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05 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![Section 24: Agents call for mortgage tax relief to be reinstated](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Taxes-400x310.png)
A new survey of lettings agents and landlords has put the reinstatement of Section 24 mortgage tax relief at the top...
21 April 2023
From: Breaking News
![Delay EPC change to help rental sector - top agency’s Budget hope](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/AgencyBoards-Lettings-400x310.png)
A prominent lettings agency has called for a delay to the government’s EPC upgrade timetable to be announced in this afternoon’s...
15 March 2023
From: Breaking News
![Tax incentives for rental sector - top agent’s plea to Chancellor](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Tax-400x310.png)
A prominent agent and former RICS residential chairman has made an impassioned plea to the government to help the private rental...
14 March 2023
From: Breaking News
![Reinstate Mortgage Interest Tax Relief - agents’ plea to government](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/FinanceCalculator-400x310.png)
Propertymark has told the government it should have three priorities for next month’s Budget. 1. Improving welfare system for vulnerable and low-waged...
02 February 2023
From: Breaking News
![Stamp Duty slashes size of buy to let sector claims agency](/img/default/lat.png)
The five years since the introduction of the three per cent stamp duty surcharge on additional homes has led to a...
17 May 2021
From: Breaking News
![Buy to let mortgage products plummet thanks to Coronavirus](/img/default/lat.png)
Data from independent mortgage monitor Moneyfacts shows that there’s been a big drop in the choice of mortgage for buy to...
15 April 2020
From: Breaking News
![Today’s The Day: multiple tax changes will hit the rental sector](/img/default/lat.png)
It’s not just navigating a path through the Coronavirus crisis that is proving the value of letting agents - it’s their...
06 April 2020
From: Breaking News
![Agents tell government - scrap SDLT surcharge and reverse tax changes!](/img/default/lat.png)
The Association of Residential Letting Agents has made an uncompromising set of demands on the government, asking it to implement a...
13 February 2020
From: Breaking News
![HMRC data shows landlords quitting buy to let as tax rises bite](/img/default/lat.png)
An analysis of HMRC data reveals that the number of small buy-to-let landlords has dropped for the first time in five...
10 February 2020
From: Breaking News
![Savvy landlords can still make Buy To Let work insists property chief](/img/default/lat.png)
There’s still life in the buy to let market despite the regulatory and financial changes in recent years according to a...
24 December 2019
From: Breaking News
![Four key events for agents to watch for in 2020](/img/default/lat.png)
A leading law firm has highlighted four key dates for letting agents and landlords to watch for in 2020. Paul Barnes, head...
12 December 2019
From: Breaking News
![Landlords urged to prepare for ‘last straw’ in maintaining profitability](/img/default/lat.png)
Landlords must look at their finances as a range of tax changes continue to 'hit home', according to Apropos. The property management...
07 October 2019
From: Breaking News
![Surge in buy to let company purchases thanks to tax changes](/img/default/lat.png)
New research shows more than half of landlords plan to use limited companies to buy properties in the year ahead. The study...
12 August 2019
From: Breaking News
![Government slated by Tory MP and agency chief over Sections 21 and 24](/img/default/lat.png)
The chairman of Hunters estate agency, who is also a Conservative MP, has hit out at the government over its handling...
12 July 2019
From: Breaking News
![Rates, yields, demand and tax - reasons why holiday lets are booming](/img/default/lat.png)
A holiday lets and short-term lettings market boom can be put down to a combination of four reasons, according to specialist...
05 July 2019
From: Breaking News
![Property investors urge government to scrap stamp duty surcharge](/img/default/lat.png)
Property investors are calling for the government to provide more support to the UK property market. A survey of investors, carried out...
05 July 2019
From: Breaking News
![Buy to let mortgage choice for first time landlords hits record high](/img/default/lat.png)
The number of buy to let products for first time landlords has risen to an all-time high. Data from independent mortgage market...
02 July 2019
From: Breaking News
![The Big Switch: more buy to let investors adopt limited company status](/img/default/lat.png)
Large-scale buy to let investors are continuing to move to limited company status in a bid to limit their exposure to...
25 March 2019
From: Breaking News
![Buy to let landlords opting for holiday lets 'could be Brexit silver lining'](/img/default/lat.png)
The UK’s holiday lets sector could be a beneficiary of the current Brexit uncertainty and people not vacationing abroad because they...
21 March 2019
From: Breaking News
![Cash is king for London buy to let as mortgage access tightens](/img/default/lat.png)
The proportion of landlords purchasing buy to let homes in London with cash rose from 33 per cent in 2017 to...
18 March 2019
From: Breaking News
![Shock warning that quarter of landlords considering stopping using agents](/img/default/lat.png)
More than a third of landlords are looking to cut their annual spending - and many of them are considering ending...
08 March 2019
From: Breaking News
![Landlord hits out at agency's portrayal of buy to let tax clampdown](/img/default/lat.png)
A leading landlord has hit out at a lettings agency’s portrayal of buy to let tax changes. Rosalind Beck, a campaigning landlord...
01 February 2019
From: Breaking News
![Agent says landlords still claim billions in tax relief every year](/img/default/lat.png)
London-focussed lettings agency ludlowthompson says buy to let landlords across the country claimed a record £17.7 billion in tax relief last...
29 January 2019
From: Breaking News
![Great guide for agents - this is exactly where you can help landlords](/img/default/lat.png)
A new league table of worries for landlords shows exactly why letting agents are needed - and a lot of the...
21 January 2019
From: Breaking News
![ARLA restates opposition to MIR changes as tax deadline looms](/img/default/lat.png)
The Association of Residential Letting Agents is reminding members of tax changes ahead - a timely intervention with the deadline for...
07 January 2019
From: Breaking News
![Party conference season – what was said about the rental market?](/img/default/lat.png)
The party conferences of the two main political parties threw up some interesting developments with regards to housing and the rental...
06 November 2018
From: Sponsored Content
![Surge in buy to let mortgage products for companies, not individuals](/img/default/lat.png)
The number of buy to let lenders lending to limited companies has risen by 47 per cent over the past year,...
25 October 2018
From: Breaking News
![Higher tax bills lead to surge in buy to let remortgaging](/img/default/lat.png)
The proportion of buy to let investors looking to remortgage is now at an all-time high according to respected specialist mortgage...
24 October 2018
From: Breaking News
![Revealed - how and why rents will rise after buy to let tax changes](/img/default/lat.png)
New research has attempted to quantify the number and scale of rent rises that are likely to take place as landlords...
04 October 2018
From: Breaking News
!['Give the rental sector a (tax) break' agency tells government](/img/default/lat.png)
The Haart agency is calling on the government to give the private rental sector a break in the autumn Budget, as...
27 September 2018
From: Breaking News
![Tax changes are making London rents less affordable, says top agent](/img/default/lat.png)
A top London letting agent working for Knight Frank has commented on the 'irony' that the government's series of tax changes...
31 August 2018
From: Breaking News
![Lettings sector will return to growth - but maybe not until 2021...](/img/default/lat.png)
A new analysis of the buy to let market forecasts more bad news for agents, landlords and investors over the next...
21 August 2018
From: Breaking News
![Net loss of 133,000 homes to let in coming year, trade body warns](/img/default/lat.png)
A trade body says the country faces a net loss of 133,000 homes for private rent over the next year -...
12 July 2018
From: Breaking News
![Collapse in demand for buy to let in London says top buying agency](/img/default/lat.png)
One of the most respected buying agencies, Black Brick, says the collapse in demand for buy to let is the most...
09 July 2018
From: Breaking News
![Scrap the surcharge! Strong support for petition to repeal buy to let taxes](/img/default/lat.png)
There has been strong support for an e-petition calling for the scrapping of the stamp duty surcharge on buy to let...
06 July 2018
From: Breaking News
!['Take care!' - Broker advises caution over buy to let incorporation](/img/default/lat.png)
A specialist buy to let broker is urging landlords to tread with caution before jumping feet first into incorporating their property...
28 June 2018
From: Breaking News
![Far more than Three Billboards - £10,000 wanted for anti-S24 campaign](/img/default/lat.png)
A campaign opposing the government’s recent tax changes which have penalised buy to let investors has taken a leaf out of...
07 June 2018
From: Breaking News
![Online agency predicts massive rent hikes this year](/img/default/lat.png)
Two million tenants will this year be hit with rent rises totalling a combined £46m a month according to an online...
01 June 2018
From: Breaking News
![Tax changes 'level the playing field' - government responds to BTL petition](/img/default/lat.png)
The government has responded to a petition calling for it to abolish the 3% stamp duty surcharge and reintroduce full buy-to-let...
29 May 2018
From: Breaking News
![Controversial tax changes are 'choking off' rental property supply](/img/default/lat.png)
The introduction of a 3% stamp duty surcharge on the purchase of buy-to-let properties and the phasing out of buy-to-let mortgage...
25 May 2018
From: Breaking News
![Government to respond to petition calling for reform of 'disastrous' BTL tax changes](/img/default/lat.png)
An online petition which calls on the government to reintroduce full buy-to-let mortgage interest tax relief and abolish the 3% stamp...
21 May 2018
From: Breaking News
![Huge surge in buy to let forecast for next seven years](/img/default/lat.png)
The latest major piece of research into the private rental sector is forecasting a huge surge in demand - meaning there...
17 May 2018
From: Breaking News
![Big rise in number of fixed-rate buy to let mortgages for limited companies](/img/default/lat.png)
There’s been a significant rise in the number of fixed-rate buy to let mortgages available to limited companies, says independent mortgage...
24 April 2018
From: Breaking News
![‘Over half BTL investors to sell some properties’ - claim](/img/default/lat.png)
Specialist funding platform Property Partner has conducted a survey which suggests that 54 per cent of landlords are selling all or some...
12 April 2018
From: Breaking News
![Leading Conservative says government should cut tax for rental sector](/img/default/lat.png)
A leading Conservative peer says the government should cut taxes for buy to let investors and regard them as part of...
05 April 2018
From: Breaking News
![Volatile lettings sector means increasing use of rental-protection products](/img/default/lat.png)
Increased volatility in the private rental sector and rising costs for landlords and investors have combined to lead to an increased...
20 March 2018
From: Breaking News
![Bank of England issues gloomy buy to let mortgage lending figures](/img/default/lat.png)
The Bank of England has issued gloomy figures on buy to let lending, suggesting the clampdown on mortgage interest tax relief...
14 March 2018
From: Breaking News
![Strong growth in property investor numbers - at least until recently](/img/default/lat.png)
An analysis of data released by HM Revenue and Customs shows that 1.9 million people earned money from property in 2015-16...
08 March 2018
From: Breaking News
![Agency says 85% of branches are seeing landlords quitting sector](/img/default/lat.png)
Belvoir says there is no evidence of a large-scale sell-off of buy to let properties by beleaguered landlords, but 85 per...
07 March 2018
From: Breaking News
![Rental market analysis: what is the outlook for 2018?](/img/default/lat.png)
A range of factors - including fierce competition under the supplied housing market, rising property prices and political uncertainty – have...
08 February 2018
From: Sponsored Content
![Private rental sector growing despite tax and other issues - Nationwide](/img/default/lat.png)
Analysis of government figures by the Nationwide suggest that the buy to let sector is still growing despite tax changes and...
05 February 2018
From: Breaking News
![Stark warning that recent buy to let investors will face losses by 2021](/img/default/lat.png)
Well over half of those investors who recently secured buy to let mortgages risk facing losses when mortgage interest tax changes...
26 January 2018
From: Breaking News
![Government accused of skewing rental market to favour short-lets](/img/default/lat.png)
The government has been accused by a lettings sector trade body of skewing the market to encourage more short-lets. The claim comes...
24 January 2018
From: Breaking News
![Rents will rise this year - and it's the fault of government, insists Belvoir](/img/default/lat.png)
The head of franchise giant Belvoir says government interference in the rental sector is likely to result in a rise in...
23 January 2018
From: Breaking News
![Agency says buy to let still benefits from £16.7 billion tax relief](/img/default/lat.png)
The UK’s army of buy to let landlords will still benefit from £16.7 billion worth of tax relief even after the...
09 January 2018
From: Breaking News
![Buy to let mortgage demand falls 'thanks to government rule changes'](/img/default/lat.png)
One of Britain’s best known and highest profile buy to let specialist lenders says the number of new BTL mortgages being...
24 November 2017
From: Breaking News
![Buy To Let sector pessimistic ahead of the Budget](/img/default/lat.png)
After the series of anti-buy to let measures contained in recent Budgets, it is perhaps unsurprising that a survey of landlords...
21 November 2017
From: Breaking News
![London's rental market to outperform sales long-term, says Savills](/img/default/lat.png)
Rental growth is forecast to exceed house price growth in London, despite a glut of properties on the lettings market in...
03 November 2017
From: Breaking News
!['Help the rental sector solve the housing crisis' Chancellor is told](/img/default/lat.png)
A leading accountancy and business advice consultancy says residential landlords who want to downsize their portfolios because of recent tax changes...
26 October 2017
From: Breaking News
![Mortgage interest change particularly hits large-portfolio BTL investors](/img/default/lat.png)
New analysis shows how the phasing out of mortgage interest tax relief for buy to let investors may prove a particular...
23 October 2017
From: Breaking News
![Rental sector unprepared for tax changes, accountancy firm warns](/img/default/lat.png)
A leading accounting and advisory service says key tax changes that could damage the buy to let sector are still not...
26 September 2017
From: Breaking News
![UK buy to let investors slipping down European league table](/img/default/lat.png)
Yields from buy to let in the UK are now amongst the worst in Europe according to a new league table drawn...
19 September 2017
From: Breaking News
![RICS warns new rules and tax changes will force out many landlords](/img/default/lat.png)
Some 61 per cent of chartered surveyors believe there will be a net exodus of landlords over the coming year thanks...
15 September 2017
From: Breaking News
![Agency survey says 66% of landlords undeterred by tax changes](/img/default/lat.png)
A survey for online letting agency Upad claims that 66 per cent of landlords are not going to change their property...
08 September 2017
From: Breaking News
!['One in 11 landlords could stop using agents to save money'](/img/default/lat.png)
A survey conducted for MyDeposits suggests some nine per cent of landlords - or one in 11 - is likely to...
01 September 2017
From: Breaking News
![Shrinking lettings supply pushes up rents, says Your Move](/img/default/lat.png)
Your Move says a shrinking supply of properties, in part created by government measures against the lettings sector, has led to...
31 August 2017
From: Breaking News
![Surge in Airbnb-style short lets 'is down to tax relief change'](/img/default/lat.png)
More landlords are quitting conventional letting and resorting to holiday lets or, increasingly, Airbnb-style short lets. The move is particularly acute in...
24 August 2017
From: Breaking News
![Most lettings investors want stamp duty surcharge scrapped](/img/default/lat.png)
Perhaps unsurprisingly, a survey reveals that most buy to let and other property investors want the three per cent stamp duty...
24 August 2017
From: Breaking News
![Some landlords beginning to quit buy to let, insists leading agency](/img/default/lat.png)
Belvoir is warning that some buy to let investors are quitting the sector. “Although we are not currently seeing a huge exit...
17 August 2017
From: Breaking News
![Fifth of landlords to sell one or more units this year, trade body says](/img/default/lat.png)
A survey of almost 3,000 landlords suggests more than one in five plans to sell at least one of their investment...
14 August 2017
From: Breaking News
![Confidence ebbing away in private rental sector, says trade body](/img/default/lat.png)
Buy to let investors are losing confidence in their ability to rely on steady rental yields, according to recent figures from...
08 August 2017
From: Breaking News
![Shelter insists age, not taxes, forces landlords to quit buy to let](/img/default/lat.png)
The reasons behind ‘landlord churn’ - when buy to let investors sell up - are more connected with personal circumstances than...
28 July 2017
From: Breaking News
![10% of landlords quit lettings sector each year, says Shelter](/img/default/lat.png)
Campaigning charity Shelter claims around one in 10 landlords quit the lettings sector each year. Using new research by YouGov it says...
27 July 2017
From: Breaking News
![Trade group warns that buy to let taxes could trigger pension crisis](/img/default/lat.png)
The impact of recent changes to the way buy to let properties are taxed could create the next pension crisis, a...
21 July 2017
From: Breaking News
![IDS is latest Tory to criticise government's buy to let tax policies](/img/default/lat.png)
Ian Duncan Smith is the latest Conservative to criticise his own government’s fiscal policies regarding buy to let. Writing on the Conservative...
19 July 2017
From: Breaking News
![Paragon says investors want government to scrap BTL tax changes](/img/default/lat.png)
Paragon Mortgages says its most recent survey of buy to let investors makes it clear that the vast majority want the...
07 July 2017
From: Breaking News
!['PropTech is the answer to lettings sector problems, not a cause'](/img/default/lat.png)
A head of a company providing hi-tech products to letting agents says technology is the answer to current rental industry challenges,...
06 July 2017
From: Breaking News
![Lettings sector tax increases - they're hurting, but they're not working](/img/default/lat.png)
The Residential Landlords’ Association says recent fiscal changes hitting the private rented sector are hurting tenants but failing to achieve their...
04 July 2017
From: Breaking News
![New help for expat buy to let investors facing UK tax changes](/img/default/lat.png)
Skipton International has launched a guide to help expat buy to let investors trying to make sense of the UK government’s...
30 June 2017
From: Breaking News
![Value of Buy To Let sector has grown 5.5% in a year despite challenges](/img/default/lat.png)
The latest Kent Reliance Buy to Let Britain report - seen as a snapshot of the state of health of the...
23 June 2017
From: Breaking News
![Belvoir reports specific lack of rental stock in market towns](/img/default/lat.png)
The latest analysis of buy to let trends by letting agency franchise chain Belvoir has identified a specific lack of rental...
05 June 2017
From: Breaking News
![More landlords using agents after buy to let taxes kick in](/img/default/lat.png)
The proportion of landlords who use a letting agent to help manage their property has spiked since the end of last...
01 June 2017
From: Breaking News
![Tory peer attacks his party over anti-rental sector policies](/img/default/lat.png)
Conservative peer Lord Flight, a former shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, says the UK needs “a vibrant and growing private...
31 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![Watch out for increased letting agent fees, warns online operator](/img/default/lat.png)
Online lettings agency Upad claims 20 per cent of landlords are set to increase their rents to their tenants thanks to...
30 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![Mortgage interest tax change - election candidates receive 1,500 letters](/img/default/lat.png)
Some 1,500 landlords have responded to a trade group’s campaign calling for them to press General Election candidates to oppose changes...
22 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![Small-scale BTL investors 'waking up to tax change' says trade group](/img/default/lat.png)
Single property landlords are finally waking up to the fact they could be pushed in to a higher tax bracket following...
22 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![Valuations chief snipes at government's anti-landlord policies](/img/default/lat.png)
Buy to let valuations fell to just seven per cent of the total valuations market activity in April as the sector...
18 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![Half of buy to let investors vague on cost of mortgage interest change](/img/default/lat.png)
Almost half of the investors in the private rental sector do not know what the changes in mortgage relief will cost...
10 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![Paragon refreshes mortgage offer for 'diverse buy to let market'](/img/default/lat.png)
A well known specialist mortgage lender for the buy to let sector, Paragon, has refreshed its offering in the light of...
04 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![Look who's set up a buy to let company ... it's Tony Blair](/img/default/lat.png)
A landlord has set up a company to handle the ownership and management of buy to let properties - and the...
02 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![ARLA warns: Tax changes are forcing landlords to quit](/img/default/lat.png)
Letting agents have reporting an average of four landlords per branch selling up and quitting the buy to let sector in...
26 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![Firm leading opposition to BTL tax change says HMOs hit less badly](/img/default/lat.png)
A property firm at the centre of the campaign against phasing out landlords’ mortgage interest relief says is urging tenants to...
19 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![20% of rental properties now let by companies, says Countrywide](/img/default/lat.png)
A remarkable one in five properties now being let are operated by a company landlord - and the figure surges to...
18 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![Agency says buy to let returns at record high, despite tax changes](/img/default/lat.png)
Private landlords’ net income has risen 39 per cent in the last five years, jumping from £10.8 billion to £15 billion...
13 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![Buy to let investors target smaller cheaper properties](/img/default/lat.png)
Data from the first three months of this year suggests that investors are increasingly purchasing smaller, cheaper properties. Specialist lender Mortgages for...
12 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![Agency claims many landlords don't know of buy to let tax changes](/img/default/lat.png)
Almost 20 per cent of the landlords using an online letting agency are apparently unaware of the mortgage interest tax relief...
11 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![Almost half of 'victimised' buy to let investors ready to quit](/img/default/lat.png)
A new study of landlords reveals that far more believe they will be affected by today’s buy to let mortgage interest...
06 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![Long-standing campaigner against tax change restates opposition](/img/default/lat.png)
Steve Bolton, founder of investment consultancy Platinum Property Partners and one of two landlords who have led a campaign against restricting...