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04 July 2024
From: Breaking News
![Buy To Let sentiment downbeat for many landlords](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Buy-to-let-3-400x310.png)
A new sentiment survey suggests that only a minority of landlords are now feeling positive about the future of buy to...
14 March 2023
From: Breaking News
![Landlords quitting rental sector? Not yet, new survey shows](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/AgentsWorking-400x310.png)
The mass exodus of landlords unhappy with increased tax and regulation appears not to have happened - at least yet. A quarterly...
15 February 2023
From: Breaking News
![Lender offers ‘instant’ mortgage decisions for buy to let borrowers](/img/default/lat.png)
A lender is now offering what it calls ‘instant decisions-in-principle’ for buy to let purchasers still buying property at the moment. Landbay...
24 March 2020
From: Breaking News
28 January 2020
From: Breaking News
![We're Happy! Vast majority of tenants perfectly content to rent](/img/default/lat.png)
Contrary to the impressions given in some quarters, no fewer than 75 per cent of tenants are happy to rent, and...
23 October 2019
From: Breaking News
![Blow to Labour Right To Buy plan - most tenants don’t want to own](/img/default/lat.png)
The majority of the UK’s private renters don’t want to purchase a home according to new research, coming just as the...
24 September 2019
From: Breaking News
![Being pet-friendly is most important feature of a rental property](/img/default/lat.png)
A home being pet-friendly is the most desirable attribute in a rental property, according to research by a specialist mortgage lender. The...
18 September 2019
From: Breaking News
![More evidence that pet-friendly properties are increasingly popular](/img/default/lat.png)
There’s more evidence today that pet-friendly properties are becoming increasingly popular with tenants. A study by specialist lender Landbay quizzed 2,000 tenants...
05 September 2019
From: Breaking News
![Stagnant London market weighs down on national rental growth](/img/default/lat.png)
A slow rental market in London is weighing down on growth across the rest of the UK, according to the latest...
10 May 2019
From: Breaking News
![Meagre rent rises remain well below general inflation rate](/img/default/lat.png)
Rental growth remains in positive territory - just - but on average it’s still well below the general level of inflation...
09 April 2019
From: Breaking News
![London's Brexit lettings slowdown about to spread across UK - warning](/img/default/lat.png)
The latest index from specialist buy to let platform Landbay says the slowdown in London’s lettings market since the Brexit vote...
08 February 2019
From: Breaking News
![Brexit may have cost London buy to let investors £1,800 each - claim](/img/default/lat.png)
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
![Revealed - the UK’s fastest-growing rents in 2018](/img/default/lat.png)
Edinburgh has been identified as having the UK’s fastest growing rents with the average annual sum rising by 4.63 per cent...
27 December 2018
From: Breaking News
![Rents 'growing strongly in regional cities but not in London'](/img/default/lat.png)
Rents in major regional cities are growing significantly faster than both London and the UK average, according to data from buy...
14 December 2018
From: Breaking News
![Tenants spend a third of pay on rent - but affordability is improving](/img/default/lat.png)
A survey by specialist lender Landbay reveals that tenants outside of London typically spend 33 per cent of their monthly pay,...
09 November 2018
From: Breaking News
![Average rents growing at highest rate since 2016, index shows](/img/default/lat.png)
The average rent in the UK increased by 0.13% last month - the highest level of monthly growth recorded since April...
07 September 2018
From: Breaking News
![Rental growth slows - but 10 areas identified as bucking the trend](/img/default/lat.png)
Rents in the UK, excluding London, are still increasing but at their slowest rate for five years. Figures from specialist lender Landbay...
06 August 2018
From: Breaking News
![London rents up - but it's not exactly a large increase...](/img/default/lat.png)
Rents in London rose by 0.1 per cent in the 12 months to June - it’s the first annual rental increase...
06 July 2018
From: Breaking News
![Rental growth in most of England at its lowest since 2013](/img/default/lat.png)
Rental growth in England, excluding London, was just 1.18 per cent over the last year, the slowest annual rate since April...
08 June 2018
From: Breaking News
![Tenants across the UK spend over half disposable income on rent](/img/default/lat.png)
The average UK rent outside London is now £761, with London’s average being £1,879 - meaning tenants across the country now...
06 April 2018
From: Breaking News
09 March 2018
From: Breaking News
![Rental market analysis: what is the outlook for 2018?](/img/default/lat.png)
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
![Average rents climbing in every UK region for first time in two years - claim](/img/default/lat.png)
The average cost of renting a home is now rising across every UK region for the first time in almost two...
08 February 2018
From: Breaking News
![Rents rise a tiny 0.56 per cent in 12 months, says buy to let lender](/img/default/lat.png)
UK rents grew by a tiny 0.56 per cent in 2017 according to specialist lender Landbay. However, in a special exercise, the...
08 January 2018
From: Breaking News
![Millennials outside London will spend £111,000 on rent before buying](/img/default/lat.png)
Millennials renting an average-sized property outside of London, who begin their tenancy at age 21, will spend an average of £110,830...
15 December 2017
From: Breaking News
![Tiny but symbolic fall in rents recorded late this year, says lender](/img/default/lat.png)
Rents across the UK began to shrink for the first time in over half a decade toward the end of 2017,...
14 December 2017
From: Breaking News
![Solo graduates in London could spend 75% of pay on rent](/img/default/lat.png)
Graduates sharing in London spend upwards of 45 per cent of their monthly take home pay on accommodation according to a...
08 September 2017
From: Breaking News
![New insurance product launched aimed at Buy To Let sector](/img/default/lat.png)
Specialist buy to let mortgage lender LandBay has teamed up with financial services giant Legal & General to provide a new...
11 July 2017
From: Breaking News
10 July 2017
From: Breaking News
![Specialist lender launches financial guidance for company buy to lets](/img/default/lat.png)
Expanding buy to let lender Landbay says it plans to launch an accounting, reporting and tax compliance service for those holding...
27 June 2017
From: Breaking News
![Election and Brexit uncertainty delaying tenant moves, says Landbay](/img/default/lat.png)
The prospect of today's General Election as well as ongoing uncertainty surrounding Britain's exit from the European Union is having a...
08 June 2017
From: Breaking News
![Solo tenants aged 18 to 39 'pay 69% of monthly income on rent'](/img/default/lat.png)
Tenants aged between 18 and 39 and living alone spend 69 per cent of their monthly post-tax income on rent according...
08 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![Stamp duty surcharge has cut level of rental growth - claim](/img/default/lat.png)
The speed at which rents across are growing has more than halved since a three per cent stamp duty surcharge on second...
07 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![Southern Rail strikes beginning to hit local lettings markets](/img/default/lat.png)
A buy to let mortgage lender claims that five out of six areas affected by the long-running spate of strikes on...
23 January 2017
From: Breaking News
![Average rent outside London now hits £750 per month](/img/default/lat.png)
The average rent paid for a home in the UK outside London hit £750 in December, rising by 2.04 per cent...
10 January 2017
From: Breaking News
![UK rents grew 1.2% in 2016 - but 1.9% if you exclude London](/img/default/lat.png)
Rents across the UK grew by a modest 1.12 per cent in 2016 according to buy to let lender Landbay -...
29 December 2016
From: Breaking News
![Large regional differences in UK's rental market performance](/img/default/lat.png)
The average rent for a UK property grew by a negligible 0.05 per cent in October, despite a tiny fall in...
04 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![Tenants now pay over £1,000 per month for typical one-bed property](/img/default/lat.png)
The average rent for a one-bedroom property was £1,010 in August, according to the latest Landbay Rental Index. Between July and August,...
13 September 2016
From: Breaking News
![Large parts of UK have shortage of homes to let claims survey](/img/default/lat.png)
A survey conducted for buy to let lender Landbay claims that a strong lettings market even in winter demonstrates “the shortage...
15 January 2016
From: Breaking News
![Seasonal slowdown hits rent levels according to new lettings index](/img/default/lat.png)
A seasonal slowdown has hit the lettings sector with rents dipping 0.4 per cent in November to a UK monthly average...
16 December 2015
From: Breaking News
![Average London rents now top £2,000 pcm says buy to let lender](/img/default/lat.png)
Rents climbed 0.7 per cent in October to a UK average of £1,294. There were increases in every region with the...
17 November 2015
From: Breaking News
![Peer-to-peer lender ups game with buy to let mortgage expert in senior role](/img/default/lat.png)
Landbay, a relatively new peer-to-peer lender focussed on the buy to let sector, has appointed a former senior figure from Paragon...
29 September 2015
From: Breaking News
![Rental market strongest for three bedroom houses claims new index](/img/default/lat.png)
Rents are rising faster for three bedroom homes than for any other property type. They show a rise of 4.6 per cent...