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11 April 2019
From: Breaking News
![Landlords' tax sell-off will reduce London rental supply](/img/default/lat.png)
Franchise letting agency giant Winkworth is warning that London’s tenants face higher rents as some landlords sell investment properties in the...
13 November 2015
From: Breaking News
![Airbnb and government attacked over 'under-regulated' short term lets](/img/default/lat.png)
The outgoing chief of Whitbread PLC has made a scathing attack on Airbnb and the government for its approach to what...
11 November 2015
From: Breaking News
![Tax threat fails to dampen appeal of buy to let insists agent](/img/default/lat.png)
The controversial changes to landlords’ mortgage interest tax relief and to the wear and tear allowance “have failed to dampen the...
10 November 2015
From: Breaking News
![Central London buy to let to be hurt by Osborne tax changes](/img/default/lat.png)
A prominent buying agent active in prime central London says the capital’s high end buy to let market will become less...
06 November 2015
From: Breaking News
![Rents to rise 16% to 22% over next five years - forecast](/img/default/lat.png)
Savills says mainstream UK rents are likely to rise by an average of 16.5 per cent by the end of 2020...
06 November 2015
From: Breaking News
![Tenant demand up across most of UK, survey reveals](/img/default/lat.png)
Around 40 per cent of landlords are reporting an increase in tenant demand in their area in the past three months. A...
27 October 2015
From: Breaking News
![Tax body highlights 'complexity and confusion' of buy to let tax change](/img/default/lat.png)
While almost every lettings organisation has been up in arms at the raft of tax changes for landlords suggested by Chancellor...
26 October 2015
From: Breaking News
![Choices chief condemns lack of 'level playing field' on BTL tax breaks](/img/default/lat.png)
The chairman of Choices letting agency says the government is wrong to say its proposed tax changes will create a level...
14 October 2015
From: Breaking News
![Petition against buy to let tax change a waste of time says industry group](/img/default/lat.png)
The online petition against the government's proposed tax changes for buy to let investors is "a waste of time" according to...
12 October 2015
From: Breaking News
![Buy to let may be in danger of becoming a legal minefield warns mortgage chief](/img/default/lat.png)
A mortgage chief has spelled out what many in the rental sector already know - that the new laws, rules and...
07 October 2015
From: Breaking News
![Government unfair and incoherent on buy to let tax](/img/default/lat.png)
The government’s response to the online petition against proposed tax changes for buy to let investors is “unfair, incoherent and missing...
17 September 2015
From: Breaking News
![Newspaper challenges Osborne's buy to let tax figures](/img/default/lat.png)
The Daily Telegraph has undertaken an interesting exercise which effectively challenges Chancellor George Osborne’s assertion that buy to let tax changes...
16 September 2015
From: Breaking News
![Agency analysis claims landlords undeterred by tax threat](/img/default/lat.png)
Research by a prominent letting agency chain suggests that despite the onslaught of red tape thrown at landlords, almost half are...
16 September 2015
From: Breaking News
![Zoopla chief backs campaign against buy to let tax changes](/img/default/lat.png)
The chief executive of Zoopla has thrown his weight behind opposition to the government’s proposed restrictions on buy to let tax...
15 September 2015
From: Breaking News
![MPs want agents' and landlords' views on buy to let taxes](/img/default/lat.png)
Opponents of the government’s attempt to end tax breaks for the buy to let sector now have a new opportunity to...
10 September 2015
From: Breaking News
![Buy to let tax protest petition tops 25,000 signatures](/img/default/lat.png)
If supporters of Chancellor George Osborne’s Budget restrictions on tax breaks for buy to let landlords thought opposition would die off...
07 September 2015
From: Breaking News
![20% of landlords to quit because of tax break change - claim](/img/default/lat.png)
A firm of specialist solicitors claims that one in five landlords say they will be “out of business due to government...
01 September 2015
From: Breaking News
![Petition against buy to let tax change gets 20,000 signatures](/img/default/lat.png)
The petition against the proposed tax changes outlined by Chancellor George Osborne in last month’s Budget has now achieved 20,000 signatures. This...
28 August 2015
From: Breaking News
![SaynotoGeorge campaign founders speak out on tax threat](/img/default/lat.png)
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...
17 August 2015
From: Breaking News
![Agents, landlords, investors urged to 'saynotoGeorge'](/img/default/lat.png)
A new website - www.saynotogeorge.co.uk - has been set up as a nucleus for opposition to Chancellor George Osborne’s proposals to...
13 August 2015
From: Breaking News
![Landlords may produce 'alternative' buy to let tax measures](/img/default/lat.png)
The Residential Landlords Association has launched a new campaign ‘toolkit’ to enable opponents of the proposed buy to let tax changes...
10 August 2015
From: Breaking News
![6,300 sign online petition against ending BTL tax breaks](/img/default/lat.png)
An online petition demanding the reinstatement of buy to let landlords' tax breaks has so far attracted 6,300-plus signatures. The petition, which...
03 August 2015
From: Breaking News
![Renewed concern over buy to let landlord-companies](/img/default/lat.png)
A critic of the suggestion that buy to let landlords could set up companies to ‘beat’ the ending of tax breaks...
31 July 2015
From: Breaking News
![Pressure group in trouble - goodbye Generation Rent?](/img/default/lat.png)
Pressure group Generation Rent - a thorn in the side of many property professionals in recent years - has launched a...
31 July 2015
From: Breaking News
![Non-stop rent rises are worrying admits ARLA](/img/default/lat.png)
More and more agents are witnessing increases in the cost of renting, according to the Association of Residential Letting Agents. Its latest...
24 July 2015
From: Breaking News
![HMRC gives full details of wear-and-tear tax changes](/img/default/lat.png)
HMRC has revealed the scope of its proposed changes to the wear and tear allowance, as announced in George Osborne’s Budget...