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Grainger plc, the UK's largest listed residential landlord and a growing player in the Build To Rent sector, has delivered an...
13 May 2022
From: Breaking News

Winkworth has told its shareholders that the rental market is to boom - a lot. “In lettings we anticipate that prices will...
13 April 2022
From: Breaking News

An online lettings agency says two thirds of landlords and tenants have ‘issues’ with their agents - and substantial numbers claim...
23 March 2022
From: Breaking News

Letting agents are being urged to respond to a consultation opening today from rhe independent Office for Tax Simplification. The OTS has published an...
17 March 2022
From: Breaking News

Agents tasked with persuading possible investors as to the benefit of buy to let have new ammunition, in the shape of...
03 March 2022
From: Breaking News

New build homes command rental premiums of as high as 41 per cent in the current market, it’s been claimed. The Unlatch...
23 February 2022
From: Breaking News

More and more people are committing tenancy fraud and it’s having a massive impact on the industryAs a lettings agency, you...
07 October 2021
From: Proptech & Innovation

The end of the stamp duty holiday today has triggered a reduction in the number of buy to let investors saying...
01 October 2021
From: Breaking News

There’s been a sharp reduction in average void periods this year - a sign of how strong the rental market has...
29 September 2021
From: Breaking News

Tenants are paying almost £70bn of rent to landlords a year, research claims. Buy-to-let specialist Sequre Property Investment has found the best...
24 September 2021
From: Breaking News

The latest research by lettings agency Benham and Reeves has analysed how the pandemic has affected the UK rental market when...
17 September 2021
From: Breaking News

A leading private rental trade body says only bespoke financial help can ensure the private rental sector meets government energy efficiency...
26 July 2021
From: Breaking News

A London lettings agency is exposed on TV this evening over what turns out to be a sham guaranteed rent scheme. Landlords...
15 July 2021
From: Breaking News

Rents have climbed up to 68 per cent across England since the financial crash in 2008. Research by Ascend Property shows that...
23 June 2021
From: Breaking News

A PropTech firm that manufactures virtual tours claims the feature can increase the asking rents of properties listed. Digital company U-See Homes...
16 June 2021
From: Breaking News

The Build to Rent market remains small in volume but it is making some inroads, leading to BTR rent rises predominantly...
18 May 2021
From: Breaking News

A third of buy to let investors would change the way they voted in the EU referendum if they could. That’s the...
27 April 2021
From: Breaking News

Winkworth says its London rental activities have suffered because of a lack of international travel, and students and young professionals returning to...
09 April 2021
From: Breaking News

A quarterly index suggests that there’s been a sharp uplift in tenant demand for rental properties across the UK’s major cities...
08 April 2021
From: Breaking News

An estimated 840,000 private tenants have arrears over the past year since the first eviction ban was announced, according to a...
29 March 2021
From: Breaking News

A new agency doesn’t hold back about its importance, describing itself as “the future of buy to let property offering a...
03 March 2021
From: Breaking News

Research by Countrywide agency Hamptons shows that during 2020 some 41,700 new buy to let limited companies were formed. That’s a record...
18 January 2021
From: Breaking News

Unite Students, one of the UK's leading student accommodation providers, is giving tenants a rent reduction. Students will be able to apply...
12 January 2021
From: Breaking News

PropTech provider Canopy is linking with a legal protection service which it says could enhance agents’ offer to landlords. If the tenant does...
30 November 2020
From: Breaking News

One of the largest Build To Rent operators in the country is reporting that the pandemic has had relatively minor effects...
23 November 2020
From: Breaking News

A rebranded agency is now focussing on selling only tenanted buy to let properties in what it calls ‘second tier’ cities...
05 November 2020
From: Breaking News

Rental operators specialising in short lets are signing up to a tracking study to assess the sector’s size and significance. The exercise...
29 October 2020
From: Breaking News

The first attempt to assess the loss of rental income as a result of Coronavirus calculates 22 per cent of private landlords...
11 September 2020
From: Breaking News

A scheme providing interest-free loans to tenants with Covid-related arrears should be offered across the UK. That’s the view of David Alexander...
07 September 2020
From: Breaking News

ARLA and the NRLA have teamed up with charities - some usually critical of letting agents and landlords - to lobby...
01 September 2020
From: Breaking News

Reduce buy to let regulation or face a worsening housing crisis - that’s the message from a leading property lawyer. Mary Rouse,...
01 September 2020
From: Breaking News

A leading lettings sector trade body has set out reasons why the eviction ban should be lifted - which may help...
19 August 2020
From: Breaking News

There’s a warning this morning that the consequences of the Coronavirus crisis mean that rents will fall at least five per...
28 July 2020
From: Breaking News

A regional independent agency generating more than £20 million in rental income annually has snapped up a five-branch independent firm. Alexander & Co,...
10 July 2020
From: Breaking News

A senior Conservative peer and consumer campaigner has written an article strongly defending the private rental sector, agents and landlords. Baroness Altmann...
09 July 2020
From: Breaking News

A new league table has been produced listing locations where a mix of rental yield and capital growth have given buy...
02 July 2020
From: Breaking News

In another sign of concern at the speed and volume of eviction cases once the ban is lifted at the end...
01 July 2020
From: Breaking News

A survey suggests that 77 per cent of buy to letinvestors believe their tenants can pay full rent during the Coronavirus...
19 June 2020
From: Breaking News

Landlords have expressed disappointment at the government decision to extend the ban on evictions by a further two months. It will be...
08 June 2020
From: Breaking News

The Chartered Institute of Housing has published proposals aimed at avoiding a spike in private rental sector evictions when the current...
02 June 2020
From: Breaking News

Rents in London have dropped by between 10 and 15 per cent as fewer people are willing or able to move...
29 May 2020
From: Breaking News

Research shows that half of those in the private rental sector are aged 16 to 34, making the lettings industry vulnerable...
29 May 2020
From: Breaking News

Grainger, one of the biggest forces in the UK’s Build To Rent sector, says it has proved the resilience of the...
15 May 2020
From: Breaking News

The Scottish government has announced a £5m fund that will offer interest-free loans to landlords whose tenants are having difficulty paying...
06 May 2020
From: Breaking News

The commercial arm of Countrywide is urging landlords currently facing huge void periods because students have been ordered home, to reconfigure...
07 April 2020
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency has given a full apology after a letter - not approved by the company - was sent out...
30 March 2020
From: Breaking News

A leading Proptech expert says agents must have robust payment systems to cope with the unusual pressure of tracking mortgage and...
27 March 2020
From: Breaking News

New research suggests the damage to the private rental sector in terms of non-payment of rent could be a remarkable £15...
23 March 2020
From: Breaking News

It’s been revealed that a clampdown on the buy to let sector by HM Revenue and Customs has produced millions of...
17 February 2020
From: Breaking News

An analysis of HMRC data reveals that the number of small buy-to-let landlords has dropped for the first time in five...
10 February 2020
From: Breaking News

A developer offering a rent guarantee on its homes has amended its advertisement wording after an intervention by the Advertising Standards...
09 December 2019
From: Breaking News

New research from the National Landlords Association reveals that migrant workers, and not professional executives, provide the best rental yield. The NLA...
04 December 2019
From: Breaking News

A short lets firm that describes itself as an “Airbnb management service” is launching an advertising campaign to woo landlords away...
29 November 2019
From: Breaking News

A solicitor has urged the government not to reform or scrap Section 21 eviction powers simply on the basis of protests...
28 October 2019
From: Breaking News

The Property Ombudsman has expelled three lettings agencies from its scheme because of unpaid awards to landlord clients. The first is Kingsman...
24 October 2019
From: Breaking News

Former QPR and Nottingham Forest striker Dexter Blackstock has been fined over £25,000 and branded a rogue landlord after admitting 12 licencing offences. He...
21 October 2019
From: Breaking News

Legal & General is introducing a Rental Protection Plan for tenants, thought to be one of the first examples of this...
24 September 2019
From: Breaking News

A PropTech firm says it has calculated the true cost of being a buy to let investor. Howsy says the average landlord...
16 September 2019
From: Breaking News

Data published by specialist lender Precise Mortgages suggests that over a fifth of landlords are planning to expand their portfolio with...
11 September 2019
From: Breaking News

HM Revenue & Customs has launched what appears to be a fishing expedition to find out information about investor landlords who...
10 September 2019
From: Breaking News

A pioneering lettings agency that allocates second and subsequent year students with private sector and university-owned homes has delivered its best...
19 August 2019
From: Breaking News

Research by London agency Benham and Reeves says the cumulative cost of a landlord suffering a bad tenant and then evicting...
15 August 2019
From: Breaking News

A campaign by HM Revenue & Customs to encourage buy to let investors to ‘fess up’ to their unpaid tax has...
17 July 2019
From: Breaking News

The number of landlords admitting to not paying tax has soared in the past year, according to new data. During 2018/2019, 16,110...
08 July 2019
From: Breaking News

A landlord who illegally converted a London home into two flats without planning permission has been given a prison sentence after...
20 June 2019
From: Breaking News

New research shows that some buy to let investors in London could typically lose over £19,000 a year if Berlin-style rent...
19 June 2019
From: Breaking News

A lettings agent and investment adviser says there is a positive interpretation of the fees ban introduced this month in England. Abi...
06 June 2019
From: Breaking News

A new analysis of the private rental sector suggests the typical buy to let investor will be lucky to generate annual...
05 June 2019
From: Breaking News

There will be less buy to let remortgaging in future as landlords consolidate rather than expand their portfolios. The prediction comes from...
11 April 2019
From: Breaking News

A leading accountancy firm has analysed buy to let taxation policies north and south of the border and claims that from...
29 March 2019
From: Breaking News

More than a third of landlords are looking to cut their annual spending - and many of them are considering ending...
08 March 2019
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency that has analysed HMRC data says rental income for buy to let landlords has leaped 15 per cent...
07 March 2019
From: Breaking News

Buy to let may have been in the doldrums in recent years thanks to new taxes and stricter regulations but there’s...
26 February 2019
From: Breaking News

The Money Laundering Regulations require estate agents to risk assess their business relationships and apply an appropriate level of investigation to...
20 February 2019
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A leading landlord has hit out at a lettings agency’s portrayal of buy to let tax changes. Rosalind Beck, a campaigning landlord...
01 February 2019
From: Breaking News

London-focussed lettings agency ludlowthompson says buy to let landlords across the country claimed a record £17.7 billion in tax relief last...
29 January 2019
From: Breaking News

There’s been a strong start to the year for Build To Rent with news that a real estate investment trust dedicated...
04 January 2019
From: Breaking News

A couple from east London who illegally converted a town centre office block into 14 flats have been ordered to pay...
10 December 2018
From: Breaking News

Online lettings agency Upad says it’s to offer landlords a proprietary system to collect rental payments via Direct Debit. Its system, called...
03 December 2018
From: Breaking News

An advertisement on a property management firm’s website suggesting that rental income would be guaranteed to landlords has been banned by...
21 November 2018
From: Breaking News

A growing number of tenants say they want to stay put in their rented home even if the landlord sells up. A...
20 November 2018
From: Breaking News

A property investment company operating a Ponzi scheme based on claims of capital appreciation and rental income has been shut down...
05 November 2018
From: Breaking News

A council-run lettings agency looks likely to be scrapped after it apparently lost some £53,000 - even though it manages only...
23 October 2018
From: Breaking News

A London agency has been fined for the second time in 11 months. Local media in Barking, east London, report that Primelodge...
16 October 2018
From: Breaking News

There has been limited support given from some parts of the lettings industry to a proposal offering Capital Gains Tax relief...
09 October 2018
From: Breaking News

Media speculation over the weekend has suggested that the government may be about to give tax breaks to landlords agreeing to...
08 October 2018
From: Breaking News

An overcrowded property let by an unlicensed company with inadequate fire precautions and unheated rooms has led to a £46,620 fine...
21 September 2018
From: Breaking News

Some industry observers say letting agents and Build To Rent are daggers drawn, but one agency in the Midlands is having...
12 September 2018
From: Breaking News

The New Forest district council in Hampshire is appealling to letting agents and private tenants to sign up to its Private...
30 August 2018
From: Breaking News

The ownership of buy to let property is much more evenly split between women and men than amongst other forms of...
21 August 2018
From: Breaking News

One in five UK landlords have entered buy to let without even planning to, finding themselves with a property ‘accidentally’ or...
14 June 2018
From: Breaking News

A trade body is claiming that armed service personnel who let out their homes whilst stationed away are being hit by...
01 June 2018
From: Breaking News

London landlords and letting agents could be missing out on up to £111 million of short-term rental revenue each year, according...
22 May 2018
From: Breaking News

The Build To Rent provider Grainger has reported a 23 per cent rise in profits and says it is looking for...
18 May 2018
From: Breaking News
11 May 2018
From: Breaking News

Grainger, the UK's largest listed residential landlord, has snapped up a 132-flat Build To Rent scheme in Southampton for £27m. The project...
10 May 2018
From: Breaking News

A short lets management firm claims Londoners who let their homes over the upcoming Easter weekend could bag themselves a small...
28 March 2018
From: Breaking News

A new survey by a leading lettings trade body suggests that the Bank of England’s attempts to make buy to let...
21 March 2018
From: Breaking News

A couple who illegally converted an office block into 14 flats have been found guilty for disregarding planning laws - and...
15 March 2018
From: Breaking News

An accountancy trade body, the Association of Accounting Technicians, is advising the government to investigate what it calls “the questionable tax...
18 January 2018
From: Breaking News

The UK’s army of buy to let landlords will still benefit from £16.7 billion worth of tax relief even after the...
09 January 2018
From: Breaking News

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

Newham council in London has published the UK’s first ever ratings scheme for letting agents, in which firms receive anything from...
18 October 2017
From: Breaking News

A buy to let investor reported to be receiving rental income of £150,000 a year must pay over £340,000 after illegally...
02 October 2017
From: Breaking News

The mortgage director of Romans, one of the country’s largest agency groups, says the new Bank of England rules being introduced...
29 September 2017
From: Breaking News

A letting agent named in a case concerning a rat-infested House in Multiple Occupation in Leytonstone, East London, has been fined...
28 September 2017
From: Breaking News

The director of a lettings company has been banned from holding company office for eight years following the revelation that he...
26 September 2017
From: Breaking News

A leading accounting and advisory service says key tax changes that could damage the buy to let sector are still not...
26 September 2017
From: Breaking News

Changes to buy-to-let lending criteria being introduced at the end of this month could encourage a surge of rental stock as...
05 September 2017
From: Breaking News

Skipton is the latest lender to confirm that it will continue lending to so-called portfolio landlords after new Bank of England...
16 August 2017
From: Breaking News

An economics academic says the country’s taxpayers should be “very angry” with the government for failing to collect taxes to which...
15 August 2017
From: Breaking News

Newham council is to set up the UK’s first letting agents rating scheme to protect residents and landlords from rogue agents. The...
07 August 2017
From: Breaking News

Campaigning charity Shelter claims around one in 10 landlords quit the lettings sector each year. Using new research by YouGov it says...
27 July 2017
From: Breaking News

Far from being wealthy property investors, two thirds of individual landlords pay merely the basic rate of income tax according to...
06 July 2017
From: Breaking News

The weakness of the pound since Britain’s decision to quit the European Union a year ago means that holiday properties are...
21 June 2017
From: Breaking News

New research shows that thousands of landlords are using what are described as “risky online sites” in their bid to avoid...
21 June 2017
From: Breaking News

Online lettings agency Upad claims 20 per cent of landlords are set to increase their rents to their tenants thanks to...
30 May 2017
From: Breaking News

Landlords are increasingly looking to reduce the fees they pay to letting agents due to industry tax changes and increasing management...
12 May 2017
From: Breaking News

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

Almost 20 per cent of the landlords using an online letting agency are apparently unaware of the mortgage interest tax relief...
11 April 2017
From: Breaking News

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

A landlord who illegally converted a property into seven flats and rented them out without planning permission faces having to repay...
03 April 2017
From: Breaking News

The Metro Bank is the latest to make changes to its buy to let mortgage portfolio in a bid to attract...
31 March 2017
From: Breaking News

A landlord who ran multiple property companies but failed to declare his income or that he was a company director to...
13 March 2017
From: Breaking News

Letting Agent Today’s Conor Shilling was in the audience of The Great Buy To Let Debate - always one of the...
01 March 2017
From: Breaking News

The Loughborough Building Society is launching a Buy For Uni mortgage product seeking to encourage students to buy a home -...
01 March 2017
From: Breaking News

David Miles, a former Bank of England economist, has described the government’s mortgage interest tax relief reform as “terrible” - but...
06 February 2017
From: Breaking News

A property investment financing specialist says an increasing number of buy to let investors are converting properties into Houses in Multiple...
17 January 2017
From: Breaking News

Airbnb’s new protocol seeking to stop London hosts short-letting their properties for more than 90 days a year without formal consent,...
22 December 2016
From: Breaking News

A new survey suggests that a letting agent saves a landlord an estimated £1,910 a year. The result of an investigation into 500...
16 December 2016
From: Breaking News

The Leeds Building Society is the latest buy to let mortgage lender to amend its criteria for borrowers ahead of new...
08 December 2016
From: Breaking News

Sigma, a Build To Rent developer, has completed and let its 1,000th rental home - a symbol of this fast-growing part...
25 November 2016
From: Breaking News

The Mortgage Works, the buy to let lending arm of the Nationwide, has seen a dip in the amount borrowed by...
21 November 2016
From: Breaking News

Sister agencies Leaders and Romans have undertaken research to show that property has been the most lucrative investment in the UK...
25 October 2016
From: Breaking News

Several property experts have warned of possible dangers in landlords forming limited companies in a bid to minimise their tax liabilities. There...
28 September 2016
From: Breaking News

Franchise estate agency Winkworth has reported its figures for the first half of 2016, noting a particularly strong performance in its...
14 September 2016
From: Breaking News

A campaign group is urging letting agents to join with landlords in lobbying MP over the government’s change to buy to...
12 September 2016
From: Breaking News

An online agency says it has attracted ”many hundreds” of landlords by giving 12 months’ rent up-front. LetMe also offers a guarantee...
04 August 2016
From: Breaking News

Research undertaken by one of Britain’s leading rental sector experts and the Tenancy Deposit Scheme Charitable Foundation gives perhaps the most...
06 July 2016
From: Breaking News

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

A mortgage firm specialising in buy to let products says lending to landlords set up as limited companies surged in the...
13 June 2016
From: Breaking News

Developers and investors have written to housing minister Brandon Lewis proposing a three-point action plan that could see more than 250,000...
06 June 2016
From: Breaking News

The number of landlords in the UK increased by 7% to reach 1.75 million in 2013-2014. Analysis of Her Majesty's Revenue and...
31 May 2016
From: Breaking News

An online letting agency is warning against investors angry at government attacks on the private rental sector looking for ‘easy alternatives’...
17 May 2016
From: Breaking News

A buy to let index of returns compiled by a financial firm shows the greatest returns for investors are now to...
13 May 2016
From: Breaking News

Tenants spend an average of 18 months in a rented property before moving on, according to new research by insurer Direct...
13 May 2016
From: Breaking News

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

Ahead of what some consider as the likely tightening of buy to let mortgage lending criteria by the Bank of England...
04 May 2016
From: Breaking News

Two professional property investors are giving away a Manchester flat valued at £110,000 in a protest against Chancellor George Osborne’s attacks...
25 April 2016
From: Breaking News

Good news for agents having to work harder to persuade would-be landlords that buy to let makes financial sense after the...
22 April 2016
From: Breaking News

The two landlords hoping to secure a judicial review of the legislation restricting mortgage interest tax relief on buy to let...
20 April 2016
From: Breaking News

MPs and members of the House of Lords want private sector tenants to be given clearer up-front information on the cost...
24 February 2016
From: Breaking News

A former letting agent has pleaded guilty of nine offences of fraud involving the retention of deposits and rents belonging to...
22 February 2016
From: Breaking News

Returns from buy to let properties have risen to their highest level in over a year. Data from Your Move and Reeds...
19 February 2016
From: Breaking News

The latest step in the legal challenge to Chancellor George Osborne’s proposal to limit landlords’ mortgage interest tax relief comes in...
16 February 2016
From: Breaking News

The legal challenge to Chancellor George Osborne’s controversial buy to let tax change is underway with a letter sent to HMRC...
02 February 2016
From: Breaking News

A landlord who let out dark, damp and overcrowded rooms has been hit with a huge £67,000 fine. Rogue landlord Liakath Ali,...
15 January 2016
From: Breaking News

Buy to let loans could outstrip remortgaging within a matter of weeks as landlords rush to beat the April 1 stamp...
13 January 2016
From: Breaking News

The rural agency team at Bidwells says it is concerned the Conservative government may - by accident or design - be...
15 December 2015
From: Breaking News

The new three per cent stamp duty rate surcharge is the equivalent to 11 months income for the average mortgaged landlord,...
14 December 2015
From: Breaking News

Ahead of expected restrictions on buy to let lending to be introduced next year by the Bank of England, some individual...
09 December 2015
From: Breaking News

The sales market in Prime Central London may be in the doldrums but the lettings sector is on the rise with...
05 November 2015
From: Breaking News

The Resort Group, the developer of the all-suite Llana Beach Hotel and Spa, which is due to open in 2016, has...
20 October 2015
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The Resort Group are looking for sales agents to help sell our 5-star property developments in Cape Verde. With a proven...
19 October 2015
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A landlord has been ordered to pay more than £400,000 after converting a property into flats without permission. Gilbert Garrick let the...
13 October 2015
From: Breaking News

The Daily Telegraph has undertaken an interesting exercise which effectively challenges Chancellor George Osborne’s assertion that buy to let tax changes...
16 September 2015
From: Breaking News

The private rented sector is becoming an increasingly diverse place. Its growth into the UK's second largest form of housing has...
15 September 2015
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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

The petition against the proposed tax changes outlined by Chancellor George Osborne in last month’s Budget has now achieved 20,000 signatures. This...
28 August 2015
From: Breaking News

New figures from a landlords’ organisation show that mortgage repayments are easily the biggest outgoing for a large proportion of landlords. The...
11 August 2015
From: Breaking News

A critic of the suggestion that buy to let landlords could set up companies to ‘beat’ the ending of tax breaks...
31 July 2015
From: Breaking News

An accountancy firm is warning that there are pitfalls in trying to avoid the higher taxation which will result from the...
20 July 2015
From: Breaking News

Agents have expressed their disappointment at the decision by the government to restrict mortgage interest relief for Buy To let investors...
09 July 2015
From: Breaking News

Chancellor George Osborne has announced that mortgage interest tax relief for buy-to-let homebuyers are to be restricted to basic rate of...
08 July 2015
From: Breaking News

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

A £212,900 property in Surrey which was advertising on a crowdfunding platform at 3pm was fully funded by 3.35pm, it is...
26 May 2015
From: Breaking News

A financial adviser is warning that taking advantage of pension law changes and using a pension pot to buy a property...
18 May 2015
From: Breaking News

Landlords and letting agents are at risk of overestimating the profitability of Buy To Let investments by neglecting to take into...