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Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Clifford Thomas – Sales Director at The Letting Partnership What is...
06 May 2022
From: 60 Second Interview
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One of the UK’s largest lettings groups has made an outspoken attack on the policies of a political party standing in...
27 April 2022
From: Breaking News

An increasing number of house purchases are made by buyers who are not in chains - a trend driven by the...
25 April 2022
From: Breaking News

The chief executive and founder of an award-winning sales and lettings brand is set to discuss the best practice approaches to...
20 April 2022
From: Breaking News

A new investment league table has been drawn up to show best aggregate rent and capital appreciation income for those in...
13 April 2022
From: Breaking News

Unsurprisingly, perhaps, buy to let investors are becoming increasingly keen on upgrading homes to make them more energy efficient according to...
12 April 2022
From: Breaking News

OnTheMarket is today launched a lettings Automated Valuation Model tool that is claimed will provide landlords and investors with an instant...
12 April 2022
From: Breaking News

The average HMO is worth a third more than a comparably sized house according to new research. The typical HMO now costs...
08 April 2022
From: Breaking News

Energy efficiency is the hot topic in the lettings sector right now with new minimum EPC levels expected to be introduced...
28 March 2022
From: Breaking News

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I’m Alex Gibbs, Co-Founder and Director of Built Asset Management...
27 March 2022
From: 60 Second Interview

There’s been a broad welcome from letting agents to the Spring Statement not loading more tax or restrictions on buy to...
24 March 2022
From: Breaking News

An eye-watering annualised rent rise in Greater London of 27.3 per cent has helped pushed the all-UK total yearly hike to...
17 March 2022
From: Breaking News

A business consultancy is warning that buy to let sellers in the current market are likely to be squeezed - and...
15 March 2022
From: Breaking News

The costs of upgrading properties to meet new energy efficiency standards are likely to be passed on to tenants via higher...
15 March 2022
From: Breaking News

A new player in the Build To Rent sector says it’s targeting locations in the London commuter belt with chronic supply...
14 March 2022
From: Breaking News

Lettings agency Galbraith reports that landlords are now returning to the residential lets sector from holiday lets after several years without...
10 March 2022
From: Breaking News

Property management specialist Pinnacle Group has strengthened its digital offer for customers across its residential portfolio, signing a three-year deal with...
09 March 2022
From: Breaking News

Agents tasked with persuading possible investors as to the benefit of buy to let have new ammunition, in the shape of...
03 March 2022
From: Breaking News

A platform that says it wants to help reduce letting agents’ reliance on traditional portals such as Rightmove and Zoopla has...
24 February 2022
From: Breaking News

An independent agency in the Midlands has set up a club attracting investors from as far as Hong Kong, Dubai and...
22 February 2022
From: Breaking News

Cornwall has been in the spotlight as an area with an acute shortage of long-term rental properties because landlords have switched...
21 February 2022
From: Breaking News

The UK Apartment Association - set up six years ago as a form of trade body for Build To Rent operators...
21 February 2022
From: Breaking News

A prominent lettings agency chief says a consultation looking at changes to private renting proposed by the Scottish Government is merely...
18 February 2022
From: Breaking News

Research by the UK’s largest student accommodation search platform shows a 3.7 per cent uplift in London’s Purpose-Built Student Accommodation bed...
17 February 2022
From: Breaking News

A developer says its new state-of-the-art sales centre in Hong Kong in set to boost Chinese investment in London. Galliard, the developer...
15 February 2022
From: Breaking News

New data from Zoopla suggests that lettings demand has now recovered across the central districts of all major cities including Birmingham,...
11 February 2022
From: Breaking News

A new property management platform seeking support form letting agents claims to be the ‘Airbnb for shared living’. Vann Vogstad, the entrepreneur...
07 February 2022
From: Breaking News

One of the leading lettings agencies in Liverpool has issued a warning about the city’s controversial new licensing scheme. The Labour council...
25 January 2022
From: Breaking News

A prominent agent says the shortage of rental property is now so acute, and like to get still worse, that those...
24 January 2022
From: Breaking News

While the number of companies set up by individual landlords to hold buy to lets reached a record high last year,...
17 January 2022
From: Breaking News

A new Midlands property investment group has been launched, and says it will target both investors and landlords. Joseph Mews Property Group...
11 January 2022
From: Breaking News

A leading agency handling international investors and buyers says Russians will displace the Chinese as the main purchasers of buy to...
05 January 2022
From: Breaking News

A former president of the Association of Residential Letting Agents has lifted the lid on how buy to let came about,...
31 December 2021
From: Breaking News

The lettings agency boss at the centre of a major industry takeover has fired a warning shot about rent controls and...
22 December 2021
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency’s new website claims to offer increased support to landlords, tenants, and investors, “while cutting through the noise of...
17 December 2021
From: Breaking News

UK Finance, the umbrella group representing major mortgage lenders, says there will have been a massive 83 per cent surge in...
16 December 2021
From: Breaking News

Property is fast becoming a preferred investing option for advocates of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, an investment company claims. Sequire Property Investment...
26 November 2021
From: Breaking News

A prominent consultancy advising the Build To Rent sector has identified one British city as the prime location for investment in 2022. BNP...
25 November 2021
From: Breaking News

One of the institutions behind Build To Rent in the UK is pledging to have up to 1,000 new rental homes...
25 November 2021
From: Breaking News

Buy to let investors many quit the sector if proposals in the Northern Ireland Private Tenancies Bill go-ahead in their existing...
23 November 2021
From: Breaking News

The private rental sector is already attempting to improve its EPC results according to research from Shawbrook Bank. From 2025 new rules...
09 November 2021
From: Breaking News

A new bank called Monument is aiming at property investors and established buy to let landlords seeking to grow their portfolios. Its...
09 November 2021
From: Breaking News

PropTech investment platform Houzen has raised concerns over the government’s Heat and Buildings Strategy. This is the satrategy that offers rental sector...
01 November 2021
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency in Manchester has received over 10,000 rental enquiries in just one month. Manchester Apartments says it received some 21,000...
27 October 2021
From: Breaking News

Some 4,500 people and 90 exhibitors attended the Property Investor Show a few days ago - the first face-to-face event of...
27 October 2021
From: Breaking News

Propertymark has told the government that imposing the same solution to the Net Zero challenge on all of the private rental...
22 October 2021
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency with links to Saudi Arabian investors has produced a case study of how faith is returning to the long...
20 October 2021
From: Breaking News

Savills says an increase in the number of new builds bought for buy to let and other property investment will help...
19 October 2021
From: Breaking News

A leading agent and member of the Propertymark board says London’s letting agencies and private rental sector need government help -...
12 October 2021
From: Breaking News

Six agencies have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman for failing to pay compensatory awards - five of them for offences...
11 October 2021
From: Breaking News

Lettings agency Hamptons, part of Connells, says there’s little sign that the stamp duty holiday led to large numbers of new...
11 October 2021
From: Breaking News

The end of the stamp duty holiday today has triggered a reduction in the number of buy to let investors saying...
01 October 2021
From: Breaking News

New research reveals that student property portfolios based in smaller university towns or cities typically generate the best returns. The findings, from...
30 September 2021
From: Breaking News

The flurry of increased interest in buy to let means the choice of mortgage products for investors is now greater than...
28 September 2021
From: Breaking News

An investment firm has flagged up the recently announced move by banking giant Lloyds to enter the private rented sector as...
23 September 2021
From: Breaking News

We may still be some months off 2022, but property experts are already beginning to make their predictions for next year...
23 September 2021
From: Breaking News

A PropTech platform which uses Open Banking to help with tenant due diligence has raised another £1m in funding. Homeppl - which...
09 September 2021
From: Breaking News

An auctioneer says the strong interest of investors from around the world shows how Buy To Let has a second wind...
07 September 2021
From: Breaking News

Research by Paragon Bank has revealed the sector that has out-performed the rest of the private rental investment landscape - student...
31 August 2021
From: Breaking News

There’s been a 21 per cent rise in demand for properties from buy to let investors according to a new analysis...
26 August 2021
From: Breaking News

Plentific - the PropTech firm that offers block management agents and Build To Rent operators a cloud-based maintenance platform - has...
25 August 2021
From: Breaking News

Flats, so long the favourite of buy to let investors, still constitute 15 per cent of all homes purchased according to...
11 August 2021
From: Breaking News

Agents will be aware that demand for rental property is high right now - so a property consultancy has worked out...
09 August 2021
From: Breaking News
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A Labour council leader has hit after being attacked for his support for buy to let and property investment. Last week we...
02 August 2021
From: Breaking News

London-based buy to let purchasers in the first half of the year have looked outside the capital in high numbers according...
02 August 2021
From: Breaking News
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A letter from a tenant’s union is demanding that a Labour councillor “publicly explain” his actions as an accountant advising investors...
28 July 2021
From: Breaking News

A respected buy to let mortgage monitor is suggesting that investors in the sector may be more successful if they allow...
26 July 2021
From: Breaking News

Rapidly rising rents may trigger a new wave of investment buyers in London, helping to resuscitate the capital’s sales market in...
15 July 2021
From: Breaking News

Women now make up 48 per cent of the 2.6m buy to let investors in the UK, according to London lettings...
12 July 2021
From: Breaking News

There’s good news for the buy to let sector today as an independent mortgage market monitor reports a 15-month high in...
06 July 2021
From: Breaking News

A politician is stepping up his bid to ban buy to let purchasers acquiring any units at a 150-home scheme. ITV News...
05 July 2021
From: Breaking News

High profile London lettings agency Chestertons says there’s been an increase in Hong Kong residents looking to rent a home in...
24 June 2021
From: Breaking News

ARLA Propertymark has thrown its weight behind a call for HMRC to extend the time limit for the payment of Capital...
11 June 2021
From: Breaking News

The director of a company targeting ‘flipping’ property investors has been disqualified from holding directorships for no less than 14 years. Mitchell...
11 June 2021
From: Breaking News

Sulets - a not-for-profit, charitable trust providing accommodation for students - has struck gold. It’s won a Gold award from Investors in...
20 May 2021
From: Breaking News

PropTech start up Halo claims that what it calls a new “tenant engagement platform” will streamlines the rental onboarding process. The firm...
19 May 2021
From: Breaking News

The five years since the introduction of the three per cent stamp duty surcharge on additional homes has led to a...
17 May 2021
From: Breaking News

Halo.rent, a proptech startup from the UK, announces the launch of its tenant engagement platform that streamlines the entire rental onboarding...
13 May 2021
From: Sponsored Content

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Jack Reid Founding Director of Orlando Reid In your experience,...
12 May 2021
From: 60 Second Interview

A leading banking and wealth management company says a growth area for the rental sector in the years to come will...
12 May 2021
From: Breaking News

An agency which has for the past 11 years specialised in south west London is now expanding with a new office...
07 May 2021
From: Breaking News

A bank has seen a surge in Honk Kong residents purchasing UK buy to let properties. Skipton International, the Guernsey-licensed bank, says...
05 May 2021
From: Breaking News

A third of buy to let investors would change the way they voted in the EU referendum if they could. That’s the...
27 April 2021
From: Breaking News

One of the most active lenders for international investors in UK buy to let claims to have produced a market-leading mortgage...
20 April 2021
From: Breaking News

Buy to let investors are not cashing out of the private rental sector despite the restrictions and taxes imposed by government. Hamptons’...
13 April 2021
From: Breaking News

London lettings and estate agency Benham and Reeves has calculated a league table of the most popular postcodes in the capital...
07 April 2021
From: Breaking News

The popularity of buy to let mortgage products offering exclusive rates for higher value loans is a sign of optimism in...
31 March 2021
From: Breaking News
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The government’s much-vaunted ‘tax day’ produced few challenges to the status quo - but holiday lets are under scrutiny. Currently the holiday let...
24 March 2021
From: Breaking News

An upbeat market snapshot for the lettings sector claims that one region of the UK has seen rent increases in excess...
15 March 2021
From: Breaking News

Research by Hamptons suggests that the increased house prices caused by the stamp duty holiday sales surge has indirectly obliged more...
15 March 2021
From: Breaking News

Some £3.5 billion of investment was placed in the growing Build To Rent sector in 2020, despite concerns over the pandemic...
11 March 2021
From: Breaking News

A property lawyer is forecasting a surge in buy to let purchasing in the coming months as the stamp duty extension...
08 March 2021
From: Breaking News

An agency in the north of England has outlined how it proposes to take investors to what it calls “multiple viewings”...
05 March 2021
From: Breaking News
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This afternoon's Budget has seen dramatic announcements from Chancellor Rishi Sunak referring to the private rental sector. For landlords buying properties, the stamp...
03 March 2021
From: Breaking News

A new agency doesn’t hold back about its importance, describing itself as “the future of buy to let property offering a...
03 March 2021
From: Breaking News
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A leading PropTech expert says the lettings industry hopes next week’s Budget will provide clarity on taxes - but he’s also...
23 February 2021
From: Breaking News
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A prominent industry figure is warning Chancellor Rishi Sunak not to use property taxes to bail out the government over the costs...
19 February 2021
From: Breaking News

ARLA Propertymark is warning the government that new energy efficiency targets for EPCs could stifle buy to let investment in future. In...
19 February 2021
From: Breaking News

There could be 700,000 private tenants in arrears by the end of this year - an unsustainable burden on agents and landlords,...
11 February 2021
From: Breaking News

For most letting agents the last year has been a challenging one which has focused attention on dealing with the immediate,...
04 February 2021
From: Sponsored Content

The 60-branch London focussed agency chain Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward is the latest agency to invest in Zero Deposit. The firm joins Andrews,...
28 January 2021
From: Breaking News
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How did you get into property? My grandparents did some small property developments when I was growing up which always interested me,...
20 January 2021
From: 60 Second Interview

Research from independent financial service market monitor Moneyfacts shows a small but encouraging increase in the number of buy to let mortgages...
20 January 2021
From: Breaking News

Franchise giant Belvoir has issued a statement to shareholders emphasising the success of its financial services wing. The Belvoir Group established its...
13 January 2021
From: Breaking News

A new HMO and co-living property management platform launches today, aimed at optimising tenancy occupancy. The service - called COHO - claims...
07 January 2021
From: Breaking News

London agency Chestertons is warning that it’s going to be “another difficult year for the lettings market” in 2021. It says that...
31 December 2020
From: Breaking News

There are growing calls for so-called ‘exempt accommodation’ to face the same controls that are exerted over the rest of the...
21 December 2020
From: Breaking News

An investment group of companies specialising in student accommodation says letting agents can be very important - but it also says...
14 December 2020
From: Breaking News

Around one in seven residential properties purchased in November were snapped up by buy to let investors, according to Countrywide research. A...
14 December 2020
From: Breaking News

An end-of-year market snapshot by the Association of Residential Letting Agents shows the supply of rental accommodation was the highest on record...
11 December 2020
From: Breaking News

The rental market is recovering fast from the Coronavirus crisis and still has a strong ‘offer’ for investors - but it’s...
07 December 2020
From: Breaking News

Rightmove is hosting a live webinar this morning to help agents protect and maintain mental health. Agents will be able to watch live...
03 December 2020
From: Breaking News

A late-year surge in the number of Build To Rent applications has been forecast by a market commentator. Alex Blagden, senior researcher...
01 December 2020
From: Breaking News

International investors dominate the high end London market says a new survey. Aston’s, a residency and citizenship consultancy, has analysed sold price records...
19 November 2020
From: Breaking News

A prominent agent and industry commentator says the threat of higher Capital Gains Tax risks forcing yet more investors to quit...
13 November 2020
From: Breaking News

A rebranded agency is now focussing on selling only tenanted buy to let properties in what it calls ‘second tier’ cities...
05 November 2020
From: Breaking News

There’s been a flurry of new PropTech products launched, mostly focussed on lettings agencies. Australian-based supplier Movinghub, which works the UK market...
05 November 2020
From: Breaking News

The recent survey in Letting Agent Today on why many landlords didn’t use agents was interesting and informative. That only 42.5%...
02 November 2020
From: Sponsored Content

The announcement of the Renters’ Reform Bill in the Queen’s speech last December caused a collective groan across the country from...
29 October 2020
From: Legislation & Compliance

I was asked recently, how can an agent generate more landlord leads? Well that got me thinking, firstly, we have to...
28 October 2020
From: Marketing & Social Media

The Ringley Group has launched a new estate and block management division targeting high-end London instructions. Ringley Group already has over 12,000...
21 October 2020
From: Breaking News

A new agency set up in Wiltshire says it goes beyond the traditional lettings services of existing operators, and instead seeks...
15 October 2020
From: Breaking News

Deposit alternative service Zero Deposit has revealed significant new investment as its founder - ex-Zoopla commercial director Jon Notley - takes a...
13 October 2020
From: Breaking News

Scotland must encourage more investors into its property market as a way of supporting its economy once the Coronavirus recedes according...
06 October 2020
From: Breaking News

The huge disruption of the Coronavirus crisis to the UK's university education does not alter the sector’s long-term fundamentals, a specialist lettings...
06 October 2020
From: Breaking News

A rent guarantor service says the rental sector has investors and landlords who are happy for tenants to defer rent payments...
29 September 2020
From: Breaking News

With no clear end in sight and conflicting Government advice as to whether we should work from home or go to...
24 September 2020
From: Sponsored Content

The decline of the high street - which has been accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic - is forcing commercial investors to...
17 September 2020
From: Breaking News

Some 25,000 investors and landlords have signed up to receive a free expert guide from Zoopla in just over a week...
16 September 2020
From: Breaking News

Zoopla has revealed its top 10 hotspots for buy to let investors seeking high rental yields. The analysis is based on rental returns...
10 September 2020
From: Breaking News

Striving for higher yields remains the holy grail for buy to let, and new research suggests investors could be attracted by...
04 September 2020
From: Breaking News

A new private rental licensing regime in a London borough is being described as “a major step forward in improving living...
03 September 2020
From: Breaking News

Reduce buy to let regulation or face a worsening housing crisis - that’s the message from a leading property lawyer. Mary Rouse,...
01 September 2020
From: Breaking News

Independent service Moneyfacts says that while the buy to let mortgage sector remains resilient, it has contracted slightly in recent weeks...
19 August 2020
From: Breaking News

The latest house price index, produced by the website Home, gives a broadly optimistic outlook for landlords and other buy to...
14 August 2020
From: Breaking News

New research by lettings management platform Howsy shows which major London commuter hubs make the most attractive potential for buy to...
14 August 2020
From: Breaking News

Now may be the time for buy to let investors to consider incorporation - putting their property portfolios into a limited...
06 August 2020
From: Breaking News

A specialist buy to let mortgage broker is urging prospective investors to buy sooner rather than later if they want to...
21 July 2020
From: Breaking News

A new mortgage product aimed at buy to let investors wanting to enjoy a slice of the holiday home staycation market...
17 July 2020
From: Breaking News

There’s a warning that buy to let investors will simply hold on to properties and not sell them if rumoured Capital...
16 July 2020
From: Breaking News

The Prime Minister has stepped into the ongoing row over a Labour claim that last week’s stamp duty holiday was merely...
16 July 2020
From: Breaking News

The Association of Residential Lettings Agents has given a warm welcome to this week’s news that buy to let investors as...
10 July 2020
From: Breaking News

A senior Conservative peer and consumer campaigner has written an article strongly defending the private rental sector, agents and landlords. Baroness Altmann...
09 July 2020
From: Breaking News

The research department of Countrywide’s Hamptons International brand says the stamp duty holiday introduced yesterday on homes selling for £500,000 or...
09 July 2020
From: Breaking News

Four buy to let investors have each been fined £10,000 for letting out unlicensed HMOs. The unlicensed properties , all in the...
09 July 2020
From: Breaking News

A new league table has been produced listing locations where a mix of rental yield and capital growth have given buy...
02 July 2020
From: Breaking News

Landlords who are remortgaging are currently doing so primarily to build a war chest. That’s the view of mortgage brokerage Mortgages for...
30 June 2020
From: Breaking News

A survey suggests that 77 per cent of buy to letinvestors believe their tenants can pay full rent during the Coronavirus...
19 June 2020
From: Breaking News

One bedroom properties provide the best returns to buy to let investors according to new research by a lettings management platform. Single...
18 June 2020
From: Breaking News

New figures show that typical capital gains for buy to let investors are on the way down. Hamptons International says that landlords...
15 June 2020
From: Breaking News
The buy-to-let market has grown significantly in recent years as long-term renting becomes more popular and investors continue to see the...
28 May 2020
From: Sponsored Content

The plethora of support companies around Airbnb and other short let platforms in the UK have told the government that it...
18 May 2020
From: Breaking News

A specialist mortgage broker is suggesting that this is the right time for buy to let investors to bag bargain properties,...
14 May 2020
From: Breaking News

From midnight lettings agents in England have been able to resume work thanks to an amendment to Coronavirus legislation that was...
13 May 2020
From: Breaking News

A pressure group representing private tenants wants government to help housing associations purchase buy to let properties “at knockdown prices.” A blog...
04 May 2020
From: Breaking News

Buy to let investors should be exempted from the three per cent stamp duty surcharge even if purchasers of holiday homes still...
01 May 2020
From: Breaking News

The number of mortgage lenders still offering products to landlords is 42 - only seven fewer than at the peak of...
28 April 2020
From: Breaking News

A new automated lettings platform is launching next week and promising to ensure agents and buy to let investors stay compliant. PlanetRent...
27 April 2020
From: Breaking News

There’s been a 12 per cent increase in the number of Built To Rent homes across the UK that have been...
23 April 2020
From: Breaking News

The director of the website Home says that investment in buy to let will look like a highly attractive safe haven...
17 April 2020
From: Breaking News

The proportion of homes bought last month by buy to let investors plummeted to a record low of just eight per...
09 April 2020
From: Breaking News

Although the worst of the stock market bloodletting triggered by Coronavirus now appears to have gone, franchise agency group Belvoir has...
24 March 2020
From: Breaking News

A survey of the buy to let market conducted by a bank before the latest acceleration in the Coronavirus outbreak suggests...
19 March 2020
From: Breaking News

A lettings market snapshot conducted before the worst effects of the Coronavirus were known suggests the rental market is relatively strong...
17 March 2020
From: Breaking News

A massive £250m has been raised from a Swedish pension fund towards UK Build To Rent projects. Property development firm Oxford Properties...
17 March 2020
From: Breaking News

A lettings agent has completed a £2.6million property acquisition plan in one city on behalf of investors, and will go on...
11 March 2020
From: Breaking News

Hostmaker, a property management firm working with properties listed on Airbnb and other short-let platforms, has ceased trading with its parent...
04 March 2020
From: Breaking News

Optimism amongst investors in the private rental sector is on the rise, despite the various tax and regulation obstacles facing the...
27 February 2020
From: Breaking News

A newspaper claims that a short lets management firm that handles properties let on Airbnb and similar platforms is scrambling for...
24 February 2020
From: Breaking News

Two bedroom properties produce the best yields for buy to let investors according to the latest research. Lettings management platform Howsy has...
21 February 2020
From: Breaking News

There’s a new warning today for buy to let investors who will be hit by tax changes coming into effect on...
20 February 2020
From: Breaking News

One of the country’s leading buying agencies says buy to let is changing in prime central London, as corporate structures replace...
14 February 2020
From: Breaking News

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has made an uncompromising set of demands on the government, asking it to implement a...
13 February 2020
From: Breaking News

Three more deposit alternative supplier have issued statements seeking to distance their product from criticisms raised in a BBC investigation. Yesterday we carried...
11 February 2020
From: Breaking News

An analysis of HMRC data reveals that the number of small buy-to-let landlords has dropped for the first time in five...
10 February 2020
From: Breaking News

Grainger, one of the biggest names in Build To Rent in the UK, says its current BTR pipeline stands at 24...
07 February 2020
From: Breaking News

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Catherine Shinerock - ARO Account Manager What is your ‘company name’...
06 February 2020
From: 60 Second Interview

A mortgage firm claims some 22 per cent of existing lettings sector investors plan to buy at least another one lettings...
24 January 2020
From: Breaking News
17 January 2020
From: Breaking News

Some 26 per cent of buy to let investors plan to sell one or more of their properties in 2020 according...
08 January 2020
From: Breaking News

Countrywide has calculated that with many landlords exiting the buy to let market, the number of homes available to rent has...
27 December 2019
From: Breaking News

One of the highest profile buy to let mortgage lenders predicts that 2020 will see increasing numbers of investors going into...
20 December 2019
From: Breaking News

Atlas Residential - a Build to Rent developer with over 75,000 international properties - is partnering with deposit alternative supplier flatfair...
19 December 2019
From: Breaking News

Reports from China suggest that property investors from that country - a staple in the buy to let market in many...
17 December 2019
From: Breaking News

Owners of buy to let properties across the UK could be entitled to compensation due to onerous ground rent charges according...
10 December 2019
From: Breaking News

The Black Brick agency, which operates with high net worth clients, is forecasting that 2020 will see the arrival of a...
02 December 2019
From: Breaking News

A new PropTech app-based service claiming to reduce paperwork in property management is rolling out in London and the south east. Herddle...
27 November 2019
From: Breaking News

Two specific elements of Labour’s tax proposals, outlined in its manifesto, could “drive a nail into the coffin of buy to...
25 November 2019
From: Breaking News

Another think tank has come up with proposals to scrap Section 21 eviction powers and cap rents - and it also...
14 November 2019
From: Breaking News

The proportion of homes in Great Britain let by overseas based landlords is 11 per cent, up from seven per cent...
11 November 2019
From: Breaking News

Labour’s controversial proposal to oblige landlords to sell their buy to let properties to tenants who wished to purchase them, unveiled...
06 November 2019
From: Breaking News

Zoopla is beefing up its customer relationship management programme with the appointment of RAPP UK to evolve the portal’s data infrastructure...
30 October 2019
From: Breaking News

Many buy to let investors are still badly bruised by the government’s wave of fiscal and regulatory assaults on the private...
30 October 2019
From: Breaking News

A trade body says the private rental sector is facing a major crisis - more landlords are selling properties than buying...
25 October 2019
From: Breaking News

Property development and investment firm SevenCapital has released a top 10 league table of UK cities which it claims will perform...
18 October 2019
From: Breaking News

A PropTech platform that earlier this year was reported to be valued at £2.8m is making an unusual offer to letting...
15 October 2019
From: Breaking News

Property investors are concerned that Brexit could deter international buyers from purchasing property in the UK, which could in turn weaken...
11 October 2019
From: Breaking News

An agency that specialises in letting and managing properties in one of the country’s investment hotspots is expanding into a new...
27 September 2019
From: Breaking News

The quality of accommodation in the private rental sector has drastically improved in the past decade according to a survey by...
25 September 2019
From: Breaking News

New research indicates that the majority of property investors in the UK have their plans on pause for the next six...
20 September 2019
From: Breaking News

There’s been a fierce outcry from Conservative MPs and the lettings industry in response to Labour’s threat to give private rental...
03 September 2019
From: Breaking News

One in six landlords is seeking to reduce the size of their portfolio in the next 12 months and around half...
03 September 2019
From: Breaking News

Police in South Shields have called for the sharing of information about tenants in HMOs - and a council is considering...
29 August 2019
From: Breaking News

A London-focused PropTech startup has just won another £7m in funding. Residently manages houses and flats for landlords, letting them directly to...
29 August 2019
From: Breaking News

A husband and wife pair of buy to let investors have been prosecuted after letting out a property that contained serious...
29 August 2019
From: Breaking News

A PropTech lettings platform is claiming to be valued at over £2.8m. Inadash describes itself as an “on-demand marketplace” which via an...
28 August 2019
From: Breaking News

One of the country’s leading property management experts says buy to let is here to stay - but only if individual...
28 August 2019
From: Breaking News

London-focussed lettings agency Portico, which has expanded into the north of England, has identified part of Liverpool as the area where...
27 August 2019
From: Breaking News

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...
08 August 2019
From: Breaking News

The Mirror newspaper says eight members of the new Boris Johnson-led Cabinet are buy to let investors - and it accuses...
06 August 2019
From: Breaking News

Lettings experts are being invited to the unveiling of a service described by its creators as “a revolutionary rental product.” It is...
05 August 2019
From: Breaking News

An investment company has revealed that it’s acquired land in the north of England to create a Build To Rent scheme. Godwin...
01 August 2019
From: Breaking News

London is growing in its importance as a Build To Rent market according to new research released today. International property consultancy JLL...
29 July 2019
From: Breaking News

A property education business says it’s targeting a major expansion with the launch of online additions to its nationwide courses in...
26 July 2019
From: Breaking News

Buy to let investors in the UK are spending nearly £4.7 billion a year on their rental properties, an average of...
19 July 2019
From: Breaking News

A campaign by HM Revenue & Customs to encourage buy to let investors to ‘fess up’ to their unpaid tax has...
17 July 2019
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency is believed to be the first to offer landlords a year's rent in advance in one lump sum...
16 July 2019
From: Breaking News

Rents are rising at the fastest rate since 2017, pushing the average yield on residential property to 4.5 per cent, its...
12 July 2019
From: Breaking News

A holiday lets and short-term lettings market boom can be put down to a combination of four reasons, according to specialist...
05 July 2019
From: Breaking News

Property investors are calling for the government to provide more support to the UK property market. A survey of investors, carried out...
05 July 2019
From: Breaking News

A rise in the number of professional landlords means letting agents need to ensure their service meets the expectations of experienced...
04 July 2019
From: Breaking News

Landlords can make savings by switching their buy-to-let (BTL) mortgages as average costs have started to fall. The latest analysis from Mortgage...
04 July 2019
From: Breaking News

A senior London lettings agent has accused the government of “going to war” on buy to let investors. The director of Benham...
02 July 2019
From: Breaking News

There has been no change to rental yields across the UK over the past month as the lettings market settles down...
02 July 2019
From: Breaking News

Second home owners, landlords and property investors are being urged to beware a “dramatic change” to the current capital gains tax...
28 June 2019
From: Breaking News

A branch of Whitegates, part of The Property Franchise Group, has purchased an independent local operation to increase its managed property...
27 June 2019
From: Breaking News

A European law firm has set out a critique of the driving forces behind Build To Rent - and it says...
24 June 2019
From: Breaking News

New research shows that some buy to let investors in London could typically lose over £19,000 a year if Berlin-style rent...
19 June 2019
From: Breaking News

Landlords have been urged to seek advice about potential stamp duty rebates on ‘uninhabitable’ second properties after a landmark tribunal case. A...
18 June 2019
From: Breaking News

High profile agency Haart has issued a warning to landlords on what it sees as the three key risks to successful letting...
17 June 2019
From: Breaking News

A leading buy to let specialist lender says the vast number of BTL mortgage products now on the market has made...
14 June 2019
From: Breaking News

A leading housing market analyst says the sales market is increasingly determined by the acts of buy to let and other...
14 June 2019
From: Breaking News

We may be all-too-familiar with the challenges facing letting agents and landlords in the private rental sector but there is at...
11 June 2019
From: Breaking News

A leading lettings expert insists that greater regulation in the private rental sector can work for the benefit of landlords and...
10 June 2019
From: Breaking News

A lettings agent and investment adviser says there is a positive interpretation of the fees ban introduced this month in England. Abi...
06 June 2019
From: Breaking News

A new analysis of the private rental sector suggests the typical buy to let investor will be lucky to generate annual...
05 June 2019
From: Breaking News

A property management chief is arguing that rent controls would restrict mortgage loans to buy to let investors and drive existing...
04 June 2019
From: Breaking News

The head of a firm that seeks investors to put money into residential property funds rather than individual homes for tenants...
29 May 2019
From: Breaking News

A leading buy to let mortgage provider says the professional landlord with multiple properties is increasingly becoming the backbone of its...
23 May 2019
From: Breaking News

Only one in six private landlords say they would support the Conservatives in an election according to a new poll. Buy to...
20 May 2019
From: Breaking News

The agency handling the largest volume of student accommodation in Lincoln is celebrating its fourth birthday by opening a second office...
17 May 2019
From: Breaking News

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...
10 May 2019
From: Breaking News

A compliance company has accused “thousands” of buy to let investors of failing to address major household hazards which render properties...
07 May 2019
From: Breaking News
30 April 2019
From: 60 Second Interview

A property investment platform claims that investor sentiment in buy to let is actually improving despite ongoing political and economic uncertainty...
30 April 2019
From: Breaking News

Three years after the introduction of the second homes stamp duty surcharge, landlords are “beginning to come to terms with the...
30 April 2019
From: Breaking News

An agency in the north east of England is moving its HQ off the High Street and into an office block...
29 April 2019
From: Breaking News

An online platform claims it has found a new and easy way for investors to become landlords, describing itself as ‘PayPal...
26 April 2019
From: Breaking News

A Liberal Democrat activist is considering establishing a landlords’ group consisting of party members. Tony Harris, writing on the LibDem Voice website,...
24 April 2019
From: Breaking News

Figures calculated by Rightmove suggest that even when the Fees Ban and Deposit Caps kick in on June 1, some deposits...
18 April 2019
From: Breaking News

Startling figures released this morning by Rightmove suggest that rents have risen 8.2 per cent in London in the past year...
18 April 2019
From: Breaking News

Data from a Countrywide agency shows that 59 per cent of landlords who live in London purchased their buy to let...
15 April 2019
From: Breaking News

A building expert is warning buy to let investors that they won’t enjoy unfettered rights to extend their properties upwards when...
15 April 2019
From: Breaking News

Buy to let investors are facing a double whammy as stagnating rents and reduced tax relief are hitting profitability. A study from...
11 April 2019
From: Breaking News

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Taha Dar, founder and CEO of SearchSmartly. What is SearchSmartly and...
09 April 2019
From: 60 Second Interview

Agents and prospective buy to let investors keen to grab a slice of the capital’s growing lettings market now have a...
09 April 2019
From: Breaking News

Flatfair, which describes itself as the UK’s fastest-growing tenancy deposit alternative, has been shortlisted in the Best Newcomer category of the...
08 April 2019
From: Breaking News

A PropTech firm says buy to let investors could earn in excess of double the eight per cent yield most aim...
08 April 2019
From: Breaking News

Two buy to let investors have been fined thousands of pounds after failing to carry out improvements to unfit rental properties. Adur...
05 April 2019
From: Breaking News

A leading accountancy firm has analysed buy to let taxation policies north and south of the border and claims that from...
29 March 2019
From: Breaking News

A property management company is taking the unusual approach of suggesting to buy to let investors that they purchase properties with...
26 March 2019
From: Breaking News

Large-scale buy to let investors are continuing to move to limited company status in a bid to limit their exposure to...
25 March 2019
From: Breaking News

A survey of 500 buy to let landlords suggests that well over a third are planning to increase the size of...
25 March 2019
From: Breaking News

A buy to let investment service says its podcasts are now downloaded over 200,000 times a month and it has an...
22 March 2019
From: Breaking News

The average age of those buying investment property has fallen by more than three and a half years in the past...
19 March 2019
From: Breaking News

A PropTech firm says buy to let investors should not respond to the slowing market by selling up, but should instead...
15 March 2019
From: Breaking News

Income tax paid by buy to let landlords now exceeds £3.8 billion annually – that’s more than double Tesco’s entire annual...
12 March 2019
From: Breaking News

More than a third of landlords are looking to cut their annual spending - and many of them are considering ending...
08 March 2019
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency that has analysed HMRC data says rental income for buy to let landlords has leaped 15 per cent...
07 March 2019
From: Breaking News

Momentum is building in the campaign to end ‘No DSS’ discrimination against private rental sector tenants in receipt of housing benefit. Late...
05 March 2019
From: Breaking News

Demand for room rentals in London is so high their average charge has risen two per cent in 2019 already, claims...
01 March 2019
From: Breaking News

Brexit is not a good reason for delaying buy to let investment, insists a mortgage chief. Andrew Turner is chief executive at...
01 March 2019
From: Breaking News

Buy to let may have been in the doldrums in recent years thanks to new taxes and stricter regulations but there’s...
26 February 2019
From: Breaking News

The Money Laundering Regulations require estate agents to risk assess their business relationships and apply an appropriate level of investigation to...
20 February 2019
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High-end lettings agency Strutt & Parker says the take-up of new rental tenancies decreased by 5.4 per cent over 2018 as...
07 February 2019
From: Breaking News

A leading landlord has hit out at a lettings agency’s portrayal of buy to let tax changes. Rosalind Beck, a campaigning landlord...
01 February 2019
From: Breaking News

The news this week that even individual private landlords must join a redress scheme is just the latest in an onslaught...
25 January 2019
From: Breaking News

Landlords in London are possibly £1,806 worse off since the vote to leave the EU in June 2016, according to specialist...
16 January 2019
From: Breaking News

The latest market snapshot from LSL Property Services once again shows that buy to let investors in northern regions have enjoyed...
07 January 2019
From: Breaking News

A leading PropTech entrepreneur says letting agents must provide value for their landlord clients through technology, transparency and service if they...
03 January 2019
From: Breaking News

A local authority has taken the unusual step of issuing a celebratory press release stating that it issued penalty notices adding...
31 December 2018
From: Breaking News

Knight Frank has issued a relatively upbeat assessment of the prime London lettings market as the year draws to a close. Firstly...
31 December 2018
From: Breaking News

A property website says tenants and prospective renters in London are set to have ‘a torrid 2019’ because of a shortage of...
28 December 2018
From: Breaking News

A court has ordered a husband and wife pair of buy to let investors to pay back £322,282 in illegal income. A...
18 December 2018
From: Breaking News

The proportion of homes let by an overseas based landlord has more than halved in the last eight years according to...
17 December 2018
From: Breaking News

New data from online buy to let agency Yieldit claims to give an insight into which property types produce the best...
17 December 2018
From: Breaking News

The UK’s student accommodation sector is still booming according to Knight Frank, despite Brexit creating uncertainty over the future of foreign...
17 December 2018
From: Breaking News

A new survey suggests that the demise of the High Street for shopping could lead to a surge in the supply...
10 December 2018
From: Breaking News

Continued political and economic uncertainty is likely to fuel increased tenant demand in the private rented sector, says Haart. The company’s latest...
06 December 2018
From: Breaking News

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has put together a brief summary of the 2018 rental market. In figures, the supply of...
04 December 2018
From: Breaking News

The average rent across Scotland is now running at £573 per calendar month - but that figure hides wide variations in...
03 December 2018
From: Breaking News

A new investment company says its latest tool, powered by Artificial Intelligence, helps buy to let investors search for the best...
28 November 2018
From: Breaking News

Rents are rising very gently across almost all of England and Wales with only London and East Anglia showing falls in...
28 November 2018
From: Breaking News

The head of a lettings agency has launched a petition in opposition to a bid by a local council to extend...
27 November 2018
From: Breaking News

A government minister says the phrase ”rogue landlord” is too “cuddly” and he wants buy to let investors who broke the...
26 November 2018
From: Breaking News

The head of a buy to let specialist mortgage broker insists the sector remains a solid investment despite the slew of...
20 November 2018
From: Breaking News

The chief executive of a specialist buy to let mortgage broker is warning that mortgages for landlords are likely to become...
13 November 2018
From: Breaking News

It should perhaps come as no surprise that this week’s tightening up of the energy efficiency regulations for the private rental...
08 November 2018
From: Breaking News

The power held by tenants is growing across the UK, as new research indicates 61 per cent of buy to let...
08 November 2018
From: Breaking News

The party conferences of the two main political parties threw up some interesting developments with regards to housing and the rental...
06 November 2018
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Buy to let investors in England and Wales who own particularly cold homes are being targeted by new regulations. Since April this...
06 November 2018
From: Breaking News

A property investment company operating a Ponzi scheme based on claims of capital appreciation and rental income has been shut down...
05 November 2018
From: Breaking News

The heavy-handed administration of selective licensing schemes is driving out buy to let investors. That’s the claim from David Kirwan of Kirwans...
30 October 2018
From: Breaking News

The proportion of buy to let investors looking to remortgage is now at an all-time high according to respected specialist mortgage...
24 October 2018
From: Breaking News

One of London’s most respected lettings agencies says it’s recorded its best-ever quarter for business - defying claims from some that...
23 October 2018
From: Breaking News

A poll of 1,250 landlords suggests that far from being concerned about the profitability of buy to let, almost 80 per...
22 October 2018
From: Breaking News

New data from Countrywide’s luxury brand agency Hamptons International says the average price of a home bought by a landlord in...
16 October 2018
From: Breaking News

With an average rental return of 7.69 per cent Ireland has been named as the top location in Europe for buy to...
11 October 2018
From: Breaking News

Rental platform Goodlord - which in January made around 40 staff redundant in a restructuring move - has now announced that...
09 October 2018
From: Breaking News

A new investment company has launched offering what it calls “opportunities to invest in key residential and commercial developments across the...
05 October 2018
From: Breaking News

A major property platform says London’s rental and sales market may well be on the road to recovery - but that...
03 October 2018
From: Breaking News

The latest rental figures produced by Your Move for Scotland have prompted a claim that the country now has better yields...
28 September 2018
From: Breaking News

The Haart agency is calling on the government to give the private rental sector a break in the autumn Budget, as...
27 September 2018
From: Breaking News

There’s less than a week to go to the introduction of new rules broadening the range of houses including in mandatory HMO...
25 September 2018
From: Breaking News

An investment trust has been launched and looks likely to be competing for individual investors who may see it as an...
13 September 2018
From: Breaking News

Managing agency Rendall & Rittner has scooped a Platinum Investors in People award, demonstrating commitment to high performance through good people...
13 September 2018
From: Breaking News

Some industry observers say letting agents and Build To Rent are daggers drawn, but one agency in the Midlands is having...
12 September 2018
From: Breaking News

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...
07 September 2018
From: Breaking News

A survey has revealed that 44% of landlords are looking to sell properties as a challenging market takes its toll. Octopus Choice,...
06 September 2018
From: Breaking News

Data produced by Sainsbury’s Bank Mortgages gives a trend-bucking upbeat assessment of investors’ renewed interest in buy to let. Figures siuggest that...
28 August 2018
From: Breaking News

The average age of buyers of properties for buy to let has dropped from 52.3 years in 2014 to 42 years...
24 August 2018
From: Breaking News

First the good news - investors are still purchasing buy to let properties; the less good news is that it’s a...
22 August 2018
From: Breaking News

Almost one in five landlords intend to remain in the buy to let market indefinitely according to a new survey. Research for...
22 August 2018
From: Breaking News

A new analysis of the buy to let market forecasts more bad news for agents, landlords and investors over the next...
21 August 2018
From: Breaking News

The ownership of buy to let property is much more evenly split between women and men than amongst other forms of...
21 August 2018
From: Breaking News

Over a third of London investors no longer view property as a good investment, according to a survey of over 1,000...
20 August 2018
From: Breaking News

The Scottish Government’s private rental reforms are shaking up the sector according to new data, which reveals rental property sales have...
16 August 2018
From: Breaking News
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Agents and others wishing to respond to the official consultation on government proposals for longer tenancies have only until late evening...
14 August 2018
From: Breaking News

The proportion of landlords of British buy to let properties who are themselves based overseas has fallen to a record low...
13 August 2018
From: Breaking News

Rents are expected to surge 15 per cent over the next five years thanks to increasing demand and limited supply following...
09 August 2018
From: Breaking News

Negative media portrayals of the buy to let sector could help to tip Britain into a housing crisis, claims an online...
08 August 2018
From: Breaking News

Opposition is growing fast to the threat of another stamp duty attack on the buy to let sector, rumoured to be...
07 August 2018
From: Breaking News

Controversial landlord Fergus Wilson has increased rents on all new tenancies in his property portfolio by £50 a week because of...
06 August 2018
From: Breaking News

The latest Your Move rental tracker suggests that London’s lettings market has continued to cool with prices falling by 0.5 per...
03 August 2018
From: Breaking News

More big fines have been handed out in recent legal action regarding buy to let investors who have not stuck by...
02 August 2018
From: Breaking News

London is back as the most popular part of the UK for buy to let investment according to an analysis undertaken...
30 July 2018
From: Breaking News

Britain’s most controversial landlord, Fergus Wilson, says the recent changes in buy to let legislation means that if he was starting...
25 July 2018
From: Breaking News

The concept of deposit alternatives is gathering pace and now one PropTech firm closely involved in it - Reposit - has...
25 July 2018
From: Breaking News

Buy to let is still an attractive investment compared to other asset classes but to make the best of the opportunity...
24 July 2018
From: Breaking News

One of London’s leading letting agencies says in the current neutral rental market, buy to let owners must work hard to...
24 July 2018
From: Breaking News

The latest LendInvest buy to let report, which ranks 105 postcode areas around England and Wales based on a combination of...
18 July 2018
From: Breaking News

An online agency selling only buy to let units to would-be investors says it’s experiencing “positive growth” despite the challenges of...
13 July 2018
From: Breaking News

A trade body says the country faces a net loss of 133,000 homes for private rent over the next year -...
12 July 2018
From: Breaking News

A specialist buy to let mortgage lender says buy to let investors should act now - even if it means borrowing...
11 July 2018
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Yet another leading lettings agent has hit out at the government over its proposals for three year tenancies being the norm...
10 July 2018
From: Breaking News

The British Property Federation says there are now 124,037 Build To Rent homes complete, under construction and in planning across the...
09 July 2018
From: Breaking News

Legal & General, one of the biggest players in Britain’s burgeoning Build To Rent market, has exchanged contracts on its largest...
05 July 2018
From: Breaking News

The cost of buy to let mortgages remain at record lows and - with little movement in costs and rates over...
05 July 2018
From: Breaking News

The independent mortgage market monitor Moneyfacts says there is now a record number of mortgage deals for those entering the buy...
04 July 2018
From: Breaking News

Arguments have already started over the government’s proposals to make three year tenancies the norm in the private rental sector. Letting Agent...
02 July 2018
From: Breaking News

A new analysis of rental yields across all of the UK’s local authorities has revealed exactly where the best places are for...
29 June 2018
From: Breaking News

The government should scrap the tax on new homes which is punishing those in need of a home to rent, the...
29 June 2018
From: Breaking News

We’re all for an optimistic interpretation of events but a new tool from comparison website GoCompare lists the UK’s top buy...
28 June 2018
From: Breaking News

A specialist buy to let broker is urging landlords to tread with caution before jumping feet first into incorporating their property...
28 June 2018
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Tenants, landlords and buy to let investors are the targets for new online rental guides introduced by the Ministry of Housing,...
27 June 2018
From: Breaking News

Landlords are most likely to have invested in a boiler upgrade in the last 12 months to boost the energy efficiency...
27 June 2018
From: Breaking News

Propio, another crowdfunding platform, has launched with the ambitious claim of expecting returns from residential investments of between six and 15...
21 June 2018
From: Breaking News

A trade body says it has evidence that families take up the least amount of property management time when compared to...
20 June 2018
From: Breaking News

Investors in buy to let in the UK are losing thousands of pounds in income - and it’s their own fault...
20 June 2018
From: Breaking News

An analysis of over 580,000 properties has produced a league table of Britain’s best and worst buy to let postcodes in...
18 June 2018
From: Breaking News

A buy to let investor has ended up with a bill for thousands of pounds after being found guilty of breaching...
15 June 2018
From: Breaking News

One in five UK landlords have entered buy to let without even planning to, finding themselves with a property ‘accidentally’ or...
14 June 2018
From: Breaking News

A Build To Rent business says investors in the private rental sector should be more flexible in their approach to private...
12 June 2018
From: Breaking News

A campaign opposing the government’s recent tax changes which have penalised buy to let investors has taken a leaf out of...
07 June 2018
From: Breaking News

Knight Knox, a property consultancy specialising in investment, has launched an online platform, yieldit, which aims to simplify the sale and...
05 June 2018
From: Breaking News

The Nationwide has bucked the trend of many industry organisations by insisting that the private rental market is still in good...
04 June 2018
From: Breaking News

There’s been a big rise in the proportion of landlords remortgaging according to one of the sector’s most prominent lenders, Paragon. In...
31 May 2018
From: Breaking News

Telford Homes says some of its massive 35 per cent growth in pre-tax profits over the past year is down to...
31 May 2018
From: Breaking News

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...
29 May 2018
From: Breaking News

Flatsharing website Ideal Flatmate has passed the seed funding milestone of £1 million. The website - which includes former Green & Co...
22 May 2018
From: Breaking News
11 May 2018
From: Breaking News

A specialist insurance provider says there is substantial mis-buying of insurance products by buy to let investors. A survey of 500 landlords...
11 May 2018
From: Breaking News

Buy to let investors are taking a wait and see approach when it comes to additional investment in the sector according...
09 May 2018
From: Breaking News

One of the most respected buying agencies says it believes that with well under a year before the UK quits the...
08 May 2018
From: Breaking News

Property crowdfunding projects are now the investments of choice for millennials according to a PropTech platform. Shojin Property Partners claims to have...
24 April 2018
From: Breaking News

A leading property law specialist has warned that many buy to let investors remain unaware of the new Minimum Energy Efficiency...
23 April 2018
From: Breaking News

Over half of mortgage brokers say they have been approached by buy to let investors seeking to diversify their portfolios within...
20 April 2018
From: Breaking News

Small-scale landlords and those with the very largest portfolios appear to be ‘resizing’ - selling off some units to cope with...
20 April 2018
From: Breaking News

A new survey appears to buck the trend of recent rental market snapshots by showing that buy to let investors are...
18 April 2018
From: Breaking News

The number of landlords re-mortgaging to release money for home improvements has reached a record high according to Countrywide. In the last...
16 April 2018
From: Breaking News

Rental compliance platform GetRentr has raised over £500,000 from investors including a private equity firm and private individuals. GetRentr uses artificial intelligence...
16 April 2018
From: Breaking News

Specialist funding platform Property Partner has conducted a survey which suggests that 54 per cent of landlords are selling all or some...
12 April 2018
From: Breaking News

Some 43 per cent of all stamp duty comes from buy to let investors and holiday home purchasers - and almost...
10 April 2018
From: Breaking News
09 April 2018
From: Breaking News

A leading Conservative peer says the government should cut taxes for buy to let investors and regard them as part of...
05 April 2018
From: Breaking News

Specialist buy to let lender LendInvest has looked at 105 postcodes across England and Wales to find the best (and worst)...
03 April 2018
From: Breaking News

Another property crowdfunding investment product has been launched, aiming to offer investors an alternative to the increasingly regulated and taxed buy...
22 March 2018
From: Breaking News

A new survey by a leading lettings trade body suggests that the Bank of England’s attempts to make buy to let...
21 March 2018
From: Breaking News

Two landlords have been hit with hefty court fines for failing to comply with a local licensing scheme. The pair are the...
21 March 2018
From: Breaking News

Increased volatility in the private rental sector and rising costs for landlords and investors have combined to lead to an increased...
20 March 2018
From: Breaking News

The Bank of England has issued gloomy figures on buy to let lending, suggesting the clampdown on mortgage interest tax relief...
14 March 2018
From: Breaking News

The average landlord who sold their rental property in 2017 did so for £86,651 more than they paid for it, having...
12 March 2018
From: Breaking News

The British Property Federation is calling upon more councils to support Build To Rent following the government’s recognition of the sector in...
08 March 2018
From: Breaking News

An analysis of data released by HM Revenue and Customs shows that 1.9 million people earned money from property in 2015-16...
08 March 2018
From: Breaking News

Belvoir says there is no evidence of a large-scale sell-off of buy to let properties by beleaguered landlords, but 85 per...
07 March 2018
From: Breaking News

The independent mortgage market monitor Moneyfacts says some buy to let mortgage rates have gone back to record lows. The monitor says...
06 March 2018
From: Breaking News

The ZPG-backed Zero Deposit scheme, one of a number now existing putting forward an alternative to traditional deposits, has announced four...
01 March 2018
From: Breaking News

Bristol council is consulting on a licensing scheme which could see buy to let investors paying £1,660 for a five year...
22 February 2018
From: Breaking News

A third of UK property professionals are set to expand their portfolios in 2018 despite a backdrop of increased challenges in...
16 February 2018
From: Breaking News

Two buy to let investors have been fined a total of more than £27,000 under enforcement powers introduced in Burnley to...
16 February 2018
From: Breaking News

Lettings agency IPS Estates is partnering with Midlands auction specialist SDL Auctions to sell tenanted properties online. IPS Estates, based in Derbyshire, will...
15 February 2018
From: Breaking News

A range of factors - including fierce competition under the supplied housing market, rising property prices and political uncertainty – have...
08 February 2018
From: Sponsored Content

A new website called Vesta has launched aiming to sell investment properties with tenants in place. The team behind the site describe...
08 February 2018
From: Breaking News

Specialist buy to let lender Commercial Trust claims at least two other regions of the UK are now vying with London...
07 February 2018
From: Breaking News

Analysis of government figures by the Nationwide suggest that the buy to let sector is still growing despite tax changes and...
05 February 2018
From: Breaking News

An online agency claims that serious portfolio landlords are staying faithful to buy to let despite recent tax and regulation changes...
05 February 2018
From: Breaking News

Well over half of those investors who recently secured buy to let mortgages risk facing losses when mortgage interest tax changes...
26 January 2018
From: Breaking News

Homes in Multiple Occupation produced average yields of 8.9 per cent in 2017, the highest of all buy to let property...
24 January 2018
From: Breaking News

Nearly three quarters of portfolio landlords have found it more difficult to secure a mortgage since the Prudential Regulation Authority’s changes...
24 January 2018
From: Breaking News

The head of franchise giant Belvoir says government interference in the rental sector is likely to result in a rise in...
23 January 2018
From: Breaking News

The former executive director of LSL Property Services, David Newnes, is one of the key backers of a new property management...
19 January 2018
From: Breaking News

The troubled PropTech firm Goodlord - which creates software to allow tenancies to be handled on a single system - has...
16 January 2018
From: Breaking News

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