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Nationwide has taken the unusual step of using its buy to let lending arm - The Mortgage Works - to make...

Off-plan new build properties - at one time a solid favourite amongst landlords - are now falling out of favour with...

Labour is considering raising the buy to let and holiday home stamp duty surcharge above the current three per cent if...

A new survey of lettings agents and landlords has put the reinstatement of Section 24 mortgage tax relief at the top...

The political party propping up the Scottish Government says higher taxes on buy to lets will help the housing market be...

Propertymark chief executive Nathan Emerson has personally written to  a leading politician about a tax threat to the rental sector.  Emerson has...

A high profile lettings agency has backed a petition demanding the reinstatement of tax relief for landlords. Benham and Reeves says it...

Investment buyers will snap up a higher proportion of homes in 2022 than they did in 2021, the Hamptons agency forecasts.   So...

A respected agent is warning that a proposal to increase stamp duty on additional homes could kill off the rental market...

A leading figure in the PropTech sector says more regulation could make the rental sector fairer, more transparent and ultimately more...

Politicians who express concern over the number of holiday lets and Airbnbs in tourist areas miss one major point - if...

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

Lettings agency Hamptons, part of Connells, says there’s little sign that the stamp duty holiday led to large numbers of new...

The five years since the introduction of the three per cent stamp duty surcharge on additional homes has led to a...

A bank has seen a surge in Honk Kong residents purchasing UK buy to let properties. Skipton International, the Guernsey-licensed bank, says...

There’s been another fall in the proportion of new-builds sold off-plan. Data from Hamptons says 33 per cent of new home completions...

An agency is warning that possible Capital Gains Tax changes are now a cause of major worry to their landlord customers.  Barrows and...

Research by Countrywide agency Hamptons shows that during 2020 some 41,700 new buy to let limited companies were formed. That’s a record...

Around one in seven residential properties purchased in November were snapped up by buy to let investors, according to Countrywide research. A...

International investors dominate the high end London market says a new survey. Aston’s, a residency and citizenship consultancy, has analysed sold price records...

The latest house price index, produced by the website Home, gives a broadly optimistic outlook for landlords and other buy to...

New data from Zoopla shows that a two-speed rental market is operating across the UK, with London in particular hitting major...

Buy to let investors should be exempted from the three per cent stamp duty surcharge even if purchasers of holiday homes still...

The Budget has failed tenants by doing nothing to increase the supply of private rental property according to two lettings sector...

A trade group’s submission to the Treasury ahead of next month’s Budget includes a call for the new Chancellor to slash...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has made an uncompromising set of demands on the government, asking it to implement a...

The prime London lettings market has returned to growth after three years of falling rents, according to new five-year forecasts from...

One of the highest profile buy to let mortgage lenders predicts that 2020 will see increasing numbers of investors going into...

The Black Brick agency, which operates with high net worth clients, is forecasting that 2020 will see the arrival of a...

The Liberal Democrats is the first of the major parties to release its party manifesto for the December 12 manifesto, and...

The proportion of homes in Great Britain let by overseas based landlords is 11 per cent, up from seven per cent...

New research from Rightmove shows almost a quarter of landlords are planning to sell at least one property from their current...

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

Savills says some 120,000 buy to let mortgages have been redeemed since the launch of the additional homes stamp duty surcharge...

Landlords have been urged to seek advice about potential stamp duty rebates on ‘uninhabitable’ second properties after a landmark tribunal case. A...

A damning report on taxation in the private rental sector (PRS) has accused the treasury of appearing not to understand 'the...

Three years after the introduction of the second homes stamp duty surcharge, landlords are “beginning to come to terms with the...

Data from a Countrywide agency shows that 59 per cent of landlords who live in London purchased their buy to let...

You may be forgiven for thinking that rent takes up an ever-greater proportion of tenants’ income - but new figures out...

The stamp duty surcharge - which across the rest of Britain is currently three per cent on additional homes such as...

Rents are likely to rise 2.5 per cent in 2019, then 3.0 per cent in 2020 and a further 2.0 per...

The party conferences of the two main political parties threw up some interesting developments with regards to housing and the rental...

Rightmove is reporting that average asking rents outside London have topped £800 per month for the first time, fuelled by a...

Countrywide says landlords spent £12.1 billion buying rental properties in the first half of this year - a full 30 per...

A top London letting agent working for Knight Frank has commented on the 'irony' that the government's series of tax changes...

Opposition is growing fast to the threat of another stamp duty attack on the buy to let sector, rumoured to be...

A newspaper in warning that the beleaguered buy to let sector may be under attack yet again with the government considering...

A trade body says the country faces a net loss of 133,000 homes for private rent over the next year -...

One of the most respected buying agencies, Black Brick, says the collapse in demand for buy to let is the most...

There has been strong support for an e-petition calling for the scrapping of the stamp duty surcharge on buy to let...

The government should scrap the tax on new homes which is punishing those in need of a home to rent, the...

The government has responded to a petition calling for it to abolish the 3% stamp duty surcharge and reintroduce full buy-to-let...

The introduction of a 3% stamp duty surcharge on the purchase of buy-to-let properties and the phasing out of buy-to-let mortgage...

An online petition which calls on the government to reintroduce full buy-to-let mortgage interest tax relief and abolish the 3% stamp...

The latest major piece of research into the private rental sector is forecasting a huge surge in demand - meaning there...

There are now five per cent fewer homes to let now than two years ago, says Countrywide in its rebranded Hamptons...

A leading lettings sector trade body has repeated its call on government to offer a range of incentives to landlords and...

Some 43 per cent of all stamp duty comes from buy to let investors and holiday home purchasers - and almost...

The number of buy to let investors in the UK has hit a record high of 2.5m in the latest tax...

A leading Conservative peer says the government should cut taxes for buy to let investors and regard them as part of...

Increased volatility in the private rental sector and rising costs for landlords and investors have combined to lead to an increased...

A lettings trade body says a major house builder has blamed, in part, recent tax increases on private landlords as a...

There has been a drop in the proportion of people becoming buy to let landlords in order to boost their retirement...

A trade body says new figures released by the independent Office for Budget Responsibility show that the government’s recent tax increases...

The Bank of England has issued gloomy figures on buy to let lending, suggesting the clampdown on mortgage interest tax relief...

An analysis of data released by HM Revenue and Customs shows that 1.9 million people earned money from property in 2015-16...

Tax increases on the rental sector are leaving young people unable to access the homes they need, an industry body claims. The...

The independent mortgage market monitor Moneyfacts says some buy to let mortgage rates have gone back to record lows. The monitor says...

A range of factors - including fierce competition under the supplied housing market, rising property prices and political uncertainty – have...

Net buy to let investment has fallen 80 per cent in the past two years, a mortgage lenders’ group claims.  The Intermediary...

The trend towards reducing or eliminating deposits at the same time as edging towards a ban on letting agents’ fees on...

Average rents in prime central London fell 2.4 per cent year-on-year in November, which was the most modest decline recorded in...

Over two thirds of landlords are reluctant to invest in new properties as a result of the stamp duty surcharge on...

Rental growth is forecast to exceed house price growth in London, despite a glut of properties on the lettings market in...

A leading accountancy and business advice consultancy says residential landlords who want to downsize their portfolios because of recent tax changes...

The private rental sector in Wales is at risk of contracting next year, warns the Residential Landlords’ Association.   RLA Wales policy officer...

A survey conducted for MyDeposits suggests some nine per cent of landlords - or one in 11 - is likely to...

Your Move says a shrinking supply of properties, in part created by government measures against the lettings sector, has led to...

Romans says one in four of its registered buyers in the first half of this year has been an investor, suggesting...

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

Ian Duncan Smith is the latest Conservative to criticise his own government’s fiscal policies regarding buy to let.   Writing on the Conservative...

Paragon Mortgages says its most recent survey of buy to let investors makes it clear that the vast majority want the...

The number of buy-to-let mortgage loans fell by over a fifth during April, according to the latest figures from the Council...

The Paragon Group of Companies has reported that its new buy to let lending totalled £556.2m for the six months to the end...

Mortgage lending for the buy to let sector has halved since the introduction of the stamp duty surcharge in April 2016 according...

Buy to let valuations fell to just seven per cent of the total valuations market activity in April as the sector...

The speed at which rents across are growing has more than halved since a three per cent stamp duty surcharge on second...

Specialist buy to let lender Paragon Mortgages has given an upbeat forecast for the private rental sector, despite the arrival of...

As the new restrictions on landlords’ mortgage interest tax relief come into effect this week, ARLA Propertymark has restated its objections...

What does it say on your business card? Luke Burton Sales and Marketing Director, Rent4sure Who is Rent4sure? Rent4sure, is an established tenant referencing company. We provide...

The chief executive of Andrews Property Group says the government’s three per cent additional homes stamp duty surcharge on buy to...

There was a sigh of relief amongst the lettings industry that yesterday's Budget introduced no new property taxes - but concern...

Letting Agent Today’s Conor Shilling was in the audience of The Great Buy To Let Debate - always one of the...

Tenant demand for private rented accommodation is continuing to rise according to a market report from specialist lender Paragon Mortgages.    While a...

Tenants face potential rent increases of between 20 and 30 per cent as a result of tax rises hitting landlords, says...

Countrywide claims that the proportion of landlords paying in cash for a property reached 61 per cent in January, the highest...

The head of MartinCo, the country’s largest franchise agency group, says the government’s buy to let tax changes and lettings fee...

The government should think again about punitive tax changes to the private rented sector after receiving greater-than-expected revenue from the three...

The Residential Landlords Association says new tax powers devolving to the Welsh Assembly should involve exemptions when it comes to the...

Gross buy to let lending increased in November to the highest monthly level since the stamp duty surcharge was introduced in...