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Average rent arrears claims climbed to £1,816 in the first quarter of this year. That’s a rise of 27% from £1,435 in...

A lettings industry supplier claims one in nine renters use foodbanks. A survey of tenants, commissioned by Zero Deposit, found that just...

New figures from lenders trade body UK Finance show a massive fall in buy to let loans for those aged 55...

The Liberal Democrats have called on the government to bring in an emergency ban on no fault evictions and banks repossessing people’s homes...

An agency has issued its rental market forecast for 2024. Chestertons says rents are forecast to have increased by 6.5 per cent...

There’s been a significant increase in the buy to let mortgage product range according to analysis by independent service Moneyfacts.  A year...

Zoopla’s research team says the rise in mortgage interest rates means it’s now cheaper to rent than to buy for the...

One of Scotland’s largest lettings agencies is voicing concern over what it calls “the lack of balance” in the Scottish government’s...

“Optimism has survived another difficult month” says business consultancy Hargreaves Lansdown in response to the latest house price index.  Indeed, the industry...

A tax expert says the current economic climate has made it so hard to save for a deposit that many tenants...

The downbeat results of a survey by a finance company suggest that half of tenants are worried that they will be...

Jeremy Hunt’s firm grasp of fiscal policy after the market turmoil of recent weeks won’t stop what one housing expert calls...

A leading business consultancy says the Bank of England will once again increase interest rates by twice the minimum permitted. CMC Markets...

A prominent lettings Industry figure has slammed Boris Johnson’s latest housing market utterances, branding them “off the cuff” and likely to...

The most recent interest rate rise has swung the balance making it cheaper to rent than to buy, according to lettings...

It is now cheaper to rent a home than buy one - the first time this has been the case since...

A new survey by a leading lettings trade body suggests that the Bank of England’s attempts to make buy to let...

MPs are today going to debate whether rent payments should be included when calculating credit scores to support tenants wanting to...

A 27 year old father of two has secured over 140,000 signatures for an online petition demanding that rent payments be...

Almost half of landlords are set to increase their rents in 2016 in a bid to counteract tax changes and higher...

A London letting agency is playing down the impact of Chancellor George Osborne’s proposed changes to buy to let tax breaks,...

New figures from a landlords’ organisation show that mortgage repayments are easily the biggest outgoing for a large proportion of landlords.  The...