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![Section 21 to be scrapped by Labour immediately](/upload/images/shutterstock_2189665543.jpg)
Labour’s manifesto, just released, makes a pledge to enact the “immediate” abolition of Section 21 eviction powers, along with other private...
13 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Nationwide demands four tax changes to help the private rental sector](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Top%20tips%20property%20investment%20rent-calculation-1-400x310.png)
Nationwide has taken the unusual step of using its buy to let lending arm - The Mortgage Works - to make...
05 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![Stamp Duty Surcharge triggers long-term slump in off-plan sales](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/StampDuty1_400x310.png)
Off-plan new build properties - at one time a solid favourite amongst landlords - are now falling out of favour with...
23 May 2023
From: Breaking News
![Stamp Duty Surcharge: Labour considers raising it even higher](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/StampDutyRates_400x310.png)
Labour is considering raising the buy to let and holiday home stamp duty surcharge above the current three per cent if...
12 May 2023
From: Breaking News
![Section 24: Agents call for mortgage tax relief to be reinstated](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Taxes-400x310.png)
A new survey of lettings agents and landlords has put the reinstatement of Section 24 mortgage tax relief at the top...
21 April 2023
From: Breaking News
![Extra tax on buy to lets can help housing be ‘more equal’ - claim](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Buy-to-let-400x310.png)
The political party propping up the Scottish Government says higher taxes on buy to lets will help the housing market be...
31 January 2023
From: Breaking News
![Agents on warpath over increasing additional property tax threat](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/TaxMan-400x310.png)
Propertymark chief executive Nathan Emerson has personally written to a leading politician about a tax threat to the rental sector. Emerson has...
18 January 2023
From: Breaking News
![Reverse The Tax Threat - major agency backs petition](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/TaxRefund-400x310.png)
A high profile lettings agency has backed a petition demanding the reinstatement of tax relief for landlords. Benham and Reeves says it...
11 January 2023
From: Breaking News
![Buy To Let is NOT dead - investors buy higher proportion of homes](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Buy-to-let-2-400x310.png)
Investment buyers will snap up a higher proportion of homes in 2022 than they did in 2021, the Hamptons agency forecasts. So...
12 December 2022
From: Breaking News
![Game Over for renting if stamp duty rises too much, agent warns](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/StampDuty1_400x310.png)
A respected agent is warning that a proposal to increase stamp duty on additional homes could kill off the rental market...
29 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![More industry regulation needed - but not if it alienates agents](/upload/images/PropTech%20%26%20Online/OnlineProperty-400x310.png)
A leading figure in the PropTech sector says more regulation could make the rental sector fairer, more transparent and ultimately more...
25 February 2022
From: Breaking News
![Memo to government: Slash stamp duty surcharge to get more rental units](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/Stamp-Duty400x310.png)
Politicians who express concern over the number of holiday lets and Airbnbs in tourist areas miss one major point - if...
17 January 2022
From: Breaking News
![They’re back: Parents are buying buy-to-lets for student offspring](/upload/images/BTR%2C%20PBSA%2C%20Co-living/StudentHouse-400x310.jpg)
The once-popular idea of parents buying a property for their offspring to use while at university, and then letting it to other...
11 November 2021
From: Breaking News
![Stamp Duty Holiday did nothing to improve buy to let purchases](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/StampDuty1-400x310.jpg)
Lettings agency Hamptons, part of Connells, says there’s little sign that the stamp duty holiday led to large numbers of new...
11 October 2021
From: Breaking News
![Stamp Duty slashes size of buy to let sector claims agency](/img/default/lat.png)
The five years since the introduction of the three per cent stamp duty surcharge on additional homes has led to a...
17 May 2021
From: Breaking News
![Surge in Hong Kongers purchasing UK buy to lets, says bank](/img/default/lat.png)
A bank has seen a surge in Honk Kong residents purchasing UK buy to let properties. Skipton International, the Guernsey-licensed bank, says...
05 May 2021
From: Breaking News
![Stamp Duty surcharge and investor worries behind off-plan sales fall](/img/default/lat.png)
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...
22 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![Agency warns that landlords seriously worried by CGT threat](/img/default/lat.png)
An agency is warning that possible Capital Gains Tax changes are now a cause of major worry to their landlord customers. Barrows and...
16 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![Record number of buy to let landlord companies set up](/img/default/lat.png)
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
![Surge in buy to let purchases in bid to beat stamp duty deadline](/img/default/lat.png)
Around one in seven residential properties purchased in November were snapped up by buy to let investors, according to Countrywide research. A...
14 December 2020
From: Breaking News
![Overseas investors dominate London’s high end market](/img/default/lat.png)
International investors dominate the high end London market says a new survey. Aston’s, a residency and citizenship consultancy, has analysed sold price records...
19 November 2020
From: Breaking News
![Optimistic outlook for buy to let … except for one location](/img/default/lat.png)
The latest house price index, produced by the website Home, gives a broadly optimistic outlook for landlords and other buy to...
14 August 2020
From: Breaking News
![Rents under pressure across UK and in London in particular](/img/default/lat.png)
New data from Zoopla shows that a two-speed rental market is operating across the UK, with London in particular hitting major...
05 August 2020
From: Breaking News
![Scrap stamp duty on buy to lets, urges controversial property expert](/img/default/lat.png)
Buy to let investors should be exempted from the three per cent stamp duty surcharge even if purchasers of holiday homes still...
01 May 2020
From: Breaking News
![Budget “fails tenants” say trade groups - but at least no new rental taxes…](/img/default/lat.png)
The Budget has failed tenants by doing nothing to increase the supply of private rental property according to two lettings sector...
12 March 2020
From: Breaking News
![Slash Capital Gains Tax on rental sales, Chancellor urged](/img/default/lat.png)
A trade group’s submission to the Treasury ahead of next month’s Budget includes a call for the new Chancellor to slash...
18 February 2020
From: Breaking News
![Agents tell government - scrap SDLT surcharge and reverse tax changes!](/img/default/lat.png)
The Association of Residential Letting Agents has made an uncompromising set of demands on the government, asking it to implement a...
13 February 2020
From: Breaking News
![Prime London lettings market back in the black says Savills](/img/default/lat.png)
The prime London lettings market has returned to growth after three years of falling rents, according to new five-year forecasts from...
31 January 2020
From: Breaking News
![Complex buy to let investments set to become more popular next year](/img/default/lat.png)
One of the highest profile buy to let mortgage lenders predicts that 2020 will see increasing numbers of investors going into...
20 December 2019
From: Breaking News
![Expect a new breed of buy to let investor in 2020, says top agency](/img/default/lat.png)
The Black Brick agency, which operates with high net worth clients, is forecasting that 2020 will see the arrival of a...
02 December 2019
From: Breaking News
![Mandatory licensing, long tenancies, rent controls advocated by LibDems](/img/default/lat.png)
The Liberal Democrats is the first of the major parties to release its party manifesto for the December 12 manifesto, and...
21 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Big rise in foreign landlords thanks to Brexit’s weak pound](/img/default/lat.png)
The proportion of homes in Great Britain let by overseas based landlords is 11 per cent, up from seven per cent...
11 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Exodus begins as landlords set to sell-up, warns Rightmove](/img/default/lat.png)
New research from Rightmove shows almost a quarter of landlords are planning to sell at least one property from their current...
17 October 2019
From: Breaking News
![Property investors urge government to scrap stamp duty surcharge](/img/default/lat.png)
Property investors are calling for the government to provide more support to the UK property market. A survey of investors, carried out...
05 July 2019
From: Breaking News
![120,000 buy to let mortgages redeemed since 2016 SDLT surcharge](/img/default/lat.png)
Savills says some 120,000 buy to let mortgages have been redeemed since the launch of the additional homes stamp duty surcharge...
24 June 2019
From: Breaking News
![Thousands of buy to let investors may be due stamp duty rebates - claim](/img/default/lat.png)
Landlords have been urged to seek advice about potential stamp duty rebates on ‘uninhabitable’ second properties after a landmark tribunal case. A...
18 June 2019
From: Breaking News
![Treasury does not understand basics of taxation, says damning report](/img/default/lat.png)
A damning report on taxation in the private rental sector (PRS) has accused the treasury of appearing not to understand 'the...
10 May 2019
From: Breaking News
![Buy to let back in favour three years after SDLT surcharge, says agent](/img/default/lat.png)
Three years after the introduction of the second homes stamp duty surcharge, landlords are “beginning to come to terms with the...
30 April 2019
From: Breaking News
![Buy To Let investors desert London ‘because of stamp duty’](/img/default/lat.png)
Data from a Countrywide agency shows that 59 per cent of landlords who live in London purchased their buy to let...
15 April 2019
From: Breaking News
![Private rents take LESS of tenants' income while social rents rocket](/img/default/lat.png)
You may be forgiven for thinking that rent takes up an ever-greater proportion of tenants’ income - but new figures out...
14 February 2019
From: Breaking News
![Scottish 'stamp duty' surcharge rising to 4% later this month](/img/default/lat.png)
The stamp duty surcharge - which across the rest of Britain is currently three per cent on additional homes such as...
08 January 2019
From: Breaking News
21 December 2018
From: Breaking News
![Party conference season – what was said about the rental market?](/img/default/lat.png)
The party conferences of the two main political parties threw up some interesting developments with regards to housing and the rental...
06 November 2018
From: Sponsored Content
![Rents reach record high as plummeting supply begins to hurt](/img/default/lat.png)
Rightmove is reporting that average asking rents outside London have topped £800 per month for the first time, fuelled by a...
29 October 2018
From: Breaking News
![Huge 30% fall in buy to let purchases in just three years](/img/default/lat.png)
Countrywide says landlords spent £12.1 billion buying rental properties in the first half of this year - a full 30 per...
15 October 2018
From: Breaking News
![Tax changes are making London rents less affordable, says top agent](/img/default/lat.png)
A top London letting agent working for Knight Frank has commented on the 'irony' that the government's series of tax changes...
31 August 2018
From: Breaking News
![Opposition grows to threat of another stamp duty attack on buy to let](/img/default/lat.png)
Opposition is growing fast to the threat of another stamp duty attack on the buy to let sector, rumoured to be...
07 August 2018
From: Breaking News
![Warning - ANOTHER stamp duty threat to buy to let this autumn](/img/default/lat.png)
A newspaper in warning that the beleaguered buy to let sector may be under attack yet again with the government considering...
06 August 2018
From: Breaking News
![Net loss of 133,000 homes to let in coming year, trade body warns](/img/default/lat.png)
A trade body says the country faces a net loss of 133,000 homes for private rent over the next year -...
12 July 2018
From: Breaking News
![Collapse in demand for buy to let in London says top buying agency](/img/default/lat.png)
One of the most respected buying agencies, Black Brick, says the collapse in demand for buy to let is the most...
09 July 2018
From: Breaking News
![Scrap the surcharge! Strong support for petition to repeal buy to let taxes](/img/default/lat.png)
There has been strong support for an e-petition calling for the scrapping of the stamp duty surcharge on buy to let...
06 July 2018
From: Breaking News
![We need more tax reform to help rental sector, repeats trade body](/img/default/lat.png)
The government should scrap the tax on new homes which is punishing those in need of a home to rent, the...
29 June 2018
From: Breaking News
![Tax changes 'level the playing field' - government responds to BTL petition](/img/default/lat.png)
The government has responded to a petition calling for it to abolish the 3% stamp duty surcharge and reintroduce full buy-to-let...
29 May 2018
From: Breaking News
![Controversial tax changes are 'choking off' rental property supply](/img/default/lat.png)
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...
25 May 2018
From: Breaking News
![Government to respond to petition calling for reform of 'disastrous' BTL tax changes](/img/default/lat.png)
An online petition which calls on the government to reintroduce full buy-to-let mortgage interest tax relief and abolish the 3% stamp...
21 May 2018
From: Breaking News
![Huge surge in buy to let forecast for next seven years](/img/default/lat.png)
The latest major piece of research into the private rental sector is forecasting a huge surge in demand - meaning there...
17 May 2018
From: Breaking News
![Rental stock plummets in past two years says Hamptons](/img/default/lat.png)
There are now five per cent fewer homes to let now than two years ago, says Countrywide in its rebranded Hamptons...
14 May 2018
From: Breaking News
![Trade body wants SDLT surcharge scrapped and CGT incentives for buy to let](/img/default/lat.png)
A leading lettings sector trade body has repeated its call on government to offer a range of incentives to landlords and...
18 April 2018
From: Breaking News
![Stamp Duty figures show massive reliance on buy to let purchases](/img/default/lat.png)
Some 43 per cent of all stamp duty comes from buy to let investors and holiday home purchasers - and almost...
10 April 2018
From: Breaking News
09 April 2018
From: Breaking News
![Leading Conservative says government should cut tax for rental sector](/img/default/lat.png)
A leading Conservative peer says the government should cut taxes for buy to let investors and regard them as part of...
05 April 2018
From: Breaking News
![Volatile lettings sector means increasing use of rental-protection products](/img/default/lat.png)
Increased volatility in the private rental sector and rising costs for landlords and investors have combined to lead to an increased...
20 March 2018
From: Breaking News
![Government's rental sector taxes blamed for curbing house building totals](/img/default/lat.png)
A lettings trade body says a major house builder has blamed, in part, recent tax increases on private landlords as a...
19 March 2018
From: Breaking News
![Significant fall in numbers using buy to let to fund retirement](/img/default/lat.png)
There has been a drop in the proportion of people becoming buy to let landlords in order to boost their retirement...
16 March 2018
From: Breaking News
![Trade body says tax increases are choking off rental investment](/img/default/lat.png)
A trade body says new figures released by the independent Office for Budget Responsibility show that the government’s recent tax increases...
15 March 2018
From: Breaking News
![Bank of England issues gloomy buy to let mortgage lending figures](/img/default/lat.png)
The Bank of England has issued gloomy figures on buy to let lending, suggesting the clampdown on mortgage interest tax relief...
14 March 2018
From: Breaking News
![Strong growth in property investor numbers - at least until recently](/img/default/lat.png)
An analysis of data released by HM Revenue and Customs shows that 1.9 million people earned money from property in 2015-16...
08 March 2018
From: Breaking News
![Call for tax reform and 'new business model' for lettings sector](/img/default/lat.png)
Tax increases on the rental sector are leaving young people unable to access the homes they need, an industry body claims. The...
06 March 2018
From: Breaking News
![Some buy to let mortgage rates return to lowest-ever levels](/img/default/lat.png)
The independent mortgage market monitor Moneyfacts says some buy to let mortgage rates have gone back to record lows. The monitor says...
06 March 2018
From: Breaking News
![Rental market analysis: what is the outlook for 2018?](/img/default/lat.png)
A range of factors - including fierce competition under the supplied housing market, rising property prices and political uncertainty – have...
08 February 2018
From: Sponsored Content
![Net buy to let investment slumps 80 per cent in two years - claim](/img/default/lat.png)
Net buy to let investment has fallen 80 per cent in the past two years, a mortgage lenders’ group claims. The Intermediary...
07 February 2018
From: Breaking News
![Fewer up-front costs could kick-start market, says tenant referencing firm](/img/default/lat.png)
The trend towards reducing or eliminating deposits at the same time as edging towards a ban on letting agents’ fees on...
01 February 2018
From: Breaking News
![Prime London rents drop 2.4% in a year - the smallest fall for 18 months](/img/default/lat.png)
Average rents in prime central London fell 2.4 per cent year-on-year in November, which was the most modest decline recorded in...
07 December 2017
From: Breaking News
![Lettings sector directly diminished by stamp duty surcharge - claim](/img/default/lat.png)
Over two thirds of landlords are reluctant to invest in new properties as a result of the stamp duty surcharge on...
22 November 2017
From: Breaking News
![London's rental market to outperform sales long-term, says Savills](/img/default/lat.png)
Rental growth is forecast to exceed house price growth in London, despite a glut of properties on the lettings market in...
03 November 2017
From: Breaking News
!['Help the rental sector solve the housing crisis' Chancellor is told](/img/default/lat.png)
A leading accountancy and business advice consultancy says residential landlords who want to downsize their portfolios because of recent tax changes...
26 October 2017
From: Breaking News
![Welsh private rental sector may contract next year, warns trade body](/img/default/lat.png)
The private rental sector in Wales is at risk of contracting next year, warns the Residential Landlords’ Association. RLA Wales policy officer...
13 October 2017
From: Breaking News
!['One in 11 landlords could stop using agents to save money'](/img/default/lat.png)
A survey conducted for MyDeposits suggests some nine per cent of landlords - or one in 11 - is likely to...
01 September 2017
From: Breaking News
![Shrinking lettings supply pushes up rents, says Your Move](/img/default/lat.png)
Your Move says a shrinking supply of properties, in part created by government measures against the lettings sector, has led to...
31 August 2017
From: Breaking News
![Agency denies buy to let crisis and says 25% of buyers are investors](/img/default/lat.png)
Romans says one in four of its registered buyers in the first half of this year has been an investor, suggesting...
30 August 2017
From: Breaking News
![Most lettings investors want stamp duty surcharge scrapped](/img/default/lat.png)
Perhaps unsurprisingly, a survey reveals that most buy to let and other property investors want the three per cent stamp duty...
24 August 2017
From: Breaking News
![IDS is latest Tory to criticise government's buy to let tax policies](/img/default/lat.png)
Ian Duncan Smith is the latest Conservative to criticise his own government’s fiscal policies regarding buy to let. Writing on the Conservative...
19 July 2017
From: Breaking News
![Paragon says investors want government to scrap BTL tax changes](/img/default/lat.png)
Paragon Mortgages says its most recent survey of buy to let investors makes it clear that the vast majority want the...
07 July 2017
From: Breaking News
![Buy-to-let lending down as remortgaging continues to drive activity](/img/default/lat.png)
The number of buy-to-let mortgage loans fell by over a fifth during April, according to the latest figures from the Council...
15 June 2017
From: Breaking News
![Buy to let sector still strong according to major specialist lender](/img/default/lat.png)
The Paragon Group of Companies has reported that its new buy to let lending totalled £556.2m for the six months to the end...
24 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![Massive slump in buy to let lending since stamp duty surcharge](/img/default/lat.png)
Mortgage lending for the buy to let sector has halved since the introduction of the stamp duty surcharge in April 2016 according...
18 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![Valuations chief snipes at government's anti-landlord policies](/img/default/lat.png)
Buy to let valuations fell to just seven per cent of the total valuations market activity in April as the sector...
18 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![Stamp duty surcharge has cut level of rental growth - claim](/img/default/lat.png)
The speed at which rents across are growing has more than halved since a three per cent stamp duty surcharge on second...
07 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![Buy to let specialist gives upbeat forecast, despite tax changes](/img/default/lat.png)
Specialist buy to let lender Paragon Mortgages has given an upbeat forecast for the private rental sector, despite the arrival of...
04 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![ARLA still angry over increasing tax burden on lettings sector](/img/default/lat.png)
As the new restrictions on landlords’ mortgage interest tax relief come into effect this week, ARLA Propertymark has restated its objections...
04 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![Luke Burton, Sales & Marketing Director at Rent4sure](/img/default/lat.png)
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...
29 March 2017
From: 60 Second Interview
![Agency boss calls stamp duty surcharge 'a government own goal'](/img/default/lat.png)
The chief executive of Andrews Property Group says the government’s three per cent additional homes stamp duty surcharge on buy to...
27 March 2017
From: Breaking News
![Will Hammond's incorporation clampdown hit buy to let?](/img/default/lat.png)
There was a sigh of relief amongst the lettings industry that yesterday's Budget introduced no new property taxes - but concern...
09 March 2017
From: Breaking News
![The Great Buy To Let Debate 2017 - who said what](/img/default/lat.png)
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
![Fewer landlords likely to sell, Paragon lettings survey reveals](/img/default/lat.png)
Tenant demand for private rented accommodation is continuing to rise according to a market report from specialist lender Paragon Mortgages. While a...
22 February 2017
From: Breaking News
![Tenants face rent rises of 30% warns ex-Bank of England chief](/img/default/lat.png)
Tenants face potential rent increases of between 20 and 30 per cent as a result of tax rises hitting landlords, says...
17 February 2017
From: Breaking News
![Countrywide: most landlords now pay cash for buy to lets](/img/default/lat.png)
Countrywide claims that the proportion of landlords paying in cash for a property reached 61 per cent in January, the highest...
13 February 2017
From: Breaking News
![Tax changes not hitting buy to let significantly, says agency chief](/img/default/lat.png)
The head of MartinCo, the country’s largest franchise agency group, says the government’s buy to let tax changes and lettings fee...