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![Call for industry to lobby MPs over HMO council tax](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/BankofEngland_4-400x310.png)
A lettings network is urging landlords to back a campaign to abolish council tax re-banding for shared houses. Platinum Property Partners says...
23 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![Warning to government - reform agenda is WRONG for HMOs!](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/EvictionNotice-400x310-min.jpeg)
A network of professional landlords is warning the government that its reform agenda for the private rental sector is plain wrong...
30 August 2022
From: Breaking News
![New office will consolidate agency’s operations in county](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/AgentLeavingVoicemail-400x310.jpg)
RH and RW Clutton has opened a new lettings and sales office in Sussex. Senior director George Back says: “Through our increased presence...
27 May 2022
From: Breaking News
![Short Lets platform’s new deal to win more corporate tenants](/upload/images/Miscellaneous/HandshakeSuit-400x310.jpg)
The TrustedStays platform, where users can book short let accommodation, is linking with business-centric service London & Partners. London & Partners’ role...
09 March 2022
From: Breaking News
![Banned! Agents “abused taxpayers” and “disregarded responsibilities”](/upload/images/new-story-stock-images/CourtImage-400x310.jpg)
Three lettings agency bosses have been banned from being directors of companies for a total of over 13 years after being...
14 December 2021
From: Breaking News
![Agency makes two acquisitions to mark 30th anniversary](/img/default/lat.png)
An agency has marked its 30th anniversary by sealing a brace of acquisitions. The deals see Thornley Groves, the Lomond Group agency...
27 July 2021
From: Breaking News
![Agencies won’t allow ‘real’ viewing until virtual one undertaken](/img/default/lat.png)
A branch of The Property Franchise Group’s Martin & Co brand is stopping potential tenants from booking a physical tour of...
03 June 2021
From: Breaking News
![Another acquisition adds to fast-growing agency chain’s portfolio](/img/default/lat.png)
The lettings book of one of the UK’s oldest property and law companies has been snapped up by a firm in the...
25 March 2021
From: Breaking News
![Short Lets body reinstates ‘TrustedStays’ for NHS and key workers](/img/default/lat.png)
Members of a short lets group are offering free or discounted accommodation to NHS and other frontline workers during this current...
01 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![Investment sentiment improving, despite Brexit and rental red tape](/img/default/lat.png)
A property investment platform claims that investor sentiment in buy to let is actually improving despite ongoing political and economic uncertainty...
30 April 2019
From: Breaking News
![Property management scheme pushes for new franchisees](/img/default/lat.png)
SDL Property Partners, which describes itself as the industry’s first property management franchising scheme, is pushing for new members. Its training has...
12 April 2019
From: Breaking News
![Domestic abuse awareness highlighted for property managers](/img/default/lat.png)
The industry’s first property management franchise scheme, SDL Property Partners, has been given a presentation on how members could be key...
06 November 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
![New property management franchise operation beefs up training offer](/img/default/lat.png)
A new property management franchise operation, established late last year, is beefing up its training to cover GDPR, sales and marketing. SDL...
25 April 2018
From: Breaking News
![Property crowdfunding is now 'investment of choice' for millennials](/img/default/lat.png)
Property crowdfunding projects are now the investments of choice for millennials according to a PropTech platform. Shojin Property Partners claims to have...
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
![Latest crowdfunding lettings product aims to avoid buy to let constraints](/img/default/lat.png)
Another property crowdfunding investment product has been launched, aiming to offer investors an alternative to the increasingly regulated and taxed buy...
22 March 2018
From: Breaking News
![Student rental block purchased after largest-ever crowdfunding](/img/default/lat.png)
A rental investment platform is claiming to have succeeded with the world’s largest property crowdfunding exercise, raising £2,992,800. Property Partner says it...
26 October 2017
From: Breaking News
![Firm urges agents to diversify with property management franchises](/img/default/lat.png)
One of the industry’s largest brands, The SDL Group, is launching a new division offering franchise opportunities for property managers. SDL Property...
19 October 2017
From: Breaking News
![Northern locations still the best for buy-to-let investment](/img/default/lat.png)
Stoke-on-Trent has been named as the UK's buy-to-let 'sweet spot'. Analysis of data from Home.co.uk by property crowdfunding plaform Property Partner shows...
19 June 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
![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...
06 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![Another warning of a large rise in properties on the lettings market](/img/default/lat.png)
There has been another market survey suggesting a significant rise in the number of homes available to rent. There were 11.4 per...
10 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![Bid to stop buy to let tax grab moves to political arena after court failure](/img/default/lat.png)
The landlords behind the failed attempt to seek a Judicial Review of legislation reducing the mortgage interest tax relief for landlords...
07 October 2016
From: Breaking News
![Key day as landlords seek judicial review of buy to let tax change](/img/default/lat.png)
Legal represenatives for two landlords will today make the case for a judicial review of Section 24 of the Finance (No.2)...
06 October 2016
From: Breaking News
![Sharp drop in buy-to-let property listings during August](/img/default/lat.png)
Almost all of the UK's major towns and cities saw fewer available buy-to-let properties listed during August when compared with July. Property...
15 September 2016
From: Breaking News
![Are 60 per cent buy to let deposits really on the cards?](/img/default/lat.png)
Mortgage firms insisting on landlords proving their rental income could cover 145 per cent of their monthly payments could lead to...
05 July 2016
From: Breaking News
![New twist in website's spat with BBC over Osborne buy to let tax changes](/img/default/lat.png)
There has been a new development in a long-running spat between a website and the BBC over the corporation’s news coverage...
07 June 2016
From: Breaking News
![Stamp duty buying frenzy leads to 11% surge in 'to lets' on Rightmove](/img/default/lat.png)
The frenzy of investor purchasing of buy to let units ahead of the stamp duty surcharge deadline has led to an...
16 May 2016
From: Breaking News
![Buy to let returns exceed those from FTSE-100 despite recent challenges](/img/default/lat.png)
Buy to let returns have exceeded those from the FTSE-100 with average gains of 9.6 per cent across England and Wales...
12 May 2016
From: Breaking News
![Campaigners against buy to let tax change raise another £50,000](/img/default/lat.png)
Another £50,000 has already been raised through crowd-funding to help meet the costs of mounting a legal challenge to George Osborne’s...
28 April 2016
From: Breaking News
![Legal challenge to buy to let tax change: new fund-raising bid launched](/img/default/lat.png)
The two landlords spearheading a campaign to challenge the change to buy to let mortgage interest tax relief have launched another...
15 April 2016
From: Breaking News
![Third of landlords still unaware of industry tax changes](/img/default/lat.png)
Almost a third of landlords surveyed by property crowdfunding platform Property Partner have little or no awareness of the raft of...
16 March 2016
From: Breaking News
![Buy to let 'unprofitable' in most areas if rate rises and tax relief falls](/img/default/lat.png)
If interest rates rise by 2.5 per cent over the next four years, traditional buy to let could become unprofitable in...
01 March 2016
From: Breaking News
![Lawyers challenging Osborne tax will contact government this week](/img/default/lat.png)
The two buy to let investors behind a campaign to seek a judicial review of George Osborne’s controversial mortgage interest tax...
25 January 2016
From: Breaking News
![Appeal for experts to help legal challenge to Osborne's rental tax changes](/img/default/lat.png)
The two landlords behind the possible legal challenge to George Osborne’s buy to let tax changes are appealling for “experts, mentors...
11 January 2016
From: Breaking News
![New details emerge of legal challenge to Osborne buy to let tax changes](/img/default/lat.png)
A legal opinion is expected in the next few days as the legal challenge to George Osborne’s buy to let tax...
06 January 2016
From: Breaking News
![Legal challenge to Osborne's buy to let tax changes after £50,000 raised](/img/default/lat.png)
The latest £50,000 target to fund a legal challenge to Chancellor George Osborne’s proposed tax changes for buy to let landlords...
04 January 2016
From: Breaking News
![Legal challenge mounted to Osborne's buy to let tax changes](/img/default/lat.png)
The man behind the Platinum Property Partners company are mounting a legal challenge to this year’s buy to let tax changes...
30 December 2015
From: Breaking News
![Crowdfunding buy to let platform links with developer to offer new homes](/img/default/lat.png)
A crowdfunding buy to let platform has linked with a developer in what is thought to be one of the first...
22 October 2015
From: Breaking News
![Property investment platform to start TV advertising](/img/default/lat.png)
A residential property investment firm is using a speed-dating theme as the basis of a new TV advertising campaign to attract...
08 September 2015
From: Breaking News
![Investors with HMOs better-placed to combat interest rate rises](/img/default/lat.png)
Investors with HMOs are better placed than other landlords to combat any financial damage caused by future interest rate rises. Analysis carried...
02 September 2015
From: Breaking News
![£6m invested via buy to let crowdfund site in 2015](/img/default/lat.png)
Almost 3,000 investors have crowdfunded more than £6m worth of buy-to-let property on one platform alone since its launch early this...
28 July 2015
From: Breaking News
![Crowdfunded buy to let sells out … in just 35 minutes](/img/default/lat.png)
The appetite of investors for trying relatively untested projects remains undiminished with news that a buy-to-let property recently sold out on...
07 July 2015
From: Breaking News
![Crowdfunding investment flat sells out in 35 minutes](/img/default/lat.png)
A £212,900 property in Surrey which was advertising on a crowdfunding platform at 3pm was fully funded by 3.35pm, it is...