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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

Gross buy to let lending increased in November to the highest monthly level since the stamp duty surcharge was introduced in...

The consumer organisation Which? has joined the chorus of concern that new mortgage restrictions may hit buy to let landlords.   Since January...

  Over a third of landlords have never used a letting agent and manage all their properties themselves.    That is the finding of...

The Financial Times reports that the Bank of England is questioning buy to let mortgage lenders and banks as part of...

There’s been a significant drop in the amount borrowed by buy to let investors over the past year, despite a rise...

Credit rating consultancy Experian says it is cheaper to rent than buy in 84 per cent of areas, while it's cheaper...

In its latest bid to push Chancellor Phillip Hammond to back down on buy to let tax changes, the Residential Landlords...

Buy to let lending is well down according to data from the Council of Mortgage Lenders.    Apparently contrary to an optimistic report...

A survey of 18 mortgage lenders reports that the buy to let sector has seen a rise in mortgage deals of...

Details of the Bank of England’s statement outlining tougher rules on mortgage lending to buy to let investors have been shown...

The chief executive of financial consultancy Clayton Euro Risk says changes soon coming in to tighten the criteria applied to buy...

An industry group is advising agents and landlords to be vigilant against a problem that has been stopping vendors selling their...

The long-term aspiration of most Britons to own their home has not been deterred by the Brexit vote, according to the...

Buy to let mortgage arrears are set to fall below 7,000 by the end of the year according to one lender’s...

The Council of Mortgage Lenders has told the Bank of England’s Prudential Regulation Authority not to add unnecessarily to the welter...

The Daily Telegraph - an outspoken critic of George Osborne’s fiscal changes aimed at extracting more money from the buy to...

Lettings volumes have taken a sharp downward trend in May according to board company Agency Express. New listings were down 11.9 per...

Campaigning charity Shelter claims that in some areas of the country no fewer than one-in-23 private rental sector tenants are apparently...

The Supreme Court has ruled that rights to a private and family life need not get in the way of legitimate...

There was a massive slowdown in buy to let lending by investors as the additional homes stamp duty surcharge passed -...

The Property 118 website - which last week won a notable victory in the Court of Appeal against a building society...

There has been a new development in a long-running spat between a website and the BBC over the corporation’s news coverage...

Chancellor George Osborne’s stamp duty surcharge imposed on landlords and other second home buyers from April 1 prompted an enormous 142...

A financial journalist has lambasted the government’s anti-buy to let policies, describing them as “political short-termism ... a vote winner to...

Independent comparison website Moneyfacts says mortgage lenders are slashing rates on products designed for landlords, in a bid to buoy up...

Demand for buy to let mortgages in the coming months is expected to fall "significantly" according to a Bank of England...

Research by HomeLet shows that rents on new tenancies outside London over the three months to March were on average 4.9...

The imposition of the stamp duty surcharge on additional homes would add another £4,500 to the cost of setting up a...

The Council of Mortgage Lenders has ticked off the government for not updating its Private Landlords’ Survey for some six years...

The gap between average incomes and the pay of tenants who want to buy their first property has reached a post-recession...

The three per cent stamp duty surcharge proposed for purchases of buy to let and holiday homes risks being seen as...

The Council of Mortgage Lenders is warning of a possible slump for the buy to let market in the next two...

A property investment search portal has launched an online petition via the UK Parliament website, calling for a national register of...

Mortgage lending to buy to let landlords has increased by volume and by value in the third quarter of the year, according...

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

Buy to let lending continues to show a large rise compared to the same time last year according to new figures from...

The Council for Mortgage Lenders is warning the government not to interfere with the Buy To Let sector in such a...

The rise and rise of buy to let continues apace with the latest figures from the Council of Mortgage Lenders showing...

Agents have expressed their disappointment at the decision by the government to restrict mortgage interest relief for Buy To let investors...

The head of the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association is telling the Bank of England to back away from its strident warnings...

The Conveyancing Association (CA) has embarked on a mission to engage with the lender community with a view to initiating a...

Given that I wrote my last article on the day of the General Election but well before the result was known,...

Latest figures from the Council of Mortgage Lenders show there were 18,200 buy to let loans in March - up 12 per...

There are “advantages all round” in the certainty that three-year tenancies and even rent controls can offer, according to the head...