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Propertymark says it welcomes measures in the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill that will mean swifter action to get the hundreds...
25 May 2022
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A Conservative MP is suggesting that there could be a ’25 mile limit’ imposed around certain rental properties to ensure they...
20 May 2022
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The government has released more details of the powers being given to local authorities to levy additional taxes on second homes. The...
16 May 2022
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The government is admitting that its rental reform agenda is aimed primarily at the north of England - which just happens...
12 May 2022
From: Breaking News

Leaks from government ahead of this morning’s Queen’s Speech suggest that second homes which are not let out are likely to...
10 May 2022
From: Breaking News

A survey conducted by financial institutions has found the first suggestion that rental properties are slowly becoming more energy efficient. A study...
09 May 2022
From: Breaking News

The new material information requirements recently announced by the National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agency Team will be the topic...
06 May 2022
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A leading lettings sector commentator believes today’s local elections may not directly change the private rental sector but could have a...
05 May 2022
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Propertymark has dismissed suggestions from critics of the lettings industry that higher rents are leading to more homelessness. The trade body says...
03 May 2022
From: Breaking News

The two main reasons that an agency decides to outsource are: 1.) To reduce costs 2.) To have the ability to focus on...
27 April 2022
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Airbnb, so often criticised for operating in the largely-unregulated short lets market, has called on the UK government to scrap Section...
22 April 2022
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A new PropTech platform allows letting agents free access to the information required to set up a tenancy and register renters...
20 April 2022
From: Breaking News

The latest forecast for the UK lettings market this year is that there will be a four per cent rise in...
13 April 2022
From: Breaking News

Industry trade body Propertymark says no Right To Rent checks will be required to be conducted by letting agents on Ukranian...
12 April 2022
From: Breaking News

Tax experts say that an attempt to levy higher purchase tax on holiday lets and second homes in one part of...
11 April 2022
From: Breaking News

Agents and landlords are being warned by a government minister not to charge all-inclusive HMO tenants more than necessary in a...
05 April 2022
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Celebrating 25 years of unbroken profits growth, Belvoir has revealed a massive annual hike in revenue for 2021. Group revenue increased by...
05 April 2022
From: Breaking News

Agents have been reminded they can claim tax relief on the membership fees they pay to professional bodies that are approved...
01 April 2022
From: Breaking News

Huge improvements could be made to the lettings process if agents used the property data available to them, it’s been claimed. PropTech...
30 March 2022
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The leader of the Generation Rent campaign group has accused Chancellor Rishi Sunak of “stacking the economy against private renters who...
28 March 2022
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The Property Investor Show is back for its 20th year with 100 property sector experts and exhibitors in London this week. The...
28 March 2022
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A property finance company says increased taxes and regulations for the private rental sector mean that energy efficiency improvements to raise...
24 March 2022
From: Breaking News

There’s been a broad welcome from letting agents to the Spring Statement not loading more tax or restrictions on buy to...
24 March 2022
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The UK Association of Letting Agents says new requirements for additional upfront property information should end up actually saving agents time. By...
22 March 2022
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The chief executive of an online mortgage broker is warning that yesterday’s base rate rise announced by the Bank of England...
18 March 2022
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A major think tank is calling for a radical reform of the private rental sector. A report from the cross-party independent Social...
18 March 2022
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Letting agents are being urged to respond to a consultation opening today from rhe independent Office for Tax Simplification. The OTS has published an...
17 March 2022
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A business consultancy is warning that buy to let sellers in the current market are likely to be squeezed - and...
15 March 2022
From: Breaking News

Connells-owned lettings agency Hamptons is warning that the record-breaking rental growth of the past year has seen tenants pay a rocketing...
14 March 2022
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Lettings agency Galbraith reports that landlords are now returning to the residential lets sector from holiday lets after several years without...
10 March 2022
From: Breaking News

ARLA Propertymark has slammed politicians who appear to have ignored a public consultation and gone ahead with draconian changes affecting second...
08 March 2022
From: Breaking News

New financial incentives are needed to bring thousands of empty homes back into use and give a much-needed boost to the...
01 March 2022
From: Breaking News

Rightmove says added functionality for its tenant referencing portal is now being tested and will be rolled out later this year. In...
28 February 2022
From: Breaking News

New research shows that despite tax and regulatory changes restricting buy to let returns, this remains a far healthier investment than...
23 February 2022
From: Breaking News

Theresa Wallace, the chair of The Lettings Industry Council, has given her backing to compulsory changes to rental property listings introduced...
22 February 2022
From: Breaking News

Trading Standards and the government have jointly announced compulsory new data which must appear on property listings. A property's council tax band or...
21 February 2022
From: Breaking News

New research commissioned by the landlords’ trade body shows that the UK needs almost 230,000 new private rented homes a year...
18 February 2022
From: Breaking News

A PropTech referencing service is claiming to offer agents a new revenue stream during void periods. Vouch says it has created a...
17 February 2022
From: Breaking News

Figures obtained by ITV News suggest that one of the country's most popular tourist locations has as many Airbnbs listed as...
14 February 2022
From: Breaking News

The leader of one of Britain’s highest profile lettings agency operations has let rip at the government for what he calls...
10 February 2022
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A finance chief is warning that the threat of possible rises in Capital Gains Tax should be dismissed by the government to...
09 February 2022
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A major holiday let company in one of the country’s prime tourist destinations says more affordable homes should be built to...
09 February 2022
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Lettings franchisees under the Belvoir banner delivered the group an additional 10 per cent management service fees last year according to...
01 February 2022
From: Breaking News

There’s a 15 year record high in the number of buy to let mortgage products available for current or new landlords. The...
28 January 2022
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One of the country’s best-read and respected regional newspapers has accused Airbnb of a ‘racket’ by advertising homes on its short-let...
25 January 2022
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One of the leading lettings agencies in Liverpool has issued a warning about the city’s controversial new licensing scheme. The Labour council...
25 January 2022
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HM Revenue & Customs officers are paying short-notice visits on letting and estate agents to check on their anti-money laundering compliance,...
19 January 2022
From: Breaking News

Wales and Scotland are ahead of the game when it comes to limiting the impact of short term lets on the...
18 January 2022
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Politicians who express concern over the number of holiday lets and Airbnbs in tourist areas miss one major point - if...
17 January 2022
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EU citizens with settled status in the UK, but who have stayed in their native countries during the pandemic, are likely...
17 January 2022
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While the number of companies set up by individual landlords to hold buy to lets reached a record high last year,...
17 January 2022
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Owners of second homes who abuse a tax loophole by claiming their often-empty properties are holiday lets will be forced to...
14 January 2022
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A little-known law may require tenants to pay stamp duty on the rental properties they do not actually own. London lettings agency...
12 January 2022
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The Liberal Democrats have proposed sharp restrictions on holiday rentals at the heart of the party’s plans to solve the housing...
11 January 2022
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MPs and the wider public have been presented with a lengthy report on the growth of Airbnb and similar platforms across...
07 January 2022
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ARLA Propertymark has launched a radical programme of reform for the private rental sector - getting in before the government’s own...
15 December 2021
From: Breaking News

Three lettings agency bosses have been banned from being directors of companies for a total of over 13 years after being...
14 December 2021
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Bristol-based lettings management company Iletpro Ltd has been ordered to pay a total of £2,700.06 in fines and costs for failing...
09 December 2021
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A major Select Committee of MPs has launched an enquiry into so-called exempt rental sector accommodation - a niche sector that...
09 December 2021
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Shocking figures produced by a council in the south west show the vast number of short lets available - and by...
06 December 2021
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A petition calling on Chancellor Rishi Sunak to increase tax on holiday lettings has still not hit its 45,000-signature target. Former long...
23 November 2021
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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
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The government says it’s finalising plans for a new tax regime to apply to additional homes, and in particular those used...
09 November 2021
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Proposals to regulate Airbnbs and other short lets in one part of the UK should be modified, a trade body says. Currently,...
01 November 2021
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All sides of the industry have expressed anger and frustration that yesterday’s Budget effectively ignored the private rental sector. ARLA Propertymark’s policy...
28 October 2021
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Letting agents in England with tenants in rent arrears because of Covid are to be helped via a council-run £65m rent fund. Although...
23 October 2021
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The head of a lettings agency has drawn up a wish list for Chancellor Rishi Sunak to address in his Budget...
14 October 2021
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A leading agent and member of the Propertymark board says London’s letting agencies and private rental sector need government help -...
12 October 2021
From: Breaking News

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
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The lettings agents’ group Propertymark has told Chancellor Rishi Sunak that unless the private rented sector is overhauled many landlords will...
07 October 2021
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A lack of longer term rental accommodation thanks to the growth of Airbnb and other short lets has led to a...
05 October 2021
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Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves has told the Labour Party conference that if her party wins the next General Election she will...
28 September 2021
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Propertymark has called for a return of mortgage interest relief and a review of landlord taxes to boost the rental sector. The...
15 September 2021
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The chancellor Rishi Sunak has been urged to make it more attractive for landlords to invest in the private rental sector. Sunak...
14 September 2021
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There’s been a 21 per cent rise in demand for properties from buy to let investors according to a new analysis...
26 August 2021
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The value of the Private Rented Sector in England, Wales and Scotland grew by 5.8 per cent to a jaw dropping...
25 August 2021
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Demand for private rental housing is now at a five year high according to the National Residential Landlords Association. In the association’s...
23 August 2021
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Senior managers in the lettings and sales side of independent chain Spicerhaart are reducing their carbon footprint by taking up the...
20 August 2021
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Baroness Alicia Kennedy, director of the Generation Rent campaign, says rents in Wales, Scotland and South West England have soared thanks...
18 August 2021
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A tenant who says his former rental property has been turned into an Airbnb has set up a petition demanding Chancellor...
06 August 2021
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The rate at which holiday let businesses is being set up has more than doubled during the pandemic according to the...
29 July 2021
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Who are you and what does it say on your business card? My name is Maxine Fothergill and for the past ‘almost’...
28 July 2021
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A town with one of the UK’s heaviest concentrations of holiday homes is clamping down on future purchases by outsiders who...
28 July 2021
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Propertymark wants agents to come forward with examples of fraudulent tenancy applications - a growing problem in the rental sector. A statement...
27 July 2021
From: Breaking News

Last week the tax firm Blick Rothenberg advised John Lewis and Lloyds Bank to stay out of the private rental sector...
20 July 2021
From: Breaking News

Supermarket chains like John Lewis and banks like Lloyds - both entering the private rental sector as large scale landlords -...
14 July 2021
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Women now make up 48 per cent of the 2.6m buy to let investors in the UK, according to London lettings...
12 July 2021
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Wales’ Labour-led administration is to announce a three-pronged approach to affordability issues - and it looks likely to involve a clampdown...
06 July 2021
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The average UK rent now stands at a record £1,007 per calendar month - the highest ever, according to HomeLet. It’s up...
05 July 2021
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A fund instituted by Airbnb to help compensate for the effects of short let accommodation should be extended, local politicians say. In...
02 July 2021
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ARLA Propertymark is backing a controversial scheme allocating £10m of taxpayers’ money to assist tenants with Covid-related arrears. The Tenancy Hardship Grant...
02 July 2021
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A new £10m grant will be introduced in part of the UK to help private rented tenants struggling to pay rent...
30 June 2021
From: Breaking News

A local Trading Standards team is clamping down on rogue letting agents. Devon, Plymouth, Somerset and Torbay Trading Standards Service has launched...
23 June 2021
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Almost 40,000 people have signed a petition urging rent caps for private tenants and hefty tax rises for second home owners. The...
18 June 2021
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Baroness Alicia Kennedy has accused the government of hypocrisy over its diverging approach to evictions for commercial and residential tenants. On Wednesday...
18 June 2021
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ARLA Propertymark has thrown its weight behind a call for HMRC to extend the time limit for the payment of Capital...
11 June 2021
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Paragon Bank increased its focus on specialist buy to let lending during the first half of its financial year as its...
09 June 2021
From: Breaking News

Airbnb, which has been criticised by some for its impact on local rental markets, is to set up its own ‘tax’...
07 June 2021
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There’s been another upbeat trading statement from franchise giant the Belvoir Group. The company - which held its AGM yesterday - says...
28 May 2021
From: Breaking News

The five years since the introduction of the three per cent stamp duty surcharge on additional homes has led to a...
17 May 2021
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Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Bal Arora – Managing Director In your experience, what is the...
13 May 2021
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The government has admitted that “hundreds of thousands” of people will use the new Breathing Space system, during which they cannot...
05 May 2021
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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
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A new analysis of the private rental sector suggests it was reducing in size for some years before the pandemic. Nationwide’s specialist...
04 May 2021
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A survey by a comparison website suggests landlords are evenly split about how they find letting agents. Some 28 per cent favour physically searching...
14 April 2021
From: Breaking News

Buy to let investors are not cashing out of the private rental sector despite the restrictions and taxes imposed by government. Hamptons’...
13 April 2021
From: Breaking News

Franchise giants Belvoir has revealed strong figures in a trading statement to shareholders - but it’s warning that 2021 remains shrouded...
13 April 2021
From: Breaking News

Kevin Hollinrake, who until recently was the chairman of Hunters, has been named in an article about Tory MPs who have...
12 April 2021
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Agents and other industry players have penned an open letter to government demanding a radical overhaul of targets for energy efficiency in the...
07 April 2021
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The government’s much-vaunted ‘tax day’ produced few challenges to the status quo - but holiday lets are under scrutiny. Currently the holiday let...
24 March 2021
From: Breaking News

The lettings sector is giving a sigh of relief at the absence of any change to Capital Gains Tax by HM Treasury. CGT...
24 March 2021
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Real estate as an industry has remained unchallenged throughout all of these years. For the industry worth more than 217 trillion...
19 March 2021
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Acorn, a prominent campaign group targeting letting agency offices for protests, says the latest eviction ban extension doesn't go far enough. While...
11 March 2021
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Rightmove’s David Cox - formerly of the Association of Residential Letting Agents - is to talk through the Budget fallout for...
09 March 2021
From: Breaking News

A property lawyer is forecasting a surge in buy to let purchasing in the coming months as the stamp duty extension...
08 March 2021
From: Breaking News

An agency in the north of England has outlined how it proposes to take investors to what it calls “multiple viewings”...
05 March 2021
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This afternoon's Budget has seen dramatic announcements from Chancellor Rishi Sunak referring to the private rental sector. For landlords buying properties, the stamp...
03 March 2021
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A leading tax expert is forecasting that Chancellor Rishi Sunak will duck making any changes to CGT in tomorrow’s Budget and...
02 March 2021
From: Breaking News

A new survey suggests only a small minority of landlords use agents to partly or wholly manage their portfolios. The survey, by...
02 March 2021
From: Breaking News

Some 60 per cent of multi-property landlords have expanded their portfolio since the introduction of the Stamp Duty Holiday last summer...
24 February 2021
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A leading PropTech expert says the lettings industry hopes next week’s Budget will provide clarity on taxes - but he’s also...
23 February 2021
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A PropTech firm claims agents will win a “competitive edge” through the data it provides via its platform. Sprift says its interactive...
22 February 2021
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A prominent industry figure is warning Chancellor Rishi Sunak not to use property taxes to bail out the government over the costs...
19 February 2021
From: Breaking News

ARLA Propertymark is warning the government that new energy efficiency targets for EPCs could stifle buy to let investment in future. In...
19 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
From: Breaking News

Letting agents should help landlords through a blizzard of red tape and regulation cause by local licensing schemes, a PropTech entrepreneur...
10 February 2021
From: Breaking News

A call has gone out for the longer-term buy to let rental sector to have a similar tax regime as the largely-unregulated...
05 February 2021
From: Breaking News

For most letting agents the last year has been a challenging one which has focused attention on dealing with the immediate,...
04 February 2021
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ARLA Propertymark has issued a list of 10 demands for Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s long-awaited Budget on March 3, with a financial...
04 February 2021
From: Breaking News

A trading announcement by Belvoir reveals the company has seen another year of significant growth - its 24th on the trot. The...
29 January 2021
From: Breaking News

A series of leading lettings agents have warned that the rental sector is set for significant change as the Coronavirus pandemic...
25 January 2021
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20 January 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
From: Breaking News

ARLA Propertymark is advising agents to get up to speed on new rules - and possible higher costs - when changes...
14 January 2021
From: Breaking News

Letting agents should stand proud of their record helping both landlords and tenants, especially in these more difficult times. That’s the view...
14 January 2021
From: Breaking News

Franchise giant Belvoir has issued a statement to shareholders emphasising the success of its financial services wing. The Belvoir Group established its...
13 January 2021
From: Breaking News

With the Government announcement this week of another national lockdown across England amid the surging coronavirus infections, it once again puts...
08 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
From: Breaking News

A Welsh council has agreed to levy what it calls “a tax premium” on second homes from now until 2027 to...
22 December 2020
From: Breaking News

Teclet has announced another strategic partnership, this time with Kamma - a platform which specialises in agency compliance. It’s the latest in...
17 December 2020
From: Breaking News

A warning has been issued by one of the most acquisitive letting agencies that future mergers and takeovers could be hit...
14 December 2020
From: Breaking News

If you think 2020 has been complicated, just wait until 2021: that’s the claim of a rental guarantor service which warns...
08 December 2020
From: Breaking News

Recent debate about urgent need for reform and better collaboration within the property industry, has once again come under the spotlight...
04 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
From: Breaking News

A warning about illegal fees by letting agents has been produced by a local council Trading Standards team. It has come from...
04 December 2020
From: Breaking News

An extremely upbeat trading statement from Stock Market-quoted agency Belvoir suggests business has been ahead of even its pre-Coronavirus expectations in...
03 December 2020
From: Breaking News

A new assessment of legislation and council rules surrounding the private rental sector suggests a severe crackdown may be coming in...
02 December 2020
From: Breaking News

A new survey has highlighted what prospective renters and buyers are likely to miss during a property viewing. The study, by the...
19 November 2020
From: Breaking News

ARLA Propertymark has issued a warning to government not to use Capital Gains Tax reform to further punish the private rental...
16 November 2020
From: Breaking News

A prominent agent and industry commentator says the threat of higher Capital Gains Tax risks forcing yet more investors to quit...
13 November 2020
From: Breaking News

It’s been an unexpected year for the property market, shaped by the effects of the pandemic. We didn’t quite anticipate the...
27 October 2020
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Light has been shed at last on the long-running uncertainty about why some landlords choose to use lettings agents and some...
12 October 2020
From: Breaking News

Scotland must encourage more investors into its property market as a way of supporting its economy once the Coronavirus recedes according...
06 October 2020
From: Breaking News

Government intervention, which in recent years has seen scores of legal and regulatory changes to the private rental sector, may be...
05 October 2020
From: Breaking News

New long-term targets for improving energy efficiency across the private rental sector simply are not realistic, the government has been warned. The...
02 October 2020
From: Breaking News

An agent has been banned from being a company director after tax offences involving hundreds of thousands of pounds, or possibly...
02 October 2020
From: Breaking News

Nearly half of prospective home buyers have delayed their plans because of the Coronavirus crisis, a mortgage company says. Research by Aldermore...
24 September 2020
From: Breaking News

It’s been a difficult first half of 2020 for almost every agency business but Belvoir appears to have emerged healthier than...
08 September 2020
From: Breaking News

A new report demands that online rental platforms and portals allowing direct advertising by clients do more to deter fake landlords...
04 September 2020
From: Breaking News

Now may be the time for buy to let investors to consider incorporation - putting their property portfolios into a limited...
06 August 2020
From: Breaking News

Rogue landlords have been accused of tax evasion which could cost the Treasury as much as £1.73 billion a year. The accusation...
05 August 2020
From: Breaking News

A buy to let investor has been sentenced to two years in prison after claiming income support despite being a professional portfolio...
03 August 2020
From: Breaking News

A specialist buy to let mortgage broker is urging prospective investors to buy sooner rather than later if they want to...
21 July 2020
From: Breaking News

Propertymark is the latest industry body to warn the government against Capital Gains Tax changes that may disincentivise landlords. A joint statement...
20 July 2020
From: Breaking News

There’s a warning that buy to let investors will simply hold on to properties and not sell them if rumoured Capital...
16 July 2020
From: Breaking News

Chancellor Rishi Sunak has requested a review of Capital Gains Tax rules from the Office for Tax Simplification - leading to...
15 July 2020
From: Breaking News

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
From: Breaking News

The research department of Countrywide’s Hamptons International brand says the stamp duty holiday introduced yesterday on homes selling for £500,000 or...
09 July 2020
From: Breaking News

A prominent economist who has called for a raft of measures to protect tenants during the Coronavirus crisis is now calling...
29 June 2020
From: Breaking News

A stamp duty cut could reinvigorate the buy to let market and the wider economy as the country comes out of...
29 June 2020
From: Breaking News

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

The so-called King and Queen of Buy To Let, the controversial husband and wife team of Fergus and Judith Wilson, are...
04 June 2020
From: Breaking News
The buy-to-let market has grown significantly in recent years as long-term renting becomes more popular and investors continue to see the...
28 May 2020
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A document outlining options for the future regulation of Airbnb and other short let platforms in the UK is to be...
27 May 2020
From: Breaking News

Hunters has reported a small increase in pre-tax profit in it full-year results despite the impact of the ban on tenant...
27 May 2020
From: Breaking News

An economist who previously suggested tenants should live rent-free for three months during the Coronavirus crisis has revised his thinking -...
07 May 2020
From: Breaking News

Private landlords want the government to stop local authorities charging council tax on rented homes left empty because of the Coronavirus. The National...
27 April 2020
From: Breaking News

The director of the website Home says that investment in buy to let will look like a highly attractive safe haven...
17 April 2020
From: Breaking News

New and newly-refurbished properties are letting more readily as virtual viewings become more widespread during the lockdown. That’s the view of Knight...
16 April 2020
From: Breaking News

Data from independent mortgage monitor Moneyfacts shows that there’s been a big drop in the choice of mortgage for buy to...
15 April 2020
From: Breaking News

A lettings sector website claims 40 per cent of tenants have seen their ability to pay full or in some cases...
15 April 2020
From: Breaking News

The proportion of homes bought last month by buy to let investors plummeted to a record low of just eight per...
09 April 2020
From: Breaking News

It’s not just navigating a path through the Coronavirus crisis that is proving the value of letting agents - it’s their...
06 April 2020
From: Breaking News

Hello and welcome to the latest Conquering Corona - our guide for agents to get through these challenging times. Please let us...
27 March 2020
From: Breaking News

The growing number of companies offering support services to hosts and agencies that operate short lets on Airbnb and similar platforms...
20 March 2020
From: Breaking News

A survey of the buy to let market conducted by a bank before the latest acceleration in the Coronavirus outbreak suggests...
19 March 2020
From: Breaking News

One of the lettings sector’s leading trade bodies has called on the government and lenders to agree a package of measures...
17 March 2020
From: Breaking News

HM Revenue & Customs has issued a new warning to buy to let and Holliday home owners about a major change...
16 March 2020
From: Breaking News

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

A local authority has taken the unusual step of saying that a £600 surcharge will be added to the licensing costs...
10 March 2020
From: Breaking News

An anti-poverty campaigner and tax expert says any private rented sector tenant with Coronavirus should be able to live rent-free for...
05 March 2020
From: Breaking News

Foxtons has snapped up a lettings agency in suburban London. It’s bought London Stone Properties Limited and its subsidiary company London Stone...
03 March 2020
From: Breaking News

Optimism amongst investors in the private rental sector is on the rise, despite the various tax and regulation obstacles facing the...
27 February 2020
From: Breaking News

Arun - which has the brands of Douglas Allen in East London and Essex, Ward & Partners in Kent, Cubitt &...
26 February 2020
From: Breaking News

The government is driving landlords into the short let sector according to a trade body. The Residential Landlords Association, responding to recent...
24 February 2020
From: Breaking News

Shelter, which routinely criticises lettings agents and landlords, has been slammed for the huge amount of public funding it receives -...
24 February 2020
From: Breaking News

There’s a new warning today for buy to let investors who will be hit by tax changes coming into effect on...
20 February 2020
From: Breaking News

The typical landlord’s income from property has plummeted by a fifth in under a decade according to the National Landlords’ Association. Its...
19 February 2020
From: Breaking News

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

Almost three quarters of Belvoir’s lettings franchisees anticipate rent increases this year. In a survey of the franchise firm’s offices across the...
18 February 2020
From: Breaking News

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

Cynics who rejected claims that landlords would quit the buy to let sector because of increasing bureaucracy and higher taxes may...
17 February 2020
From: Breaking News

One of the country’s leading buying agencies says buy to let is changing in prime central London, as corporate structures replace...
14 February 2020
From: Breaking News

The government has failed the private rental sector says the Residential Landlords Association. In a statement released even before the resignation of...
14 February 2020
From: Breaking News

A seminar roadshow has been announced for letting agents considering quitting the sector. LegalforLandlords says it’s organised the six events after discovering...
14 February 2020
From: Breaking News

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

A new service called Cornwall Housing Private Lets has been set up in the west country to try to lure private...
11 February 2020
From: Breaking News

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

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Catherine Shinerock - ARO Account Manager What is your ‘company name’...
06 February 2020
From: 60 Second Interview

Knight Frank has released its latest rental market summary for London, and it paints a mixed picture. Firstly the number of properties...
04 February 2020
From: Breaking News

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

A lettings agency is calling on local councils to tackle the growing problem of long-term empty homes. My Property Box says that...
30 January 2020
From: Breaking News

A lettings sector trade group says lavish additional services are being offered by landlords who are nervous that Brexit will lead...
27 January 2020
From: Breaking News

A third of all landlords live in Greater London and the South East according to data collated by a property management...
27 January 2020
From: Breaking News

An accountancy trade body is warning of another possible tax hike to hit the lettings industry. The Association of Accounting Technicians is...
22 January 2020
From: Breaking News

New investment in private rented housing has fallen since 2016 as some private landlords have dipped out of the sector in...
22 January 2020
From: Breaking News
17 January 2020
From: Breaking News

A leading property industry figure says Airbnb is attempting to persuade traditional buy to let landlords into going down the short-let...
13 January 2020
From: Breaking News

Some 26 per cent of buy to let investors plan to sell one or more of their properties in 2020 according...
08 January 2020
From: Breaking News

A leading lettings sector trade body has outlined key pieces of legislation that will hit the private rental sector in 2020. The...
02 January 2020
From: Breaking News

There’s been an upbeat prediction on the lettings market given by leading market commentator Lucian Cook, head of residential research at...
02 January 2020
From: Breaking News

There’s still life in the buy to let market despite the regulatory and financial changes in recent years according to a...
24 December 2019
From: Breaking News

Just over third of private landlords are planning to quit the sector or cut the number of homes they let in...
23 December 2019
From: Breaking News

An overwhelming proportion of letting agents - 84 per cent - say rents will rise next year, well up on the...
23 December 2019
From: Breaking News

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

Richard Donnell, research director at Zoopla, is warning the government that future reform of the private rental sector must not jeopardise...
18 December 2019
From: Breaking News

A trade body is warning of a crisis in the private rental market as new figures show a sharp drop in...
13 December 2019
From: Breaking News

A leading law firm has highlighted four key dates for letting agents and landlords to watch for in 2020. Paul Barnes, head...
12 December 2019
From: Breaking News

[Letting Agent Today was ‘off air’ for some of Wednesday and most of Thursday thanks to technical problems - we apologise to...
06 December 2019
From: Breaking News

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

You don’t need to go far for news about the UK lettings market. From the banning of tenant fees to proposed...
27 November 2019
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The Welsh nationalist party Plaid Cymru is pledging tax credits for private tenants whose rent and utilities bills add up to...
26 November 2019
From: Breaking News

Two specific elements of Labour’s tax proposals, outlined in its manifesto, could “drive a nail into the coffin of buy to...
25 November 2019
From: Breaking News

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

Another survey of private landlords show a majority feeling less confident about the market than they were three months ago. Last week...
21 November 2019
From: Breaking News

A controversial private rental licensing regime that has already made the headlines for the wrong reasons has now been branded a...
19 November 2019
From: Breaking News

Some 45 per cent of those who don’t yet own a home think they never will, according to a new report. While...
19 November 2019
From: Breaking News

The Chartered Institute of Taxation is urging tenants not to ignore a letter if they receive one from HM Revenue &...
18 November 2019
From: Breaking News

One might have thought that if private rental tenants were as badly treated as some people suggest, housing would be their...
18 November 2019
From: Breaking News

The normally-sedate Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has issued an unusually stark warning to government, telling it to “stop meddling” in...
14 November 2019
From: Breaking News

Almost two thirds of landlords say their next buy to let purchase will be through a limited company, not by themselves...
13 November 2019
From: Breaking News

The safeagent accreditation scheme says the next government should not scrap landlord licensing as some trade groups have requested, but should...
12 November 2019
From: Breaking News

Knight Frank says the supply of new lettings properties in prime central London is likely to slow - and as a...
07 November 2019
From: Breaking News

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
From: Breaking News

One of the industry’s leading trade bodies has revealed that the number of laws creating an obligation on landlords in the...
04 November 2019
From: Breaking News

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has launched his party’s General Election campaign with an attack on what he describes as “dodgy landlords.” He...
01 November 2019
From: Breaking News

One of the leading providers of deposit alternatives in the UK wants the government to embrace the option - even to...
31 October 2019
From: Breaking News

Many buy to let investors are still badly bruised by the government’s wave of fiscal and regulatory assaults on the private...
30 October 2019
From: Breaking News

A trade body says the private rental sector is facing a major crisis - more landlords are selling properties than buying...
25 October 2019
From: Breaking News

The BBC is reporting that the short lets giant Airbnb has been contacted by HM Revenue & Customs about its tax...
23 October 2019
From: Breaking News

A London-focussed lettings agency is hosting a seminar for landlords in association with a rental sector trade body. The key theme of...
18 October 2019
From: Breaking News

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

Landlords must look at their finances as a range of tax changes continue to 'hit home', according to Apropos. The property management...
07 October 2019
From: Breaking News

A fifth of buy-to-let landlords claim they have reduced the number of properties in their portfolios due to a range of...
02 October 2019
From: Breaking News

Two London agencies have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman scheme for failing to honour two compensation awards. The first is Chase...
19 September 2019
From: Breaking News

We are at the beginning of the end for let only tenancies which have effectively been subsidised in the past by...
16 September 2019
From: Breaking News

Young adults aged 20 to 29 spend up to a third of their pre-tax income on rent for a room according...
16 September 2019
From: Breaking News

Rents have reached an all time high across the UK according to HomeLet. Its latest index says the average rent in the...
13 September 2019
From: Breaking News

Franchise agency group Winkworth claims the lettings fee ban impact has been less severe on its agents than on other companies,...
12 September 2019
From: Breaking News

Utilities management service Tenant Shop says demographic changes leading to more families and older individuals renting privately represent an opportunity for...
12 September 2019
From: Breaking News

An influential think tank says Capital Gains Tax on buy to let properties and second homes should be levied at the...
11 September 2019
From: Breaking News

The government has been criticised yet again for what is described as its “incoherent” approach to the private rental sector. David Miles,...
11 September 2019
From: Breaking News

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

It can be done - a council has U-turned on plans for a licensing scheme for landlords. The move by Hounslow council...
10 September 2019
From: Breaking News

As the row over Labour’s proposal rumbles on the think tank Centre for Policy Studies - which has previously argued that...
05 September 2019
From: Breaking News

There’s been a fierce outcry from Conservative MPs and the lettings industry in response to Labour’s threat to give private rental...
03 September 2019
From: Breaking News

Belvoir Group has this morning announced its interim results for the first six months of this year - and they show...
03 September 2019
From: Breaking News

One in six landlords is seeking to reduce the size of their portfolio in the next 12 months and around half...
03 September 2019
From: Breaking News

Some of the private rental sector’s most experienced and respected experts believe it’s almost inevitable that a housing market crash is...
02 September 2019
From: Breaking News

Fixflo is launching its sixth annual Lettings Report for lettings professionals The survey gauges the opinions of lettings professionals around the UK...
02 September 2019
From: Breaking News

One of the country’s leading property management experts says buy to let is here to stay - but only if individual...
28 August 2019
From: Breaking News

The Association of Residential Letting Agents and the National Landlords Association have spoken out about the complexity of the fees ban...
27 August 2019
From: Breaking News

The first ‘state of the industry’ report on the lettings agency sector since the introduction of the fees ban suggests individual...
15 August 2019
From: Breaking News

A private landlord has gone on record to explain her own dilemma with a tenant - and why the government’s scrapping...
14 August 2019
From: Breaking News

Lettings professionals should do more to raise awareness of the need to reduce moving stress for tenants and landlords. Industry supplier Tenant...
14 August 2019
From: Breaking News

Private tenants are being disadvantaged because of the government’s focus on boosting homeownership. According to the latest figures from the Royal Institution...
13 August 2019
From: Breaking News

New research shows more than half of landlords plan to use limited companies to buy properties in the year ahead. The study...
12 August 2019
From: Breaking News

Rents in London are rocketing but a leading market commentator says this is no reason to give in to a “Marxist dystopia”...
07 August 2019
From: Breaking News

The Mirror newspaper says eight members of the new Boris Johnson-led Cabinet are buy to let investors - and it accuses...
06 August 2019
From: Breaking News

Lettings experts are being invited to the unveiling of a service described by its creators as “a revolutionary rental product.” It is...
05 August 2019
From: Breaking News

Deposit alternative service Zero Deposit has become the “exclusive deposit replacement partner” of the National Landlord Association - less than two...
01 August 2019
From: Breaking News

A London lettings agency is launching a service to enable landlords to invest in mainstream buy to let or Airbnb-style short...
01 August 2019
From: Breaking News

The supply of lettings property has begun to increase in higher price brackets in prime central London, leading rents to fall...
25 July 2019
From: Breaking News

Calls by Labour’s London Mayor Sadiq Khan to secure powers to implement private sector rent controls are facing increasing opposition. Business organisation...
22 July 2019
From: Breaking News

Some 12 per cent of homes to let are operated by a ‘company landlord’ according to an analysis by Countrywide high-end...
22 July 2019
From: Breaking News

The number of film-related enquiries for short lets received by Knight Frank in the year to May has shown a rise...
22 July 2019
From: Breaking News

Buy to let investors in the UK are spending nearly £4.7 billion a year on their rental properties, an average of...
19 July 2019
From: Breaking News

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

Boris Johnson or Jeremy Hunt will face an immediate crisis in the private rented sector if government doesn’t rethink its plans to...
15 July 2019
From: Breaking News

Throughout April and May, we ran a high-profile campaign across our sites, Landlord Today, Estate Agent Today, Letting Agent Today and...
15 July 2019
From: Breaking News

The chairman of Hunters estate agency, who is also a Conservative MP, has hit out at the government over its handling...
12 July 2019
From: Breaking News

Rents are rising at the fastest rate since 2017, pushing the average yield on residential property to 4.5 per cent, its...
12 July 2019
From: Breaking News

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

A holiday lets and short-term lettings market boom can be put down to a combination of four reasons, according to specialist...
05 July 2019
From: Breaking News

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

A rise in the number of professional landlords means letting agents need to ensure their service meets the expectations of experienced...
04 July 2019
From: Breaking News

A senior London lettings agent has accused the government of “going to war” on buy to let investors. The director of Benham...
02 July 2019
From: Breaking News

The number of buy to let products for first time landlords has risen to an all-time high. Data from independent mortgage market...
02 July 2019
From: Breaking News

A leading trade body is urging the candidates to lead the Conservative Party to adopt a more positive approach to the...
01 July 2019
From: Breaking News

Second home owners, landlords and property investors are being urged to beware a “dramatic change” to the current capital gains tax...
28 June 2019
From: Breaking News

A new survey by a specialist property sector lender reveals that 19 per cent of landlords are looking to sell in...
27 June 2019
From: Breaking News

A new survey by one of the sector’s most respected lenders, Paragon, suggests large scale landlords are now a bigger force...
27 June 2019
From: Breaking News

A trade body has accused the government of going back on its promise not to introduce a national register of landlords. The...
26 June 2019
From: Breaking News

A senior Labour politician has claimed that there is a city in the UK where two out of every 13 residential...
25 June 2019
From: Breaking News

A director of a lettings agency has been fined for creating false tenancies in a bid to avoid paying council tax...
25 June 2019
From: Breaking News

Despite criticism from some within the industry about the effects of short lets, the high-end agency Knight Frank has spoken of...
20 June 2019
From: Breaking News

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

A holiday lettings company says it’s seen a 23 per cent increase in its portfolio over the past year as owners...
10 June 2019
From: Breaking News

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

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is one of many industry groups in a new coalition calling for S21 repossessions to be...
04 June 2019
From: Breaking News

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has been put on the spot by the person many consider to be the country’s most...
30 May 2019
From: Breaking News

The head of a firm that seeks investors to put money into residential property funds rather than individual homes for tenants...
29 May 2019
From: Breaking News

The fierce competition in the lettings market in parts of London means that some tenants will feel no benefit from the...
28 May 2019
From: Breaking News

A council claims that its decision to set up its own lettings agency has prevented homelessness for almost 50 families and...
20 May 2019
From: Breaking News

ARLA Propertymark is urging agents across England and Wales to ensure they have every preparation in place for the arrival of...
20 May 2019
From: Breaking News

The typical landlord who sold a rental property in England and Wales made a gross gain of £79,770 before tax last...
13 May 2019
From: Breaking News

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

A rogue landlady has been hit with a fine of £24,000 after conning her tenants and the local authorities with a...
10 May 2019
From: Breaking News

A rental market expert is urging landlords to be cautious when considering to use short-term lets websites such as Airbnb to...
08 May 2019
From: Breaking News

New data from specialist mortgage firm Commercial Trust suggests that London’s buy to let sector turned a corner in the first...
02 May 2019
From: Breaking News
30 April 2019
From: 60 Second Interview

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

The chief executive of a specialist buy to let lender says increasing the rent to combat additional costs put on landlords...
29 April 2019
From: Breaking News

An online platform claims it has found a new and easy way for investors to become landlords, describing itself as ‘PayPal...
26 April 2019
From: Breaking News

A Liberal Democrat activist is considering establishing a landlords’ group consisting of party members. Tony Harris, writing on the LibDem Voice website,...
24 April 2019
From: Breaking News

A senior lettings agent has raised the spectre of rental properties in future being German-style ‘empty shells’ - without even white...
18 April 2019
From: Breaking News

Startling figures released this morning by Rightmove suggest that rents have risen 8.2 per cent in London in the past year...
18 April 2019
From: Breaking News

A new utilities management platform for tenants says it will generate additional revenue streams for letting agents. Love Resident gives tenants online...
16 April 2019
From: Breaking News

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

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

Buy to let investors are facing a double whammy as stagnating rents and reduced tax relief are hitting profitability. A study from...
11 April 2019
From: Breaking News

It’s been revealed that the Welsh version of the Tenants Fees ban will come into effect on September 1. “Agents need to...
10 April 2019
From: Breaking News

A trade body has welcomed calls by a parliamentary committee for tax incentives for the buy to let sector to improve...
08 April 2019
From: Breaking News

Belvoir Lettings has continued its solid growth with a trading statement revealing a 40 per cent rise in pre-tax profit and...
03 April 2019
From: Breaking News

Fergus Wilson, arguably Britain’s most controversial landlord and almost certainly the individual with the largest number of buy to lets in...
02 April 2019
From: Breaking News

Latest lettings market data from high-end agency Knight Frank shows that average rents in prime central London rose 1.1 per cent...
01 April 2019
From: Breaking News

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

Changes to Capital Gains Tax which reach their full impact in the next 12 months could fuel property changing hands between...
28 March 2019
From: Breaking News

A buy to let investor who hid families in windowless rooms after failing to get planning permission for a block of...
28 March 2019
From: Breaking News

Large-scale buy to let investors are continuing to move to limited company status in a bid to limit their exposure to...
25 March 2019
From: Breaking News

A buy to let investment service says its podcasts are now downloaded over 200,000 times a month and it has an...
22 March 2019
From: Breaking News

Another think-tank has come up with reforms which it wants the government to make to the private rental sector - and...
21 March 2019
From: Breaking News

The UK’s holiday lets sector could be a beneficiary of the current Brexit uncertainty and people not vacationing abroad because they...
21 March 2019
From: Breaking News

The proportion of landlords purchasing buy to let homes in London with cash rose from 33 per cent in 2017 to...
18 March 2019
From: Breaking News

There is a warning that the HMRC’s Let Property campaign, which received huge publicity and attention for some years, has so...
14 March 2019
From: Breaking News

One of Britain’s most experienced lettings experts has condemned the government for “almost singlehandedly destroying the traditional lettings market.” Lisa Simon -...
13 March 2019
From: Breaking News

A lettings sector trade body is demanding that the government brings forward tax measures to address what it calls “the scourge...
13 March 2019
From: Breaking News

Income tax paid by buy to let landlords now exceeds £3.8 billion annually – that’s more than double Tesco’s entire annual...
12 March 2019
From: Breaking News

The London-focussed rental app Movebubble has revealed major new investment from Build To Rent developer Quintain, which is taking a 10...
12 March 2019
From: Breaking News

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

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

Data from Knight Frank shows that annual rental values actually grew in parts of prime outer London last month for the...
06 March 2019
From: Breaking News

Doncaster council has paid £100,000 to a private landlord who threatened to take it to court over alleged slander. Local media outlets say...
28 February 2019
From: Breaking News

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

Some 24 per cent of landlords have considered letting out their properties on a short let Airbnb-style basis - but only...
22 February 2019
From: Breaking News

Latest official figures show that private rental prices paid by tenants in the UK rose by 1.0 per cent in the...
15 February 2019
From: Breaking News

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

Countrywide’s upmarket lettings and sales brand, Hamptons International, has launched branded taxis in celebration of its 150th birthday. The taxis will operate...
14 February 2019
From: Breaking News

A flat-share website claims typical rents in some 38 per cent of London are now so high they render the areas...
11 February 2019
From: Breaking News

A lettings sector trade body has put the blame firmly on government for the scale of poverty amongst those who privately...
11 February 2019
From: Breaking News

A leading landlord has hit out at a lettings agency’s portrayal of buy to let tax changes. Rosalind Beck, a campaigning landlord...
01 February 2019
From: Breaking News

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

A buy to let investor has lost possession of his flat after converting it into an Illegal House in Multiple Occupation...
22 January 2019
From: Breaking News

A new league table of worries for landlords shows exactly why letting agents are needed - and a lot of the...
21 January 2019
From: Breaking News

A lettings market snapshot from Rightmove suggests asking rents in London are now increasing at an annual rate not seen for...
17 January 2019
From: Breaking News

The man who is arguably Britain’s most controversial landlord - Fergus Wilson - is likely to be issuing up to 90...
15 January 2019
From: Breaking News

The Daily Mail has reported on a massive buy to let fiddle which involved a £10.8m property empire, rents totalling £500,000...
08 January 2019
From: Breaking News

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

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is reminding members of tax changes ahead - a timely intervention with the deadline for...
07 January 2019
From: Breaking News

A leading PropTech entrepreneur says letting agents must provide value for their landlord clients through technology, transparency and service if they...
03 January 2019
From: Breaking News

Agents who want to go the extra mile for their landlord clients may want to point them to assistance for the...
03 January 2019
From: Breaking News
21 December 2018
From: Breaking News

Research by franchise lettings agency company Belvoir suggests that landlords are continuing to exit the property market, although not at the...
19 December 2018
From: Breaking News

Rents in major regional cities are growing significantly faster than both London and the UK average, according to data from buy...
14 December 2018
From: Breaking News

High end lettings agency Knight Frank says the proportion of properties listed for rent in prime London residential markets in October...
12 December 2018
From: Breaking News

Tenants know very little about their rights and responsibilities as renters according to a new survey produced by TotallyMoney. Some 97 per...
07 December 2018
From: Breaking News
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An angry lettings agent has emailed Cabinet minister James Brokenshire to show his disgust at the government’s U-turn over deposit caps. In...
06 December 2018
From: Breaking News

Continued political and economic uncertainty is likely to fuel increased tenant demand in the private rented sector, says Haart. The company’s latest...
06 December 2018
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency says proposals for landlords to pay more council tax on homes they leave empty could indirectly help the...
05 December 2018
From: Breaking News

Rent increases seen in London this year are likely to continue in 2019 because of the diminishing supply of homes to...
05 December 2018
From: Breaking News

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has put together a brief summary of the 2018 rental market. In figures, the supply of...
04 December 2018
From: Breaking News

Two thirds of local authorities in England and Wales brought no prosecutions against private landlords in 2017/18 according to research by the...
29 November 2018
From: Breaking News

The head of a buy to let specialist mortgage broker insists the sector remains a solid investment despite the slew of...
20 November 2018
From: Breaking News

The number of lettings listings in prime central London fell 18 per cent in the year to September, says Knight Frank. The...
13 November 2018
From: Breaking News

A survey by specialist lender Landbay reveals that tenants outside of London typically spend 33 per cent of their monthly pay,...
09 November 2018
From: Breaking News

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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Rental sector experts are expressing growing fears that the relatively low-key Budget announcements made on Monday could herald something more dramatic...
31 October 2018
From: Breaking News

The second reading of the Creditworthiness Assessment Bill is to take place in the House of Commons on November 23 -...
31 October 2018
From: Breaking News

The agency industry has reacted in a broadly downbeat way at the relatively few housing-related proposals that were announced in yesterday’s...
30 October 2018
From: Breaking News

The number of buy to let lenders lending to limited companies has risen by 47 per cent over the past year,...
25 October 2018
From: Breaking News

The proportion of buy to let investors looking to remortgage is now at an all-time high according to respected specialist mortgage...
24 October 2018
From: Breaking News

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

A poll of 1,250 landlords suggests that far from being concerned about the profitability of buy to let, almost 80 per...
22 October 2018
From: Breaking News

Since one London local authority introduced private rental sector licensing in 2013 an extra £5,002,203 in council tax has been collected...
19 October 2018
From: Breaking News

A newspaper claims landlords who ‘game’ the current tax regime for short term lets and lodging may be in the firing...
15 October 2018
From: Breaking News

New research may explain why the government and Labour appear to be competing with each other to attack landlords and letting...
11 October 2018
From: Breaking News

A new quarterly overview of the UK lettings sector reveals three key trends: viewings are rising and more tenancies are being...
11 October 2018
From: Breaking News

With an average rental return of 7.69 per cent Ireland has been named as the top location in Europe for buy to...
11 October 2018
From: Breaking News

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

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

A man who submitted false VAT returns for the Lincoln franchise branch of Martin & Co for a period of six...
08 October 2018
From: Breaking News

Knight Frank says the annual rental value growth has returned to prime central London due to declining supply levels - the...
04 October 2018
From: Breaking News

New research has attempted to quantify the number and scale of rent rises that are likely to take place as landlords...
04 October 2018
From: Breaking News

A major property platform says London’s rental and sales market may well be on the road to recovery - but that...
03 October 2018
From: Breaking News

Two new PropTech services launched, targeting the lettings industry. Tenancy referencing firm FCC Paragon has launched MyMoveIn, an online platform that supports...
02 October 2018
From: Breaking News

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
From: Breaking News

The Haart agency is calling on the government to give the private rental sector a break in the autumn Budget, as...
27 September 2018
From: Breaking News

Three London lettings sub-markets performed relatively weakly according to data just released by Knight Frank. Wimbledon’s rental values fell 1.5 per cent...
27 September 2018
From: Breaking News

One of Scotland’s top lettings agents is warning of “an air of criminality” in the rental industry north of the border. His...
26 September 2018
From: Breaking News

20% more landlords* are struggling compared to last year. They’ve been caught in a perfect storm of higher interest rates, bigger...
20 September 2018
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The lettings director at Urban, the online agency recently snapped up by Emoov, says the rental market is faced with significant...
14 September 2018
From: Breaking News

An investment trust has been launched and looks likely to be competing for individual investors who may see it as an...
13 September 2018
From: Breaking News

Franchise giant Belvoir Lettings has told the City and the firm’s shareholders that revenues and profits have risen in the first...
12 September 2018
From: Breaking News

A survey has revealed that 44% of landlords are looking to sell properties as a challenging market takes its toll. Octopus Choice,...