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Agents have expressed their anger at permanent rent controls proposed by the SNP and Green Party politicians running the Scottish Government. The...

The largest lettings agency in Scotland says purchases by landlords and other investor buyers in that country have risen sharply despite...

Property taxes in Scotland exceeded £600m over the last year according to analysis of the latest statistics by the country’s largest...

A new survey of 4,000 landlords has identified the three qualities they look for in a letting agent. Whereas trust and liveability...

A lettings agency - Leaders Romans Group - claims that landlords are not quitting the private rental sector in droves after...

Colliers, the agency and property consultancy, has issued another outspoken attack on government policy - this time prompted by a formal...

Social media has moved on from being a “nice to have” to a necessity for most businesses, but how do you...

Online lettings agency Hortons has launched an Investors Club search portal, aimed at property investors and developers. The agency describes this as...

A buyer has been announced for part of the lettings portfolio of Purplebricks, it has been announced today. The deal, finalised for...

Landlords are urged to be cautious and do extensive research before signing up to a letting agent in the face of...

Revenue from property taxes in Scotland has dropped significantly so far this year, according to a prominent lettings agency.  DJ Alexander Ltd...

A prominent business analyst has given a bleak warning about the prospects for property investors and other home owners in 2023. Sarah...

Introduce yourself A: My name is Sean Hooker. I have worked for the HFIS group for sixteen years, originally helping set...

A PropTech startup called EVO is claiming to revolutionise repairs and maintenance in the “broken” rented housing sector. EVO says it connects...

Ruling politicians in Scotland have agreed that from April private rents can rise by 3.0 per cent in a 12 month period...

The Property Redress Service claims to be the largest lettings redress service now, with over 13,250 letting agency branches on board. In...

The tax on property purchased in one part of the UK has reached a new record figure - and a top...

The government is urging all overseas entities who own property in the UK to register at Companies House. The Register of Overseas...

A prominent figure in property investment is warning that buy to let is the sector facing the biggest challenges in the...

There seems to be an industry-wide sigh of relief that Rishi Sunak has become Prime Minister. His coronation marks the end of...

A PropTech platform that boasts 200 letting agents and landlords amongst its current clientele has won over £500,000 in additional funding...

A new breakdown have been released of the nationalities of overseas buyers investing in British homes - thought to be overwhelmingly...

One of the UK’s largest lettings groups has made an outspoken attack on the policies of a political party standing in...

A new property management platform seeking support form letting agents claims to be the ‘Airbnb for shared living’. Vann Vogstad, the entrepreneur...

The lettings agency boss at the centre of a major industry takeover has fired a warning shot about rent controls and...

A new bank called Monument is aiming at property investors and established buy to let landlords seeking to grow their portfolios. Its...

Some 4,500 people and 90 exhibitors attended the Property Investor Show a few days ago - the first face-to-face event of...

High profile London lettings agency Chestertons says there’s been an increase in Hong Kong residents looking to rent a home in...

The director of a company targeting ‘flipping’ property investors has been disqualified from holding directorships for no less than 14 years.  Mitchell...

A property lawyer is forecasting a surge in buy to let purchasing in the coming months as the stamp duty extension...

An agency in the north of England has outlined how it proposes to take investors to what it calls “multiple viewings”...

A prominent industry figure is warning Chancellor Rishi Sunak not to use property taxes to bail out the government over the costs...

For most letting agents the last year has been a challenging one which has focused attention on dealing with the immediate,...

A new HMO and co-living property management platform launches today, aimed at optimising tenancy occupancy.  The service - called COHO - claims...

An investment group of companies specialising in student accommodation says letting agents can be very important - but it also says...

A prominent agent and industry commentator says the threat of higher Capital Gains Tax risks forcing yet more investors to quit...

There’s been a flurry of new PropTech products launched, mostly focussed on lettings agencies. Australian-based supplier Movinghub, which works the UK market...

The recent survey in Letting Agent Today on why many landlords didn’t use agents was interesting and informative. That only 42.5%...

Scotland must encourage more investors into its property market as a way of supporting its economy once the Coronavirus recedes according...

With no clear end in sight and conflicting Government advice as to whether we should work from home or go to...

Some 25,000 investors and landlords have signed up to receive a free expert guide from Zoopla in just over a week...

A specialist buy to let mortgage broker is urging prospective investors to buy sooner rather than later if they want to...

There’s a warning that buy to let investors will simply hold on to properties and not sell them if rumoured Capital...

Landlords who are remortgaging are currently doing so primarily to build a war chest. That’s the view of mortgage brokerage Mortgages for...

The buy-to-let market has grown significantly in recent years as long-term renting becomes more popular and investors continue to see the...

Reports from China suggest that property investors from that country - a staple in the buy to let market in many...

Property investors are concerned that Brexit could deter international buyers from purchasing property in the UK, which could in turn weaken...

The quality of accommodation in the private rental sector has drastically improved in the past decade according to a survey by...

New research indicates that the majority of property investors in the UK have their plans on pause for the next six...

A London-focused PropTech startup has just won another £7m in funding. Residently manages houses and flats for landlords, letting them directly to...

A property education business says it’s targeting a major expansion with the launch of online additions to its nationwide courses in...

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

Second home owners, landlords and property investors are being urged to beware a “dramatic change” to the current capital gains tax...

A leading housing market analyst says the sales market is increasingly determined by the acts of buy to let and other...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card?  My name is Daniel and I’m a director at...

A Liberal Democrat activist is considering establishing a landlords’ group consisting of party members. Tony Harris, writing on the LibDem Voice website,...

The news this week that even individual private landlords must join a redress scheme is just the latest in an onslaught...

A new survey suggests that the demise of the High Street for shopping could lead to a surge in the supply...

The head of a buy to let specialist mortgage broker insists the sector remains a solid investment despite the slew of...

The latest rental figures produced by Your Move for Scotland have prompted a claim that the country now has better yields...

The ownership of buy to let property is much more evenly split between women and men than amongst other forms of...

Yet another leading lettings agent has hit out at the government over its proposals for three year tenancies being the norm...

Buy-to-let lender Paragon says it has seen a 'marked shift' towards buy-to-let activity among professional investors. The organisation reports that this is...

Property crowdfunding projects are now the investments of choice for millennials according to a PropTech platform.  Shojin Property Partners claims to have...

A third of UK property professionals are set to expand their portfolios in 2018 despite a backdrop of increased challenges in...

A new website called Vesta has launched aiming to sell investment properties with tenants in place.  The team behind the site describe...

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

Far from being wealthy property investors, two thirds of individual landlords pay merely the basic rate of income tax according to...

High street operator Metro Bank has announced that it is entering the consumer buy-to-let market and will now accept consumer applications...

The nation's landlords are adapting to ongoing restrictions to tax relief on buy-to-let mortgage interest, according to Mortgages for Business. Upon releasing...

The production company behind Grand Designs and Escape to the Country is looking for landlords to feature in a new BBC...

Property investors based in the capital are increasingly purchasing buy-to-let properties outside of London, according to Countrywide. The UK's largest agency's latest...

  An attempt is underway to resuscitate the Green Deal which many buy to let and other residential property investors used to...

Landlord confidence has returned despite government tax changes to the private rental sector - although research for the survey that produced...

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

The Mortgage Works, the buy to let lending arm of the Nationwide, has seen a dip in the amount borrowed by...

The SDL Group says it is on course to become the UK's largest provider of Build to Rent services.  The firm, which...

Some 21 per cent of buy to let investors are too embarrassed to admit what they do.   That is the result of a...

Speculation that the government was attempting to ‘slip in’ yet more changes to the way landlords are being taxed have been...

A new report claims that over a third of student property investors plan to expand their portfolios in 2016, despite the...

Two professional property investors are giving away a Manchester flat valued at £110,000 in a protest against Chancellor George Osborne’s attacks...

The changes introduced to the tax and stamp duty levied on buy to let income and property appears not to have...

Unique summary: What does a potential exit from the EU mean for the UK's property market. Ever since the recession hit much...

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

A financial analyst says current buy to let mortgage constraints - with a strong possibility of more later this year - may...

The buy to let market has experienced annual growth of no less than 26 per cent between November 2014 and last...

It is not often that a national newspaper dedicates an article to praising buy to let - and even rarer for...

“Unthought-through”, “unfair and unreasonable” and leading to “extreme confusion” - those are the thoughts of Britain’s leading professional accounting body on...

A web portal which radically changes the way investors search for their next investment property has signed up 5,000 agents, less...

Two of Britain's most controversial landlords, Fergus and Judith Wilson, claim demand from prospective tenants is at a record high with...

A row has broken out between one of the north east’s most prominent letting agents and Zoopla over the worst place...

Connells Residential is launching its first ever event for property investors - Invest Fest, in Birmingham next week.   The agency chain has...

When Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, recently announced that interest rates would have to start to rise sooner...

An accountancy firm is warning that there are pitfalls in trying to avoid the higher taxation which will result from the...