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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
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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
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Two landlords - one of them an agent - have been given fines totalling £135,000 and must pay costs for failing to...
16 February 2021
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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
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A leading property law expert says there is now pressure on Chancellor Rishi Sunak to raise stamp duty on buy to...
30 December 2020
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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
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Two landlords in the same town - one the director of a lettings firm - have been prosecuted as their properties...
08 December 2020
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ARLA Propertymark has given a detailed response to a government consultation on how the pandemic has hit the private rental sector. The...
04 December 2020
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One person had to be rescued from a fire after their landlord failed to ensure they had a working fire alarm...
27 November 2020
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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
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A lettings firm has been ordered to pay over £18,000 after failing to provide adequate living conditions for his tenants. Chelmsford magistrates...
11 November 2020
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An MP claims the proliferation of short lets via Airbnb and similar online platforms is indirectly pricing local people out of...
04 November 2020
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A landlord taken to court by a council has ended up with a bill in excess of £20,000. Dennis Goodwin of Highbury...
21 August 2020
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The latest house price index, produced by the website Home, gives a broadly optimistic outlook for landlords and other buy to...
14 August 2020
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Now may be the time for buy to let investors to consider incorporation - putting their property portfolios into a limited...
06 August 2020
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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
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Two London landlords and their lettings agents will have to pay tens of thousands of pounds after a home they were letting...
30 July 2020
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Labour has described the stamp duty holiday introduced last week as “a £1.3 billion bung for landlords” because the tax break...
13 July 2020
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A westcountry landlord is only the second in England to have received a banning order preventing him from letting or managing...
18 June 2020
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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
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The Budget has failed tenants by doing nothing to increase the supply of private rental property according to two lettings sector...
12 March 2020
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A local authority has taken the unusual step of saying that a £600 surcharge will be added to the licensing costs...
10 March 2020
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A landlord has been ordered to pay nearly £6,000 in fines and costs after pleading guilty to harassing and financially exploiting...
27 February 2020
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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
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The Association of Residential Letting Agents has made an uncompromising set of demands on the government, asking it to implement a...
13 February 2020
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A council has prosecuted five private landlords who failed to get licences for the properties they let out. Oldham council says its...
05 February 2020
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A landlord has ended up with fines totalling over £90,000 after repeatedly ignoring a council’s selective licensing regime. Stephen Ige pleaded guilty...
04 February 2020
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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
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A judge has ordered two landlords to pay a total of £14,858 for illegally renting out an unlicensed house without working...
30 January 2020
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The owner of a Derbyshire property must pay out more than £3,000 after being found guilty of failing to comply with...
02 January 2020
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A rogue landlord has been fined £1,384 for failing to get a council licence for two buy to let properties. The case...
27 December 2019
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One of the highest profile buy to let mortgage lenders predicts that 2020 will see increasing numbers of investors going into...
20 December 2019
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A landlord has been banned for two and half years after repeatedly putting tenants’ lives at risk by letting unsafe housing. This...
18 December 2019
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[Letting Agent Today was ‘off air’ for some of Wednesday and most of Thursday thanks to technical problems - we apologise to...
06 December 2019
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A rogue landlord has been fined more than £150,000 after failing to rectify safety hazards in a property he let. Latif Rehman...
02 December 2019
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The Black Brick agency, which operates with high net worth clients, is forecasting that 2020 will see the arrival of a...
02 December 2019
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The Liberal Democrats is the first of the major parties to release its party manifesto for the December 12 manifesto, and...
21 November 2019
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The proportion of homes in Great Britain let by overseas based landlords is 11 per cent, up from seven per cent...
11 November 2019
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A rented home in Mansfield was found to have serious health and safety hazards, including a leaking roof and a lack of smoke...
11 November 2019
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The Association of Residential Letting Agents and the National Association of Estate Agents have issued their manifesto for next month’s General...
05 November 2019
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The owner of a house believed to be occupied by multiple tenants has been prosecuted by a Kent council for failing...
30 October 2019
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28 October 2019
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A long-term legal critic of selective licensing is warning that letting agents could be held jointly accountable with the landlords, -...
22 October 2019
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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
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New research from Rightmove shows almost a quarter of landlords are planning to sell at least one property from their current...
17 October 2019
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One of the UK’s highest profile lettings agencies - Countrywide band Beresford Adams - has been fined £22,500 for health and...
23 September 2019
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A landlord who failed to provide information regarding a buy to let property has been fined £2,080. Tenants contacted Colchester council in...
18 September 2019
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A local council says it has now successfully prosecuted a landlord for flouting the law that protects the health and safety...
22 August 2019
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A tenant pretending to be landlord has been ordered to pay more than £21,000 after he carved up five family homes...
31 July 2019
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A buy to let investor has been fined almost £5,000 after admitting overcrowding. Matteo Mariano, from Gedling in Nottinghamshire, pleaded guilty at...
26 July 2019
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A managing agent has been convicted by a local council for failing to properly license his property. Leon Hill, of Leighton Buzzard,...
10 July 2019
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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
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A director of a lettings agency has been fined for creating false tenancies in a bid to avoid paying council tax...
25 June 2019
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A managing agent and several landlords have been fined almost £5,000 after forcing tenants to live in unacceptable conditions in a...
24 June 2019
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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
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A buy to let investor has been fined £4,800 and ordered to pay £2,200 in costs for failing to keep his...
19 June 2019
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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
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A London council has successfully prosecuted a so-called “dodgy operator” landlord for failing to comply with fire safety regulations and carry...
12 June 2019
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A damning report on taxation in the private rental sector (PRS) has accused the treasury of appearing not to understand 'the...
10 May 2019
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Three years after the introduction of the second homes stamp duty surcharge, landlords are “beginning to come to terms with the...
30 April 2019
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A rogue letting agent has been ordered to pay £42,596 in fines and costs of £10,626 after pleading guilty to a...
23 April 2019
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Data from a Countrywide agency shows that 59 per cent of landlords who live in London purchased their buy to let...
15 April 2019
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A landlord has been convicted of three offences relating to his failure to comply with fire safety requirements in a privately...
11 March 2019
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A rogue lettings agent has been fined over £72,000 after being found guilty of 15 separate offences relating to three illegally established houses...
07 March 2019
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You may be forgiven for thinking that rent takes up an ever-greater proportion of tenants’ income - but new figures out...
14 February 2019
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A landlord who failed to comply with orders to improve the standard of a property has had to pay over £7,500...
05 February 2019
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A council has prosecuted a buy to let investor for not making necessary improvements to his property. The landlord, Balwinder Singh Chandi,...
14 January 2019
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The stamp duty surcharge - which across the rest of Britain is currently three per cent on additional homes such as...
08 January 2019
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21 December 2018
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A landlord is almost £42,000 worse off after repeatedly ignoring council orders to stop illegally letting so called “beds in sheds”...
22 November 2018
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The party conferences of the two main political parties threw up some interesting developments with regards to housing and the rental...
06 November 2018
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Rightmove is reporting that average asking rents outside London have topped £800 per month for the first time, fuelled by a...
29 October 2018
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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
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Countrywide says landlords spent £12.1 billion buying rental properties in the first half of this year - a full 30 per...
15 October 2018
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The first of the industry trade bodies to issue a series of demands for this month’s Budget is the National Landlords Association...
01 October 2018
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A property management firm chief who had to pay over £20,000 after being found guilty of nine offences relating to an...
18 September 2018
From: Breaking News

A lettings agent who let a tiny room behind a kitchen in a property in London has been ordered to pay...
14 September 2018
From: Breaking News

The landlord of an HMO who subjected his tenants to insanitary and unsafe living conditions has been told he will no...
13 September 2018
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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

An Essex council claims it is one of the first to be granted a rent repayment order - part of legislation...
31 August 2018
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Opposition is growing fast to the threat of another stamp duty attack on the buy to let sector, rumoured to be...
07 August 2018
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A newspaper in warning that the beleaguered buy to let sector may be under attack yet again with the government considering...
06 August 2018
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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

A gas safety engineer has pleaded guilty with a landlord of falsifying gas safety certificates for a string of private rental...
11 July 2018
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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

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

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

A buy to let investor has ended up with a bill for thousands of pounds after being found guilty of breaching...
15 June 2018
From: Breaking News

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

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

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

The latest major piece of research into the private rental sector is forecasting a huge surge in demand - meaning there...
17 May 2018
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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

A buy to let investor faces a fine of £7,000 plus costs and a victim surcharge for failing to upgrade his...
03 May 2018
From: Breaking News

A buy to let investor has been found guilty of 35 HMO-related offences - and has to pay a total fine...
23 April 2018
From: Breaking News

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

West Midlands Police and Birmingham council teamed up to investigate a property in the city which was riddled with health and...
11 April 2018
From: Breaking News

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

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

A property management company has been landed with a legal bill of almost £2,000 after admitting that it failed to keep...
23 March 2018
From: Breaking News

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

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

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

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

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

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

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
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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
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Average rental values in prime central London fell 2.1 per cent in the year to February according to Knight Frank -...
05 March 2018
From: Breaking News

Three head tenants who sub-let a three bedroom house to 35 men have been hit with over £23,000 in fines. Gheorghe-Valentin Lingurar...
26 February 2018
From: Breaking News

A local authority has fined four landlords who failed to licence a total of seven properties under its selective licensing scheme. Hastings...
21 February 2018
From: Breaking News

A rogue landlord has been fined twice in the space of two months for failing to provide a suitable standard of...
19 February 2018
From: Breaking News

A range of factors - including fierce competition under the supplied housing market, rising property prices and political uncertainty – have...
08 February 2018
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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
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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

An agency operating in London and Essex has launched an online petition to oppose the ban on credit and debit card...
17 January 2018
From: Breaking News

The Treasury has confirmed to Letting Agent Today that the ban on credit card surcharges which came into effect in recent...
16 January 2018
From: Breaking News

The National Landlords Association says 20 per cent of its members plan to reduce the size of their portfolios in the...
12 January 2018
From: Breaking News

A landlord has been ordered to pay £20,000 after being found guilty of nine offences in relation to a house in...
29 December 2017
From: Breaking News

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

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

Rent Smart Wales, the licensing and training regime which is now a year old, has taken an agent and a landlord...
21 November 2017
From: Breaking News

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

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

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

Letting agency Spicerhaart has been fined £2,670 after pleading guilty to operating an unlicensed house in multiple occupation. A prosecution was brought...
26 September 2017
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency and its director have been ordered to pay more than £2,500 in fines and costs for illegally advertising...
22 September 2017
From: Breaking News

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

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

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

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

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 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

A local authority has clamped down on what it describes as illegal advertising boards, fining agencies thousands of pounds in the...
20 June 2017
From: Breaking News

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

A landlord has been ordered to pay over £10,000 after pleading guilty to breaching three separate fire regulations. Charles Thornton was fined...
14 June 2017
From: Breaking News

The latest analysis of buy to let trends by letting agency franchise chain Belvoir has identified a specific lack of rental...
05 June 2017
From: Breaking News

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

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

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

The landlord of a west London property, described by a judge as a "deathtrap" and an "accident waiting to happen", has...
03 May 2017
From: Breaking News

A landlord has been ordered to pay more than £17,000 in fines and costs after pleading guilty at St Albans Magistrates'...
19 April 2017
From: Breaking News

The remaining overhand of last year’s buy to let buying surge by landlords means the annual rate of rent rises has...
07 April 2017
From: Breaking News

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

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

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

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
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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

A property firm has been fined £32,134 and ordered to pay costs of £260 and a victim surcharge of £170 after...
16 March 2017
From: Breaking News

A landlord who admitted threatening violence against a tenant who left the property he was renting has been given a substantial...
16 March 2017
From: Breaking News

The landlord of an HMO above a Chinese takeway in Cornwall has been fined for failing to comply with the requirements...
15 March 2017
From: Breaking News

A landlady has been fined £15,000 for failing to license and manage a house in multiple occupation. Sharon Jacobs was also ordered...
13 March 2017
From: Breaking News

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

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

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 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 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

The head of MartinCo, the country’s largest franchise agency group, says the government’s buy to let tax changes and lettings fee...
03 February 2017
From: Breaking News

The government should think again about punitive tax changes to the private rented sector after receiving greater-than-expected revenue from the three...
02 February 2017
From: Breaking News

A landlord and letting agency have been fined more than £26,000 after being found guilty of housing offences at two properties...
30 January 2017
From: Breaking News

The Residential Landlords Association has been quick off the mark to issue what it calls a seven point wish list to...
27 January 2017
From: Breaking News

The Residential Landlords Association says new tax powers devolving to the Welsh Assembly should involve exemptions when it comes to the...
20 January 2017
From: Breaking News

Gross buy to let lending increased in November to the highest monthly level since the stamp duty surcharge was introduced in...
18 January 2017
From: Breaking News

The surge in properties to let which came on to the prime central London market after the April 1 stamp duty...
20 December 2016
From: Breaking News

An assessment undertaken by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development shows property taxes accounted for 12.7 per cent of the...
13 December 2016
From: Breaking News

The number of buy to let transactions across England and Wales has fallen 8.2 per cent in one month and is down an...
09 December 2016
From: Breaking News

A council believes that a landlord was “putting tenants’ lives in danger” because he did not have local authority licenses for...
08 December 2016
From: Breaking News

Members of the Association of Residential Letting Agents predict a fall in the number of homes being available to let next...
07 December 2016
From: Breaking News

A Birmingham letting agency and a landlord have been fined £5,590 for failing to obtain an HMO licence and for breaching...
06 December 2016
From: Breaking News

A private landlord has been fined by a London magistrates court for poor and potentially dangerous housing conditions. Monojor Ali was fined...
05 December 2016
From: Breaking News

Paragon Mortgages’ parent firm, the Paragon Group of Companies, remains bullish about the buy to let sector despite the series of...
28 November 2016
From: Breaking News

More than 92 per cent of landlords believe the government is anti-landlord and want the Chancellor to back them in this...
21 November 2016
From: Breaking News

The Residential Landlords’ Association says it stands by a claim that one in four landlords may sell up, and it refutes...
21 November 2016
From: Breaking News

A lettings agent has poured scorn on a survey suggesting a quarter of landlords are about to quit buy to let,...
18 November 2016
From: Breaking News

There’s been a significant drop in the amount borrowed by buy to let investors over the past year, despite a rise...
17 November 2016
From: Breaking News

Another prominent mortgage chief has called on the government to show its support for the private rental sector by repealing some...
10 November 2016
From: Breaking News

A 71 year old landlord has been fined £5,037.97 at Birmingham Magistrates Court for failing to obtain an HMO licence and...
01 November 2016
From: Breaking News

Anyone who thought the buy to let sector’s recent anger at higher government taxes may have been misplaced may wish to...
31 October 2016
From: Breaking News

Three quarters of a million private renters are stuck in the coldest and draughtiest homes, claims the Citizens Advice organisation -...
28 October 2016
From: Breaking News

A well-known mortgage broker is quoted as saying that buy to let organisations are complaining too much over tax changes for...
24 October 2016
From: Breaking News

The Welsh Government - which now has additional fiscal powers allowing it to be more independent from Westminster - has chosen...
19 October 2016
From: Breaking News

The British Property Federation is urging Chancellor Phillip Hammond to bring in tax measures to help the purpose-built Build To Rent...
18 October 2016
From: Breaking News

A Norwich landlord has been prosecuted “for putting lives at risk” according to the local council. Piang Fui Pun has pleaded guilty...
17 October 2016
From: Breaking News

A council has taken a landlord to court for failing to licence his two buy to let properties under its selective...
13 October 2016
From: Breaking News

Buyer enquiries from potential landlords and investors are now up 30 per cent since May according to Rightmove, suggesting that the...
12 October 2016
From: Breaking News

Despite huge turmoil in the buy to let sector, there has been a significant rise in mortgage activity in the past...
11 October 2016
From: Breaking News

The government must urgently deliver 1.8m new rental homes as new figures from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors reveal a...
05 October 2016
From: Breaking News

Details of the Bank of England’s statement outlining tougher rules on mortgage lending to buy to let investors have been shown...
04 October 2016
From: Breaking News

The chief executive of financial consultancy Clayton Euro Risk says changes soon coming in to tighten the criteria applied to buy...
04 October 2016
From: Breaking News

A letting agency has been fined after one of its landlords was found to be cramming six families into an unlicensed...
21 September 2016
From: Breaking News

An East Midlands estate agency has opened its third lettings office, saying the rental market has 'defied expectations'. Richard Watkinson and Partners,...
16 September 2016
From: Breaking News

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

A landlord who endangered the lives of his tenants has been prosecuted and fined for failing to comply with 16 issues...
08 September 2016
From: Breaking News

A company operating a number of buy to let properties has been ordered to pay more than £15,000 by magistrates for...
07 September 2016
From: Breaking News

The owner of a series of flats to let in Cardiff has been fined £3,500 and ordered to pay £200 costs...
06 September 2016
From: Breaking News

Kevin Hollinrake - the founder of franchise agency Hunters and now a Conservative MP - is calling for a cut in...
05 September 2016
From: Breaking News

New data from referencing company Equifax Touchstone suggests that this July’s buy to let mortgage lending total is 39 per cent...
24 August 2016
From: Breaking News

There are now 60,139 Build To Rent units constructed or in the pipeline across the UK according to the British Property...
17 August 2016
From: Breaking News

A landlord’s company has been left with a bill of over £14,000 for letting unlicensed flats in north London. Appearing at Highbury...
16 August 2016
From: Breaking News

Property managers operating through a company have been ordered to pay more than £30,000 following a dawn raid that uncovered more...
12 August 2016
From: Breaking News

A House in Multiple Occupation located on the third floor of a property with a restaurant at ground level was one...
02 August 2016
From: Breaking News

Two landlords have received fines totalling £3,000 – and were ordered to pay costs of nearly £2,000 - after failing to...
28 July 2016
From: Breaking News

A landlord has been fined £550 after failing to take action from a prohibition order issued by a council. West Lindsey authority...
27 July 2016
From: Breaking News

A consumer group dedicated to reducing tax says recent fiscal changes introduced by the government will end up hurting private rental...
25 July 2016
From: Breaking News

The Residential Landlords Association says the build up to the new government‘s Autumn Statement - effectively its first budget - is...
25 July 2016
From: Breaking News

The Residential Landlords Association is asking the Welsh Assembly to scrap the three per cent stamp duty surcharge imposed on buy...
20 July 2016
From: Breaking News

New Chancellor Phillip Hammond has been urged by an industry trade group to reset the government’s approach to taxing the buy...
15 July 2016
From: Breaking News

There was an eight per cent surge in the number of homes available to rent in the second quarter of the...
14 July 2016
From: Breaking News

In the three months after the introduction of the three per cent stamp duty surcharge on April 1, landlord purchases accounted...
11 July 2016
From: Breaking News

The government is being warned that without changes to the Finance Bill currently going through parliament it will effectively be forcing rent...
11 July 2016
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A senior mortgage lender is warning that government reforms of the buy to let sector could have wide-ranging and unintended consequences. Richard...
05 July 2016
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Burnley Council has brought a series of prosecutions against people responsible for unlicensed rented houses in the borough. The council has introduced...
04 July 2016
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The Council of Mortgage Lenders has told the Bank of England’s Prudential Regulation Authority not to add unnecessarily to the welter...
01 July 2016
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Rents in Scotland are at a record high, after the fastest month-on-month growth on record. Data from Your Move shows that average...
22 June 2016
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Letting agencies Your Move and Reeds Rains claim rents have started to drop in many areas following the arrival of a...
17 June 2016
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There was a massive slowdown in buy to let lending by investors as the additional homes stamp duty surcharge passed -...
16 June 2016
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Rents across the UK continued to rise during May but at a decreasing rate, says HomeLet. Data shows that rents agreed on...
08 June 2016
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The number of valuations for buy to let purposes last month was eight per cent up on the May 2015 level...
08 June 2016
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A new report claims that over a third of student property investors plan to expand their portfolios in 2016, despite the...
07 June 2016
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Landlords are increasingly favouring Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMO) and more 'complex property types' due to the often higher yields available. Mortgages...
02 June 2016
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Average rents for single rooms across the UK increased at a faster rate than those in London, according to spareroom.co.uk. The rental...
02 June 2016
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The supply of rental properties fell by 5% during April when compared to the previous year, according to figures from the...
01 June 2016
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A landlord has been fined almost £25,000 for a series of failings relating to a House in Multiple Occupation (HMO). Birmingham-based Salih...
31 May 2016
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Burnley Council has named and shamed eleven landlords that have been prosecuted for ignoring its selective licensing scheme. One landlord, Pierce Mullally,...
27 May 2016
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A landlord has been prosecuted for both illegal sub-letting and illegal eviction at the same time - an occurrence which is...
26 May 2016
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Two landlords have been fined after being found guilty of fire safety failings in their rental properties. Both prosecutions were brought by...
25 May 2016
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A removals firm has claimed it is currently dealing with more tenants moving between properties than home buyers. Aussie Man & Van...
24 May 2016
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Data released by Agency Express shows a massive spike in activity for the lettings market. April’s national figures for new listings ‘To...
20 May 2016
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Chancellor George Osborne’s stamp duty surcharge imposed on landlords and other second home buyers from April 1 prompted an enormous 142...
18 May 2016
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An online letting agency is warning against investors angry at government attacks on the private rental sector looking for ‘easy alternatives’...
17 May 2016
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Average price for a property paid by investors in April fell by 8.3 per cent from £194,000 a month earlier to...
16 May 2016
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The frenzy of investor purchasing of buy to let units ahead of the stamp duty surcharge deadline has led to an...
16 May 2016
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The owner of a rented property in west London has received a penalty of more than £20,000 having pleaded guilty to...
10 May 2016
From: Breaking News

A letting agent and four landlords face bills totalling more than £20,000 after being prosecuted by Islington Council for operating unlicensed...
06 May 2016
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A buy to let lender says new underwriting rules from the Prudential Regulation Authority could trigger another rush to snap up...
29 April 2016
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Private landlords’ confidence is at the lowest level since late 2006 according to market research company BDRC Continental, thanks to anti-buy...
27 April 2016
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The approaching of the April 1 stamp duty surcharge deadline led to a severe drop-off in buy to let purchasers seeking...
27 April 2016
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A letting agent who closed his New Malden firm leaving 17 landlords some £27,000 out of pocket has been jailed for...
26 April 2016
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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
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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
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Housing minister Brandon Lewis has backed the raft of measures seen by many as anti-buy to let, including the restriction on...
21 April 2016
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A financial journalist has lambasted the government’s anti-buy to let policies, describing them as “political short-termism ... a vote winner to...
18 April 2016
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Independent comparison website Moneyfacts says mortgage lenders are slashing rates on products designed for landlords, in a bid to buoy up...
15 April 2016
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Almost all landlords are considering increasing rents to pay for the higher taxes they now face. According to a survey by the...
15 April 2016
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A private landlord has been ordered to pay more than £1,000 after admitting operating in Burnley without a proper licence. Matthew Hartley...
12 April 2016
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Countrywide says £28 billion worth of home sales were completed in March ahead of the stamp duty surcharge deadline, a 76...
11 April 2016
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Ian Wilson, chief executive officer of Martin & Co, has given David Cameron’s government a “two out of 10” score for...
11 April 2016
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Respected credit ratings agency Fitch says buy to let will thrive for the next 12 to 24 months but the effects...
08 April 2016
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The three per cent stamp duty surcharge being imposed on buy to let and other properties is set to hurt tenants...
07 April 2016
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The additional homes stamp duty surcharge is contributing to a slowdown in the central London development market according to JLL. The number...
07 April 2016
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Belvoir Lettings, which operates over 210 outlets across the UK, has seen its pre-tax profit surge beyond £2m at Belvoir Lettings. In...
05 April 2016
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The British Property Federation says George Osborne’s stamp duty surcharge will threaten the success of the Build To Rent sector, which...
05 April 2016
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An outspoken attack on Chancellor George Osborne’s fiscal measures against the private rental sector have questioned whether he is really a...
04 April 2016
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A substantial majority of new buy to let mortgage applicants are unaware of the mortgage tax relief changes, according to a...
04 April 2016
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The imposition of the stamp duty surcharge on additional homes would add another £4,500 to the cost of setting up a...
04 April 2016
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More criticism of Chancellor George Osborne’s raft of buy to let reforms has appeared in the mainstream media, with much emphasis...
01 April 2016
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The managing director of the Association of Residential Letting Agents says urgent action is necessary “to make the prospect of being...
31 March 2016
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An industry body says proposals by the Bank of England to curb buy to let lending are “premature.” The Bank’s Prudential Regulation...
30 March 2016
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The Bank of England has released new buy to let mortgage underwriting standards which are expected to set out stricter borrowing...
29 March 2016
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Banks approved 45,892 mortgages for house purchases last month - a 20 per cent rise on the February last year, with...
25 March 2016
From: Breaking News

The new stamp duty surcharge on buy to let properties coming into effect next Friday will increase rent costs for tenants...
24 March 2016
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The government has been told to back off its criticism of buy to let landlords and instead do more to address...
22 March 2016
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Yesterday George Osborne delivered his eighth budget as chancellor, announcing an extra £3.5 billion in spending cuts by 2019-20. The Office for...
17 March 2016
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Later today chancellor George Osborne will make his latest budget speech. It has been speculated that the announcement could include new measures...
16 March 2016
From: Breaking News

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

The proposed stamp duty surcharge on the purchase of second homes and buy-to-let properties will fail to deter landlords from expanding...
15 March 2016
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Some 66% of landlords predict more rental sector turbulence in this week's Budget, according to research by property crowdfunding platform The...
14 March 2016
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February has seen a further burst of buy to let activity, fuelled not only by the stamp duty surcharge deadline but...
11 March 2016
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There is more evidence that the buy to let sector has experienced a surge of activity as investors rush to complete...
09 March 2016
From: Breaking News

Not one of the raft of buy to let rule changes being introduced by Chancellor George Osborne - ostensibly to help...
01 March 2016
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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

A survey claims that despite the apparent rush to purchase buy to let properties before the stamp duty surcharge deadline of...
19 February 2016
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A landlord has to pay over £16,500 after being found guilty of failing to licence her ex-council flat with the local...
19 February 2016
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A leading lettings expert says George Osborne’s proposed stamp duty surcharge of three per cent may be just weeks from implementation...
18 February 2016
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Prime Central London rents across the capital fell for the first time in two years during the final quarter of 2015...
17 February 2016
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The influencial cross-party Commons Treasury Committee says the whole economy could suffer is George Osborne’s fiscal measures against the private rental...
15 February 2016
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The Residential Landlords’ Association is standing up for the private rental sector in its response to the government’s inquiry into homelessness. The...
12 February 2016
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Government policies aimed at curbing the buy to let market are directly leading to more pressure on the lettings sector, according...
11 February 2016
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A surge in lending for buy to let properties ahead of April’s stamp duty surcharge means mortgage approvals have reached their...
11 February 2016
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A risk expert at a leading buy to let mortgage company says the industry should actually embrace the restrictions on lending...
11 February 2016
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One of the country‘s leading rental sector analysts is warning that tax changes for landlords’ mortgage interest relief, and the imminent...
10 February 2016
From: Breaking News

The Residential Landlords Association is warning private investors not to be lured by firms offering schemes which allegedly promise to help...
09 February 2016
From: Breaking News

A legal expert is claiming that changes to S21 eviction procedures introduced back in October are not being adhered to by...
08 February 2016
From: Breaking News

Around a fifth of investors plan to sell their buy to let properties this year, thanks to the recent measures against...
08 February 2016
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Buying agency Black Brick says investment in prime London’s lettings sector remains buoyant despite the imminent three per cent stamp duty...
04 February 2016
From: Breaking News

There has been another substantial increase in the number of buy to let mortgage applications made by limited companies - suggesting...
03 February 2016
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Landlords’ confidence in the buy to let sector has collapsed to an all-time low and is now “worse than levels witnessed...
03 February 2016
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The three per cent stamp duty surcharge proposed for purchases of buy to let and holiday homes risks being seen as...
01 February 2016
From: Breaking News

Paragon Mortgages, one of the buy to let sector’s biggest and best-known lenders, says its buy to let lending in the...
28 January 2016
From: Breaking News

Bank of England governor Mark Carney has again spoken out about possible “threats” to the economy posed by the increase in...
27 January 2016
From: Breaking News

There has been an end of year surge in Scottish rents according to a buy to let index run by Your...
27 January 2016
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The lettings market is now enjoying ‘the calm before the storm’ according to the Association of Residential Letting Agents. In its latest...
26 January 2016
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Prime Minister David Cameron has dismissed out of hand appeals and comments from Letting Agent Today readers to reconsider the recent...
25 January 2016
From: Breaking News

A leading tax expert says there are likely to be unintended consequences of what he calls “half-cocked legislation” bringing in additional...
22 January 2016
From: Breaking News

The Residential Landlords’ Association is taking legal advice on whether George Osborne’s buy to let tax changes are a breach of...
20 January 2016
From: Breaking News

Fleet Mortgages is telling clients to choose an efficient conveyancer if they are buying an investment property with a view to...
20 January 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
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Connells says that between December 2014 and December 2015 the number of valuations conducted for buy-to-let properties soared by 86 per...
14 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

Chancellor George Osborne’s buy to let tax proposals are set to hit domestic buyers far more than international investors, according to...
12 January 2016
From: Breaking News

Many lenders are holding the equivalent of ‘mortgage January sales’ in order to kick-start the market for borrowers, according to a...
08 January 2016
From: Breaking News

Investment advice company London Central Portfolio says the proposed three per cent stamp duty surcharge on the purchase of buy to...
07 January 2016
From: Breaking News

Today is the last chance for Letting Agent Today readers to have their concerns about proposed stamp duty increases and recent...
07 January 2016
From: Breaking News

A Conservative peer and former shadow chief secretary to the Treasury has become the first senior Tory to speak out against...
06 January 2016
From: Breaking News

Letting Agent Today readers are being given the rare opportunity to have their concerns about proposed stamp duty increases and recent...
05 January 2016
From: Breaking News

Chancellor George Osborne has “effectively declared war on individual landlords” according to the Residential Landlords’ Association - but don’t expect a...
05 January 2016
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An online petition seeking the reversal of the Osborne clampdown on buy to let tax breaks has secured around 47,000 signatures...
31 December 2015
From: Breaking News

Almost half of landlords are set to increase their rents in 2016 in a bid to counteract tax changes and higher...
31 December 2015
From: Breaking News

The government is asking whether its proposed three per cent stamp duty surcharge on the purchase of second and subsequent homes...
30 December 2015
From: Breaking News

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
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The Council of Mortgage Lenders is warning of a possible slump for the buy to let market in the next two...
18 December 2015
From: Breaking News

Scottish finance minister John Swinney is to introduce a three per cent surcharge on the full purchase price of all ‘additional...
17 December 2015
From: Breaking News

The Scottish Government is to announce today whether it is replicating the three per cent stamp duty hike on buy to...
16 December 2015
From: Breaking News

Two landlords of HMOs have been prosecuted for failing to license their properties - and now have to pay fines of...
16 December 2015
From: Breaking News

Financially-stretched landlords may want to think seriously about selling their investment properties - and quickly, advises Rightmove. In its latest monthly report...
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

The new three per cent stamp duty on buy to let properties coming into force from next April will effectively redraw...
07 December 2015
From: Breaking News

The chairman of Berkeley Homes is warning that George Osborne’s latest three per cent stamp duty hike for buy to let...
07 December 2015
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The research team at high-end lettings and estate agency Savills says the controversial three per cent ‘additional property’ stamp duty introduced...
04 December 2015
From: Breaking News

The managing director of the mortgages division of deVere Group, one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory organisations, says George...
03 December 2015
From: Breaking News

The controversial three per cent stamp duty surcharge on buy to let and other second home purchases will cause conveyancing “mayhem”...
01 December 2015
From: Breaking News

A landlord who did not remedy a string of safety concerns about a property he was letting has been ordered to...
30 November 2015
From: Breaking News

Existing and would-be landlords are set to go on a buy to let buying spree, snapping up homes before the three...
27 November 2015
From: Breaking News

The National Landlords’ Association insists that some media forecasts of the impact of the new three per cent stamp duty surcharge...
27 November 2015
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There’s been an angry reaction from letting agents and landlords to the shock news that an additional three per cent stamp...
26 November 2015
From: Breaking News

- From April 2016 buy to let landlords and people buying second or holiday homes will have to pay an additional...
26 November 2015
From: Breaking News

A rogue landlord has been fined £20,000 and ordered to pay £3,343 costs as well as a victim surcharge of £120...
02 November 2015
From: Breaking News

A landlord has been ordered to pay more than £7,000 after failing to licence a house in multiple occupation in the...
21 September 2015
From: Breaking News

A landlord has been ordered to pay a total of £8,680 after failing to comply with formal council notices to improve...
11 September 2015
From: Breaking News

A letting agency has been ordered to pay more than £12,000 in fines and court costs after being convicted of seven...
07 September 2015
From: Breaking News

The landlord of a house in multiple occupation is the latest to be prosecuted by a council for failing to licence...
03 September 2015
From: Breaking News

A letting agency that failed to apply for House of Multiple Occupation licences at three properties in Birmingham has been fined...
06 July 2015
From: Breaking News

An amnesty on the licensing of houses in multiple occupation is being held in Barnet in north London following the successful...
17 June 2015
From: Breaking News

A landlord has been ordered to pay fines adding up to over £6,600. Balwinder Singh Dhadwal was prosecuted at Dudley Magistrates’ Court...
02 June 2015
From: Breaking News

A landlord has been prosecuted and fined for failing to carry out vital works on his rental property. Victor Robbins of Leigh-on-Sea,...
28 May 2015
From: Breaking News

A set of ‘fees templates’ have been created for letting agents to download ahead of the legal requirement to display details...
21 May 2015
From: Breaking News

A landlord has been ordered to pay a fine £1,344.57 after failing to install fixed heating to a property she was...
20 May 2015
From: Breaking News

A landlord described as a professional opera singer has been ordered to pay more than £15,000 for refusing to comply with...
14 May 2015
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A landlord who overcrowded his property has had to pay over £4,500 after being prosecuted by his local council. The property in...