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Nationwide has taken the unusual step of using its buy to let lending arm - The Mortgage Works - to make...

We compare traditional methods of client money account inspections by an accountant to the alternative Client Money HealthCheck. But first, let’s clarify...

A letting agents’ trade body is urging the industry to sign a parliamentary petition calling for the Section 24 changes for...

The two main reasons that an agency decides to outsource are to reduce costs and to have the ability to focus...

The two main reasons that an agency decides to outsource are: 1.) To reduce costs 2.) To have the ability to focus on...

ARLA Propertymark has launched a radical programme of reform for the private rental sector - getting in before the government’s own...

Propertymark has called for a return of mortgage interest relief and a review of landlord taxes to boost the rental sector. The...

Letting agents should stand proud of their record helping both landlords and tenants, especially in these more difficult times. That’s the view...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents and the National Association of Estate Agents have issued their manifesto for next month’s General...

A private landlord has gone on record to explain her own dilemma with a tenant - and why the government’s scrapping...

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has been put on the spot by the person many consider to be the country’s most...

A damning report on taxation in the private rental sector (PRS) has accused the treasury of appearing not to understand 'the...

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

There will be less buy to let remortgaging in future as landlords consolidate rather than expand their portfolios. The prediction comes from...

Another think-tank has come up with reforms which it wants the government to make to the private rental sector - and...

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

The proportion of landlords considering commercial loans to fund purchases has doubled over the last 18 months as they try to...

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

One the leading letting agencies in Brighton has sharply criticised a proposal by the local council to introduce a selective licensing...

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

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

Franchise letting agency giant Winkworth is warning that London’s tenants face higher rents as some landlords sell investment properties in the...

The outgoing chief of Whitbread PLC has made a scathing attack on Airbnb and the government for its approach to what...

The controversial changes to landlords’ mortgage interest tax relief and to the wear and tear allowance “have failed to dampen the...

A prominent buying agent active in prime central London says the capital’s high end buy to let market will become less...

Savills says mainstream UK rents are likely to rise by an average of 16.5 per cent by the end of 2020...

Around 40 per cent of landlords are reporting an increase in tenant demand in their area in the past three months. A...

While almost every lettings organisation has been up in arms at the raft of tax changes for landlords suggested by Chancellor...

Measures which discourage investment in the private rented sector can only push up rents and harm tenants more than landlords, a...

The chairman of Choices letting agency says the government is wrong to say its proposed tax changes will create a level...

The online petition against the government's proposed tax changes for buy to let investors is "a waste of time" according to...

A mortgage chief has spelled out what many in the rental sector already know - that the new laws, rules and...

The government’s response to the online petition against proposed tax changes for buy to let investors is “unfair, incoherent and missing...

The Daily Telegraph has undertaken an interesting exercise which effectively challenges Chancellor George Osborne’s assertion that buy to let tax changes...

Research by a prominent letting agency chain suggests that despite the onslaught of red tape thrown at landlords, almost half are...

The chief executive of Zoopla has thrown his weight behind opposition to the government’s proposed restrictions on buy to let tax...

Opponents of the government’s attempt to end tax breaks for the buy to let sector now have a new opportunity to...

If supporters of Chancellor George Osborne’s Budget restrictions on tax breaks for buy to let landlords thought opposition would die off...

A firm of specialist solicitors claims that one in five landlords say they will be “out of business due to government...

The petition against the proposed tax changes outlined by Chancellor George Osborne in last month’s Budget has now achieved 20,000 signatures. This...

The founders of the website saynotogeorge.co.uk have stepped forward to explain why they have founded the campaign.  Two Peterborough-based property developers are...

A new website - www.saynotogeorge.co.uk - has been set up as a nucleus for opposition to Chancellor George Osborne’s proposals to...

A campaign group protesting against the government’s Budget proposal to limit the tax breaks for buy to let investors has been...

The Residential Landlords Association has launched a new campaign ‘toolkit’ to enable opponents of the proposed buy to let tax changes...

An online petition demanding the reinstatement of buy to let landlords' tax breaks has so far attracted 6,300-plus signatures. The petition, which...

A critic of the suggestion that buy to let landlords could set up companies to ‘beat’ the ending of tax breaks...

Pressure group Generation Rent - a thorn in the side of many property professionals in recent years - has launched a...

When Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, recently announced that interest rates would have to start to rise sooner...

More and more agents are witnessing increases in the cost of renting, according to the Association of Residential Letting Agents. Its latest...

HMRC has revealed the scope of its proposed changes to the wear and tear allowance, as announced in George Osborne’s Budget...

The National Landlords’ Association has set out a table of where the political parties stand on issues of lettings sector reform...