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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...

A buy to let mortgage lender claims that five out of six areas affected by the long-running spate of strikes on...

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...

Specialist mortgage lender OneSavings Bank is the latest to announce that it is introducing stricter affordability assessments for all new buy...

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

The Leeds Building Society is the latest buy to let mortgage lender to amend its criteria for borrowers ahead of new...

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...

Lancashire town Blackburn has recorded the highest increase in average rental yield over the last year, according to LendInvest.  The online mortgage...

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...

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...

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 buy to let lender says new underwriting rules from the Prudential Regulation Authority could trigger another rush to snap up...

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...

Ahead of expected restrictions on buy to let lending to be introduced next year by the Bank of England, some individual...

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

Rents climbed 0.7 per cent in October to a UK average of £1,294. There were increases in every region with the...

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...

Landbay, a relatively new peer-to-peer lender focussed on the buy to let sector, has appointed a former senior figure from Paragon...

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...