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Houses in Multiple Occupation are making up an increasing percentage of buy-to-let business, according specialist lender Shawbrook.  In both 2022 and 2023,...

Paragon Bank’s analysis of its lending data has revealed the top 10 locations for investment by portfolio buy-to-let landlords, those with...

Leaders Romans Group claims the pessimistic mood which many say surrounds the private rental sector is exaggerated. It has surveyed its landlord...

Some prospective buy to let landlords may be about to use their equity to snap up investment properties at discounted rates,...

Investors looking to add to their portfolios in 2023 should be urged to consider student housing opportunities, according to a Newcastle...

Rental yields have increased by as much as 2.5 per cent in the past year as rent values outperform house prices.  The...

New research predicts that northern regions of England will see many of the best investment opportunities in 2023. It is also these...

The current higher interest rate environment and the temporary mortgage product withdrawals after the mini Budget will hurt future rental yields,...

New long-term analysis by Hamptons says rental growth will cool over the coming years but will still outperform house prices between...

Tenants are demanding better quality HMOs according to new research from specialist buy to let lender Paragon Bank. The bank’s survey of...

A leading market analysis suggests that the private rental sector may be set to benefit from large scale corporate investors seeking...

Annual rental yields in England and Wales have dipped but tenant demand is set to stay strong for the rest of...

The once-popular idea of parents buying a property for their offspring to use while at university, and then letting it to other...

New research reveals that student property portfolios based in smaller university towns or cities typically generate the best returns. The findings, from...

The value of the Private Rented Sector in England, Wales and Scotland grew by 5.8 per cent to a jaw dropping...

Last week the tax firm Blick Rothenberg advised John Lewis and Lloyds Bank to stay out of the private rental sector...

The Leaders Romans Group has identified four locations which it says have come into their own since the working-from-home craze started...

An agency which has for the past 11 years specialised in south west London is now expanding with a new office...

The popularity of buy to let mortgage products offering exclusive rates for higher value loans is a sign of optimism in...

A PropTech firm claims agents will win a “competitive edge” through the data it provides via its platform. Sprift says its interactive...

Zoopla has revealed its top 10 hotspots for buy to let investors seeking high rental yields.  The analysis is based on rental returns...

New research has produced a series of league tables to identify where in Britain the best rental yields can be found. The...

Two bedroom properties produce the best yields for buy to let investors according to the latest research. Lettings management platform Howsy has...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Catherine Shinerock - ARO Account Manager What is your ‘company name’...

A lettings sector trade group says lavish additional services are being offered by landlords who are nervous that Brexit will lead...

A mortgage lender’s new Buy to Let City Tracker tool has calculated the best cities in the UK for buy to...

Many buy to let investors are still badly bruised by the government’s wave of fiscal and regulatory assaults on the private...

Property development and investment firm SevenCapital has released a top 10 league table of UK cities which it claims will perform...

Data published by specialist lender Precise Mortgages suggests that over a fifth of landlords are planning to expand their portfolio with...

Landlords’ confidence in the success of their own businesses has plunged in recent months.  Only 29 per cent of landlords have positive expectations...

London-focussed lettings agency Portico, which has expanded into the north of England, has identified part of Liverpool as the area where...

A London lettings agency is launching a service to enable landlords to invest in mainstream buy to let or Airbnb-style short...

There has been no change to rental yields across the UK over the past month as the lettings market settles down...

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

A PropTech firm says buy to let investors could earn in excess of double the eight per cent yield most aim...

Rent increases seen in London this year are likely to continue in 2019 because of the diminishing supply of homes to...

Research released this morning reveals that university cities offer some of the highest buy to let yields in the country. The Free...

A major property platform says London’s rental and sales market may well be on the road to recovery - but that...

A new analysis of rental yields across all of the UK’s local authorities has revealed exactly where the best places are for...

We’re all for an optimistic interpretation of events but a new tool from comparison website GoCompare lists the UK’s top buy...

An analysis of over 580,000 properties has produced a league table of Britain’s best and worst buy to let postcodes in...

Liverpool and Nottingham are the UK’s best performing property investment locations, according to mortgage broker Private Finance.  Both cities enjoy average rental...

A pullback in the buy to let market is threatening to reduce sale prices further in London and parts of the...

A survey has been undertaken of the top 25 UK postcodes in terms of yields for investors - and London and...

The specialist property investment lender Together is diversifying its product range to cater for investors who want to let out their...

Consumer organisation Which? says a handful of buy to let mortgage lenders have found a way of helping so-called ‘portfolio landlords’...

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

Purpose-built and professionally-managed Build To Rent - until now seen as a primarily London phenomenon - appears on the march in Scotland...

The top ten buy-to-let postcodes in England and Wales are evenly split between locations that voted for the Conservatives or Labour. Luton...

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

Upad, which claims to be Britain's larges online lettings agency, says Manchester has seen a 100 per cent increase in buy to...

A new form of agency which wants to blend traditional letting with Airbnb-style short lets has launched in London.    Lavanda claims it...

New research claims that the financial benefits of renting rather than owning may have been under-rated.   A financial researcher at the University...

Data from London agency Portico suggests rents dipped 1.7 per cent during the May to July period, covering six weeks leading up...

Property investment specialists at online consultancy LendInvest have analysed coastal towns across England and Wales for their buy to let potential...

A buy to let index of returns compiled by a financial firm shows the greatest returns for investors are now to...

A buy to let investment search portal has produced an interactive map based on a pull-together of research into the lettings market...

There is more evidence that the buy to let sector has experienced a surge of activity as investors rush to complete...

Returns from buy to let properties have risen to their highest level in over a year.  Data from Your Move and Reeds...

Peer-to-peer lender Lendinvest, using data from Zoopla and the Land Registry, says Manchester, Liverpool, Cardiff, Coventry and Oldham produce the highest...

The rural agency team at Bidwells says it is concerned the Conservative government may - by accident or design - be...

Buy to let investors in England and Wales have seen their returns rise to around 10 per cent in the past...

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

Brandon in Suffolk is the most profitable location for pensioners to invest in buy-to-let property with an average yield of 8.59%. This...

There has been a huge increase in the number of investors acquiring Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) in the North West...

There has been much debate in recent years about Britain’s desperate need for more housing stock. Demand has been outstripping supply...