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The five years since the introduction of the three per cent stamp duty surcharge on additional homes has led to a...

Data from independent mortgage monitor Moneyfacts shows that there’s been a big drop in the choice of mortgage for buy to...

It’s not just navigating a path through the Coronavirus crisis that is proving the value of letting agents - it’s their...

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

An analysis of HMRC data reveals that the number of small buy-to-let landlords has dropped for the first time in five...

There’s still life in the buy to let market despite the regulatory and financial changes in recent years according to a...

A leading law firm has highlighted four key dates for letting agents and landlords to watch for in 2020. Paul Barnes, head...

Landlords must look at their finances as a range of tax changes continue to 'hit home', according to Apropos. The property management...

New research shows more than half of landlords plan to use limited companies to buy properties in the year ahead.  The study...

The chairman of Hunters estate agency, who is also a Conservative MP, has hit out at the government over its handling...

A holiday lets and short-term lettings market boom can be put down to a combination of four reasons, according to specialist...

Property investors are calling for the government to provide more support to the UK property market. A survey of investors, carried out...

The number of buy to let products for first time landlords has risen to an all-time high. Data from independent mortgage market...

Large-scale buy to let investors are continuing to move to limited company status in a bid to limit their exposure to...

The UK’s holiday lets sector could be a beneficiary of the current Brexit uncertainty and people not vacationing abroad because they...

The proportion of landlords purchasing buy to let homes in London with cash rose from 33 per cent in 2017 to...

More than a third of landlords are looking to cut their annual spending - and many of them are considering ending...

A leading landlord has hit out at a lettings agency’s portrayal of buy to let tax changes.  Rosalind Beck, a campaigning landlord...

London-focussed lettings agency ludlowthompson says buy to let landlords across the country claimed a record £17.7 billion in tax relief last...

A new league table of worries for landlords shows exactly why letting agents are needed - and a lot of the...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is reminding members of tax changes ahead - a timely intervention with the deadline for...

The party conferences of the two main political parties threw up some interesting developments with regards to housing and the rental...

The number of buy to let lenders lending to limited companies has risen by 47 per cent over the past year,...

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

New research has attempted to quantify the number and scale of rent rises that are likely to take place as landlords...

The Haart agency is calling on the government to give the private rental sector a break in the autumn Budget, as...

A top London letting agent working for Knight Frank has commented on the 'irony' that the government's series of tax changes...

A new analysis of the buy to let market forecasts more bad news for agents, landlords and investors over the next...

A trade body says the country faces a net loss of 133,000 homes for private rent over the next year -...

One of the most respected buying agencies, Black Brick, says the collapse in demand for buy to let is the most...

There has been strong support for an e-petition calling for the scrapping of the stamp duty surcharge on buy to let...

A specialist buy to let broker is urging landlords to tread with caution before jumping feet first into incorporating their property...

A campaign opposing the government’s recent tax changes which have penalised buy to let investors has taken a leaf out of...

Two million tenants will this year be hit with rent rises totalling a combined £46m a month according to an online...

The government has responded to a petition calling for it to abolish the 3% stamp duty surcharge and reintroduce full buy-to-let...

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...

An online petition which calls on the government to reintroduce full buy-to-let mortgage interest tax relief and abolish the 3% stamp...

The latest major piece of research into the private rental sector is forecasting a huge surge in demand - meaning there...

There’s been a significant rise in the number of fixed-rate buy to let mortgages available to limited companies, says independent mortgage...

Specialist funding platform Property Partner has conducted a survey which suggests that 54 per cent of landlords are selling all or some...

A leading Conservative peer says the government should cut taxes for buy to let investors and regard them as part of...

Increased volatility in the private rental sector and rising costs for landlords and investors have combined to lead to an increased...

The Bank of England has issued gloomy figures on buy to let lending, suggesting the clampdown on mortgage interest tax relief...

An analysis of data released by HM Revenue and Customs shows that 1.9 million people earned money from property in 2015-16...

Belvoir says there is no evidence of a large-scale sell-off of buy to let properties by beleaguered landlords, but 85 per...

A range of factors - including fierce competition under the supplied housing market, rising property prices and political uncertainty – have...

Analysis of government figures by the Nationwide suggest that the buy to let sector is still growing despite tax changes and...

Well over half of those investors who recently secured buy to let mortgages risk facing losses when mortgage interest tax changes...

The government has been accused by a lettings sector trade body of skewing the market to encourage more short-lets.  The claim comes...

The head of franchise giant Belvoir says government interference in the rental sector is likely to result in a rise in...

The UK’s army of buy to let landlords will still benefit from £16.7 billion worth of tax relief even after the...

One of Britain’s best known and highest profile buy to let specialist lenders says the number of new BTL mortgages being...

After the series of anti-buy to let measures contained in recent Budgets, it is perhaps unsurprising that a survey of landlords...

Rental growth is forecast to exceed house price growth in London, despite a glut of properties on the lettings market in...

A leading accountancy and business advice consultancy says residential landlords who want to downsize their portfolios because of recent tax changes...

New analysis shows how the phasing out of mortgage interest tax relief for buy to let investors may prove a particular...

A leading accounting and advisory service says key tax changes that could damage the buy to let sector are still not...

Yields from buy to let in the UK are now amongst the worst in Europe according to a new league table drawn...

Some 61 per cent of chartered surveyors believe there will be a net exodus of landlords over the coming year thanks...

A survey for online letting agency Upad claims that 66 per cent of landlords are not going to change their property...

A survey conducted for MyDeposits suggests some nine per cent of landlords - or one in 11 - is likely to...

Your Move says a shrinking supply of properties, in part created by government measures against the lettings sector, has led to...

More landlords are quitting conventional letting and resorting to holiday lets or, increasingly, Airbnb-style short lets.    The move is particularly acute in...

Perhaps unsurprisingly, a survey reveals that most buy to let and other property investors want the three per cent stamp duty...

Belvoir is warning that some buy to let investors are quitting the sector.   “Although we are not currently seeing a huge exit...

A survey of almost 3,000 landlords suggests more than one in five plans to sell at least one of their investment...

Buy to let investors are losing confidence in their ability to rely on steady rental yields, according to recent figures from...

The reasons behind ‘landlord churn’ - when buy to let investors sell up - are more connected with personal circumstances than...

Campaigning charity Shelter claims around one in 10 landlords quit the lettings sector each year.   Using new research by YouGov it says...

The impact of recent changes to the way buy to let properties are taxed could create the next pension crisis, a...

Ian Duncan Smith is the latest Conservative to criticise his own government’s fiscal policies regarding buy to let.   Writing on the Conservative...

Paragon Mortgages says its most recent survey of buy to let investors makes it clear that the vast majority want the...

A head of a company providing hi-tech products to letting agents says technology is the answer to current rental industry challenges,...

The Residential Landlords’ Association says recent fiscal changes hitting the private rented sector are hurting tenants but failing to achieve their...

Skipton International has launched a guide to help expat buy to let investors trying to make sense of the UK government’s...

The latest Kent Reliance Buy to Let Britain report - seen as a snapshot of the state of health of the...

The latest analysis of buy to let trends by letting agency franchise chain Belvoir has identified a specific lack of rental...

The proportion of landlords who use a letting agent to help manage their property has spiked since the end of last...

Conservative peer Lord Flight, a former shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, says the UK needs “a vibrant and growing private...

Online lettings agency Upad claims 20 per cent of landlords are set to increase their rents to their tenants thanks to...

Some 1,500 landlords have responded to a trade group’s campaign calling for them to press General Election candidates to oppose changes...

Single property landlords are finally waking up to the fact they could be pushed in to a higher tax bracket following...

Buy to let valuations fell to just seven per cent of the total valuations market activity in April as the sector...

Almost half of the investors in the private rental sector do not know what the changes in mortgage relief will cost...

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

A landlord has set up a company to handle the ownership and management of buy to let properties - and the...

Letting agents have reporting an average of four landlords per branch selling up and quitting the buy to let sector in...

A property firm at the centre of the campaign against phasing out landlords’ mortgage interest relief says is urging tenants to...

A remarkable one in five properties now being let are operated by a company landlord - and the figure surges to...

Private landlords’ net income has risen 39 per cent in the last five years, jumping from £10.8 billion to £15 billion...

Data from the first three months of this year suggests that investors are increasingly purchasing smaller, cheaper properties. Specialist lender Mortgages for...

Almost 20 per cent of the landlords using an online letting agency are apparently unaware of the mortgage interest tax relief...

A new study of landlords reveals that far more believe they will be affected by today’s buy to let mortgage interest...

Steve Bolton, founder of investment consultancy Platinum Property Partners and one of two landlords who have led a campaign against restricting...

Tax rises for landlords being introduced today will make renting less affordable and stifle investment in homes to rent, making it...

Prominent market commentator and buying agent Henry Pryor has been involved in a Twitter spat over whether the changes to mortgage...

The range and pricing of buy to let mortgage products for limited companies has never been better according to a survey...

Specialist buy to let lender Paragon Mortgages has given an upbeat forecast for the private rental sector, despite the arrival of...

As the new restrictions on landlords’ mortgage interest tax relief come into effect this week, ARLA Propertymark has restated its objections...

The Chartered Institute of Taxation has issued a reminder to buy to let investors that the first phase of the restriction...

Research by a lettings sector trade body shows that net growth of units within the private rental sector - that is,...

  Renters are spending half their wages keeping a roof over their head, are twice as likely as homeowners to have no...

Rent increases have slowed in London with only eight per cent of agents reporting increases last month - and a quarter...

The campaign against the imminent changes to mortgage interest tax relief for the buy to let sector estimates that 1.4m landlords...

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

The number of new landlords instructing agents is at its lowest for two years - and with worse to come thanks...

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

There was a sigh of relief amongst the lettings industry that yesterday's Budget introduced no new property taxes - but concern...

The campaign against the phased reduction in landlords' mortgage interest tax relief is continuing with the opening of a new website,...

Chancellor Phillip Hammond has introduced no new property taxes in his Spring Budget - but a clampdown on those setting up...

Rents rose by a year-on-year average of 0.8 per cent at the end of last month - while inflation in the...

Letting Agent Today’s Conor Shilling was in the audience of The Great Buy To Let Debate - always one of the...

The proportion of landlords considering commercial loans to fund purchases has doubled over the last 18 months as they try to...

The Residential Landlords Association has listed key MPs in marginal constituencies who should be lobbied ahead of the March 8 Budget...

Tenant demand for private rented accommodation is continuing to rise according to a market report from specialist lender Paragon Mortgages.    While a...

Professional independent inventories can save money for landlords at a time when tax changes threaten to make private letting for expensive...

Tenants face potential rent increases of between 20 and 30 per cent as a result of tax rises hitting landlords, says...

Opponents of the proposed change to mortgage interest tax relief for landlords have promised what they call a “shock and awe”...

A trade group has commissioned a firm of economists to look at how the government’s mortgage interest tax relief change -...

Saturday is traditionally the day many MPs hold their constituency surgeries, listening to grievances and opinions from their electors.    Conservative member of...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has given a stark warning about the cumulative effect of the additional homes stamp duty...

David Miles, a former Bank of England economist, has described the government’s mortgage interest tax relief reform as “terrible” - but...

The head of MartinCo, the country’s largest franchise agency group, says the government’s buy to let tax changes and lettings fee...

A trade magazine and a national newspaper are reporting anger amongst landlords, tenants and housing groups following the discovery of a...

The government should think again about punitive tax changes to the private rented sector after receiving greater-than-expected revenue from the three...

The Residential Landlords Association has been quick off the mark to issue what it calls a seven point wish list to...

The National Landlords Association is making only three demands on the government for its next Budget, because it recognises further reforms...

Housing minister Gavin Barwell says recent changes to buy to let mortgage interest relief and stamp duty will only affect a...

There is yet more evidence that an increasing number of buy to let investors are setting up companies to offset the...

No fewer than 60 per cent of buy to let investors say they believe they will be hit by forthcoming changes...

The campaigners against planned changes to mortgage interest tax relief - set to come into effect from April, phased over four...

A trade body claims that 47 per cent of landlords would cease to use letting agents if their profits began to...

An assessment undertaken by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development shows property taxes accounted for 12.7 per cent of the...

Members of the Association of Residential Letting Agents predict a fall in the number of homes being available to let next...

Rents will "unpreventably rise" thanks to the government's proposed ban on letting agency fees levied on tenants and because of its...

Phillip Hammond has delivered his first Autumn Statement, tackling amongst other things, what he called “the housing challenge.” The speech made no...

More than 92 per cent of landlords believe the government is anti-landlord and want the Chancellor to back them in this...

The Residential Landlords’ Association says it stands by a claim that one in four landlords may sell up, and it refutes...

A lettings agent has poured scorn on a survey suggesting a quarter of landlords are about to quit buy to let,...

An online lettings agency says tenants’ arrears are likely to be the biggest issue facing the rental sector next year unless...

A survey of 1,000 buy to let investors by the Residential Landlords’ Association shows that around a quarter are saying they...

Another lettings agency has decided to stage a seminar for landlords to explain what Brexit and recent tax changes mean for the...

The National Landlords Association has launched an e-postcard campaign for letting agent and landlord members to lobby the government over the...

Lettings expert Kate Faulkner says yields - a traditional long-standing measure of success for buy to let landlords - are becoming...

Buy to let landlords may be forced to raise rents or even sell their properties because of the government’s new tax...

Some of the property professionals behind the campaign against the changes to buy to let landlords’ taxation have compiled a comprehensive...

A well-known mortgage broker is quoted as saying that buy to let organisations are complaining too much over tax changes for...

The National Landlords Association claims that changes to buy to let mortgage interest tax relief being introduced in six months time...

A senior Conservative peer has renewed his attack on his own party over the buy to let tax grab on landlords,...

The landlords behind the failed attempt to seek a Judicial Review of legislation reducing the mortgage interest tax relief for landlords...

The Mortgages for Businesses brokerage says in the third quarter of this year the proportion of landlords purchasing buy to let...

The attempt to seek a Judicial Review of legislation reducing the mortgage interest tax relief for landlords has failed. The case was...

Legal represenatives for two landlords will today make the case for a judicial review of Section 24 of the Finance (No.2)...

The case made by two landlords to have a judicial review of section 24 of the 2015 Finance Act - triggering...

Several property experts have warned of possible dangers in landlords forming limited companies in a bid to minimise their tax liabilities.   There...

A campaign group is urging letting agents to join with landlords in lobbying MP over the government’s change to buy to...

The news editor of London financial daily City AM has made an outspoken attack on the government’s fiscal assaults on the...

Kevin Hollinrake - the founder of franchise agency Hunters and now a Conservative MP - is calling for a cut in...

The date for the court hearing to decide whether there should be a judicial review of the buy to let tax...

The Scottish Association of Landlords - which represents letting agents as well as landlords north of the border - has spoken...

Housing minister Gavin Barwell has agreed to meet campaigners opposed to the clampdown on landlords’ mortgage interest tax relief. The measure -...

The people behind the bid for a judicial review into Clause 24 of the Finance Act 2015 - limiting mortgage interest tax...

A consumer group dedicated to reducing tax says recent fiscal changes introduced by the government will end up hurting private rental...

The Residential Landlords Association says the build up to the new government‘s Autumn Statement - effectively its first budget - is...

Any lingering hope that the buy to let sector might have of a rethink by the new Chancellor over restructuring mortgage...

New Chancellor Phillip Hammond has been urged by an industry trade group to reset the government’s approach to taxing the buy...

The government is being warned that without changes to the Finance Bill currently going through parliament it will effectively be forcing rent...

A senior mortgage lender is warning that government reforms of the buy to let sector could have wide-ranging and unintended consequences. Richard...

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

A buy to let property in London is going to be “very difficult to make viable” in the near future unless...

The landlords campaigning for a judicial review of the legislation curtailing mortgage interest tax relief for buy to let landlords have...

Buy to let investors face a ‘ticking timebomb’ that may force many of them to quit the sector in the long-term,...

The exemption of residential property from the new Capital Gains Tax cuts tops the list of concerns expressed by professional landlords...

A mortgage firm specialising in buy to let products says lending to landlords set up as limited companies surged in the...

There appears no change in government policy on changing buy to let tax breaks - at least not yet - despite...

On the day of the campaign rally to galvanise support for a bid to win a judicial review of George Osborne’s...

The line-up has been revealed for the so-called "Tenants’ Tax Summit” this week - the campaign rally for supporters of a...

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

More details have emerged of the campaign rally to be held next month in support of the bid for a judicial...

The two landlords campaigning to win a judicial review of George Osborne’s restrictions on buy to let mortgage tax relief have...

Another £50,000 has already been raised through crowd-funding to help meet the costs of mounting a legal challenge to George Osborne’s...

Housing minister Brandon Lewis has backed the raft of measures seen by many as anti-buy to let, including the restriction on...

The two landlords hoping to secure a judicial review of the legislation restricting mortgage interest tax relief on buy to let...

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

The two landlords spearheading a campaign to challenge the change to buy to let mortgage interest tax relief have launched another...

Respected credit ratings agency Fitch says buy to let will thrive for the next 12 to 24 months but the effects...

The people behind the campaign to seek a judicial review of the buy to let tax changes proposed by Chancellor George...

The two landlords behind the bid to seek a judicial review of George Osborne’s buy to let mortgage interest relief tax...

An industry body says proposals by the Bank of England to curb buy to let lending are “premature.” The Bank’s Prudential Regulation...

The Bank of England has released new buy to let mortgage underwriting standards which are expected to set out stricter borrowing...

HM Revenue & Customs and the Treasury have at last responded to the legal team representing two landlords challenging beleaguered Chancellor...

Later today chancellor George Osborne will make his latest budget speech. It has been speculated that the announcement could include new measures...

Martin & Co - one of Britain’s largest letting agency networks with 192 offices across the country - says it may...

Not one of the raft of buy to let rule changes being introduced by Chancellor George Osborne - ostensibly to help...

If interest rates rise by 2.5 per cent over the next four years, traditional buy to let could become unprofitable in...

The attempt to see judicial review of George Osborne’s buy to let tax change continues apace, with the government now having...

Four in 10 landlords are either seriously considering forming a limited company or will be looking into the option in the...

A survey claims that despite the apparent rush to purchase buy to let properties before the stamp duty surcharge deadline of...

The latest step in the legal challenge to Chancellor George Osborne’s proposal to limit landlords’ mortgage interest tax relief comes in...

The two landlords mounting a legal challenge to the mortgage interest tax changes proposed by Chancellor George Osborne have released a...

Around a fifth of investors plan to sell their buy to let properties this year, thanks to the recent measures against...

There has been another substantial increase in the number of buy to let mortgage applications made by limited companies - suggesting...

Just over 60,000 people have signed an online petition urging MPs to reconsider the controversial buy to let mortgage interest tax...

The two buy to let investors behind a campaign to seek a judicial review of George Osborne’s controversial mortgage interest tax...

An online petition aiming to get 100,000 signatures expressing opposition to Chancellor George Osborne’s buy to let tax changes looks certain...

The Residential Landlords’ Association is taking legal advice on whether George Osborne’s buy to let tax changes are a breach of...

The two landlords behind the possible legal challenge to George Osborne’s buy to let tax changes are appealling for “experts, mentors...

Chancellor George Osborne has “effectively declared war on individual landlords” according to the Residential Landlords’ Association - but don’t expect a...

Financially-stretched landlords may want to think seriously about selling their investment properties - and quickly, advises Rightmove. In its latest monthly report...

A former president of the Association of Taxation Technicians has made a strong defence of buy to let investors who, she...

There’s been an angry reaction from letting agents and landlords to the shock news that an additional three per cent stamp...

The government’s reduction of mortgage interest tax relief on buy to let properties in a major factor for 50 per cent...

The head of a landlords’ association has warned the Conservative government not to demonise buy to let investors who typically have...

The controversial changes to landlords’ mortgage interest tax relief and to the wear and tear allowance “have failed to dampen the...

A prominent buying agent active in prime central London says the capital’s high end buy to let market will become less...

The online petition opposing the proposed tax changes for buy to let landlords has now reached 35,000 signatures - but is...

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

The chief executive of Zoopla has thrown his weight behind opposition to the government’s proposed restrictions on buy to let tax...

If supporters of Chancellor George Osborne’s Budget restrictions on tax breaks for buy to let landlords thought opposition would die off...

The petition against the proposed tax changes outlined by Chancellor George Osborne in last month’s Budget has now achieved 20,000 signatures. This...

A survey for a lettings organisation has confirmed the belief that the government’s removal of tax breaks on landlords will almost...

There has been no let-up in the anger expressed by sections of the buy to let sector after Chancellor George Osborne...

Chancellor George Osborne has announced that mortgage interest tax relief for buy-to-let homebuyers are to be restricted to basic rate of...