy to let investors are continuing to move to limited company status in a bid to limit their exposure to...

A survey of 500 buy to let landlords suggests that well over a third are planning to increase the size of...

A buy to let investment service says its podcasts are now downloaded over 200,000 times a month and it has an...

The average age of those buying investment property has fallen by more than three and a half years in the past...

A PropTech firm says buy to let investors should not respond to the slowing market by selling up, but should instead...

Income tax paid by buy to let landlords now exceeds £3.8 billion annually – that’s more than double Tesco’s entire annual...

More than a third of landlords are looking to cut their annual spending - and many of them are considering ending...

A lettings agency that has analysed HMRC data says rental income for buy to let landlords has leaped 15 per cent...

Momentum is building in the campaign to end ‘No DSS’ discrimination against private rental sector tenants in receipt of housing benefit. Late...

Demand for room rentals in London is so high their average charge has risen two per cent in 2019 already, claims...

Brexit is not a good reason for delaying buy to let investment, insists a mortgage chief. Andrew Turner is chief executive at...

Buy to let may have been in the doldrums in recent years thanks to new taxes and stricter regulations but there’s...

The Money Laundering Regulations require estate agents to risk assess their business relationships and apply an appropriate level of investigation to...

High-end lettings agency Strutt & Parker says the take-up of new rental tenancies decreased by 5.4 per cent over 2018 as...

A leading landlord has hit out at a lettings agency’s portrayal of buy to let tax changes.  Rosalind Beck, a campaigning landlord...

The news this week that even individual private landlords must join a redress scheme is just the latest in an onslaught...

Landlords in London are possibly £1,806 worse off since the vote to leave the EU in June 2016, according to specialist...

The latest market snapshot from LSL Property Services once again shows that buy to let investors in northern regions have enjoyed...

A leading PropTech entrepreneur says letting agents must provide value for their landlord clients through technology, transparency and service if they...

A local authority has taken the unusual step of issuing a celebratory press release stating that it issued penalty notices adding...

Knight Frank has issued a relatively upbeat assessment of the prime London lettings market as the year draws to a close.  Firstly...

A property website says tenants and prospective renters in London are set to have ‘a torrid 2019’ because of a shortage of...

A court has ordered a husband and wife pair of buy to let investors to pay back £322,282 in illegal income. A...

The proportion of homes let by an overseas based landlord has more than halved in the last eight years according to...

New data from online buy to let agency Yieldit claims to give an insight into which property types produce the best...

The UK’s student accommodation sector is still booming according to Knight Frank, despite Brexit creating uncertainty over the future of foreign...

A new survey suggests that the demise of the High Street for shopping could lead to a surge in the supply...

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...