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Rightmove says it’s now cheaper to buy than rent in each of Great Britain’s biggest cities, highlighting why many determined first-time...

A deposit alternative company is calling on agents to help tenants save an average of £1,000 on up-front costs. Flatfair chief executive...

Lloyds Banking Group, Nationwide, NatWest and Rightmove have announced a strategic investment in Coadjute, a prominent PropTech business.  This is the first...

The letting agents’ trade body Propertymark has made the unexpected move of calling on banks to cut mortgage rates. Rates are typically...

Major regional independent agency Dacre, Son & Hartley is expanding its offering by re-entering the residential lettings and property management market...

Propertymark wants the Bank of England to cut interest rates following data showing soaring mortgage arrears and repossessions. Lenders trade body UK...

There are growing fears that the hoped-for Bank of England base rate cut this spring - the first off possibly several...

Knight Frank has revised its housing market forecasts for 2024, just two weeks into the new year. It’s done this on the...

A series of lenders have slashed their buy to let mortgage rates in a bid to win business. These include: - LendInvest Mortgages...

Lower mortgage rates - still falling in the days since the end of the festive break - may be persuading some...

UK Finance has published its housing and mortgage market forecasts for 2024 and 2025 together with projections for 2023 full year numbers. Key figures for 2023 In...

Cases of buy-to-let arrears have doubled in a single year, according to a new analysis. The research, from Octane Capital, analysed quarterly...

The new Housing Loss Prevention Advice Service - introduced this month - will make possession court case delays even worse. That’s the...

A mortgage lender has conducted a survey of homeowners which has produced a string of anti-landlord and anti-overseas investor attitudes. Market Financial...

Concern remains that the mayhem surrounding the mortgage market may yet trigger a housing market crash. At the start of the weekend...

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is today charing a crisis meeting of mortgage lenders, as calls mount for him to take action to...

Moneyfacts, the respected independent mortgage market monitor, is warning that lenders have been withdrawing buy to let fixed deals. Within the buy...

New research from The Mortgage Lender reveals that 44 per cent of renters would like more cost-of-living support from the government. Specifically...

A high profile mortgage lender operating in the buy to let sector has launched a series of products aimed at investors...

A prominent legal firm has given its view on the five key trends facing the private rental sector in 2023. These come...

Keyzy, a rent-to-own service aimed at aspiring homeowners, has raised £3m in a seed funding round.  The proceeds will accelerate its purchases...

Rightmove says yesterday’s Bank of England base rate rise to 3.5 per cent - the ninth hike in as many Bank...

Data from the mortgage lenders’ trade body UK Finance shows the wisdom of agents having a lettings division. The body says: “We...

With the private rental sector stressed at the prospect of stricter energy efficiency rules in the coming years, the body representing...

A mortgage lender specialising in working with ex-pat and foreign buy to let investors says the city apartment and house remain...

Skipton International says it’s seen “remarkable growth” in the Buy To Let mortgage market for expats, with completions skyrocketing in comparison...

One of the biggest Build To Rent operators in the UK is investing in new technology with the aim of boosting...

Buy To Let lending is set to fall back this year, after a hectic 2021. That’s the forecast from the Intermediary Mortgage...

A former president of the Association of Residential Letting Agents has lifted the lid on how buy to let came about,...

UK Finance, the umbrella group representing major mortgage lenders, says there will have been a massive 83 per cent surge in...

Lloyds Banking Group - which this year announced its intention to become a private landlord through the acquisition of new build...

A new Buy To Let ‘tracker’ from a prominent buy to let mortgage lender has revealed what it considers to be...

A Bill is being introduced into both Houses of Parliament this week which will ramp up the pressure on the private...

Lloyds Bank says tenants will “within the next few weeks” move into the first of a series of new developments it...

Yet another buy to let lender has released new products aiming to push the sector into more environmentally-friendly properties.  The Foundation Home...

It’s been reported that the Lloyds Banking Group is set to buy its first property as it seeks to become a...

A lettings agency director has been disqualified for seven years after he emptied its bank account following its liquidation. Ghanshyam Sarup Batra, from...

A leading buy to let mortgage expert has backed the government’s pledge to issue a White Paper and additional consultation before...

New research suggests even those renters who want to be owner occupiers are likely to remain in the lettings sector in the...

A definitive document has been published by the House of Commons library listing every eviction-related measure taken by UK governments during...

An analysis of buy to let returns from mortgage lender Mojo has produced a league table with no London locations in...

The possibility of an extended mortgage holiday being introduced, for landlords as well as home owners, has been sharply criticised by...

The Generation Rent pressure group is wrong to claim that the majority of landlords are failing to support tenants needing help...

The number of mortgage lenders still offering products to landlords is 42 - only seven fewer than at the peak of...

One of London’s largest lettings agencies is warning its landlord clients to only use mortgage payment holidays offered by lenders as a...

Landlords have been sharply criticised by a broker for allegedly trying to cash in on the Coronavirus crisis by demanding mortgage...

Labour is on the warpath against the government following the surprise contents of the Coronavirus Emergency Bill, apparently watering down the...

The Property Ombudsman is warning agents not to discriminate against tenants through a No DSS or any similar policy. Following the legal...

Optimism amongst investors in the private rental sector is on the rise, despite the various tax and regulation obstacles facing the...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has made an uncompromising set of demands on the government, asking it to implement a...

The latest lettings market snapshot by mortgage lender Paragon has found that of the landlords planning to purchase property in the...

One of the highest profile buy to let mortgage lenders predicts that 2020 will see increasing numbers of investors going into...

A mortgage lender’s new Buy to Let City Tracker tool has calculated the best cities in the UK for buy to...

Specialist buy to let mortgage lender Paragon has welcomed Labour's General Election pledge to force rental properties to undergo an annual...

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

A home being pet-friendly is the most desirable attribute in a rental property, according to research by a specialist mortgage lender.  The...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is one of many industry groups in a new coalition calling for S21 repossessions to be...

Senior lettings agency figures are amongst those who will this morning give evidence to a committee of MPs investigating so-called ‘DSS...

Rightmove has fallen in line with Zoopla and is banning the term ‘No DSS’ from its lettings agents’ listings from the...

Latest official figures show that private rental prices paid by tenants in the UK rose by 1.0 per cent in the...

One of the buy to let sector’s main mortgage lenders, Paragon, has refreshed its range of mortgages with new products which...

The Daily Mail has reported on a massive buy to let fiddle which involved a £10.8m property empire, rents totalling £500,000...

The proportion of buy to let investors looking to remortgage is now at an all-time high according to respected specialist mortgage...

20% more landlords* are struggling compared to last year. They’ve been caught in a perfect storm of higher interest rates, bigger...

One in nine landlords now check prospective tenants’ social media accounts to try to assess how they may behave as renters,...

Buy to let is still an attractive investment compared to other asset classes but to make the best of the opportunity...

A lender has launched a new product which is thought to be the first mortgage explicitly aimed at borrowers who propose...

The latest LendInvest buy to let report, which ranks 105 postcode areas around England and Wales based on a combination of...

High-profile buy to let mortgage lender LendInvest says it’s going to allow applicants to prove their ID online via photographs. It’s working...

A specialist buy to let mortgage lender says buy to let investors should act now - even if it means borrowing...

Landlords are most likely to have invested in a boiler upgrade in the last 12 months to boost the energy efficiency...

The conclusions of a new think tank analysing the private rental sector are “fundamentally wrong” according to a trade body.  The Residential...

Mortgage lenders and brokers have been too quiet over changes to buy to let lending, according to a trade body. The National...

The growth of the private rental sector has slowed thanks to government intervention and economic uncertainty - but it will expand...

A trade body has stepped up its calls on government to help the lettings industry do more for older renters. Responding to...

Time to put the gloom and doom about buy to let to one side - a new analysis shows that a...

One of the most famous names in buy to let mortgages, Paragon, has revealed that it’s on the acquisition trail. There had...

One of the six PropTech start-ups shortlisted to develop a system allowing tenants’ rental histories to count towards their creditworthiness says...

The buy to let sector still requires £400m spending on improving the energy efficiency of its stock in order to conform...

The number of buy to let properties in arrears has risen again according to figures released by UK Finance, formerly the...

The average cost of renting a home is now rising across every UK region for the first time in almost two...

Net buy to let investment has fallen 80 per cent in the past two years, a mortgage lenders’ group claims.  The Intermediary...

A mortgage lender has created a special buy to let product aimed at landlords who let a property to a close...

Homes in Multiple Occupation produced average yields of 8.9 per cent in 2017, the highest of all buy to let property...

The industry is awaiting details of the latest government consultation concerning the private rental sector which will consider longer tenancies. The consultation...

Consumer organisation Which? says a handful of buy to let mortgage lenders have found a way of helping so-called ‘portfolio landlords’...

A trade body says the expanding Build To Rent sector will never be large enough to meet tenant demand and as...

Consumer group Which? is warning that buy to let investors with multiple properties in one locality could risk being turned down...

Consumer group Which? says ‘micro-apartments’ - which have proliferated in recent years - may not be good investments.    The group has focussed...

Specialist mortgage lender Skipton International says it has received over £500m of expat mortgage enquiries for UK buy to let property...

Specialist buy to let mortgage lender LandBay has teamed up with financial services giant Legal & General to provide a new...

The number of buy-to-let mortgage loans fell by over a fifth during April, according to the latest figures from the Council...

Mortgage lending for the buy to let sector has halved since the introduction of the stamp duty surcharge in April 2016 according...

Landlords are increasingly looking to reduce the fees they pay to letting agents due to industry tax changes and increasing management...

A well known specialist mortgage lender for the buy to let sector, Paragon, has refreshed its offering in the light of...

A letting sector trade body says two thirds of the largest buy to let mortgage lenders do not allow landlords to...

New lettings data from Agency Express supports the belief that the rental market may be slowing down across much of the...

Specialist mortgage lender Together is the latest company to back the idea of rent payment records being used to measure the...

The imminent mortgage interest tax relief changes coming into effect in April has triggered a surge in the number of mortgage...

A trade body claims that vulnerable tenants are finding it harder to access rented housing because of tax changes being introduced...