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New and past landlords tempted back to Buy to Let have been warned - passive income from property isn’t easy. This is...
14 March 2024
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Propertymark wants the Bank of England to cut interest rates following data showing soaring mortgage arrears and repossessions. Lenders trade body UK...
09 February 2024
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Rents are approaching an affordability ceiling according to Savills - but the agency admits it doesn’t see substantial new supply on...
08 February 2024
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Last week’s Autumn Statement - which fell short of expectations in terms of help for the private rental sector - is...
27 November 2023
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Landlords in the UK are paying 40 per cent more mortgage interest than in August 2022, forcing more of them to...
16 October 2023
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Airbnb has taken the unusual step of buying space on an influential Labour Party website, just ahead of the party’s conference. Amanda...
27 September 2023
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Zoopla’s research team says the rise in mortgage interest rates means it’s now cheaper to rent than to buy for the...
22 August 2023
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Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is today charing a crisis meeting of mortgage lenders, as calls mount for him to take action to...
23 June 2023
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The Scottish Parliament’s so called Cost of Living Act - imposing rent controls on the private sector - is backfiring. That’s the...
27 February 2023
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Buy to let specialist lender Fleet Mortgages says almost every region of the UK is now seeing increased yields for investors. The...
25 January 2023
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A new survey by PropTech firm Goodlord has the unsurprising conclusion that the biggest worry for tenants is that their rent...
16 January 2023
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Activist groups which previously focussed much of their fire on landlords are now attacking letting agents, accusing them of encouraging higher...
20 December 2022
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Mortgage experts appearing before a committee of MPs have given an especially gloomy forecast for the buy to let sector in...
07 November 2022
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There’s widespread concern that the Bank of England’s monetary policy committee, which meets tomorrow, is to unveil a 0.75 per cent...
02 November 2022
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Knight Frank says it expects house prices to drop in the coming year - but only to those levels seen in...
31 October 2022
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There seems to be an industry-wide sigh of relief that Rishi Sunak has become Prime Minister. His coronation marks the end of...
25 October 2022
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New research shows that there’s little to choose between the costs of renting and owning - a change from previous research...
19 October 2022
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Propertymark’s chief executive Nathan Emerson has welcomed the dramatic government U-turn on taxes - but most importantly has retained the stamp...
18 October 2022
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A mortgage company chief executive is warning that house price falls of up to 15 per cent are likely between now...
11 October 2022
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Zoopla is issuing a warning today that price cuts in the sales market are likely to hit pre-pandemic levels as affordability...
29 September 2022
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The most recent interest rate rise has swung the balance making it cheaper to rent than to buy, according to lettings...
20 June 2022
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The costs of buy to let fixed rate mortgages have risen sharply with more increases likely if, as expected, the Bank...
10 June 2022
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The government’s pledge to introduce a lifetime deposits concept, theoretically making it easier and cheaper for tenants to move, has been...
13 May 2021
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Mortgage costs in the buy to let market have continued to fall over the last three months - a trend seen across...
20 December 2019
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New research suggests that the recent fall in the cost of fixed rate buy-to-let mortgages may be coming to a halt. Online...
24 October 2019
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There’s been an “unprecedented” across-the-board fall in fixed rate buy to let mortgage rates according to an online investment platform. Property Master...
10 July 2019
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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
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A specialist broker says the costs of most fixed rate buy to let mortgages are beginning to rise. Property Master warned last...
07 June 2019
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Buy to let mortgage costs remain stable with little movement recorded over the past three months according to a market snapshot...
01 April 2019
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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
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New figures out show that buy to let mortgage rates are showing the effects of last month’s base rate rise. Online mortgage...
14 September 2018
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The cost of buy to let mortgages remain at record lows and - with little movement in costs and rates over...
05 July 2018
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Liverpool and Nottingham are the UK’s best performing property investment locations, according to mortgage broker Private Finance. Both cities enjoy average rental...
29 January 2018
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A leading independent mortgage market monitor is warning that increases in mortgage costs are now proving the latest blow to the...
31 October 2017
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A new snapshot of the buy to let mortgage market suggests costs have dropped further over the past three months as...
16 August 2017
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Skipton is the latest lender to confirm that it will continue lending to so-called portfolio landlords after new Bank of England...
16 August 2017
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Landlords are increasingly looking to reduce the fees they pay to letting agents due to industry tax changes and increasing management...
12 May 2017
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A property firm at the centre of the campaign against phasing out landlords’ mortgage interest relief says is urging tenants to...
19 April 2017
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The Bank of England's decision to keep the base interest rate at the record low of 0.25% has kept buy-to-let headline...
25 January 2017
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New research claims that the financial benefits of renting rather than owning may have been under-rated. A financial researcher at the University...